Charlie Clark
@charliethewollie.bsky.social
UoE PhD Candidate at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies ✡️✝️☪️
Currently obsessed with φυλακτήρια, קמעין, late-antique Judaism and general Biblical fun times.
Big fan of languages, music, escape rooms and unnecessarily large shoes
Currently obsessed with φυλακτήρια, קמעין, late-antique Judaism and general Biblical fun times.
Big fan of languages, music, escape rooms and unnecessarily large shoes
Pinned
ALSO! If y'all are interested in some pre-modern and modern history of witchcraft and civil law, my exhibition "Magic and Law: "Witchcraft" Then and Now" is still on display at the Forum Library in Exeter! For my lil' blog project just head to specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/02/14/m...
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OTD: Rosetta Stone is deciphered. 🏺🧪
Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization — Sept. 27, 1822
On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, using the Rosetta stone. This ushered in a new craze for Egyptology and...
www.livescience.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
OTD: Rosetta Stone is deciphered. 🏺🧪
Have officially led my first seminar today as a PTA! Fab group of students with amazing ideas, can't wait to see where this term takes us ✨️✨️
September 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Have officially led my first seminar today as a PTA! Fab group of students with amazing ideas, can't wait to see where this term takes us ✨️✨️
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Shana tova to all those celebrating!!
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Shana tova to all those celebrating!!
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
currently prepping the first seminars to deliver to the MA Magic and Occult Sciences students next week heehoo - such a lovely and enthusiastic bunch! this term's gonna be fab
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
currently prepping the first seminars to deliver to the MA Magic and Occult Sciences students next week heehoo - such a lovely and enthusiastic bunch! this term's gonna be fab
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Deleting research about trans people from websites won't erase them.
Trans people have always been here. They always will be here. We must fight for their rights.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl1935ld4xo
Trans people have always been here. They always will be here. We must fight for their rights.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl1935ld4xo
LGBT pupils: Paul Givan says research removed 'to keep website up to date'
The Department of Education commissioned the research on the experience of LGBT pupils, and published it in 2017.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Deleting research about trans people from websites won't erase them.
Trans people have always been here. They always will be here. We must fight for their rights.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl1935ld4xo
Trans people have always been here. They always will be here. We must fight for their rights.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl1935ld4xo
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It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
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Religious literacy is vital to understanding a lot of what is going on in the world.
Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble
As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.
www.chronicle.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Religious literacy is vital to understanding a lot of what is going on in the world.
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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): The bright coloured plumage of the male of this 14cm (5.5in) bird only develops in its second year. These North American seed eating birds do feed their young a variety of invertebrates. A striking photo taken by David Hollie in Louisiana, USA. #PaintedBunting
August 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): The bright coloured plumage of the male of this 14cm (5.5in) bird only develops in its second year. These North American seed eating birds do feed their young a variety of invertebrates. A striking photo taken by David Hollie in Louisiana, USA. #PaintedBunting
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forbidden fidget spinner
August 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
forbidden fidget spinner
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Please tell me this is called the Blue Rabbi Bird, because it should be
August 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Please tell me this is called the Blue Rabbi Bird, because it should be
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This gold signet ring is over 3000 years old and measures just 2cm in length.
It shows a man and a woman about to embark on a ship, complete with rowers and even a cox. It was purchased by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who said that it was ‘very probably from the harbour town of Knossos’.
It shows a man and a woman about to embark on a ship, complete with rowers and even a cox. It was purchased by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who said that it was ‘very probably from the harbour town of Knossos’.
August 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This gold signet ring is over 3000 years old and measures just 2cm in length.
It shows a man and a woman about to embark on a ship, complete with rowers and even a cox. It was purchased by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who said that it was ‘very probably from the harbour town of Knossos’.
It shows a man and a woman about to embark on a ship, complete with rowers and even a cox. It was purchased by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, who said that it was ‘very probably from the harbour town of Knossos’.
why is adult life just forms upon forms upon forms
August 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
why is adult life just forms upon forms upon forms
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🎵God, what have you done?
you're a pink pony MERL
and you dance in the dance-appropriate space at The Museum of English Rural Life ohhh-🎵
bsky.app/profile/stev...
you're a pink pony MERL
and you dance in the dance-appropriate space at The Museum of English Rural Life ohhh-🎵
bsky.app/profile/stev...
Pink Pony Club x 2
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🎵God, what have you done?
you're a pink pony MERL
and you dance in the dance-appropriate space at The Museum of English Rural Life ohhh-🎵
bsky.app/profile/stev...
you're a pink pony MERL
and you dance in the dance-appropriate space at The Museum of English Rural Life ohhh-🎵
bsky.app/profile/stev...
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
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🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
Very thought-provoking and excellent read: feels especially relevant for the world we find ourselves in now methinks
August 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Very thought-provoking and excellent read: feels especially relevant for the world we find ourselves in now methinks
This has got to be one of the most fun magical figures I've seen on a spell - this one accompanies an incantation for a good fishing haul!! Just look at him go!! (ACM 130)
August 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This has got to be one of the most fun magical figures I've seen on a spell - this one accompanies an incantation for a good fishing haul!! Just look at him go!! (ACM 130)
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The 2500-year-old residue arrived at the Ashmolean in 2019 for the Last Supper in Pompeii exhibition, providing a unique opportunity for new analysis in Oxford.
Before the exhibition, object conservators conserved 37 extraordinary objects. Read more here ⬇️
www.ashmolean.org/article/clea...
Before the exhibition, object conservators conserved 37 extraordinary objects. Read more here ⬇️
www.ashmolean.org/article/clea...
CLEANING THE DISHES
Article - 9 min
www.ashmolean.org
July 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The 2500-year-old residue arrived at the Ashmolean in 2019 for the Last Supper in Pompeii exhibition, providing a unique opportunity for new analysis in Oxford.
Before the exhibition, object conservators conserved 37 extraordinary objects. Read more here ⬇️
www.ashmolean.org/article/clea...
Before the exhibition, object conservators conserved 37 extraordinary objects. Read more here ⬇️
www.ashmolean.org/article/clea...
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RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.
Just found out its been a whole YEAR since I did a short course at the University of Hamburg I gotta go back rn
July 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Just found out its been a whole YEAR since I did a short course at the University of Hamburg I gotta go back rn
Happy (Bristol) Pride y'all 🏳️⚧️
July 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Happy (Bristol) Pride y'all 🏳️⚧️