Charles West

@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

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Charles West (1816–1898) was a British physician, specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics, especially known as the founder of the first children's hospital in Great Britain, the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. .. more

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 8h

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 9h

Looking forward to this talk on the Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth tomorrow : www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/estran...

A truism about the Book of Kells is that its artwork is intellectually complex and its script beautiful, but its Latin text is riddled with 'schoolboy' errors. This talk contends that the word choice and layout are intentional, defamiliarising the gospels and making reading into an adventurous spiritual exercise.

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 9h

Well this is a very touching local news story.

Leicester Cathedral reveals sign language wedding held in 1576

Cathedral bosses believe the signed service could have been one of the first in England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 10h

Mark your calendars!

Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire

14 November 2026 to 28 April 2027 at National Museums Scotland

Ancient Roman alters to go on display in Edinburgh

Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11h

Morning.

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 23h

Third lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on the New Psychology and ideas of the self. (1/2)

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 1d

Maryam Aslany - Peasants

Makers of the Modern World

À paraître en septembre chez Flammarion

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

How did large-scale landowning work on the ground, in a society without centralized landownership records? A brand-new article by Julio Escalona suggests it's about 'Dense Local Knowledge': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães....

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh, it’s beautiful,” says one man, as he snaps some photos using a long-range lens.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Pauline!

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

All is but passing vanity.

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Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.bsky.social · 1d

On another damp, fog-bound day here in the Pennines, I thought I’d share a few of the lustrous fragments of Saxon glass that I've just submitted for publication. Deposited in the early 8th century AD, they still sparkle with joy 1,300 years later 🏺✨

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah - a 30% increase is a lot.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

It was 266 in 2023, right?

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh-based Francophone friends may like to come along to a conversation I'm having on my book and the state of France with the journalist Étienne Duval at 16:00 on 24 February at the @ifecosse.bsky.social. Venez nombreux! www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

France — A Paradoxical Nation: New Perspectives with author and historian Emile Chabal - Institut français · Écosse

France today seems to be mired in a deep social and political crisis. But how exceptional is the present wave of discontent? And how should we understand the historical roots of France’s tumultuous po...

www.ifecosse.org.uk

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Helen @heldutson.bsky.social · 1d

Something compelled me to make this

A screenshot of a mocked-up Guardian headline, which reads: "Ignore the smears: I was never the one who ate a full tub of Lurpack off the kitchen counter." The byline is: "My dog." And there's a picture of my dog, posing with a serious expression, like a journalist. She is a black labrador type dog with brown eyes, grey muzzle and shiny, silky fur on her face, wearing a pink collar. Underneath the headline continues: "Listen, I'm a good girl. I don't know how butter stealers thrive in our political culture, but it's clear there was a failure of moral seriousness." There's then a link to another article, headlined: "Footage of Lola eating the butter, which cost her owners £300, was captured on a dog cam." It's a parody of this article from Wes Streeting in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/peter-mandelson-wes-streeting-vetting-moral-seriousness

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what the Desert Fathers would have made of Wegovy?

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 1d

Novels rooted in early medieval spirituality seem to be a thing at the moment. I spotted this in @blackwells.bsky.social recently. Anyone read it?

Norfolk, AD 990. Deep in the Fens, an order of holy sisters lives in quiet isolation...

www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dani...

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Cuthbert starts the day by testing another 'indestructible' toy.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 1d

Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February):

‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5

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Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe: lecture recordings now available - RHS

On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 1d

And tomorrow I’m speaking in Edinburgh hca.ed.ac.uk/about-us/equ...

The Class Series | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology

This series of events aims to amplify working-class voices and foreground working-class perspectives on the human past and current issues of interest to HCA staff and students. It features student-led...

hca.ed.ac.uk

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Is belief in "revisionist political history" a legally protected philosophical belief? An extraordinary case.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

Is this some kind of slang I am unfamiliar with

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting podcast for anyone with 41 minutes to spare.
newbooksnetwork.com/becoming-ara...

Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

Some genuinely good news - Home Office does the right thing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

UK expands Hong Kong visa scheme in wake of Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence

Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years

www.theguardian.com

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

In the deep space nebula bluesky-map.theo.io

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

"But I can’t be dissuaded that history is in fact just as important as science, even medicine."

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 4d

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”

Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 3d

"a failure to uplift the humanities, not just as critical underpinning for STEM research and technologies, but as essential to every feature of the research enterprise, has been part and parcel of this catastrophe"

@kawulf.bsky.social absolutely 💯 right.

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 4d

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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