#bloomscrolling Bluebell woods are particularly fine this spring in Oxfordshire

You could always ask them?

viamedia.news/2026/04/17/1... #CofEpeeps Yes, you can be evangelical and fully inclusive. Another excellent book for your reading list!

More #histmed. @theguardian.com has changed the image accompanying their review of this new book on the Black Death, & explain the prior one was leprosy. But they don't acknowledge the source of the corrected information! Folks, this info comes from scholarship. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Love book sale. And thoroughly recommend Adrian Thatcher’s ‘Vile Bodies’, which is discounted here! #CofEpeeps

My PhD supervisor, Sally Humphreys, would sit next to me at conferences and urge me “Ask a question!!” She was right

As we mourn the great Averil Cameron, I point you to her autobiographical talk from 2017: on being working class and female in Ancient History wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Very sad news. I went to both of her inaugurals (the very idea of having two!) and my first publication was in the book she edited with Amelie Kuhrt. And then I had a chapter in another of her edited vols in 1989. She was an amazing scholar and supporter of more junior women

This plant has been here for at least 20 years and blooms very early despite having no special attention at all!

#bloomscrolling first peony of the season

“My daughter, who is in middle school, wants to use ChatGPT for everything” - yeah right and I wonder why that is?!

togethercofe.org.uk/nomination-o... At last, a gay man who is open about his sexuality becomes a bishop. Yes, there is one other among the bishops, but he came out because the press were about to out him

So they are!

Artemis is a new body suit for period pain – here’s why it’s named after a Greek goddess There’s a long history in our society of period pain being played down, or just considered “normal”. But there’s plenty of evidence in the historical records that women have always experienced it.

While Artemis II is exciting, my first reaction to Artemis these days remains this one theconversation.com/artemis-is-a...

Although I can see the need for a bit of in vivo alongside the in vitro

My husband uses that one all the time

‘Unclassified’ forms the largest group of coagulation defects at my local hospital. Outnumbering haemophilia and von Willebrands

Diagnosis of blood clotting disorder - not haemophilia but similar effects. Still no diagnosis and after many more years it’s officially ‘unclassified’

And it hurt

Still in use to calculate ‘bleeding time’ at St Thomas’s hospital London in 1980 or so. Two simultaneous cuts on lower forearm. A piece of blotting paper. And a timer

One very very large yellow tulip flower

Local #bloomscrolling - Spring has made it to tulip season

My great-grandmother’s hair loss remedy By Helen King I was recently going through the family papers — a mysterious collection of apparently random, but presumably precious, items! — and was struck by one I’d overlooked before. It’s a print...

One of the small things I’ve most enjoyed writing: a little piece of family history about a recipe for a remedy which turned up in some papers I inherited recipes.hypotheses.org/2057

History is the only subject that people say "they already had that in high school" and honestly think students have learned everything they need to know.
You need to learn history over and over and over again.

Women's Voices Conference | St Pancras Church For women in ministry from all denominations: clergy, lay ministers, ordinands, and women exploring their calling.

#CofEpeeps I can’t go this year but I enthusiastically recommend the ‘Women’s Voices’ day at St Pancras church on 9 May www.stpancraschurch.org/events/women...

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

A very good appointment!

Most of the way through it, here

Archbishop Sarah framed in the doorway of Canterbury Cathedral as the Dean welcomes her in

Feeling emotionally exhausted (in a good way) and affirmed and inspired by watching the enthronement of our new Archbishop on TV. What a long way the CofE has come in my lifetime

So, about those Eid prayers in London...

"What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?"

"Nelson's column, innit?"

"And the highest thing on the column?"

"Nelson."

"And on Nelson?"

"His hat."

"And the highest thing on his hat?"

"That bit that sticks up."

1/8

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere.

Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating.

Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins.

(🎥 BBC News)