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We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺
Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
I couldn't be happier to be publishing this with BAR Publishing! Please feel free to ask your library to order a copy!!
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Putting up a few bits I've made - these two are inspired by Welsh iron age pieces from Culverhole Cave and Tal y Llyn. Now I need a third idea now so any new inspiration would be greatly appreciated
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Putting up a few bits I've made - these two are inspired by Welsh iron age pieces from Culverhole Cave and Tal y Llyn. Now I need a third idea now so any new inspiration would be greatly appreciated
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Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
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#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
"The red-slipped pottery formerly known as Late Roman C"
In case anyone is in need of a band-name.
In case anyone is in need of a band-name.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"The red-slipped pottery formerly known as Late Roman C"
In case anyone is in need of a band-name.
In case anyone is in need of a band-name.
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#OnThisDay in AD 1992, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests, but did you know women were the drivers of Anglo Saxon England's conversion to Christianity in the 7th century AD?
🏺#Archaeology 1/2
🏺#Archaeology 1/2
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#OnThisDay in AD 1992, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests, but did you know women were the drivers of Anglo Saxon England's conversion to Christianity in the 7th century AD?
🏺#Archaeology 1/2
🏺#Archaeology 1/2
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#EpigraphyTuesday a painted Greek wall inscription from a Late Antique church at Philoxenite, Egypt. It translates as ‘fell asleep in Christ our father, who is among the saints, [name]’, indicating it was a funerary inscription, but no grave was found.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday a painted Greek wall inscription from a Late Antique church at Philoxenite, Egypt. It translates as ‘fell asleep in Christ our father, who is among the saints, [name]’, indicating it was a funerary inscription, but no grave was found.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022
www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m...
For more see:
www.jennieanderson.co.uk
#HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing
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So cool that vast swathes of content from Reddit is going to be used in the decision making process wrt how often my son goes to school
With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
So cool that vast swathes of content from Reddit is going to be used in the decision making process wrt how often my son goes to school
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✨The Two Princes✨
Gaius and Lucius or Britannicus and Nero? The identity of these two young men depicted in heroic nude at Aphrodisias is up for debate, but that we’re looking at imperial youths is clear. The figure on the left holds the orb of the world—a clear sign of rule.
#ReliefWednesday
Gaius and Lucius or Britannicus and Nero? The identity of these two young men depicted in heroic nude at Aphrodisias is up for debate, but that we’re looking at imperial youths is clear. The figure on the left holds the orb of the world—a clear sign of rule.
#ReliefWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
✨The Two Princes✨
Gaius and Lucius or Britannicus and Nero? The identity of these two young men depicted in heroic nude at Aphrodisias is up for debate, but that we’re looking at imperial youths is clear. The figure on the left holds the orb of the world—a clear sign of rule.
#ReliefWednesday
Gaius and Lucius or Britannicus and Nero? The identity of these two young men depicted in heroic nude at Aphrodisias is up for debate, but that we’re looking at imperial youths is clear. The figure on the left holds the orb of the world—a clear sign of rule.
#ReliefWednesday
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Day trip to #Eyam in #Derbyshire. So much amazing history from mining to water catchment, to beautiful architecture, and of course the plague story. In the middle of it all a beautiful and pretty complete #Anglo-Saxon cross with figurative decoration and lots of Angels. #archaeology #history
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Day trip to #Eyam in #Derbyshire. So much amazing history from mining to water catchment, to beautiful architecture, and of course the plague story. In the middle of it all a beautiful and pretty complete #Anglo-Saxon cross with figurative decoration and lots of Angels. #archaeology #history
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Read my sister's book www.upress.umn.edu/978145295943...
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Read my sister's book www.upress.umn.edu/978145295943...
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Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'.
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
1/2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'.
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
1/2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
1/2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Go where we may, rest where we will, blimmin Romans haunt us still.
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Go where we may, rest where we will, blimmin Romans haunt us still.
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
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Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed as a great success, but it had unexpected consequences.
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Ploughing Up Postwar Britain
www.historytoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed as a great success, but it had unexpected consequences.
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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It's that time of year. Time to wonder: Why do we change the clocks? This story, originally published by
@us.theconversation.com, centers an Indigenous approach to question why we "fight against our biological presets" to favor productivity when we "need winter to rest and summer to bloom."
@us.theconversation.com, centers an Indigenous approach to question why we "fight against our biological presets" to favor productivity when we "need winter to rest and summer to bloom."
Daylight Saving Time Runs Counter to Human Nature – and Nature Itself
An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks to “save” daylight hours means losing some of our natural rhythms.
www.earthisland.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's that time of year. Time to wonder: Why do we change the clocks? This story, originally published by
@us.theconversation.com, centers an Indigenous approach to question why we "fight against our biological presets" to favor productivity when we "need winter to rest and summer to bloom."
@us.theconversation.com, centers an Indigenous approach to question why we "fight against our biological presets" to favor productivity when we "need winter to rest and summer to bloom."
Useful info about how to find moderation settings on your feed
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Useful info about how to find moderation settings on your feed
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LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
My students are really sick of being harassed by chatbots popping up when they are writing.
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My students are really sick of being harassed by chatbots popping up when they are writing.
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Moonlight illumination of Romanesque magnificence at Winchester
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Moonlight illumination of Romanesque magnificence at Winchester
Gentle start to day. Lots to do but also watching www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Digging for Britain - Series 12: 6. Lost Mansions and Impaled Prisoners
Extraordinary digs from the south - a Romani encampment in the New Forest, a convict’s burial ground, discovery of a civil war mansion and London’s best-preserved Roman cemetery.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Gentle start to day. Lots to do but also watching www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Today I shall mostly be pondering book cover choices for Roman Life on Hadrian's Wall as the lovely Amberley Publishing sent me options.
www.amberley-books.com/discover-boo...
www.amberley-books.com/discover-boo...
Roman Life on Hadrian’s Wall
Claire Millington pieces together the wide-ranging archaeological evidence at Hadrian's Wall to reveal the lives of non-combatants who lived there alongside the Roman army.
www.amberley-books.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today I shall mostly be pondering book cover choices for Roman Life on Hadrian's Wall as the lovely Amberley Publishing sent me options.
www.amberley-books.com/discover-boo...
www.amberley-books.com/discover-boo...
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This is a humble request for a favour. If you've read my new book, A History of England in 25 Poems - thank you so much! I would be so grateful if you could take a few minutes to leave an honest review online. Thank you 🙏😊
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is a humble request for a favour. If you've read my new book, A History of England in 25 Poems - thank you so much! I would be so grateful if you could take a few minutes to leave an honest review online. Thank you 🙏😊
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My book is out today! 🎉 I wrote a blog on what the book is about and why you should read it! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f...
#skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️
#skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️
Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My book is out today! 🎉 I wrote a blog on what the book is about and why you should read it! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f...
#skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️
#skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️
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Hideous news from Nottingham on programme suspensions (read: de facto closures) in music and modern languages. Solidarity with all affected, directly or indirectly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hideous news from Nottingham on programme suspensions (read: de facto closures) in music and modern languages. Solidarity with all affected, directly or indirectly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...