Nik Matheou 🇵🇸
@historyastheory.bsky.social
• Global Medieval History & Marxism @ University of Edinburgh • @ucu.org.uk Rank & File • Support #FreeOcalan, #DelistPKK & @bdsmovement.bsky.social • Omnia Sunt Communia •
A colleague and I wrote an article for @ScotNational in response to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's apology following the self-commissioned Race Review, in the light of continued complicity w/ genocide & colonialism in Gaza. Read in full here: archive.ph/2025.08.23-0...
August 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A colleague and I wrote an article for @ScotNational in response to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's apology following the self-commissioned Race Review, in the light of continued complicity w/ genocide & colonialism in Gaza. Read in full here: archive.ph/2025.08.23-0...
New school year, new office sign
August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New school year, new office sign
Thanks be for summer kids clubs at the local community centre 🙏
July 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thanks be for summer kids clubs at the local community centre 🙏
Happy Father's Day to all the Marx daddies out there keeping it dialectical 🙏🚩
June 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy Father's Day to all the Marx daddies out there keeping it dialectical 🙏🚩
5hr train sorted 👌 ⚒️⚔️
May 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
5hr train sorted 👌 ⚒️⚔️
Absolute dream of a week/end guest lecturing at the University of Ghent on an Afro-Eurasian perspective on the Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages. The students were great, and the merchant capitalist setting of the city couldn't have been more fitting!
May 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Absolute dream of a week/end guest lecturing at the University of Ghent on an Afro-Eurasian perspective on the Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages. The students were great, and the merchant capitalist setting of the city couldn't have been more fitting!
Nice to see the medieval tradition of Sufi lodges leading popular revolt is alive and well
March 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Nice to see the medieval tradition of Sufi lodges leading popular revolt is alive and well
Very flattering - didn't even realise he had an academia.edu account
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Very flattering - didn't even realise he had an academia.edu account
One for all the epigraphers out there: late thirteenth century #Armenian bishop and historian, Stepanos Orbelean, complaining about the poor preservation of an inscription he was using (and largely recorded verbatim) in his history.
Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky
Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky
February 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
One for all the epigraphers out there: late thirteenth century #Armenian bishop and historian, Stepanos Orbelean, complaining about the poor preservation of an inscription he was using (and largely recorded verbatim) in his history.
Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky
Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky
Oh.Em.Gee 😍 I got a much less impressive tattoo inspired by late medieval peasant revolts, but I went for the Rota Fortuna/Wheel of Fate, rather than Danse Macabre 😅
February 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Oh.Em.Gee 😍 I got a much less impressive tattoo inspired by late medieval peasant revolts, but I went for the Rota Fortuna/Wheel of Fate, rather than Danse Macabre 😅
He says Elsa, I say Malik Shah 😅
February 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
He says Elsa, I say Malik Shah 😅
Bringing out the big guns for an article I'll be writing over the next couple of weeks 🚩
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Bringing out the big guns for an article I'll be writing over the next couple of weeks 🚩
By Marco Polo and Hayton c.1300 both Cairo and Baghdad are referred to as Babylon, and I'm sure I've seen Baghdad referred to as such in earlier sources (though I may be getting confused with Greek sources which definitely do so more or less from its foundation).
First two are Hayton, third is Polo
First two are Hayton, third is Polo
January 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
By Marco Polo and Hayton c.1300 both Cairo and Baghdad are referred to as Babylon, and I'm sure I've seen Baghdad referred to as such in earlier sources (though I may be getting confused with Greek sources which definitely do so more or less from its foundation).
First two are Hayton, third is Polo
First two are Hayton, third is Polo
Mantı and a proper sized evil eye = a successful trip to North London
January 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Mantı and a proper sized evil eye = a successful trip to North London
Honoured to join some incredible speakers this Sunday in London for a day of resistance as education.
See the full programme in the image, and to sign up see here: tinyurl.com/4zdzrycx
See the full programme in the image, and to sign up see here: tinyurl.com/4zdzrycx
January 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Honoured to join some incredible speakers this Sunday in London for a day of resistance as education.
See the full programme in the image, and to sign up see here: tinyurl.com/4zdzrycx
See the full programme in the image, and to sign up see here: tinyurl.com/4zdzrycx
My Emotional Support Dead Famous Guy does in fact say a lot about me —
January 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My Emotional Support Dead Famous Guy does in fact say a lot about me —
East Anglia is distressingly flat
January 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
East Anglia is distressingly flat
Google has outdone itself for ironic misidentification: Jairus Banaji, lifelong Marxist theorist and revolutionary socialist, groundbreaking historian of "merchant" capitalism, has become simply a "merchant" 😂
January 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Google has outdone itself for ironic misidentification: Jairus Banaji, lifelong Marxist theorist and revolutionary socialist, groundbreaking historian of "merchant" capitalism, has become simply a "merchant" 😂
Q's a study in politically informed, gripping historical fiction, that made me think about liberationary struggle in premodernity, the 20th c. and today all in equal measure. A masterclass, going straight onto the sequel.
January 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Q's a study in politically informed, gripping historical fiction, that made me think about liberationary struggle in premodernity, the 20th c. and today all in equal measure. A masterclass, going straight onto the sequel.
Finished my Yuletide novel just in time, 12 years after I got it as a gift, and despite knowing tons of people who adore it - as, now, after the 3rd attempt to get into it, do I 😅❤️🔥
January 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Finished my Yuletide novel just in time, 12 years after I got it as a gift, and despite knowing tons of people who adore it - as, now, after the 3rd attempt to get into it, do I 😅❤️🔥
Unexpected wholesome snow day to kick off 2025 💖❄️
January 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Unexpected wholesome snow day to kick off 2025 💖❄️
2025: The year of neo-peasants revolt against techno-feudalism.
December 28, 2024 at 10:34 AM
2025: The year of neo-peasants revolt against techno-feudalism.