Simon Trafford

Difficult, I discover after a few minutes of experimentation, to fit that phrase to the refrain of 'Papa was a rollin' stone'. Shame. It's almost there, but not quite.

A black-and-white photograph of William Morris with an old-fashioned relief map superimposed and the paper title in Icelandic.

This Wednesday (5/11/25) 17.30 UTC, we're delighted to welcome Dr Peter Jones (Plymouth), who will be speaking on William Morris's travel in Iceland. Free to attend in person in the IHR or online, but please register in advance. Details, abstract and registration:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Layla is looking forward to seeing you, as am I!

Yeah, although ripping off is a slightly different category from sampling. But in that vein I've heard Nirvana play Come as You Are and also Killing Joke do Eighties, which CAYA blatantly plagiarises.

I wonder what percentage of The Prodge's audience have heard Max Romeo do Chase the Devil live? I certainly haven't, but that sample is the making of Out of Space!

A similar thing, though: I've heard Alice Cooper interpolate the chorus of Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 into the live version of School's Out and also heard Roger Waters live do exactly the reverse.

This has now set me thinking if there are any other bands where I've seen both the originator and the sampler of a famous phrase. There's Stones/Verve of course as a likely one for many people, although I've never seen the Stones so not for me!

Arguably a generation and a half: those who know it from Rock of Ages off Pyromania by Def Leppard in 1983 and those who know it from the sample at the start of Pretty Fly for a White Guy by the Offspring in 1998.

I've spoken to the events team and I gather that the need for provision of instructions is recognised and in hand: there have been a few issues arising that have delayed it, but instructions should be there soon.

The email only goes to the named principal convenor for each seminar, but any convenor can attend, I think, and it's online as well as in the building. I'll forward you the email w the link.

I think it would probably be worth mentioning it at the Convenors' Meeting, and I'm happy to do that. I suspect that the tech people will say that an auto-update is a difficult contingency to proof against, but given the havoc it wreaks mid-paper, it'd be good at least to think about it.

Yeah, good point. It's the seminar convenors' meeting on the 22nd, and that would be a good thing to propose there. I'm happy to do it, or back you up or whatever.

Sorry on behalf of my institution! Do report it, please: it isn't niggling and it's important to have this logged so the Institute can do something about it.

Really sorry to hear it. Which room were you in? 304? The Medievalism seminar were in 301 and our laptop was taking minutes to perform the simplest possible tasks. We started 20 mins late because it was so hard to get the speaker's ppt working properly.

Britannia (board game) - Wikipedia

I have a copy from when it was a kickstarter! Also, embarrassingly, I think I have three different versions of Britannia. But then it's arguably the board game of my PhD thesis. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britann...

A view of Pentre Ifan neolithic chambered tomb in Pembrokeshire on a sunny day. A colossal capstone is balanced on the very points of a set of upright stones. The grass all around is very green.

Just back from a little holiday in unwontedly sunny Pembrokeshire. Pentre Ifan looking so perfect here that even the inadequacies of my cheap phone camera don't detract!

Peter Brown.

Knowledge Commons - formerly Humanities Commons - seems to be all right.

Well, it was a bit of an odd premise, really. But perhaps it seemed more relevant to DC Thomson up in Dundee. Or perhaps it was used because other, more real, conflicts might have been a bit *too* real.

Dandy rather than Beano, but in 1970s suburban Surrey I remember accepting straight up that there were fundamentally antagonistic people called 'Jocks' and 'Geordies' and laughing along at their battles. Only some time later did I go and ask my parents what on earth they both were.

It's such an interesting little nugget, isn't it?!

The Field Of Forty Footsteps Bloomsbury's ghostly footprints.

And these lying beneath... londonist.com/2015/04/the-...

Death Rituals Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals

A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Oh, it is so astonishing! I'm so happy for you seeing it!

Two instances of Outlook and then 'axolotl' is within your grasp, you know.

Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

A piece in The Conversation, contextualising our results from the Bedale hoard

theconversation.com/vikings-were...

@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @bgs.ac.uk

Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers

Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:

If one wanted to be paranoid about it, one might think that a funding model that is punitive towards those subjects -A&H- that furnish the best skills and knowledge for critiquing govt policy was feature not bug, but in this case I think that suggests way more foresight and cunning than is due.

Her little snores are the best thing.

No weregild, of course. I was only a ceorl and I stole from someone. Brought it all on myself really, and i hope I mulled that carefully as my life ebbed and all faded to black.