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Levi Roach

@proflroach.bsky.social

Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.

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Sounds like you need a holiday! Vancouver Island is a lovely part of the world...

13.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And congrats, incidentally, on the parenthood! I hadn't realised you'd joined the club. (We really ought to have a catch-up at Pizzer Express some time.)

11.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We've all been there...

11.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).

A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).

Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky

10.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 108    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 0
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Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

09.10.2025 05:58 — 👍 47    🔁 47    💬 0    📌 2

Interesting gender balance there.

09.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what peak performance looks like.

09.10.2025 07:27 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, indeed! A monumental achievement. She's a very good thing.

07.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
0,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien) Als eine der größten Forschungseinrichtungen Europas bietet die Universität Wien einen ungewöhnlich breiten Fächerkanon und damit eine hervorragende Infrastruktur für geisteswissenschaftliche Forschun...

0,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

02.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

02.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 82    🔁 103    💬 11    📌 13
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Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

30.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 20    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
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Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

29.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 71    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 8
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Archäolog:in | Stadt Göttingen Online-Bewerbung

#Stellenauschreibung: Die Stadt #Göttingen sucht einen Archäologen für die #Stadtarchäologie (offenbar Nachfolge Betty Arndt).
#Archäologie 🏺 @Archaeodons group
📷 Göttinger Marktplatz mit altem Rathaus, Gänseliesel-Brunnen und Fußgängerzone ( Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 2.5)

24.09.2025 04:55 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Quite. All you can do is play your hand and hope for the best.

22.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is why I naturalized before having children here. ILR never felt truly safe. (Though I'd love to live in a world where it was!)

22.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, and frankly what we do see looks very similar to what's going on elsewhere in Europe in that regard (Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany).

22.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The long arm of American Puritanism...

19.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Articles may be good, but pizza is better! (And certainly goes better with a beer.)

19.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

18.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 42    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1
Eingangsportal der Monumenta Germaniae Historica in München

Eingangsportal der Monumenta Germaniae Historica in München

Grüße aus München: Der heutige Tag der MGH-Herbstakademie ist den frühmittelalterlichen Formelsammlungen gewidmet. Es unterrichten Horst Lößlein und Christoph Walther!
mgh.de/de/blog/post...

16.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Very excited about this new project on early medieval correspondence starting in January 2026

15.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Offa An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

12.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 82    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 5
Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.

Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.

To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific

09.09.2025 08:47 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....

04.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The UK hasn't achieved a sustained period of net emigration since the 1970s. This is not a phenomenon associated with a successful country.

04.09.2025 05:58 — 👍 255    🔁 60    💬 18    📌 2
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On publication day for The First King of England, enormous thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and Doug Young of PEW Literary for making it possible

02.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 102    🔁 23    💬 6    📌 1

Please tell me you sing, 'let me see that O-o-ong!', as part of this.

29.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror

Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror

1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...

29.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 1

Do your students still know who Sisqo is?

29.08.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.

No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

25.08.2025 08:53 — 👍 927    🔁 358    💬 31    📌 34

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