Katherine Weikert

kateweikert.bsky.social

11 October 2026 13:27

Shout out to the volunteer at this morning's Hillier Garden 10k who traded 'there's always money in the banana stand' jokes with me as I picked up my post-race banana.

Hetan Shah

hetanshah.bsky.social

11 October 2026 13:18

‘The English belief that they have the oldest and firmest nation-state, or the Spanish belief that they are on the front line with Islam – go straight back to the middle ages. The medieval period lies at the origin of modern myth-making.’ Chris Wickham RIP www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/r...

Duncan Hardy

hrehistorian.bsky.social

10 October 2026 15:29

There must be hundreds if not thousands of medievalists whose careers would not have been possible without Chris’s support and intellectual curiosity. That is also an amazing legacy, less well known but just as praiseworthy as his unparalleled research contributions to medieval scholarship. 2/2

Duncan Hardy

hrehistorian.bsky.social

10 October 2026 15:29

Terribly sad news about the passing of Chris Wickham. It’s characteristic of his generosity that, even though my research was at the polar opposite end of the Middle Ages from his, he warmly encouraged me as a postgrad and wrote dozens of letters of recommendation for me when I was early career. 1/2

Royal Historical Society

royalhistsoc.org

10 October 2026 15:29

We are very sorry to learn of the death of Professor Chris Wickham. Chris was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1986. As well as being a superb scholar, Chris played leading roles in shaping and interpreting the research and publishing environments in which historians work #Skystorians