Rachel Moss
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
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I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
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"Jon Minadeo is a neo-Nazi on a mission—a mission to meet America’s children in online video chats and convince them to hate."
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"Jon Minadeo is a neo-Nazi on a mission—a mission to meet America’s children in online video chats and convince them to hate."
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CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
This was fun, thanks for having me!
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Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This was fun, thanks for having me!
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CFP for "Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present," 15 – 16 June 2026 that forms the latest @menysnoweballes.bsky.social exciting series of events and publications on this theme. Deadline 14 February 2026! Details are included on the link below. 🎉 www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
CFP for "Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present," 15 – 16 June 2026 that forms the latest @menysnoweballes.bsky.social exciting series of events and publications on this theme. Deadline 14 February 2026! Details are included on the link below. 🎉 www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
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Apparently the appropriate response to ‘dark forces’ is to give them what they want.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration
There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Apparently the appropriate response to ‘dark forces’ is to give them what they want.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Fifteen years of allowing people to get away with claiming that being called a racist was in fact worse than saying and doing racist things, and here we are...
imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fifteen years of allowing people to get away with claiming that being called a racist was in fact worse than saying and doing racist things, and here we are...
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'Even the notion of “quality of life” as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a “good” healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering. I live with all three intimately and I feel more vital than ever at this point in time, because of my experiences and relationships.'
“I’m disabled and need a ventilator to live. Am I expendable during this pandemic?”
As medical rationing becomes a reality, “quality of life” measures threaten disabled people like me.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
'Even the notion of “quality of life” as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a “good” healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering. I live with all three intimately and I feel more vital than ever at this point in time, because of my experiences and relationships.'
Tomorrow is the second meeting of MATER (Medievalists Against The Extreme Right) - if you want to come along, it's at 4pm, email rachel dot moss at northampton dot ac dot uk 🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Tomorrow is the second meeting of MATER (Medievalists Against The Extreme Right) - if you want to come along, it's at 4pm, email rachel dot moss at northampton dot ac dot uk 🗃️
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What does this echo? Which other countries took jewellery/valuables off people they decided didn't belong?
"Alex Norris, a Home Office minister, has confirmed that refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases."
"Alex Norris, a Home Office minister, has confirmed that refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases."
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
What does this echo? Which other countries took jewellery/valuables off people they decided didn't belong?
"Alex Norris, a Home Office minister, has confirmed that refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases."
"Alex Norris, a Home Office minister, has confirmed that refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases."
tomorrow!
Remember to sign up for the @carantes.bsky.social lecture next Tuesday with @menysnoweballes.bsky.social!
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Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
tomorrow!
This is a really good summary! TL;DR: the Paris Agreement has stopped us from entirely torching the world (yay!) but things are still not looking great - and there's a lot we COULD do to improve that.
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is a really good summary! TL;DR: the Paris Agreement has stopped us from entirely torching the world (yay!) but things are still not looking great - and there's a lot we COULD do to improve that.
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🚗BEEP BEEP🚗
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
carantes.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚗BEEP BEEP🚗
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
It’s legit! You can find the photo here and also learn that the Pope went to see The Blues Brothers when it was released youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?...
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It’s legit! You can find the photo here and also learn that the Pope went to see The Blues Brothers when it was released youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?...
Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
Need a late-night read? Or maybe late-afternoon… or mid-morning… Ya know what, time zones are annoying! The latest Carantes newsletter is out on our website! We look forward to Dr Rachel Moss's (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social) talk next month, details in the newsletter!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
carantes.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for my ‘Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’ workshop, which starts tomorrow!
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
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There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing: 4-week workshop starting Thursday 13 November 2025
DATES/SCHEDULE:
Thursday 13 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 20 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 4 December 2025 4-6...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for my ‘Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’ workshop, which starts tomorrow!
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
There’s 1 spot still available—if you’re someone who dreams of winning a Big Fat Grant someday, this is for you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’
“a group of politically-appointed directors has forced the hand of Samir Shah,the chair, and the departure of the two most senior people in the organisation. Their resignations should be called out for what they are: political interference..”1/
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’
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A majority of the US Senate voted to *convict* Trump of this in an impeachment trial a month after he did it. This is real. It's a fact.
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A majority of the US Senate voted to *convict* Trump of this in an impeachment trial a month after he did it. This is real. It's a fact.
Drafting the next political nostalgias CFP! Save 15-16 June 2026! Excited to put this one out. This one will be looking at radical politics.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Drafting the next political nostalgias CFP! Save 15-16 June 2026! Excited to put this one out. This one will be looking at radical politics.
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FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
Happy Halloween! Here's something I wrote last year on medieval horoscopes - www.northampton.ac.uk/news/stars-s...
Today’s horoscope is…courtesy of UON’s Lecturer in History | UON
Astrology – the study of how the positions of stars and planets are believed to affect human lives - has long been the topic of scrutiny. However...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happy Halloween! Here's something I wrote last year on medieval horoscopes - www.northampton.ac.uk/news/stars-s...