Chris Callow
@chriscallow.bsky.social
Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
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TODAY - 🎥 🔴
Emily Lethbridge, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
"Feminist DH: Data in the Kvennaspor-Project Database"
www.youtube.com/live/4qr4MoV...
More about the Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series:
mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours/
#DH #DHAfterHours
Emily Lethbridge, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
"Feminist DH: Data in the Kvennaspor-Project Database"
www.youtube.com/live/4qr4MoV...
More about the Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series:
mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours/
#DH #DHAfterHours
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
TODAY - 🎥 🔴
Emily Lethbridge, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
"Feminist DH: Data in the Kvennaspor-Project Database"
www.youtube.com/live/4qr4MoV...
More about the Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series:
mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours/
#DH #DHAfterHours
Emily Lethbridge, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
"Feminist DH: Data in the Kvennaspor-Project Database"
www.youtube.com/live/4qr4MoV...
More about the Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series:
mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours/
#DH #DHAfterHours
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
Cf. Auðunar þáttr.
Back when people never passed up a polar bear photo opp. #1
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Cf. Auðunar þáttr.
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Imagine a city where the authorities deemed ending this pattern of killings on our streets to be a higher priority than the liberty of the motorist.
Pedestrian killed in Birmingham hit-and-run
A man in his 70s died after being struck in King's Heath, and police are urging the driver of the car involved to give themselves up.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Imagine a city where the authorities deemed ending this pattern of killings on our streets to be a higher priority than the liberty of the motorist.
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
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East European silver in #Viking Gotland: Known as Permian rings and originally worn around necks, these striated rings, some with cubo-octahedral bullion weight style terminals, were twisted into (more popular) arm-rings in Scandinavia, before being imitated there.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
East European silver in #Viking Gotland: Known as Permian rings and originally worn around necks, these striated rings, some with cubo-octahedral bullion weight style terminals, were twisted into (more popular) arm-rings in Scandinavia, before being imitated there.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
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Northumbrian jet in Viking-Age Scandinavia?
It is likely this arm-ring, found in Birka grave Bj 860A, was produced from Whitby (Hvítabýr) jet, possibly either looted in a Viking raid, or made by a jewellery maker in Anglo-Scandinavian Jórvík.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet; SHM
It is likely this arm-ring, found in Birka grave Bj 860A, was produced from Whitby (Hvítabýr) jet, possibly either looted in a Viking raid, or made by a jewellery maker in Anglo-Scandinavian Jórvík.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet; SHM
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Northumbrian jet in Viking-Age Scandinavia?
It is likely this arm-ring, found in Birka grave Bj 860A, was produced from Whitby (Hvítabýr) jet, possibly either looted in a Viking raid, or made by a jewellery maker in Anglo-Scandinavian Jórvík.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet; SHM
It is likely this arm-ring, found in Birka grave Bj 860A, was produced from Whitby (Hvítabýr) jet, possibly either looted in a Viking raid, or made by a jewellery maker in Anglo-Scandinavian Jórvík.
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet; SHM
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Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025
Our lecturer this year is Professor Terry Gunnell, Professor Emeritus in Folkloristics at the
University of Iceland
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October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
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Looking forward to speaking tomorrow morning at the Birmingham Victorian Society's Day School on Transport in the West Midlands. I'll be talking about the lessons the Victorian Cycling City has for us in the 21st century. @thevicsoc.bsky.social
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
Day School: Transport in Victorian and Edwardian West Midlands - The Victorian Society
The Victorian and Edwardian era was a time of new and rapidly developing transport systems and designs which affected day to day life for everyone in the West Midlands. Jim Ranaham will introduce our ...
www.victoriansociety.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow morning at the Birmingham Victorian Society's Day School on Transport in the West Midlands. I'll be talking about the lessons the Victorian Cycling City has for us in the 21st century. @thevicsoc.bsky.social
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
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Exciting news from Cambridge, where a donation has funded a permanent lectureship (sorry, “Assistant Professorship”) in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400. The only explicit restriction is “not medicine”, but it is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53305/
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Exciting news from Cambridge, where a donation has funded a permanent lectureship (sorry, “Assistant Professorship”) in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400. The only explicit restriction is “not medicine”, but it is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53305/
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I once interviewed the boy that Enoch Powell said was the only white child at West Park Primary in Wolverhampton. Lies then, lies now.
Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
Dave Hill: Katie Lam should learn London's language
Recent comments about the capital's school children's English skills suggest the Tory MP from Kent must try harder
www.onlondon.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I once interviewed the boy that Enoch Powell said was the only white child at West Park Primary in Wolverhampton. Lies then, lies now.
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A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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Interesting piece by @joshgd100.bsky.social on disputes over Birmingham’s available reserves and whether it has cut back harder than it needed to
www.ft.com/content/9045...
www.ft.com/content/9045...
UK’s second city urged to justify ‘avalanche’ of cuts after bankruptcy
Birmingham city council under growing pressure to explain whether severe cost savings and asset sales were necessary
www.ft.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Interesting piece by @joshgd100.bsky.social on disputes over Birmingham’s available reserves and whether it has cut back harder than it needed to
www.ft.com/content/9045...
www.ft.com/content/9045...
“No one has turned off the internet after it’s been turned on. No one is really sure how it could be turned on again.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“No one has turned off the internet after it’s been turned on. No one is really sure how it could be turned on again.”
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#RÚV is broadcasting #LIVE from the #Iceland #Women's #Strike solidarity #rally in the centre of #Reykjavík, from 3pm to 4pm. You can watch everything as it happens, right here.
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-live-broadcast-from-solidarity-rally-at-arnarholl-457070
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-live-broadcast-from-solidarity-rally-at-arnarholl-457070
Live broadcast from solidarity rally at Arnarhóll - RÚV.is
RÚV.is
www.ruv.is
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#RÚV is broadcasting #LIVE from the #Iceland #Women's #Strike solidarity #rally in the centre of #Reykjavík, from 3pm to 4pm. You can watch everything as it happens, right here.
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-live-broadcast-from-solidarity-rally-at-arnarholl-457070
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-live-broadcast-from-solidarity-rally-at-arnarholl-457070
I’m looking forward to today. A bit of Vinland sagas with 1st years, some personal tutor meetings, and the second half of a conversation about Iceland’s settlement with my Special Subject people.
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’m looking forward to today. A bit of Vinland sagas with 1st years, some personal tutor meetings, and the second half of a conversation about Iceland’s settlement with my Special Subject people.
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👂 that politicians think swift bricks would UP 🏡 prices so swifts aren’t worth saving. If you don’t want to be the 1st nation to let swifts become ☠️, email both steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk to SAVE OUR SWIFTS. put it in the subject line 🙏
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
👂 that politicians think swift bricks would UP 🏡 prices so swifts aren’t worth saving. If you don’t want to be the 1st nation to let swifts become ☠️, email both steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk to SAVE OUR SWIFTS. put it in the subject line 🙏
Nearly 50 years ago. A great article on the strike’s impact and the remaining challenges in Iceland (and everywhere else).
grapevine.is/mag/feature/...
grapevine.is/mag/feature/...
Fifty Years Later, Push For Equality Continues: Remembering The Strike That Stopped The Nation
On October 24, 1975, 90 percent of women all around Iceland went on strike. Twenty-five thousand of them gathered on...
grapevine.is
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Nearly 50 years ago. A great article on the strike’s impact and the remaining challenges in Iceland (and everywhere else).
grapevine.is/mag/feature/...
grapevine.is/mag/feature/...
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The good folk at BBC's Radio Orkney interviewed me last week about the #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney which will be available in bookshops here this coming week. You can listen to it here at 17'30" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Can I convert those who have never quite managed to get through it???
Around Orkney - 16/10/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, features and weather for Orkney, including the daily community diary.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The good folk at BBC's Radio Orkney interviewed me last week about the #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney which will be available in bookshops here this coming week. You can listen to it here at 17'30" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Can I convert those who have never quite managed to get through it???