A group photo of Kate, Chris, Lindsey, Chloe, Marcus and Euan - smiling and standing inside the Yeoman Warder's Club.

A photo of Chloe in a read dress and Lindsey with long blonde hair smiling at the camera.

A photo of Adrian and Lindsey smiling

What an evening hanging at the Yeoman Warder's Club w/ @ravenology.bsky.social at the Tower of London! No ghosts (this time), but lots of laughs! Grateful to have such good people in my life @katewilliamsme.bsky.social, @chloermckenzie.bsky.social, @tealcartoons.bsky.social, @euanroger.bsky.social

An evening with lovely people at the Tower of London. Endless thanks to @ravenology.bsky.social for hosting, showing us round and telling the best tales, and to @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social for bringing us all together.

@euanroger.bsky.social
@tealcartoons.bsky.social
@katewilliamsme.bsky.social

Mary Flannery. https://themamo.org/keynote-speakers/

Euan Roger. https://themamo.org/keynote-speakers/

Caroline Bergvall. Photo: Christa Holka, https://www.2009-2019.poetryproject.org/people/caroline-bergvall/

Our next #MAMOmonth highlight is our plenary roundtable, featuring Mary Flannery (@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social), Euan Roger (@euanroger.bsky.social) and Caroline Bergvall.
They will discuss their expertise on and experiences with the topic of 'Public Chaucer'.
Wednesday 25th, 4:45-6pm, Safra Room.

Anyone else guilty of mindless doodling? #learnontiktok #history #historytok #historytiktok #archivetok #medieval #medievaltok #medievaltiktok #medievaltimes #medievalhistory TikTok video by The National Archives

Probably better than images is the tik tok video we did! www.tiktok.com/@uknatarchiv...

This year's MAMO incorporates a special strand on the reception of Chaucer, including a plenary roundtable on 'Public Chaucer', featuring @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social, @euanroger.bsky.social, and Caroline Bergvall.

Very excited to be speaking as part of a plenary roundtable on 'Public Chaucer' as part of this fab conference line up!

Incredible discovery on the TNA Web Archive... there is an archived version of the 'Love Chips' campaign from 2009, featuring a song (and clipped up ringtone) from Keith Chegwin all about chips... and the download still works! #obsessed #chips

webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200908...

'What words? He then fell down and went to sleep' #relatablecontent

St Paul looking fierce in this marginalia from the 1277 Essex forest eyre... (E 32/12)

Happy New Year from Malaysia... 2025 is the year of the [academic] book so maybe justifies the mad fire letters, but here's hoping it's a good one...

A shower unit with lights for 'heater' but also 'eels'

How does one activate the eels??

Cheers John, have a good one yourself!

Submitted two articles this afternoon and out of office on for the next 4 weeks... i deserve this...

(ps ignore the hectic background, a lot of packing/unpacking going on currently)

Incredible

Define mischance...

Sounds like we have a deal!

Def up for that yeah! If you haven't been to the Express at Kew Bridge, we're going there...

That's the one yup! I always enjoy filming with them

I'm not sure I'll ever live it down

At least you didn't automatically make this horrific face on camera...

What a hero he is!

Trawling through some PRO correspondence from almost a century ago, and apparently literally nothing has changed...

Detail of a manuscript page with fancy pen strokes to make an initial L ornamented with leaves and berries. The L is decorated with a man's face in profile looking left from the up-stroke, a generic face looking upwards from a horizontal flourish, and a small impish face with a jester's hat tucked between the end of the L and the start of 'ectres'.

For this year's advent calendar (and my 1st on Bluesky), let's do manuscript faces! Most of the archival documents I look at are pretty plain, but this volume had a particularly enthusiastic scribe. On day 1, we've got a delightful little imp sneaking up on the other inhabitants of the initial L.

First evening talk I've been involved in ages last Thurs, but so much fun to invite Dan Jones to TNA to chat all things Henry V, with a killer doc display to boot... some highlights in Dan's substack here danjones.substack.com

This is adorable! Shadow just tries toy after toy until he gets a response...

Lovely little sketch plan of #Chertsey I came across today, part of the 1650 parliamentary survey of former Crown lands. The viewpoint appears to be roughly that taken from Thorpe Park... 🤣 (E 317/Surrey/10)

Living his best life among the leaves... (sadly for him his regular swimming in the pond was banned because it was too cold)

Like Henry VIII's commissioners, Shadow and I undertook our own mini Valor Ecclesiasticus survey of the lands of Chertsey Abbey this afternoon, from the Abbey site, down Monk's Lane, and finding remnants of the medieval almonry in the surviving landscape...

There is also a partial card index to Chancery clerks in the Map Room arranged by name, but it's not comprehensive really. It was compiled from the authorisation of Chancery writs. Happy to check it if helpful

This is perhaps my new favourite literary line of all time (from Zadie Smith's excellent new book "The Fraud")...