Tom Johnson

Brilliant, thank you so much! I've been staring at this for so long but now I can see it. The scribe was obviously having an off day...I sympathize

Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner.

I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"

and then

"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"

Any suggestions very welcome!

Fantastic! Many congratulations!

haha I actually already dug up the thread you did on where to eat in Leeds from a few years ago on Twitter - off to Bundobust right now!

incredibly, this is not even top five in the dumbest things I have done

live footage of me realizing that Leeds IMC is in fact, next week

reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny

Thank you! So pleased you liked it.

This is a wonderful piece of writing

‘𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, with its orotund comma, has been carefully designed to compete for the attention of uncles who like history.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sonja! Much appreciated 🙏

Thanks so much Emily! Are you at QM on Thurs? Maybe see you there!

Thank you!

Thanks Sonja! I so enjoyed thinking it through with you. Can't wait to work on our Doodles Are Important article again at some point... 🙏

And special thanks to @greenleejw.bsky.social for doing such a great job with the images

- I wrote the first draft of this in 2021 😭
- It was rejected by two journals 😭😭
- Many people read it and made it better: @erinmaglaque.bsky.social; @emilybaughan.bsky.social; @samwetherell.bsky.social; @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social; Chris Millard, Alexis Becker, and others

Everyone Shall Know Me By This: The Archives of Medieval Lordship Abstract. A fifteenth-century bailiff named Nicholas Greenhalgh drew a picture in his account book. Next to the image he wrote noverint universi per presen

This is probably the strangest (and also the fiercest) article I've ever written, out now in History Workshop Journal.

And it's available open access!
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.

if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

pfft, this so-called artisan bakery doesn't even keep the assize of bread

[heckling from the back] Do Whigs and Hunters!

Papa L Bad Gi

he can't pronounce th so "the" is rendered as Le in speech, and just "L" in writing

not sure whether to be proud in the Anglo Norman or sad in the Middle English

Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo

ok maybe this was too niche

tonight Ru i'll be serving up some of that Greg Anderson realness, sashaying the radical alterity of the ontologies of past life-worlds

You seem committed to misreading this in a particular way, so I'm going to sign off at this point. Have a good weekend!

I mean it sounds like we agree in broad outline, but to quibble a little (since I was quite deliberate about this!): I didn't actually club Ambler's book with the others. The next sentence says, "And this is before we get to the cottage industry..."; i.e., that that is a distinct phenomenon...

I don't know or care to know whether or not the authors are themselves hypocrites. But I think it's indicative of the implicit politics of this kind of popular history-writing that it accommodates such a contradiction

That's a mischaracterization of what I wrote, which is that their "aim as high you can" sentiment sits uneasily with their interest in (and implicit endorsement of) hereditary privilege