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@royalhistsoc.org

This week we published the 25th volume in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC

Rachael's new book is available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...

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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies

@bristolcms.bsky.social

Yesterday, the CMS were lucky enough to see a snapshot 🧑‍🔬📷 of Dr Alexander Zawacki's (@achillghost.bsky.social) work in his seminar on ‘Analysing Manuscripts with MSI’. Thank you for such a fascinating talk Alexander, and thanks also to @benpohl.bsky.social for chairing! #medievalsky #skystorians

October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies

@bristolcms.bsky.social

Is there anything better than a post-seminar discussion in the Highbury Vaults? Also proof, if it’s needed, that the CMS welcomes medievalists of all ages!

October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM

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Dr Vanessa

@hpsvanessa.bsky.social

Q for UK #skystorians - has anyone who is NOT AN ECR won a 'traditional' style grant recently, e.g. pays for your time & expenses to go to archives/do oral history, write up findings, run a workshop for colleagues, do small amount of community feedback/forward and/or public engagement, or similar?

October 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

In a bishop's register, I have a new incumbent swearing upon the 'Holy Gospels of God' (ad sancta Dei Evangelia) to pay the retiring priest a pension. A related Chancery case (the pension stopped being paid) refers 'an othe upon the holy Ev[a]ngelist'.
This is the New Testament? #medieval (1/3)

October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge

@department-asnc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk

September 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks

@remakingbritain.bsky.social

We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed

Project Collection | South Asian Britain

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September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Anne Louise Avery

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox, its accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, a fine bar of Apple & Blackberry chocolate, a box of cinnamon knots, a packet of Caramelised biscuit tea & a charming & fluffy fox companion.

August 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

Went for a walk today. The path went over this lovely late medieval or 16th century pack horse bridge. #medieval historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

August 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

Radio 4 Today programme about language learning (1:22:02), which then went on to Latin learning (1:23:50). Might be of interest, @brunellus.com ? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 01/08/2025 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

August 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

I've imported Royal Commission data (from @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social) into @mappingthemarch.bsky.social for @latemedievalist.bsky.social and @mattlampitt.bsky.social ) and I'm becoming slightly obsessed with the fragmentation of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire!

July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks

@remakingbritain.bsky.social

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Captain it’s Wednesday

@wednesday.bsky.social

Captain it's Wednesday

July 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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Kevin Passmore

@passmorek.bsky.social

Listen to a discussion of my forthcoming @YaleUniversityPress book, The Maginot Line, 28 July 2026, 15:00

www.youtube.com/live/mpFyt0J...

#MaginotLine #WorldWarII #Fortifications #Architecture #ModernFrenchHistory #20thCenturyFrance

The Maginot Line

YouTube video by WW2TV

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July 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Society for Renaissance Studies

@srsrensoc.bsky.social

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

University of Exeter, October 30, 2025 - October 31, 2025

Deadline for submission/application: September 5, 2025
Call for Papers

We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period.

Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare.
• Martial identities, values and motivations.
• Notions of gender, race, class and religion.
• Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict.
• The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war.
• Popular allegiance in early modern conflict.
• Maritime violence and naval warfare.
• The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law.

Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

July 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c.1282-1550

@mappingthemarch.bsky.social

Our database of people and their connections to places and manuscripts across the Welsh Marches is progressing! Starting to reconstruct individual networks from piles of rolls is very exciting as there's so much potential for how users of our database/website will use the data for their own research

Image of various scrolls on a table in an archive

July 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c.1282-1550

@mappingthemarch.bsky.social

We’re pleased to announce that our database has reached 2,000 person entries! 🎉

#MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #ResearchMilestone #medievalbluesky #medieval #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

Screenshot taken from our database showing our value inputs.

July 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Hong Kong History Centre

@hongkonghistory.bsky.social

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July 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

Yup. We lost an image-rich digital resource for a few hours last month. The bots often don't make multiple requests from the same IP address making throttling requests difficult. Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions aren't cheap.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is happening to pretty much every university site btw. Trying to block AI bot waves is a regular thing now for uni IT networking teams.

We (quite literally) had to block ALL web traffic from Brazil very briefly a few weeks back.

Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org

June 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM

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John Bull

@garius.bsky.social

This is happening to pretty much every university site btw. Trying to block AI bot waves is a regular thing now for uni IT networking teams.

We (quite literally) had to block ALL web traffic from Brazil very briefly a few weeks back.

Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org

"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.

June 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

A couple more pictures from my visit to Acton Court. A grafito representing a ship. A central wooden post in a spiral staircase thought to be from a mast of a ship. #medieval #maritime #history

Spiral staircase. The central post is thought to be from a ship mast.

June 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM

Mike Jones

@mikej1971.bsky.social

Visited Acton Court today. Only part of the house has survived, but what has survived includes the apartments built by Sir Nicholas Poyntz for the visit of Henry VIII in 1535. Very pretty! #tudor