It's just two months till APR Administrator, Demelza, sets off on her Land's End to John O'Groats bike ride, raising money for the APR Bursary Fund. Would you like to sponsor her? promotingretreats.org/cycling-fundraiser #cycle #lejog
This reflects a fundamental underestimation of the socioeconomic value of unpaid labour – most especially women's labour – throughout history. @jwhittle.bsky.social and her team at Exeter have done wonderful work on addressing this in regards to early modern history 🗃️
'Talent is widely distributed in society. Opportunity is not.'
If you missed this yesterday, read it today. (And if you're university staff, prod your VC to articulate the case for universities as well as this does).
Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
Late antiquity folks: the phrase comes from Cyril of Alexandria’s Frgg on 1 Cor. where he’s having a dig at rhetores.
I tried searching for a phrase that sounded a little, but not quite, like Irenaeus* and this screen is what I got…
(* Conclusion: it’s just a standard philosophy vs rhetoric trope.)
(“ ‘LLMs are the sophists of our day.’ Discuss.”)
Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
@universitypress.cambridge.org
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
There’s two weeks left to apply for this position. I appreciate everyone who has shared this so far. If anyone has questions about the position, then please contact me.
PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
@fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Nominations for the 2026 ASCH Book Prizes and Research Fellowships are now open!
Learn more: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/...
Stay tuned as we highlight each of our prizes/fellowships on social media in the coming days!
Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! 🏴🏳️〓〓
Today we are sharing this beautifully coloured, illustrated postcard from the 1920s — part of the Perranzabuloe parish church collection — depicting the legendary arrival of St Piran in Cornwall.
Kernow bys vyken! 🖤🤍
#StPiransDay #GoolPeran #Kernow
We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
It’s so tough for stories by trans people about trans people to reach mainstream media … amazing work …
You might feel the community of which I’m part doesn’t count but hear us roar, lament, cry out for hope, justice and the chance to live flourishing lives … is it too much to ask for?
Choose your own adventure
We are hiring ....
Because John Nightingale is retiring...
for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Tenure Track Position as Assistant Professor in Practical Theology and Contemporary Christianity at Aarhus University
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO612/t...
Looking for one of my past lectures on-line I find… an advert apparently offering me a curate for cash. 🫣
(Oh algorithm… so near and yet so far).
Nice to read for once that a supposed higher education problem isn't actually the fault of universities
The problem with unfair negative feedback from students is when university management takes it too seriously. The problem with unfair student grievances about COVID is when university management caves in. thesphinxblog.com/2026/02/18/c...
😬😖😩
What actually happened in the Living in Love and Faith debate yesterday (apart from another 5 hours of the same old): #CofE viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...
Almighty and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and in our time grant us thy peace;
This is just so lovely. A reminder that there are still lots of good people about, even as the vicious & awful dominate the headlines, and that religious bodies can choose to be open and inclusive
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your day will be like...
a bright flare, sent up in the dead of night from an island city under attack, calling for allies to come to its aid.
Iliad 18.205-14
The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth?
alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...
