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Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available.
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Come join me and my lovely colleagues in @historyathull.bsky.social for three years!
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My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger
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As one of the co-supervisors with @justincolson.bsky.social & colleagues from Historic Royal Palaces (I'm a little biased), this is fantastic opportunity to place the Tower was in the period (palace, arsenal, prison - place of consumption of all sorts of things), in the widest context. Apply! 🗃️
Yes, some of the marvels he describes in Ireland come from Ovid, and some of the political scenes are in Sallust. For instance, the invaders' speeches at Baginbun (to kill or spare Irish prisoners) are essentially the same as those Sallust has Caesar & Cato say in his Catiline.
Thanks! I'm very glad you enjoyed the podcast. We could have gone on for hours (and had talked for over an hour before recording). @niamhwycherley.bsky.social is fantastic, and will know more about early medieval Irish society than I, but I like Dáibhí O Cróinín's Early Medieval Ireland to start.
Bonus episode out now. @colinveach.bsky.social talks in more detail about the contemporary written sources justifying the 'Anglo-Norman Invasion' and we reflect on modern scholars' approaches to 12th century Irish history. Gerald of Wales, Laudabiliter & more! open.spotify.com/episode/5Zmp...
It's nearly St Brigit's Day! So naturally we have an episode for you on ... the conquest of Ireland, 1169! Thanks to the brilliant (& patient!) @colinveach.bsky.social for explaining the English angle on the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion. King Henry II, Strongbow & more.
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"By making over these women in our own image, we lose so much of what was distinctive and beautiful about their literature."
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
Thanks Sig - all the best to you too!
Just listened to this on my way back to Hull from Maynooth. Such a great overview. From now on I'll be sure to check old bookbindings for a lost tract about cats.
Ah, Sig, it has been far too long! Hope our paths cross again soon.
Reviewer 2 felt the same way
Many congratulations, Adam!
This is a great little book. A very useful introduction to the pipe rolls for students, and an essential aid for those of us who sometimes need a quick reminder.
To be fair, he was a physicist.
Was William the Conqueror guilty of genocide? A free-to-read article about the Harrying of the North I wrote for @historyextra.bsky.social. www.historyextra.com/period/anglo...
Thanks! I hope you enjoy it
I’m delighted by this wonderfully generous review in Church History of The Emperor and the Elephant:
‘This groundbreaking and much-needed new study will be a required reference for all future scholarly considerations of the early medieval world.’
Why we shouldn't call it 'Tyrone's Rebellion' (& I'm guilty of this too) short 🧵 I call it the Nine Years War (as much as I can but have relapses). Often still referred to as 'Tyrone's Rebellion'. Isn't the best term to use for a number of reasons. First, the word 'Rebellion'
RIA MS 23 E 25 p. 133 (beginning of a story involving Mongán and the poet Forgoll)
The legendary early Irish poet Forgoll boasted that he knew a story for every night between Samain (1 November) and Beltene (1 May), a long season of storytelling that follows the shortening & lengthening day
[RIA MS 23 E 25 p. 133 (Lebor na hUidre) www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
I hope you enjoy!
A nice map, a useful map (lacking Alt Text though - what is shows, by colour-coding, which archive, of 14 possibilities, holds records for each parish in Yorkshire). Among other things, it demonstrates how varied local government is in the county and how boundaries shift... 🗃️
I'm also open to Midsomer.
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
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Congratulations! Perhaps says something about me as an academic that my first reaction was: 'that b@stard once kicked 5 field goals to beat the Ravens in the divisional round'.
I am very sorry to hear this. He was such a kind and generous colleague.