Two of my motheres systeres lyve yn Trastevere and make jokes and jestes all the tyme except when thei playe yn their pop punke bande.

Thei are My Comical Rome aunts.

R.I.P. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), you wolde have lovid "Kyoto" (2020) by Phoebe Bridgers.

This may not be relevant to you as it’s from the noughties but the question just made me think of Alles Was Zählt doing a complete 180 on Deniz’s sexuality after they were done with the Deniz/Roman storyline back in the day. Never figured out their motivation but he basically ceased to be gay.

Would love to hear some more on this! Very sad not to have made it to the conference to hear it in person…

*starts excitedly frothing at the mouth*

I find it very telling that the "community group" is happy there may be no more Mighty Hoopla or City Splash but excited to bring back the Lambeth Country Show "as it used to be"

Awful lot of academics reposting that Harvard did this without fact checking. ‘Harvard’ did not in fact do this.

At that point in my PhD where I am stressed every time I see something new and relevant pop up. How do people deal with the fear of some big development coming out before your thing is fully cooked?

Whose decision was it to have the Cher Uber Eats ad see her burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1680s England? (From those accents, at least, it seems to be England…)
I may have just killed the conversation at a party with a rant about historical accuracy after someone put it on…

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Yes, I have tickets to that! Thanks for pointing out the YouTube stuff for the Red Rose ones — was thinking of contacting them otherwise with questions!

Question related to previous post about new witch plays: any tips on approaching playwrights to ask to have a look at the script if the play is not currently being performed? Is this something that they’d do, for a fee? Obviously looking as a historian and not someone aiming to stage it.

The Ungodly - Southwark Playhouse “It’s an apocalyptic fight for God, and it’s a fight that we must win” 1645. A dark shadow is spreading across England with suspicions of witchcraft on the rise. In the remote village of Mistley, Susa...

I now have a list of three! A Tryal of Witches theatreroyal.org/events/a-try...
The World Turned Upside Down www.redrosechain.com/the-world-tu... and The Ungodly southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...

The portrayal of her being 15 years old and being found with a witch’s mark. Also debatably the pricking, which I’m not convinced Hopkins was doing yet for this trial. Rebecca is my PhD subject and I raised the first points with both Ben and your account over on Twitter in 2022.

Still wish this video/exhibit would be updated for accuracy, though!

The Jubilee. Always cramped, always loud, and changing to the Northern line at London Bridge is a special hell. (But also you couldn’t pay me to ride the Bakerloo line. Just. The distinct odour of it… 😬)

One of the oldest extant illustrations to picture witches, dating to 1451 in Le Champion Des Dames. Features two women, one on a broom, the other appears to be on a pole of some kind.

So I have seen the whole "medieval alewives are the archetype for the modern stereotypical witch depictions" thing going around.... again, and I thought I would do a bit of myth-busting. Grab a seat, this is a long one.

#skystorians

So anyway, I just spent an hour donating to top surgery and FFS fundraisers. It’s the closest I can get today to peace.

Chaucer (noted fan of the singular "they" btw) knows what's up:

Have spent the last two weeks in conversation with my teammates trying to come up with ways to fight England Hockey’s terrible new trans policy. The Trump news feels like particularly demoralizing timing, and my heart breaks for our American siblings. Happy Blue Monday I guess xx

Began the year as I usually do: unwell, exhausted, and dragging my body around a European city.

Note to my future self: the Dutch do not believe in cold and flu tablets. Paracetamol, caffeine, and vitamin C it is…

Cut to me trying to figure out whether a record is at the ERO or the National Archives by their online searches. Spoiler: both claim it’s with the other and don’t have it digitized

At Christmas Eve dinner this year with my brother’s girlfriend I learned about not one but TWO new plays on Matthew Hopkins’ trials, including one on mine. Naturally I now NEED to see them for discussion in my thesis. Please, people, I only have three months of this PhD left… let me live!

A few years ago I wrote a chapter of a book for Britannica (for a kid’s encyclopedia). They seemed particularly keen to fact check every sentence against the online EB. It wasn’t perfect then, but this undermines what used to be an institution in the publishing world for fact-checking and research.

My original copy was spirited away by the postal demons but I finally have this beautiful thing in my possession (pardon the puns). Just as I’m finishing up work on the next book in the series and about to start the newest one, too. This continues to be a brilliant series to work on and help shape!

Made a triumphant return to Valhalla tonight! Good memories of coming here after the @crems-york.bsky.social witchcraft conference last year…

I mean, I’ve happily watched both and will continue to make my way through similar 😅

God no, the chemistry there is even less than with Chad and Britt. It’s the Christina Milian and Pentatonix thing!

Still recovering from the latest illness flareup but I DID manage to stay out long enough to try the famed Yorkshire pudding burrito at Camden Lock. 100/10, no notes.

Meet Me Next Christmas is my current hot pick of the year for chemistry… but the bar is low.