Ell Welsford

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I keep forgetting that this is the season for buying all the shit. So if you want to shop queer, shop small, and shop medieval weird then Sticker Church is for you

Postcards! Stickers! Gift wrap, oh my!

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www.sticker.church

This month I feature @placesjournal.bsky.social, @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @ginastar.bsky.social, @miskoaki.bsky.social, and more!

#envhist

Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

I spend A LOT of volunteer time supporting the work of people who make 10s of $1000s (sometimes 100,000+) more than me, so yes, I think you can spare $25 annually to support me, precarious contributors, & @nichecanada.bsky.social broadly.

fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhist #envhum #cdnhist

How is it that healthcare decisions for trans people are influenced so heavily by cis people *with absolutely no relevant expertise, training or experience*?

In no other area of healthcare would this be tolerated. FOR GOOD REASON.

The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg

Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...

#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social

Start Here (2025 Edition) Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

Why are we so obsessed with the medieval right now? From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

The titlepage for a special issue of the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. The title of the collection is "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Medi-terranean Narratives." Cover image: Illuminated Manuscript, Book of kings (Shāhnāma), Rustam kills a dragon (the third feat), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.602, fol. 76b,by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16) Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook | Waterstones Buy A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order.

www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...

Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200 Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 2

This week we're back at the IHR on Weds 15 October, where we welcome Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds), speaking on "Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200". All welcome, please sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Check out the newest #envhist journal!

The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept Since its inception, the “Little Ice Age” has grown into one of the most discussed “traveling concepts” in climate science, history, and communication. This article investigates the contested history...

Looking to get caught up on your #ClimateHistory? This review of the concept of the (early modern) Little Ice Age is very useful: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1.... #skystorians #MedievalSky #EarlyModern 🧪🗃️ #OpenAccess

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Seminar Series Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137438

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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British Library Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

Good tips in this thread

Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...

#envhist #archives

Cover of book Lab Dog with a dog hooked up to a scale

Monday 29 Sept 2025: Brad Bolman @bolman.bsky.social will discuss his book Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (UChicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.

Join us online at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern / 9:00 Central. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Panorama view from the trek down Bernina pass, looking down on Poschiavo

Picture of an alpine hiking trail

Busy with field research about alpine history (also known as hiking)

This is also why teaching history even at school needs to deal with questions of source bias. I show my first years the classic image of Jeanne de Montbaston illuminating manuscripts in the family Paris workshop in the 14c and point out that we only know about her work because her husband died...

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method? Sign me up... www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...

Photo of 2 men with white bold letters that say “men who abuse their power are the real threat to women, not trans people”

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.

Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.

Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

A medieval manuscript illustration of a smiley grey bat (very cute)

A medieval manuscript illustration of a smiley grey mole (also very cute)

A medieval manuscript illustration of what are supposed to be two scorpions, but instead they just look like cute little orange mice with too many legs

A medieval manuscript illustration of a variety of pink and green worms and caterpillars

when will my husband (smiley bat and mole and weird scorpions and woims from BL MS Harley 3244) return from war (BL cyberattack repercussions)