Matthias Ammon
@drmammon.bsky.social
Academic librarian, European migrant, former medieval philologist. Open Research, Eurovision, wombats, puns, pints, sci-fi/fantasy, FPL. He/him.
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Das Programm für unser diesjähriges Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (19.–20.3.2026, Innsbruck) ist da: fobim.hypotheses.org/forum-2026. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, alle Infos auf der verlinkten Seite. #medievalsky #skystorians
January 20, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Das Programm für unser diesjähriges Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (19.–20.3.2026, Innsbruck) ist da: fobim.hypotheses.org/forum-2026. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, alle Infos auf der verlinkten Seite. #medievalsky #skystorians
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Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London
We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
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This is absolutely fucking outrageous. You can’t just overthrow and kidnap the leaders of other countries and then effectively conquer them and suspend their own democratic systems. Trump is a despicable fascist who should be impeached immediately.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is absolutely fucking outrageous. You can’t just overthrow and kidnap the leaders of other countries and then effectively conquer them and suspend their own democratic systems. Trump is a despicable fascist who should be impeached immediately.
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Join our team as an Assistant to the Director/Assistant Events Officer:
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December 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Join our team as an Assistant to the Director/Assistant Events Officer:
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Deadline: 14 December 2025
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As somebody who's been through this, I kind of wish passing the test would be a requirement for British people to be allowed to vote as well.
My PT is studying for his British citizenship test so we were practicing between sets. What absolute bloody nonsense it is. "How long ago was the Bronze Age" yeah wow imagine a British citizen not knowing that, the state would collapse.
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
As somebody who's been through this, I kind of wish passing the test would be a requirement for British people to be allowed to vote as well.
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1 week to go until the final lecture in our autumn/winter series!
Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory
Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory
Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
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📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
1 week to go until the final lecture in our autumn/winter series!
Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory
Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory
For anyone interested in resources for German Studies in the UK, may I draw your attention to this one-day colloquium at the British Library on 15 December: gslg.org.uk/2025/10/31/g... I will be speaking about the @ghilondon.bsky.social Library and the programme as a whole looks very interesting.
GSLG Annual Conference 2025 – German Studies UK Resources, 40 Years On
The 2025 GSLG conference will take place on 15 December in the Foyle Suite at the British Library. The conference takes as its starting point the 40th anniversary of the colloquium ‘German Studies …
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For anyone interested in resources for German Studies in the UK, may I draw your attention to this one-day colloquium at the British Library on 15 December: gslg.org.uk/2025/10/31/g... I will be speaking about the @ghilondon.bsky.social Library and the programme as a whole looks very interesting.
Sorry but Currywurst with Sauerkraut is an offence against all that is good.
September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sorry but Currywurst with Sauerkraut is an offence against all that is good.
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📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom.
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Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social
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anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?
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It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)
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@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
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Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia
People constantly name The Secret History by Donna Tartt as the foundational text of dark academia—but A.S. Byatt’s masterpiece Possession was published two years earlier. Possession is the novel t…
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August 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
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Judas Deacon
Slightly diminish a band
The Rolling Pebbles
The Rolling Pebbles
Slightly diminish a band
Light Purple
Light Purple
August 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Judas Deacon
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Dear colleagues and friends,
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
August 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Dear colleagues and friends,
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop:
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
August 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop:
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.
Pilot TV Live - Episode 350 • Words • Kings Place
A live episode of the Pilot TV podcast — your essential guide to every show that matters. Join hosts James Dyer, Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro for an in-depth discussion of TV news, the latest reviews, ...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.
Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!
August 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!
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"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.
July 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.
Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...
![An engraved inscription that reads:
This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood.
RE EARTH TIDES: we are told that the Moon raises the solid surface of the Earth under it about 8 inches and raises the OPPOSITE SIDE 8. This I hold to be impossible. The phenomenon called EARTH TIDE IS CAUSED BY E-H’s WEIGHT PULLING …
[The remainder of this stone has worn but the Geograph contributor was informed that it ended: AGAINST THE SUN’S ATTRACTION.]
The water flows back when att’n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E. to balance att’n flood. There is no …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:673e6yusym7kyb2kkocwvesj/bafkreibecdemuvidsckodstd67vfnvjs2hf2ltwhjgmrthvaca7h3pk2le@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...
July 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...
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Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.
IT’S FUCKING CHESS
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.
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Happening tomorrow!
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Join us on 1 July at 5:30pm for lecture in co-operation with the Modern German History Seminar, IHR, given by Sonja Levsen (@unituebingen.bsky.social) on 'Zeitgeschichte and the Nation: Some Thoughts on an Intricate Relationship'. 📅
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June 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happening tomorrow!
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
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@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...
Institute of Historical Research
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June 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...