My new favourite word: thicky thicky dumdum.

Vikings for Scouts Place-name Jenga, cardboard longships, and a grand launch event...

Learn more about the 2025 ‘Vikings for Scouts’ initiative that has supported the Derbyshire Scouts Archaeology team in developing activities for the Derbyshire Archaeology Badge in Kate Olley’s UoN English Substack post: 
uonenglish.substack.com/p/vikings-fo...

I was thinking of you.

Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium .

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share.
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#MCRHumNetwork is looking for a social scientist or a humanist with experience in surveys to carry out research on the life and work histories of MCRs in UK during Academic Year 2026/2027 on a self-employed basis. We apply for a @britishacademy.bsky.social Small Grant.

I have sent tons of emails to your tech people. All I am getting is the same response. There is some glitch with setting up the two-strp authentication but all I get back is that it is mandatory. I followed the videos. Reviewing is free labour and the ERC seems to be really not value us at all.

Let's have a look at a typical Friday for one of our researchers, Dr Christine Muir. Stay tuned for more about her research on second language acquisition!

#uoncral #language #languagelearning #research #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #nottinghamuniversity #uon

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.

The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.

Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Donald Trump post threatening Iran, saying “a whole civilisation will die tonight.”

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice.

Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

This!

For some of the many compelling reasons why we need English as a discipline now more than ever, see universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... and support the @univ.eng.bsky.social campaign and the work of the @englishassociation.bsky.social

I have sent emails to their teach team - responses are most unhelpful. Suggestion: get someone to call and have a look at the problem.

Reviewing for the @erc.europa.eu is the most stressful thing. I understand that they now have a tw step authentication but this system could not be more user-friendly. This is costing me real time - and remember: it is free labour. I guess no other profession would put up with such rubbish.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
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Konsequent

Ever wanted to learn how those manuscripts you research were actually made? Give it a go yourself!

Bookings close 22nd May, bursary deadline 7th April.

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#palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

Trump's insults are an embarrassment to both him and the UK Donald Trump has made a point of singling out and embarrassing the UK on the world stage

"A charm offensive is all well and good when it works, but at present the UK is all charm and the US is relentlessly offensive. That suggests it might be time for the British Government to reassess its approach."
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖 An overview of Playing with Old English: A Playful Pedagogy Resource
✍️ Megan Cavell and Renée R. Trilling
📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...

⚠️ Deadline tomorrow ⚠️

Final call for our New Voices in Midland History Conference, for postgraduates, early careers researchers, independent scholars, and heritage, museum, and archive professionals.

Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark.

More details below 👇

@virginmedianews.bsky.social was supposed to fix our WiFi. Instead they wrecked our connection. Of course there is no one to fix it now.

This!

Graphical abstract for the paper. Skeletons with male & female grave goods (sword and brooches with bead string), with arrows to a tooth showing the type of analyses & subsequent information you can get from them. First arrow goes to isotopes which tell about individual migration; strontium is linked to food and underlying soils/geology; oxygen is linked to drinking water and to the climate. The second arrow goes to DNA which informs about ancestry and relatedness. To the right is a map of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa with a big oval of arrows to indicate movement around all areas of the map, and a map pin in England with arrows from various regions leading to it, to show that people moved from all across the map into England in the early medieval period.

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award

For more info &/or to nominate a work, see
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Deadline: May 25, 2026

Bodies and being Speaker Series Mara Ciuntu presents: Old Age and Infirmity in Dialogue: Chaucer’s Reworking of John of Wales’ 'Communiloquium'

Our upcoming online talk features Mara Ciuntu talking about old age and infirmity in #Chaucer. Open to all!

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

#Vikingtidsmuseet

We Are Now Relocating Our Most Fragile Objects - Museum of the Viking Age The move to the new Museum of the Viking Age has reached its most nerve-racking phase – bringing the fragile Oseberg sleds safely into the new museum.

Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), the three highly fragile sleds from the Oseberg burial are being moved into the new Museum of the Viking Age - a very carefully planned process. #Vikingtidsmuseet @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

Job, postdoc, #DH, 2 yrs: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Children's reading & cultural engagement across libraries & community spaces in Leeds' - BL & Uni of Glasgow

www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc....

Now open for student applications! Deadline: 24 April

Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century (Green, Barnhouse, Black, & Beattie) In this episode, historians of medieval medicine Monica H. Green, Winston Black, and Lucy Barnhouse talk with Will Beattie about the genesis of a new open-access teaching module on the Black Death.

Just out! New #plague podcast from the Multicultural Middle Ages on "Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century" with @monicamedhist.bsky.social, Dr. Lucy Barnhouse, and me, interviewed by Will Beattie.

www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemi...

According to the media, archaeologists are always shocked and baffled by what they randomly find in the ground, but historians uncloak a duplicitous cover-up. Only scientists can prove the truth