Mike Jones

In 2020 it was “liminal”

Yes. At least the unfair access to Latin learning for state schools compared to private schools was somewhat acknowledged.

Today - 01/08/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Radio 4 Today programme about language learning (1:22:02), which then went on to Latin learning (1:23:50). Might be of interest, @brunellus.com ? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've imported Royal Commission data (from @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social) into @mappingthemarch.bsky.social for @latemedievalist.bsky.social and @mattlampitt.bsky.social ) and I'm becoming slightly obsessed with the fragmentation of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire!

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

It is so stressful! Fluid dynamics is a thing!

Maybe Wigglesbottom Primary book series by Pamela Butchart, or the Claude series by Alex T. Smith? They are both funny with a good balance of text and illustrations. Also, Claude is a dog who wears a beret!

Captain it's Wednesday

Captain it's Wednesday

The Maginot Line YouTube video by WW2TV

Listen to a discussion of my forthcoming @YaleUniversityPress book, The Maginot Line, 28 July 2026, 15:00

www.youtube.com/live/mpFyt0J...

#MaginotLine #WorldWarII #Fortifications #Architecture #ModernFrenchHistory #20thCenturyFrance

Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World University of Exeter, October 30, 2025 - October 31, 2025 Deadline for submission/application: September 5, 2025 Call for Papers We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: • Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. • Martial identities, values and motivations. • Notions of gender, race, class and religion. • Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. • The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. • Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. • Maritime violence and naval warfare. • The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

Congratulations!

I visited the campus for an “open weekend” in 1990. It was too far for an open day! Sorry to hear it’s closing for under graduates ☹️

Image of various scrolls on a table in an archive

Our database of people and their connections to places and manuscripts across the Welsh Marches is progressing! Starting to reconstruct individual networks from piles of rolls is very exciting as there's so much potential for how users of our database/website will use the data for their own research

Screenshot taken from our database showing our value inputs.

We’re pleased to announce that our database has reached 2,000 person entries! 🎉

#MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #ResearchMilestone #medievalbluesky #medieval #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

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No, not me! Doppelgänger!

Gromit Unleashed 3 Trail | The Grand Appeal | Bristol's Best Trail Our next trail is hitting the streets of Bristol this summer. Get ready for another cracking summer with Wallace, Gromit, Feathers & Norbot.

Just in time for Gromits! www.grandappeal.org.uk/gromit-unlea...

I can’t believe we never met in person! Good luck with the new role! ❤️

Yup. We lost an image-rich digital resource for a few hours last month. The bots often don't make multiple requests from the same IP address making throttling requests difficult. Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions aren't cheap.

This is happening to pretty much every university site btw. Trying to block AI bot waves is a regular thing now for uni IT networking teams.

We (quite literally) had to block ALL web traffic from Brazil very briefly a few weeks back.

I'm already seeing a flaw in this plan ... 😀

I’m really sorry John. I hope your dad is comfortable and makes some recovery x

The long gallery had Latin inscriptions on it’s walls but visitors weren’t allowed in there

Grafito of a ship

Spiral staircase. The central post is thought to be from a ship mast.

A couple more pictures from my visit to Acton Court. A grafito representing a ship. A central wooden post in a spiral staircase thought to be from a mast of a ship. #medieval #maritime #history

Remains of a toilet in the royal apartments at Acton House

Henry VIII shat here (possibly)

Painted decoration in the royal apartment

Painted decoration in the royal apartment

Picture of Acton Court. Early Tudor house.

Picture of Acton Court.

Visited Acton Court today. Only part of the house has survived, but what has survived includes the apartments built by Sir Nicholas Poyntz for the visit of Henry VIII in 1535. Very pretty! #tudor

Don't forget to email us at mapping-the-march@bristol.ac.uk for the link to this seminar today at 16:00 BST @bristolcms.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

Online Seminar - Mortimer History Society The Online Seminar Group: Medieval Wales and the Marches The Mortimer History Society has worked in partnership with staff from Chester, Swansea and Bristol Universities to create an Online Semin...

Next week (11 June, 7.30pm), our PDRA @mattlampitt.bsky.social will be talking to the Mortimer History Society Online Seminar about his new book - join us there!(mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/onli...)
#medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians