#Amathus
Agios Ttychonas next to Limassol #Cyprus 💛🇨🇾💛

The short list of #Runciman2024 has been announced.

It’s a brilliant selection. Read, learn and enjoy!

Details here.

anglohellenicleague.org/news/judges-an…

can we have a functioning navy first?

How Iceland's volcanoes created icebergs on the Bosporus: new findings in an article in Communications Earth & Environment under the direction of volcanologists Imogen Gabriel & Michael Sigl (@unibern), to which I contributed.
IMAFO Austrian Academy of Sciences #climatechange #Byzanzforschung oeaw.ac.at/news/klimavera…

Hugely looking forward to returning to my spiritual home this Saturday to talk to HA_Cambridge about Oliver Cromwell’s fascinating daughters at the lovely WaterstonesCambridge I’ll be joining Peter Sarris & Jessica Sharkey so you won’t want to miss it! 🎟️ waterstones.com/events/history… 📚

“Officials calculated it would cost £10,000 to conduct the trial on the animals for six months — a cost that they would not have to bear if humans were used.”

An excellent piece, but a very uncomfortable read thetimes.co.uk/article/infect…

Introductory course in Greek Palaeography, 6-7 June 2024, London International Palaeography School ies.sas.ac.uk/london-interna…

Museum of Byzantine Culture - Thessaloniki - amazing detailed museum with a lot of space and great exhibitions (pictures from the early Christian room)

Don't miss Empire Podcast new series
Great Empresses of World History-
Women who rocked the world
Cleopatra, Helena Augusta, Theodora, al-Khayzuran, Borte Khatun & Nur Jahan
linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Ravens are such smart bird!! It looked like he smiled and celebrated after winning the game..

me too!! ❤️❤️❤️

Justinian’s consular diptych…

LORD BYRON

On this day - 200 years ago Lord Byron - hero of the Greek Revolution died in Missolonghi

So proud to be here to commemorate this day

So that Greece might be free

#lordbyron #byron #greek #revolution #1821 #greece #otd #onthisday #free #free dom

This was the most fun I've had in academic reading for quite some time. I'll admit I hadn't heard of a cento until hearing about it from Anna (Anna Lefteratou), but it is wonderfully rich material. Anna is a fantastic guide who both knows and enjoys the material thoroughly!

I get the strong impression that increasing our purchases from Colombia has been about the only significant trade deal Tories have managed to pull off.

#HumzatheHopeless in full pompous numpty mode lecturing someone else on non delivery of climate change targets. Is this the same Yousaf who is about to announce ignominious failure in ,err, meeting climate change targets? #SNWeefcukups

Waiting for Just Stop Oil et al to start vandalising the HQ of the SNP and the Scottish Greens ….

Because none of it was true. Sturgeon didn’t ever mean a word. Just to get a headline then move on. Her looking good in the eyes of some bumping elbows with Greta. Impossible targets. Never practising what they preached. Public transport going backwards. All very obvious.

“… having mistook the flat for a friends place, I entered and assumed my friend was in the kitchen. As the room was exceptionally warm, I removed all my clothes. An unknown gentlemen then photographed me through the letterbox and locked the door- demanding money. For the key”

Congratulations Peter Sarris
Here Peter on Helena Augusta & the Empress Theodora here:
linktr.ee/empirepoduk