Keith Ruiter

Lecturers for the last 200 years:

Optional Modules should explore a topic in depth giving students a sense of a field of enquiry and different approaches to it.

The best teaching is research-led, delivered by experts in the area bringing students the latest knowledge in their field. 1/

Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications We’re going to be a bit silly this week (in part because the ending of this compressed semester has left me with little time) and talk about the recently released historical action-RPG comput…

Citing my sources, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's excellent blog post is available here: acoup.blog/2020/11/20/m...

YouTube video by The Exilian Channel “What are the Rules?” Medieval Law and Opportunities for Authenticity in Video Games: CMW5 Keynote

What are the rules at the intersection of video games & public history? In this talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBuX...), I explore Viking-Age law, video games, & pose some questions about gamified heritage. Thanks again to @jubalbarca.bsky.social for inviting me and sorry for the glitch at the start!

I mean, it was bound to happen eventually, right?

U.S. military removes words 'history,' 'respect,' 'dignity' from digital presence as part of DEI review The Department of Defense issued a Digital Content Refresh document to comply with DEI removal from the armed services. TPR obtained a document laying out the guidance of what to remove.

For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...

Thanks again for inviting me! I had a blast!

No fooling! If you're in #Kirkwall on 1st April, come along to our reading of #poetry composed in and inspired by #Orkney and #Shetland. 7.30 pm in the St Magnus Centre, and free. A @ragnasislands.bsky.social event.

Thanks for following along! I’m nursing a cold and I think I would have chosen to do the same as Britta if I could have 😂

This is going to be so fun!

Really excited to join #WolseyWriters for a session on branching narratives! If you’re in Ipswich on the 1st, come play!

The inaugural Humanities Seminar at the University of Suffolk was a huge success! Thanks again @thecelticist.bsky.social!

Civilization 7 senior historian prays it'll be a 'gateway drug' into textbooks: 'I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don't read' "I just want people to appreciate the world and the strangeness of the world," says Dr. Andrew Johnson.

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Reader, she has beyond-exceeded every one of my expectations in a first-year early-medieval history class.

And she did so by tattooing a Taylor Swift lyric on her husband's leg. 🫣

She explored vellum production, noting the similarities between the stages of preparation and scribal training compared with tattooing. She closely engaged with the scholarship of the poem & its interpretations. She even discussed how women's voices are often suppressed in artistic criticism.

She wanted to explore feminine-voiced poems in Old English, especially /The Wife's Lament/ and the connections/disconnections between oral poetry and the vellum manuscript tradition. She had been a tattoo artist earlier in life and her husband (also a tattoo artist) was a willing canvas.

I've been experimenting with creative assessments for a while. Students get to bring their skills and interests to them, they still get training in long-form, research-driven writing, and I get to have way more fun marking them. Win-win-win!

Then I had a student ask if they could do a tattoo... 😳

It was a good conversation!

The Great Viking Survey logo, overlaid on a photo of a rocky shore.

We're so pleased to launch The Great Viking Survey today, a global study on how people view and connect with the viking world as history and heritage. We invite anyone, anywhere, to share their thoughts on vikings and their legacy!

Let us see the Viking Age through your eyes at vikingsurvey.org

There's a lot on the video side of things I still need to hone and learn, but it's really nice to have a hobby again after letting academia eat those for the last few years. Any and all support very much appreciated!

Consulting on a film & a game this year made me realise how much I miss being creative. So, I've started making silly little videos, offering insights on how to better integrate #History into #TTRPGs like #dnd. Check it out!

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