Pleased to see this out! Really enjoyed reviewing this volume, which makes an important contribution to the theorisation of lordship

PAST Early Modern Legal: Online Overview A one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records.

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

unmute, this is 100% right

@realfollowers.bsky.social

welcomed back from my maternity leave by my article appearing in advanced access for HWJ! open access an’ all. it’s about what we learn about the early modern state if we think about arrests as a performance, and draws on four years’ worth of practice-as-research.

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Femicide: What historical sources reveal about the killing of women LMU professor Julia Burkhardt and an interdisciplinary team are studying femicide in the Middle Ages and early modern period.

www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

strong tell that the publisher is influenced by French language practices.

This has been my experience, for the last 5 years. And I'm in Canada.

Wowee zowee, you can buy the paperback for under $20! What a steal! www.pennpress.org/978081222484...

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)

💥Every Monument Will Fall
UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026

Thur 30 April Birmingham
Fri 1 May London
Tue 5 May Oxford
Wed 6 May Manchester
Thurs 7 May Bristol

More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

a set of seven art-metal pieces made in the style of military decorations, depicting a bird or raven shape and a two-towered cathedral. All hand made by a grossly under-employed history scholar.

Adding this to the list of "things easier to accomplish than finding an academic job" while looking for an academic job (or any job that uses some of the post-nominals I foolishly collected).

While it's likely Hegseth is just using the words for their rhetorical weight (tough words, gurr, war yeah), it is right for anyone listening to this (say, Iran, for one) to understand those words for what they mean in practice, which is a spectacularly dangerous thing for him to say.

holy shit

you don't have to know anything about curling to recognize that was a 1 in a million thing.

Crime and the London Rare Book Trade 1890-1930 Join an evening talk by Dr Laura Cleaver - exploring London life, book trade workings, and views on rare books through crime stories.

This is going to be a fun event. I’ll be talking about fictional book trade crime as well as theft, fraud, and conspiracy against and by London’s rare book sellers. 👇 @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...

En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England From apprentices in the street to princes at court, fencing was widespread in late medieval and early modern England. This course explores the fascinating careers and martial arts of those who…

Starting next week: En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #HistoricalEuropeanMartialArts

Well, wooden furniture on modern black rifles does look surprisingly good.

Justice for Jehanne A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justice

Here she comes #booknews @lollardfish.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Someone, hire me to teach history and save me from my compulsion to spend my days in my workshop making pointless world-building things like these

[rises from desk, retrieves SIG 550 from closet]

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

well...

"With a Hey Trany Nony Nony No" KB 33/5/5

An honest to goodness Hey Nonny Nonny in a 1680s King's Bench case. Lovely stuff [TNA KB 33/5/5]

I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.

Screencap of a library catalogue page for the article Whohoo!!! Joan of Arc!!!!! Harris, Susan K. American literary realism, 2019-01, Vol.51 (2), p.136-153

New candidate for best article title just dropped 😂

A note on white nationalist sources: White nationalist intellectuals seek academic legitimacy by imitating the conventions of scholarly discourse in their publications. To cite these publication in the same manner that I would cite other scholarship would confer such legitimacy, as well as visibility. Therefore I do not cite publications from white nationalist sources. Interested researchers will be able to locate them from my descriptions.

Obsessed with this, from @curtisdozier.bsky.social’s excellent new book on the misuse of Greek and Roman antiquity by white nationalists