Good luck to you both.

Across history, witchcraft has been understood in many different ways. 🧙

In this Journal of the British Academy conversation, leading academics explore the cultural history of witchcraft and how its meanings have shifted over time.

Read if for free on Open Access 👇

https://bit.ly/4sjcuTv

I have found guided meditation where the whole point is that you're being talked at works works pretty well, or ones where you have to breathe to a certain count. But just sitting and "letting the thoughts just pass through your mind ? You're having a laugh.

Flyer for a talk entitled "Teaching and Researching Old (French) Books in a Digital Age", including a black and white picture of a thick volume, and a small headshot of a white woman with short brown hair

Very excited to see the flyer for the talk I am giving at UGA next week - the brackets around "French" are there purely because I plan on talking about non-French books as well, but it's going to be 90% French books

Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found Archaeologists believe remains found in Maastricht, Netherlands, may be of soldier who inspired novel character

Definitely going to be sharing this with my students!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sign for a teaching session in the John Bedford Room, led by me. The sign includes a printers fist

Title page of an early C16 Coutumier published by Jean Petit

Privilege page from a C16 French book, with a large signature and date from a C17 reader

Final teaching session in Cultural Collections today, and it was a good one. The Nuremberg Chronicle was a big hit, as was the 1641 ed of Foxe with a pull out of different kinds of torture. My favourite was this Coutumier which had three owners' signatures in it. Definitely going back to look at it.

Top of a small bottle of milk with two sets of smudged letters in red ink

Not saying it has been a long term and that the early modern France marking has been getting to me, but I first wrote CDM and not SKB on my office milk this morning

Black jumper with wording "Paris Le Marais Jardins des Archives Nationales" written on it in white cursive script

Once again, I am torn between my love of a slogan jumper with some random French on it, and being irked that libraries don't get more clothing love (still sad about a T-shirt which i thought said Bibliothèque but which actually said Discothèque)

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Really enjoyed our second Second Projects event today in Leeds - really open and honest reflections from Lauras King, O'Brien and Tisdall, equal honesty from audience. Even more notes taken by me and Tracey - now to corral this into meaningful resources before our final event in May.

A note on my office door which explains that I have ADHD and so I work with the door open because that stops me faffing about, but doesn't mean I'm always free to chat, so to please check before speaking to me

Still chuckling at the student who said they liked my sign last week and who also said they knew i had ADHD because "well, I listened to how you talked about pamphlets last class"

She's a very erudite cat. She has high standards!

Oh my days, this looks fantastic!

100%

A black cat partly lying across Catherine Fletcher's "The Roads ro Rome", open at the title page

Claudie would like @catherinefletcher.info to know that she's raring to get started on this with me

Same! I feel like I've lived several lifetimes over the last few hours

I feel like I have aged a thousand years today. That last match. Those last few minutes...

I'm having to have an emergency calming tea!

There's just been so much good rugby!

It's been extra fun because I have both England and Scotland fans in my modules this year - yes, I did wear my Scotland hat to classes after the Calcutta Cup...

Seriously, how is there still 15 min to go in this match? It feels like it's been going for hours (thankfully in a good way)

My wee Scottish heart might be a bit broken yet again (that's what happens when you dare to dream) but this has been one of the most fascinating Six Nations to watch in ages

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

Ah.
Structural Transformation is perhaps not the most beloved thing on my students' compulsory reading list, but it's always one of the most discussed and most influential.

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Yay!!!

I was tempted to try get people along by pointing out that I will be moderating a roundtable with 3 people called Laura, which i am still not sure is possible without sounding like a teacher from a minor public school...

If you can't make it to Leeds, then dont worry, we're planning a final event to be held online later in the year. But if you can make it to Leeds on 16th March, then please register and join us

Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below!

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

You were very kind to me! This was the best part of 30 years ago, & I was very nervous & quiet, so there's no way you'd remember me, but you might remember the lads who turned their presentation into "Top 10 Radio Papacy", I seem to recall with the chart music and everything!

Do you know, I honestly thought i had it in my Bluesky handle, because i sure as hell did in the other place, for exactly these reasons.