Palaeographer and Renaissance historian. Managing Editor, @Medium_Aevum. An ex-Xer: find me in a better place.
Joined September 2013
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13 Nov 2025
If you want to find me, nowadays I am where there are fewer menacing clouds.
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22 Feb 2025
The right move:
22 Feb 2025
This is a final post on X from @RoyalHistSoc. From Friday 21 February we have ceased posting and have moved entirely to BlueSky.
Please join us there for news and updates from the Society and about #history and historians.
#twitterstorians
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18 Feb 2025
Break my ban on posting here (join Bluesky for timely updates) in order that @PStiffell can enjoy this from @bookscapes visit to the Thomas Plume Library in Maldon.
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11 Feb 2025
If you are not yet on Bluesky, then you will be late to the news: booking is open for an exciting event @bodleianlibs celebrating a new arrival in its medieval manuscript collection, taking place on 21st March 2025 - and free!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/even…
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11 Feb 2025
It involves a previously unnoticed manuscript from the collection of the most generous medieval benefactor to the library of the University of Oxford, Humfrey, duke of Gloucester - but its illustrious history does not start or end with him...
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10 Feb 2025
This is TOMORROW! Still time to book...
5 Feb 2025
If you're only on X, you will be late to the news but for all palaeographers and fragment-lovers, we have a treat for you next week: come to hear Jaakko Tahkokallio, Tuesday 11th Feb, 5:30pm (and online too):
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/fragmen…
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10 Feb 2025
There is now only ONE WEEK to apply for this fully funded studentship. Get sharpening those pencils (no pens allowed, of course).
3 Feb 2025
There's still time to apply for this amazing PhD opportunity or get in touch if you have any questions! 📜
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9 Feb 2025
Reading for a wet Sunday, inspired by @britishlibrary's Medieval Women exhibition:
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/…
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5 Feb 2025
If you're only on X, you will be late to the news but for all palaeographers and fragment-lovers, we have a treat for you next week: come to hear Jaakko Tahkokallio, Tuesday 11th Feb, 5:30pm (and online too):
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/fragmen…
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4 Feb 2025
A reminder for those of you have still not upgraded to another site:
Just under a fortnight to apply for this funded PhD position working within @memsunikent and with @westminsterabbey on #fragments @lostmss
If you have any questions, do drop me a line.
3 Feb 2025
There's still time to apply for this amazing PhD opportunity or get in touch if you have any questions! 📜
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14 Jan 2025
As I said over in A Better Place, this is an exciting time for @lostmss - upgraded and ready for some new adventures in 2025...
13 Jan 2025
Fragments suited and rebooted! We are thrilled to launch our brand new website with our growing database of medieval fragments and host volumes, IIIF images and project highlight pages. Check it out at the link below and follow for more updates! 📜🚀🎉
lostmss.org.uk/project
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7 Jan 2025
Heartening to see this but by using Musk's platform, we are unavoidably complicit in his poison.
7 Jan 2025
We stand by @jessphillips theguardian.com/politics/202…
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1 Jan 2025
Over in a better place, I am wishing all well for this new year. Will 2025 be when you make the switch?
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3 Dec 2024
I can start us off on Research that Riles:
I was an editor of this book just out hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
My part was to edit a short work by a little-known humanist on the tyranny of Julius Caesar. Who needs telling that such a power-hungry, predatory rule-breaker was a wrong'un?
3 Dec 2024
Given how hate-filled towards the humanities and to newly minted doctors (congratulations, @DrAllyLouks) Twatter is being at the moment, let's do one thing before we close down our accounts and finally move elsewhere.
Let's have a celebration of Research that Riles the Haters.
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3 Dec 2024
Given how hate-filled towards the humanities and to newly minted doctors (congratulations, @DrAllyLouks) Twatter is being at the moment, let's do one thing before we close down our accounts and finally move elsewhere.
Let's have a celebration of Research that Riles the Haters.
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1 Dec 2024
This essay was a previous @Medium_Aevum Essay Prize winner - proof that the winner receives not just glory but may also see their work in print! That is, if you apply: deadline each year is the start of December, so that means this year it is... TOMORROW!
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27 Nov 2024
Bad news, good news for all manuscript scholars. That wonderful resource for provenance research, MLGB3, is still down but @bodleianlibs has updated the text. There is now a statement of 'firm intention to rebuild the resource' and to develop MLGB4. Thank you,
@richove
ALT https://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
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26 Nov 2024
For the final London Palaeography Seminar of 2024, we host the irrepressible @cmcurran21, who will talk to us about her new project: ‘Early Medieval Breton Manuscripts: an introduction to BretPal’. Tuesday, 3rd December, 5:30pm GMT, in person and online: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/early-m…
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25 Nov 2024
Interesting to discover that I am now popular in The Other Place than here. Sure, some followers will be bots but I suspect a lower proportion in that New World than this Old one...
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