🚨Looking for a fantastic book on the medieval epic? Well, we have not one but eight (and one in two volumes!), available direct from the Societe Rencesvals British Branch, from our new website rencesvals.co.uk

Do you want a student-facing #UCURising strike explainer? Do I have a treat for you! This pamphlet explains what trade unions are, what they do, and why Higher Education staff are striking, while busting some common myths. PDF available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1REzSmd…

One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD.

So let's talk mail. 1/

there’s a lot of ukraine discourse today and i just think the problem with a lot of people’s positions is that they haven’t survived contact with reality but they’re persisting with them regardless (short thread)

paddington bear often wears a coat for warmth, but is also styled in a way that suggests he is not naked without it- meanwhile rupert bear is always fully dressed. suggests that paddington is prelapsarian, while rupert has a concept of nudity and ergo original sin

I wrote a thing! If you work with signed/marked historical documents it might be of interest... #twitterstorians

Is the Biblioteca Nacional de España manuscript page down for anyone else? (bdh.bne.es) Biblioteca Nacional de España

Sheltering from the rain in Dorset at the lovely Saint Aldhelm's chapel, with 12th century groin vaults, a dramatic location on a cliff, and some seventeenth century graffiti. Perfectly tailored to make me happy, apparently

Wow - incredible.

With just 5 working days notice to mobilise 115,000 members across 1,500 workplaces for the second national ballot in a month we have absolutely smashed it again.

72.2% Turnout

98.7 % YES

Up the postal workers

1/ Physical copies of Royal Childhood & Child Kingship have arrived!! So many thanks are owed, but especial thanks to all Cambridge University Press - Academic for producing such a gorgeous book!

One avid fan showed his appreciation by trying to nibble the corner, then running off with the packaging.

It's here, finally! So glad to have my chapter Women at the Walls included in this fantastic and good-looking tome edited by the esteemed Andrew D. Buck and Thomas Smith of @HistoryRugby Much reading of other chapters now to undertake...

Enough is enough. It's time to turn anger into action.

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I am sorry but how can you still call yourself the leader of the *labour* party if you sack your shadow transport minister for joining a rail workers picket line?

We are hiring for a full-time, open-ended lecturership in any aspect of early modern history.
We are especially keen to hear from researchers whose specialism would broaden the geographical range of the department.
More details/informal contact in ad:
jobs.ac.uk/job/CRT257/lec…

Do I know a muffin man who lives on Drury Lane? in this economy?

So, erm... had official confirmation, so I'm beyond delighted to say that I'lll be joining @CUHistArchRel as Lecturer in Medieval History this summer on a permanent basis. Can't wait to join such a wonderful department and to continue the tradition of crusade studies at Cardiff