Adam Chapman

As an erstwhile historian of what we choose to miscall the 'Hundred Years' War', who grew up in the '90s, I would note that 'successful' wars (depending on who you're asking), tend to be relatively a bit shorter.

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!

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fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

If I was trying to elicit sympathy I probably wouldn't go for Russian UFC teams and crypto guys. But that's just me.

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This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Policy works as intended shock!

A really useful course for any historians that might encounter #Medieval or #EarlyModern documents in their research. #Skystorians

Is it though? Fibreglass so not that heavy, a trailer winch would do most of the work and it's been dumped at the end of a semi-paved track, apparently by just being shoved off a trailer.

Probably a lot less effort than trying to take the thing to a council tip, tbh.

I would pay hard cash for Chris Wickham's reaction on seeing his name used like this.

Textual Editing: philosophical and theological texts throughout the Middle Ages This course introduces students to textual editing, especially of Latin writings belonging to the earlier and later medieval philosophical and theological tradition. First, students will learn abou…

For students who need to edit medieval texts, this summer school course in London, 8-12 June, provides an intensive introduction. Let your graduate students know. #medievalsky 👇🎓📖 ☀️

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Bookshelves. Mezzanine. Banners.

IN A LOCAL ARCHIVES. WONDERFUL PLACE.

Venture capitalists are responsible for some of this. So are previous owners of WHS for how they ran the business. Changes in reading habits amongst the public too. But IMIO this is especially bad news because it will reduce the presence of books on the high street, books as a fact of everyday life.

"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.

"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters

"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.

Tactically interesting call by Badenoch to be so gung ho about backing the war when a decent chunk of her own voters oppose.

The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact - LSE Impact Research in the humanities is not confined to academic institutions. Particularly in history & archaeology where "new antiquarianism" creates public research.

In any event, as @pittsmike.bsky.social noted, it's the REF that's remote and ignored by most. That's unurprising, it is an industry metric.

There is much good and useful work being done by people who don't, perhaps, consider themselves 'academic'. This piece fails to respect that (in my view). 2/2

Then you'll hopefully understand in turn that I found the framing (and especially the writing style) condescending and unhelpful.

The essential point isn't wrong, but it does read as though he's never met, still less engaged with, the people and the interests he's talking about. 1/2

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If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

In 1907 the Congress of Archaeological societies published a vol indexing archaeological papers going back to 1660s.

Only a small and comparatively recent element of UK archaeological research is purely academic. Today, the overwhelming majority is conducted within professional archaeology. Meanwhile UK avocational archaeology has 200+ years of national and regional associations, publications, and collections.

LAUNCH OF 2025-2026 HAMPSHIRE HISTORY COMPETITION FOR SCHOOLS AND SIXTH FORMS - Hampshire Archive Trust Do you love History? Do you want to become a good historian? Do you want to find out more about archives? Do you want to win a prize?

Did you know we run a History Competition for schools, sixth forms and university students in #Hampshire?

We’re looking to hear from individual students and groups who have a #Hampshire #LocalHistory project they’d like to share! Deadline is 13th March

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Join us on 31 March to learn about family history in late Medieval Brecon!

This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

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2026 AUAC Conference: Who is Responsible for the Archives? Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age When: Friday 26 June 2026, 9:00–5:00 pm Where: Aston University campus in Birmingham, UK, and online (hybr...

Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/... @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonpress.bsky.social

Just checked, not 5 miles, but just shy of 5km between Gillingham and Mere.

PS - as it is, what few university collaborations remain (we've lost one in the last 12 months owing to redundancies) are at risk, for various reasons, so it's moot.

The host institution (IHR) is outside the REF system, partly to allow us to escape the issues the writer describes.

Nope. For fairly obvious reasons.

The town in question was Mere. Gillingham is about five mils away on flat terrain, so I can only assume that the parish had been mortally offended by the LSWR...

Funny that.

Yes - cf. the Tavistock saga... Nothing new in this: I've been reading about a parish council in Wiltshire that (in the 1890s), cheerfully suggested to the GWR that they might like to build them a Light Railway over a great big hill. Swindon declined.