Leonie V. Hicks

lvhicks.bsky.social

14 October 2026 08:48

For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers

Charles West

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

14 October 2026 08:39

Hot off the press - the latest issue of "Early Medieval Europe"! 34.4 includes Marcelo Candido da Silva on numbers in Carolingian annals.... (£) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social

11 October 2026 15:25

From a lecture given in 1809 by the then Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, William Smyth, quoted in Ian Wood’s The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages: ‘… the dark ages are almost the first subject that is to be encountered by the student of history. This is unfortunate

James Harland

jmharland.bsky.social

10 October 2026 19:23

I am amused at the idea put here, by someone that I can only assume has never before gone through the herding-cats process that is putting together an edited volume, that the absence of an article on runes in our edited volume was a deliberate choice because they were too politically inconvenient.

Hetan Shah

hetanshah.bsky.social

10 October 2026 08:51

Are you an early career researcher who might want to spend a year or two conducting research in Japan? We've opened the call for the JSPS postdoctoral fellowships which covers airfare, monthly stipend and a research grant. Apply by 2nd Dec www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...