Does anyone have any tips for reading on the letter eth (ð), its use in Old/Middle English, and particularly its conflation into dh by Norman scribes? I have some hunches, I would just like them to be backed up by the historiography!

Thrilled to share with you our Easter Term Card. We'll have papers exploring Memory and Emotions in Ireland, Early Modern Europe, Spatiality, and Conflict. You can attend in-person or online. Join us in Cambridge for the forefront of emerging scholarship on memory and emotions!

Is that a psaltery she's holding? Upturned beehive?

Please circulate far and wide! Myself and Huw Keene are putting together a proposal for a volume for Amsterdam Univ Press and are looking for chapters concerned with song and visual culture. See the full details below!

In the last minutes of the day. It would be unfair otherwise.

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
...
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?'

Not sure how you are meant to move on after reading that?

Hey there! Want to look at some beautiful manuscripts from late medieval Iberia? Of course you do!

This is your opportunity to learn about the scripts of 13th-15thc Iberian books. I promise books of hours, chess & many other gems.

7th June, IES

ies.sas.ac.uk/london-interna…

Myself and Dr Katherine Emery are excited to announce a call for chapters for a volume we are editing together! The volume will be submitted for review to Song Studies, as part of their book series with Amsterdam Univ Press. All information below. Please share widely if you can!🎶🎨

Russia’s occupying forces in Bakhmut just published on one of their Telegram channels new video footage and photos of the eastern Ukrainian city almost a year after it was destroyed and captured. The photos are stomach-churning and I admit they fill me with rage. I’ll post them…

This, but Thatcher shouting at Sir Geoffrey Howe.

We are delighted to announce our third and final call for papers of the academic year, 'Cultures and Practices of Knowledge'. We look forward to submissions (deadline 9/04) from those looking to present both in-person or online! #cfp #materialculture #earlymodern

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

I just turned on The Sound of Music to watch for the first time (I know, I know) and since I just paused and turned it up several times in the first minute to see why there wasn’t any sound….. I think I should live tweet what it is like to watch it for the first time in your 30s

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…

Very excited about this position. Please do retweet and share among Latin Americanists.

Please sign the petition - so close to 10K signatures - but also do what I’ve just done - respond to the consultation and write to your MP. Mine has The National Archives in her constituency so I’m hoping she will respond positively. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6540…

“Going anywhere nice this summer?”
“Yeah. Agincourt”

We're now a quarter of the way to getting the 10,000 signatures we need to get a Government response to this petition.
Can we get some of the big names in the history world to share it?
In about six weeks, it might be too late!
Retweets please... 🙂
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6540…

My Opinion piece in Financial Times (and tomorrow in print) outlines my argument that the Ministry of Justice proposals on digitising and destroying public wills are foolhardy& short-sighted, misjudging the state of digital preservation & the importance of material evidence. on.ft.com/3RRv3PK

33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.