Leonie V. Hicks
@lvhicks.bsky.social
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
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Leonie V. Hicks
@lvhicks.bsky.social
· Oct 14
History is not something that can be tied up neatly into a package with perfectly mitred corners. Instead it looks more like a young relative's attempts to wrap a strangely shaped and possibly concerning birthday present. 8/
A full-body slump there from Holger on being told the team challenge is a slouchy cardigan, but apparently it will involve stitch definition and precision. #GameOfWool
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A full-body slump there from Holger on being told the team challenge is a slouchy cardigan, but apparently it will involve stitch definition and precision. #GameOfWool
'It's not quite real'. Well, no, because it is made of wool.
'It needs more abstraction to make it real'. What??
#GameOfWool
'It needs more abstraction to make it real'. What??
#GameOfWool
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
'It's not quite real'. Well, no, because it is made of wool.
'It needs more abstraction to make it real'. What??
#GameOfWool
'It needs more abstraction to make it real'. What??
#GameOfWool
Is Tom wearing series of twiddle muffs stitched together? #GameOfWool.
I still don't see the point of this challenge. I dread to think what they are going to make these poor knitters do next.
I still don't see the point of this challenge. I dread to think what they are going to make these poor knitters do next.
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Is Tom wearing series of twiddle muffs stitched together? #GameOfWool.
I still don't see the point of this challenge. I dread to think what they are going to make these poor knitters do next.
I still don't see the point of this challenge. I dread to think what they are going to make these poor knitters do next.
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Knitting your dinner #GameOfWool
a woman with pink hair and glasses is wearing a blue dress and necklace
Alt: a woman with pink hair and glasses is wearing a blue dress and necklace
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Knitting your dinner #GameOfWool
Why are they knitting food? Thus is daft and a waste of wool. #GameOfWool
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Why are they knitting food? Thus is daft and a waste of wool. #GameOfWool
And this helps how? Good grief...
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
And this helps how? Good grief...
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Aaargh! Any basses near Oxford free this afternoon/evening? I'm a bass down (out of two). Rehearsal 4pm. Help!
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Aaargh! Any basses near Oxford free this afternoon/evening? I'm a bass down (out of two). Rehearsal 4pm. Help!
Ok Radio 3, I love you, but now you are taking the piss with this so-called 'Christmas Overture'. Please bring the monks of Quarr Abbey back. Meanwhile, I'm off to church for #Advent Sunday (not Christmas) and am turning you off.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ok Radio 3, I love you, but now you are taking the piss with this so-called 'Christmas Overture'. Please bring the monks of Quarr Abbey back. Meanwhile, I'm off to church for #Advent Sunday (not Christmas) and am turning you off.
Today is the first Sunday in Advent. That would be ADVENT, not Christmas (are you listening Radio 3, it's the season of #Advent, not Christmas, even if you are playing Berlioz's 'Shepherds' Farewell with its lovely alto part).
Cue @quiresandplaces.com Matins Responsary t-shirt.
Cue @quiresandplaces.com Matins Responsary t-shirt.
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today is the first Sunday in Advent. That would be ADVENT, not Christmas (are you listening Radio 3, it's the season of #Advent, not Christmas, even if you are playing Berlioz's 'Shepherds' Farewell with its lovely alto part).
Cue @quiresandplaces.com Matins Responsary t-shirt.
Cue @quiresandplaces.com Matins Responsary t-shirt.
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With apologies to Mr T.S. Eliot
"He turns and looks a moment at the score,
Hardly aware of the final whistle;
His brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.’"
"He turns and looks a moment at the score,
Hardly aware of the final whistle;
His brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.’"
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
With apologies to Mr T.S. Eliot
"He turns and looks a moment at the score,
Hardly aware of the final whistle;
His brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.’"
"He turns and looks a moment at the score,
Hardly aware of the final whistle;
His brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.’"
I am doing my reading for tomorrow's preaching course study day and am coming to the conclusion that my theology is more systemic-based than narrative.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I am doing my reading for tomorrow's preaching course study day and am coming to the conclusion that my theology is more systemic-based than narrative.
Lovely to see #medievalsky posting Leeds IMC acceptances. I won't be there in 2026 and it looks like I'll miss many good papers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Lovely to see #medievalsky posting Leeds IMC acceptances. I won't be there in 2026 and it looks like I'll miss many good papers.
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
Another day, another Normans meeting! This time about the proposed cultural route post-2027. Exciting times!
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Another day, another Normans meeting! This time about the proposed cultural route post-2027. Exciting times!
We were treated to a brilliant talk by @cathamclarke.bsky.social at CCCU yesterday: poetry, history, time-travel. It is so good to be reminded of the great scholarship still happening in spite of the absolute shambles of HE at the moment.
Now, Ordnance Survey bingo and castle landscapes 1/
Now, Ordnance Survey bingo and castle landscapes 1/
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We were treated to a brilliant talk by @cathamclarke.bsky.social at CCCU yesterday: poetry, history, time-travel. It is so good to be reminded of the great scholarship still happening in spite of the absolute shambles of HE at the moment.
Now, Ordnance Survey bingo and castle landscapes 1/
Now, Ordnance Survey bingo and castle landscapes 1/
Choral evensong is such a blessing.
"It was a wonderful experience, full of joy, wonder and spirituality."
A rural church has rediscovered the joy of music and community, thanks to a grant that helped revive its patron saint's day with choral evensong at its heart.
Read more at cofe.io/AllertonChurch.
A rural church has rediscovered the joy of music and community, thanks to a grant that helped revive its patron saint's day with choral evensong at its heart.
Read more at cofe.io/AllertonChurch.
“It was a wonderful experience, full of joy, wonder and spirituality”: Evensong brings new life to commemorative services | The Church of England
A rural church near the Mendips has rediscovered the joy of music and community, thanks to a grant that helped revive its patron saint's day with choral evensong at its heart.
cofe.io
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Choral evensong is such a blessing.
Brilliant performance of M.R. James ghost stories by Robert Lloyd Parry tonight!
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Brilliant performance of M.R. James ghost stories by Robert Lloyd Parry tonight!
I have had a very Norman day today. This morning CCCU hosted and I chaired a round table involving a delegation of tourism people and heritage professionals from Normandy and partners in Kent. This afternoon, teaching third years about the Norman church.
This evening, M.R. James ghost stories!
This evening, M.R. James ghost stories!
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have had a very Norman day today. This morning CCCU hosted and I chaired a round table involving a delegation of tourism people and heritage professionals from Normandy and partners in Kent. This afternoon, teaching third years about the Norman church.
This evening, M.R. James ghost stories!
This evening, M.R. James ghost stories!
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We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
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We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Been wide awake since 3.30. This bodes ill...
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Been wide awake since 3.30. This bodes ill...
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Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Writing History c. 1000-1250: An Introduction to the Manuscript Sources – a short course taught by Charlie Rozier, Manuel Muñoz García and Laura Cleaver
The course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The past was a popular subject for writers in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, partic…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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Seriously though this show's commitment to never knowingly making an accurate statement is sort of admirable #GameOfWool
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Seriously though this show's commitment to never knowingly making an accurate statement is sort of admirable #GameOfWool
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Deep sigh. At least Travis Head is in my fantasy team...
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Deep sigh. At least Travis Head is in my fantasy team...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM