Charles West
Dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
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- Reposted by Charles WestThe International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: bit.ly/3LaMIBC
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- Reposted by Charles WestThe guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
- Wow, watch this space for exciting new research...
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- Reposted by Charles WestI've seen the claim many times recently that wood-burning stoves and fires produce more pollution than road traffic. It seems to be based on this paper, which studied particulate matter in air at two Birmingham locations in 2021/22. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Charles WestExploring the itineraries of King Edward I 🤓
- Reposted by Charles WestThis is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
- Reposted by Charles WestIt looks like Wandlebury Hill near Cambridge might have been used as an execution site in the ninth century #medievalsky www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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- It was a privilege for @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social to have @medievaljay.bsky.social in town yesterday - thanks Jay for such a terrific paper.
- Reposted by Charles WestThe discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘
- Reposted by Charles WestNews I’m somewhat late to but apparently the Indian Navy built a ship based on a fifth century painting and sailed it to Oman to recreate the trading route of the Indian Ocean in late antiquity. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- "Anthropic... said its tool could automate legal work such as contract reviewing, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflows, legal briefings and templated responses." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Hybrid lecture by Prof Edmonds hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...
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- Ending off the day with a talk on Charlemagne's Jerusalem, by Dan Reynolds.
- Looking forward to reading this new book by Conor O'Brien. academic.oup.com/book/61836?l...
- Reposted by Charles WestWe’re thrilled to launch the BlueSky page for CONTACT 🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along! A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl #Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research
- Looking forward to finding out today what my students make of this recent article by Val Garver on Carolingian queenship: “Accomplished in the Art of Athena”: Carolingian Queens, Textiles, and the Politics of Clothing in the Ninth Century' www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Charles WestThe Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy Only on YouTube.
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- 32,000 medieval manuscripts now transcribed by an algorithm.
- "The origins of that notion lie in medieval church law." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Cuthbert, having completed his 18th parkrun, waits for the black pudding sandwich he has been promised (part of).
- Reposted by Charles Westand no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
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- Reposted by Charles WestOOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...
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- Reposted by Charles WestAn open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:
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- Do the Visigothic kings Recceswinth and Wamba need a state funeral? (answer: no, no they do not)
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- Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow. bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
- Delighted to be visiting Durham today, to talk about local priests. If the talk lands badly, I can always seek sanctuary...
- All welcome! Details here hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie...
- Great to hear that "early medieval" now goes to 1150: an expanding field ;)
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- On Ukrainians and ancient history. doi.org/10.4000/15jz0
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- What will this mean when this cohort enters universities, down the line? www.lbc.co.uk/article/ai-t...
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- Reposted by Charles WestOn this day in 1649, Charles I of Scotland, England and Ireland was declared guilty of treason against his own people and sentenced to execution. If you haven’t listened to my @historyextra.bsky.social series, consider this your prompt ⬇️
- Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
- "It is the first time a British prime minister has made a major government announcement on TikTok." www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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- Reposted by Charles WestMaterial Culture, Communities and Identity in Early Medieval Northumbria, 600-867 CE: A Land of Five Languages by Sián Webb www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...
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- Reposted by Charles West[#Vidéo] 🎬 (Re)voir «Le cartulaire des Trencavel (Languedoc, XIe-XIIIe siècle)», conférence donnée par Hélène Débax autour de son ouvrage paru aux éditions du @cths.bsky.social. ➡ urls.fr/ZBEMFo
- Reposted by Charles WestThe new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever. academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
- Looking forward to discussing the trial by ordeal with students later today, in a class featuring this sketch of Theutberga's 858 ordeal by @leafandstream.bsky.social. Anyone want to have a go at a caption competition?
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- Respect to this Edinburgh resident who is doggedly clinging onto Christmas🎄
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