Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey

Thank you for delivering such a good paper!

Excited to talk on the Associative Naming practices of Names as "Lombard Histories Beyond Paul the Deacon" at Tuesday's 14:15 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel as chaired by @seaxeducation.bsky.social.

Hello friends - what's the best introductory book to Court Rolls, as a type of source?

Come join us @imc-leeds.bsky.social in 2026 to talk about names! Please share this CfP with anyone interested - all are welcome

I would really like a job please and thank you...

Make sure you fill up that water - it's still very muggy here!

Much deserved!

Thank you to @seaxeducation.bsky.social for my PhD sword 🗡️

I hope I get THIS job

Anybody happen to know what the go-to scholarly edition of Neal's History of the Puritans is?

Double bill of me next Monday...

Does anybody know a modern historian who works on either George Canning or Lord Castlereagh? I'm trying to hunt down a specific quote I haven't been able to find yet.

Wish me luck…

Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!

New job at Oxford - do please share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Genuinely quite a scary experience being in the Gladstone Link as the lights suddenly shut off...

Really want to start a subscription service that saves wierd and whacky vinyls - pay a small fee and get a monthly second-hand record sent to your door

An undergraduate in the library is two-screening a game of online poker and an endless stream of tiktoks and, honestly, you have to respect the graft

Reading @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social 's PhD thesis and I think the sub-title 'Bede and the Cadaver Theory' would make an amazing name for a band...

Yeah, bad time to have just finished a PhD!

Sod off Amazon....

The job rejections are coming thick and fast which, while expected, is still soul-crushing

Hello #medieval people. Please let me know if you know of any law codes, from whatever country or whatever period, that make explicit reference to the giving of nicknames!

who amongst us hasn't cracked out the sticky toffee pudding when reading about the origins of surnames

Lovely. Place your bets as to what the substance is....

I'm a bit lost in life at the moment between terms - so much that could be done, but no idea where to start, or what to focus on

That is a threat I could get behind

First day back in the library after the end of term was overwhelming and wildly unproductive...

Dramatic poster for the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2025, Saturday 26 April at St Edmund Hall, featuring an actress in a golden robe standing in a well.

The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays are fast approaching!

As a special preview, join @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and Beyond Shakespeare for a walking tour around the route of the event @stedmundhall.bsky.social...

Listen now at audioboom.com/posts/866279...

John of Salisbury suggests that William Rufus himself shot that arrow that killed him which would be...difficult. Was he incredibly fast, or was he aiming straight up....?

Today 11 March 2025, 16.00, Sue Brunning will be talking @oxembi.bsky.social on co-curating the Silk Roads exhibition. Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre.