Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey

The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England A rare trifecta: tax abuse, sodomy, and the weather.

'The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England' - the latest in blog series on medieval stories you (probably) haven't heard of.

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SeaxEducation | Tristan Alphey | Substack Historian of medieval England with a particular love of nicknames. Click to read SeaxEducation, by Tristan Alphey, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Hello! I don't use bluesky as much as I should, but I know I have followers on here that I don't see elsewhere. I have a silly little blog where I write about lesser-known stories from early medieval England: it would mean the world to me if you could check it out!

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Absolutely not, this is a disgrace

'London and South East University Group' is a terrible name - chuck me 50 quid and I'll come up with a better one

Good terminology use here, but I’d still go with ‘agnomina’!

Bothelm's Broken Brones - The Healing Powers of Holy Moss An injured monk seeks divine healing, and finds it in the mossy relic of a historic battle.

I've started a new series on my blog where I retell some of the lesser-known stories from early medieval England. The latest
(seaxeducation.substack.com/p/bothelms-b...) is about a monk, a broken arm, and the powers of divine moss.

Do check it out, and maybe one day I can afford my rent!

Perhaps this is the final nudge to get my students to drop the 'Norman Yoke' narrative - 'look, if Truss believes it, it can't be true!'

Bothelm's Broken Brones - The Healing Powers of Holy Moss An injured monk seeks divine healing, and finds it in the mossy relic of a historic battle.

I've started a new series on my blog where I retell some of the lesser-known stories from early medieval England. The latest
(seaxeducation.substack.com/p/bothelms-b...) is about a monk, a broken arm, and the powers of divine moss.

Do check it out, and maybe one day I can afford my rent!

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!