#swbinfo Warnstreik am Freitag, 6. März
Busse und Bahnen bleiben am Streiktag im Depot, betroffen sind auch die Nachtbusse. Der Busverkehr kann durch Subunternehmen in Teilen aufrechterhalten werden. Die Fahrpläne veröffentlichen wir schnellstmöglich.
That is indeed... very odd (I'll let others be the judge of whether justified or not!)
Just published! Our special issue of JOLCEL (@relicsresearch.bsky.social), 'Tangling with the Classics: Rethinking Reception in the Middle Ages'.
Feat @maryhitchman.bsky.social, Paul Vinhage, @ivowolsing.bsky.social, Philippa Byrne, Ramani Chandramohan & Alfred Hiatt
jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26787/...
Pleased to see this is out and very proud to be featured alongside some truly superb colleagues
classiques-garnier.com/pensee-polit...
"ratio of chinese to Indian restaurants near military bases"
good grief, that's literally a bit from a 1970s BBC sitcom
youtu.be/oJ-9R6NCZ0A?...
Awful, awful news. St Peter's has lost a great historian and the students a wonderful teacher. I only met Stephen a few times, but on each occasion he was remarkably generous, warm, and insightful (including during two interview occasions that he managed to turn into real fun). Just devastating.
Das Programm für unser diesjähriges Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (19.–20.3.2026, Innsbruck) ist da: fobim.hypotheses.org/forum-2026. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, alle Infos auf der verlinkten Seite. #medievalsky #skystorians
Sad news. While I disagreed with much of what he wrote in his later years, Fried was a true scholar and stylist, from whose work I always benefitted (esp when I disagreed with it).
I still miss doing A-Level Physics past papers (not a sentence I ever dreamed I would write). Something about the finality of the 'correct' or 'incorrect' answers...
Reminder: the deadline for proposals for the panels @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I are running on high medieval political culture is next Tuesday! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions
This is basically the range of the emotions that you experience if you catch a train from Cologne to Berlin. You will live all of this in the space of four hours.
Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!
This looks fantastic - immediate Heimweh attack
Shall be celebrating the news at Leeds next week (hopefully this time without breaking a foot...)
Been meaning to post this for a while but, as some of you already know, I heard in May that I was successful in applying for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. After what had been a very difficult year, I am enormously grateful to the Stiftung for their support
I’m not saying this is a cover up for Otto I coming back from the dead. I’m just saying that if the Holy Lance in Vienna goes missing we’ll know why.
In the run up to Leeds, I am indeed feeling quite chicken-like today
(from Carlo Ginzburg's 'Our Words, and Theirs A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today')
From Björn Weiler's cousin Jens. Do feel free to share the photos with those who will wish to see them.
The phrase we used was a favourite one of Matthew Paris as Björn had examined in some detail. We hope he would have found it fitting.
Stolen!
Does anyone happen to have a pdf. of Nigel L. Ramsay and Margaret Sparks' 'The cult of St. Dunstan at Christ Church, Canterbury' in St. Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult pp. 311-323? Would be very grateful for a copy!
Very excited to be involved with this alongside my Exeter colleagues!
Your 'pro-growth' government deliberately designing policy to put off international students from studying in the UK.
As usual these days when Labour announces a new white paper, I am reminded of that Malcolm Tucker line.
'Think the unthinkable?! You can't even cope with thinking the thinkable!'
There is something bordering on abusive in the way ministers today are talking about public services – Jacqui Smith on universities, and Yvette Cooper on care homes.
They are blaming institutions for decisions forced on them by government, without admitting they or changing anything.
There are plenty of proposals out there for a system which could secure broad consent, based on the country's needs and vulnerabilities on the one hand and the dignity of immigrants on the other. A government with a big majority, four years out from an election, could pursue that kind of plan.
Would any colleagues happen to have access to 2022 issue of the Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, specifically 'Der deutsche Episkopat im Alexandrinischen Schisma'
Boshof, Egon. (2022), pp. 159-196. The online availability (and Bonn's physical copies) don't include the last five years...
typical sort of thing she says:
From a show called Keeping Up Appearances www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LwX... basically a sitcom after the Thatcher years about a 'social climber' called Hyacinth Bucket ( who always insists her surname is pronounced Bouquet). Brilliant satire about middle-class snobbishness. Really recommend
And down the rabbithole
A quote direct from Thomas Becket if ever I've seen one
