Michael Livingston
@michaellivingston.com
Conflict Analyst | Medievalist | Novelist | Professor | Talking Head | Host, Bow and Blade Podcast | Opinions my own | rep’d by Georgina Capel
Gear Review: Grayl UltraPress Ti
Water is a human essential, so a water bottle is a travel essential. Trouble is, water bottles generally suck. Too bulky. Too heavy. Too leaky. Too dirty. Too big for the cupholder. And, in many cases, too full of microplastics. Another problem with most water…
Water is a human essential, so a water bottle is a travel essential. Trouble is, water bottles generally suck. Too bulky. Too heavy. Too leaky. Too dirty. Too big for the cupholder. And, in many cases, too full of microplastics. Another problem with most water…
Gear Review: Grayl UltraPress Ti
Water is a human essential, so a water bottle is a travel essential. Trouble is, water bottles generally suck. Too bulky. Too heavy. Too leaky. Too dirty. Too big for the cupholder. And, in many cases, too full of microplastics. Another problem with most water bottles is that they don’t add much to the existing abilities of a travel kit. They hold water, sure.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Gear Review: Grayl UltraPress Ti
Water is a human essential, so a water bottle is a travel essential. Trouble is, water bottles generally suck. Too bulky. Too heavy. Too leaky. Too dirty. Too big for the cupholder. And, in many cases, too full of microplastics. Another problem with most water…
Water is a human essential, so a water bottle is a travel essential. Trouble is, water bottles generally suck. Too bulky. Too heavy. Too leaky. Too dirty. Too big for the cupholder. And, in many cases, too full of microplastics. Another problem with most water…
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The 100 years war presented as a '200 years' war, and a key period in the formation of the French nation, in this pod on the book by @michaellivingston.com. Not the 'boys' own adventure' approach to Agincourt. #FRhistory podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/2...
200 Years' War - Michael Livingston
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 07/11/2025 · 51m
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November 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The 100 years war presented as a '200 years' war, and a key period in the formation of the French nation, in this pod on the book by @michaellivingston.com. Not the 'boys' own adventure' approach to Agincourt. #FRhistory podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/2...
How wonderful! I’m biased, but I love these books! 📚
Gotta love time to read at the airport bar. Can’t wait for #TheArkAndTheEmpire to be released so I can read the additional story at the end.
#Livingstans @michaellivingston.com #WoTSkies #BookClub
#Livingstans @michaellivingston.com #WoTSkies #BookClub
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
How wonderful! I’m biased, but I love these books! 📚
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Helm to the end! The Stormborn readalong has begun. If you haven’t already you can find the link to join at livingstans.com
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November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Helm to the end! The Stormborn readalong has begun. If you haven’t already you can find the link to join at livingstans.com
@michaellivingston.com
@michaellivingston.com
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Next up Stormborn by @michaellivingston.com!
We have two groups reading - one in November and one in January. ⚡️
We have two groups reading - one in November and one in January. ⚡️
@livingstans.com
Look what came in the mail today! I’d let him know I got it, but Bsky won’t let me message him. Oh well, I figure you guys would share my squee. Squeeee!!!!! 🤓
Look what came in the mail today! I’d let him know I got it, but Bsky won’t let me message him. Oh well, I figure you guys would share my squee. Squeeee!!!!! 🤓
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Next up Stormborn by @michaellivingston.com!
We have two groups reading - one in November and one in January. ⚡️
We have two groups reading - one in November and one in January. ⚡️
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Today’s the day! Join us for a full spoiler Iceborn Q&A with @michaellivingston.com.
November 8, 1pm Central
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November 8, 1pm Central
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Livingstans ICEBORN Q&A with Dr Michael Livingston
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November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today’s the day! Join us for a full spoiler Iceborn Q&A with @michaellivingston.com.
November 8, 1pm Central
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November 8, 1pm Central
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So glad it arrived! ⛈️
@livingstans.com
Look what came in the mail today! I’d let him know I got it, but Bsky won’t let me message him. Oh well, I figure you guys would share my squee. Squeeee!!!!! 🤓
Look what came in the mail today! I’d let him know I got it, but Bsky won’t let me message him. Oh well, I figure you guys would share my squee. Squeeee!!!!! 🤓
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So glad it arrived! ⛈️
Thanks, Brian!
(And thanks for the laugh at seeing this charitable flashback! Haha)
(And thanks for the laugh at seeing this charitable flashback! Haha)
Happiest of birthdays to the Distinguished Professor Lt Colonel Hot Mike @michaellivingston.com!
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thanks, Brian!
(And thanks for the laugh at seeing this charitable flashback! Haha)
(And thanks for the laugh at seeing this charitable flashback! Haha)
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Join us this weekend for a FULL SPOILERS Iceborn chat with @michaellivingston.com. ❄️
Prepare your snowgear! ❄️
We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
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We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
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Livingstans ICEBORN Q&A with Dr Michael Livingston
YouTube video by Malkier Talks
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November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Join us this weekend for a FULL SPOILERS Iceborn chat with @michaellivingston.com. ❄️
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“The author’s training as both scholar and storyteller shapes his execution effectively. His command of archival material—royal letters, treaties, chronicles, and the practical minutiae of campaigns—anchors the narrative, while his instinct for structure keeps it readable.”
It is thrilling and humbling to read a review of your work that gets it so well that you kick yourself for not coming up with some of the sentences yourself.
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Two Centuries of Bloodshed: Michael Livingston Expands the Frame of Medieval Warfare in "Bloody Crowns"
Michael Livingston’s Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War undertakes what might be called a re-mapping of one of Europe’s most examined conflicts.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“The author’s training as both scholar and storyteller shapes his execution effectively. His command of archival material—royal letters, treaties, chronicles, and the practical minutiae of campaigns—anchors the narrative, while his instinct for structure keeps it readable.”
Reposted by Michael Livingston
Prepare your snowgear! ❄️
We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
youtube.com/live/NeepdRh...
We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
youtube.com/live/NeepdRh...
Livingstans ICEBORN Q&A with Dr Michael Livingston
YouTube video by Malkier Talks
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October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Prepare your snowgear! ❄️
We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
youtube.com/live/NeepdRh...
We discuss Iceborn with @michaellivingston.com on November 8, 1pm Central.
Submit your questions in the Livingstan Discord server. ✨
youtube.com/live/NeepdRh...
It is thrilling and humbling to read a review of your work that gets it so well that you kick yourself for not coming up with some of the sentences yourself.
jonathancrain.substack.com/p/two-centur...
jonathancrain.substack.com/p/two-centur...
Two Centuries of Bloodshed: Michael Livingston Expands the Frame of Medieval Warfare in "Bloody Crowns"
Michael Livingston’s Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War undertakes what might be called a re-mapping of one of Europe’s most examined conflicts.
jonathancrain.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It is thrilling and humbling to read a review of your work that gets it so well that you kick yourself for not coming up with some of the sentences yourself.
jonathancrain.substack.com/p/two-centur...
jonathancrain.substack.com/p/two-centur...
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New review: "Bloody Crowns" by Michael Livingston. It began with a murder over fresh water in 1292. It ended with a treaty in 1492. Two hundred years of bloodshed that forged modern France.
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Two Centuries of Bloodshed: Michael Livingston Expands the Frame of Medieval Warfare in "Bloody Crowns"
Michael Livingston’s Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War undertakes what might be called a re-mapping of one of Europe’s most examined conflicts.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New review: "Bloody Crowns" by Michael Livingston. It began with a murder over fresh water in 1292. It ended with a treaty in 1492. Two hundred years of bloodshed that forged modern France.
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The Millennia Books version of #200YearsWar is in my hands. It’s stunning.
And so is the original @headofzeus.bsky.social version, and the upcoming Basic Books version, #BloodyCrowns … get them all!
And so is the original @headofzeus.bsky.social version, and the upcoming Basic Books version, #BloodyCrowns … get them all!
October 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The Millennia Books version of #200YearsWar is in my hands. It’s stunning.
And so is the original @headofzeus.bsky.social version, and the upcoming Basic Books version, #BloodyCrowns … get them all!
And so is the original @headofzeus.bsky.social version, and the upcoming Basic Books version, #BloodyCrowns … get them all!
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#BookReview: THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS WAR by Michael Livingston @headofzeus.bsky.social @michaellivingston.com
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ARC Review: THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS WAR by Michael Livingston
An engaging history that reframes the conflict between England and France known as the Hundred Years War into part of a longer conflict
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October 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#BookReview: THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS WAR by Michael Livingston @headofzeus.bsky.social @michaellivingston.com
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TFW your fans get your book before you do. ❤️🙏
We’re excited to read Bloody Crowns by @michaellivingston.com. ⚔️ #Livingstans #HistoryNerd #Booksky
October 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
TFW your fans get your book before you do. ❤️🙏
With #200YearsWar just out for my UK history fans (and the US version en route!), my fiction fans aren’t left out!
@waterstones.bsky.social is featuring #TheArkAndTheEmpire for their #WPreorder RIGHT NOW.
Use code OCTOBER25 for 25% off!
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@waterstones.bsky.social is featuring #TheArkAndTheEmpire for their #WPreorder RIGHT NOW.
Use code OCTOBER25 for 25% off!
tidd.ly/4oadJmr
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
With #200YearsWar just out for my UK history fans (and the US version en route!), my fiction fans aren’t left out!
@waterstones.bsky.social is featuring #TheArkAndTheEmpire for their #WPreorder RIGHT NOW.
Use code OCTOBER25 for 25% off!
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@waterstones.bsky.social is featuring #TheArkAndTheEmpire for their #WPreorder RIGHT NOW.
Use code OCTOBER25 for 25% off!
tidd.ly/4oadJmr
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ICYMI new post on our FREE newsletter "Modern Medieval." @lollardfish.bsky.social reviews a great new book by @michaellivingston.com on The Hundred Years War
#medievalsky #booksky
read now -->
#medievalsky #booksky
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NEW POST: In Bloody Crowns, @michaellivingston.com argues that the "Hundred Years War" is really a two hundred years, and was started by the French, fought in what today we call France, and won by people who got to define what France would be.
- from me and @profgabriele.com
- from me and @profgabriele.com
Book Review: "Bloody Crown" by Michael Livingston
A New History of the Hundred (or maybe Two Hundred) Years War
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October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ICYMI new post on our FREE newsletter "Modern Medieval." @lollardfish.bsky.social reviews a great new book by @michaellivingston.com on The Hundred Years War
#medievalsky #booksky
read now -->
#medievalsky #booksky
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“at the end of this long lovely book, I keep coming back to how compelling I find Livingston’s revision of how we think about big sweeping demarcations of time.”
I worry a lot about alienating academics when I do popular work. Seeing this review from such accomplished scholars … I’m speechless.
I worry a lot about alienating academics when I do popular work. Seeing this review from such accomplished scholars … I’m speechless.
NEW POST: In Bloody Crowns, @michaellivingston.com argues that the "Hundred Years War" is really a two hundred years, and was started by the French, fought in what today we call France, and won by people who got to define what France would be.
- from me and @profgabriele.com
- from me and @profgabriele.com
Book Review: "Bloody Crown" by Michael Livingston
A New History of the Hundred (or maybe Two Hundred) Years War
buttondown.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“at the end of this long lovely book, I keep coming back to how compelling I find Livingston’s revision of how we think about big sweeping demarcations of time.”
I worry a lot about alienating academics when I do popular work. Seeing this review from such accomplished scholars … I’m speechless.
I worry a lot about alienating academics when I do popular work. Seeing this review from such accomplished scholars … I’m speechless.
I love to see scholars working to lift other scholars up, and that’s exactly what David is doing here. 👍👍
Pre-order The Public Scholar here. Pay zero shipping from @bookshop.org.
I tried to write it real good for you!
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I tried to write it real good for you!
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The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook
A Practical Handbook
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October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I love to see scholars working to lift other scholars up, and that’s exactly what David is doing here. 👍👍
October 29 I’ll be giving a public talk here in Charleston to celebrate the release of BLOODY CROWNS. Tickets available now!
Below, a wee hype article from @holycitysinner.com
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Below, a wee hype article from @holycitysinner.com
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Doubt, Imagination & Historical Analysis
You may know next to nothing about Henry V (1386-1422) and Joan of Arc (1412-1431). But if you talk with medievalist Michael Livingston about his latest book, Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundr...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
October 29 I’ll be giving a public talk here in Charleston to celebrate the release of BLOODY CROWNS. Tickets available now!
Below, a wee hype article from @holycitysinner.com
holycitysinner.com/entertainmen...
Below, a wee hype article from @holycitysinner.com
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And we’re off! A read-along of ICEBORN (Seaborn Book 2) is now underway over at @livingstans.com 🧊
And for you history fans: don’t forget to pre-order 200 Years War (UK) / Bloody Crowns (US) to read this month! ⚔️
And for you history fans: don’t forget to pre-order 200 Years War (UK) / Bloody Crowns (US) to read this month! ⚔️
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
And we’re off! A read-along of ICEBORN (Seaborn Book 2) is now underway over at @livingstans.com 🧊
And for you history fans: don’t forget to pre-order 200 Years War (UK) / Bloody Crowns (US) to read this month! ⚔️
And for you history fans: don’t forget to pre-order 200 Years War (UK) / Bloody Crowns (US) to read this month! ⚔️
Me! Live and onstage*! One hour to showtime!
*in my home office
*in my home office
October 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Me! Live and onstage*! One hour to showtime!
*in my home office
*in my home office
Thrilled that my latest documentary is out on History Hit! Owain Glyndwr! 🏴
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Rebels: Owain Glyndŵr - Season 1 - History Hit
In the second part of his new series, conflict analyst Professor Michael Livingston is continuing his journey across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on the trail of some of Britain’s best...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thrilled that my latest documentary is out on History Hit! Owain Glyndwr! 🏴
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