90 minutes definitely overkill, unless you’re travelling during school holidays. But even then, 60 mins prob still more than sufficient!

The one and only!

After weeks of being stuck on the sofa it was so refreshing to finally make it out of the house, and to such a brilliant conference no less! Such an incredible range of papers - testified by the reams of notes I took over the two days. Thanks so much to the organisers!

IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

Congratulations Ed!

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Just found the cutest experiment in Bod. Lib. Digby 67: Ut mureligus redeat ad domum tuam postquam semel fuerit in ea

So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it.

Think I need to give this one a try
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Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼‍♀️🐕

‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts Summary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur

Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

Congratulations! Can’t wait to read it!