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Kit Richards
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Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
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Ludo, caught mid-existential crisis and between naps. He believes that meaning is a human construct. #Caturday, however, is real.
A white cat with gray dots and face markings lies on his playmat on the floor. Ludo is looking at the camera with his big yellow-green eyes as if caught mid-existential crisis, between naps.
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Cats with jobs - Grandpa's helper: #AGoodPlace

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September 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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With @shaungunner.bsky.social, Brian Sibley, Jay Johnstone, and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, making fools of ourselves in “Just a minute in Middle-earth” at #Oxonmoot!
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September 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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The heraldic Iguanodon on Maidstone's coat of arms seems to be drawn a bit differently each time. The designer of this version went to quite a lot of effort to make the dinosaur look as early modern as possible, including giving it mammalian ears. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/kapta....
Arms: Or a Fesse wavy Azure between three Torteaux on a Chief Gules a Lion passant guardant Or. Crest: Issuant from a Mural Crown Or a Horse's Head Argent gorged with a Chaplet of Hops fructed proper, Mantled Azure doubled Or. Supporters: On the dexter side an Iguanodon proper collared Gules and on the sinister side a Lion Or collared Gules.
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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On 19 August, T.A. 3019 in #Tolkien's Middle-earth: as part of their bond of friendship, Legolas goes with Gimli to see the Glittering Caves. Gimli later founds a Dwarven colony there and becomes the Lord of the Glittering Caves.

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August 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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TL;DR De-transactionalize assessment. Stop making it about something they “turn in” and you “give back.” Start making it about shared experience.
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 18
Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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It’s been a while since I presented at Oxonmoot on-site - looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new #Tolkien scholars and fans! Who’s coming? @tolkiensociety.org
tolkiensociety.org Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · Aug 18
30 reasons to come to Oxonmoot 2025!

Reason no. 14: Dimitra Fimi! @dimitrafimi.bsky.social will be speaking on "Tolkien an the Miniature", and how although Tolkien criticises fairy diminutiveness, Tolkien himself plays with scale as part of his stories. Not to be missed! #BlueSky
August 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
—Pushkin

A 🎂 🧵for Walter Scott. Born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771, he was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature
#C19th #romanticism 💙📚
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A portrait head of Walter Scott, painted by Sir Henry Raeburn, c.1822–23, oil on canvas. Walter Scott is clean shaven, with thinning fair hair brushed across a high forehead. His grey-blue eyes look out past the viewer, at something we cannot see.
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Medieval Beds: Two Examples from 1488 www.medievalists.net/2023/08/medi... #MedievalLife
Medieval Beds: Two Examples from 1488 - Medievalists.net
What should a medieval bed look like? A contract from 1488 gives many details about two custom-made beds.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Tolkien Society Seminar 2025

We're pleased to announce that our Seminar will take place online on 18th and 19th October. This free event will have the theme "Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments", and you can see the talks, and register, on our website!

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Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments
The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A (Disney+) alien egg outside the temporary space exhibition at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. I want to believe Alien: Earth will be good, as many claim, but the Alien franchise, live action at least, has a proud tradition of sucking for many decades now and it would be a shame to deviate.
August 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Lovely to read Dimitra's post on Tolkien's prehistoric beasts! In my forthcoming stupid book I declare that The Past Is A Fantasy World - Tolkien offers us some ways of understanding how that might work mechanically
dimitrafimi.bsky.social Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · Aug 12
Today’s piece for #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday examines Tolkien’s Silmarillion “beasts”, dinosaurs, and representations of the prehistoric past in Middle-earth. With thanks to @tattersdill.bsky.social for our recent conversation! 🦕

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August 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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New Medieval Books: The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe www.medievalists.net/2024/08/new-... #Books
New Medieval Books: The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe - Medievalists.net
The Book of the Marvels of the World was created in 15th-century France and four manuscript copies survive. This book showcases many beautiful images from these manuscripts and reveals much about…
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August 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Do you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please?

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August 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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At #SAGA2025, Yoav Tirosh @realmundiriki.bsky.social is giving a thought-provoking talk on #Trauma as an interpretative framework for #oldnorseliterature.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our author Ármann Jakobsson gave today’s keynote at #SAGA2025 at the auditorium maximum @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in #Krakow. If you want to know more about #oldnorse paranormal encounters, have a look at this volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Marrowbone (2017)
August 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-))

Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?

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oliviagw.bsky.social Olivia Wood @oliviagw.bsky.social · Jul 31
Hello, I’m Olivia Wood and I am a Publishing MLitt student at Stirling University. For my dissertation, I am running a survey to examine the reader response to the use of people on book cover designs. The survey should take around 5 – 10 minutes to complete. Thank you!
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July 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I'm writing on Florence Marryat's 'Blood of the #Vampire' (1897-same year as #Dracula). It starts in the dining room of the Hotel du Lion d'Or in the Belgian seaside resort of Heyst (modern Heist-aan-Zee). I've just found a hotel postcard from c.1910 & dining room of similar hotel down the street!
Hotel Lion d'Or in Heist, Belgium. 4 or 5 motorcars parked in the street at the front. The hotel is a tall building with balconies Postcard from Heyst sur la Mer showing the front of the Grand Hotel de L'Univers, with images of interior rooms - the salon, the salon d'ecriture, chambre a coucher, and the salle a manger. The latter, with rows of tables in white tablecloths and patterned wallpapered panels is presumably a close match to the one in Marryat's novel. Detail of the salle a manger - a room with dark wainscoting and patterned wallpaper panels, rows of tables with white tablecloths and delicate white pillars holding up a ceiling with gilt or painted detailing.
July 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#Latin #Medieval
July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Our conference has kicked off! We were welcomed by History Lab's Chair @thomascryer.bsky.social, Director of @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, and Professor Neil Forbes from Coventry University who is delivering his keynote speech 👨‍🏫

Don't forget that you can join us online! 💻
Photograph of Professor Neil Forbes delivering his keynote speech titled about the twentieth century after the First World War. Photograph of History Lab conference programmes and Royal Historical Society bookmarks, leaflets and badges.
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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July 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM