Rereading my university diary &, yeah, don’t do university like this… 29/06/04:“I got my exam results back the other week & I passed both of them. I got a 67 for my reading of a historical source exam, which was really good considering I hadn’t even read the historical source”

Really excited to share this! Medieval Fest speakers have been announced!! Janina Ramirez, Raksha Dave, Helen Castor, Nathen Amin, and many more… Join us on Sat 7 Dec at the British Library. Further info & tickets (£30 in person / £15 online) 👉 histfest.org/medievalfest/

Me too

Yeah, it’s my favourite one

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort” The Hobbit was published #OTD, 1937.

Gosh, thank you for this. Very flattered to have been recommended.

Thanks for sharing

Right? Ha. It’s such a useful way to guide a reader into a place.

Thought - what would be really useful is if someone created an interactive historical weather database that historians could update as and when we find references to weather in the archives.

And just in time I’ve received an advance copy of a new translation of The Malleus Maleficarum ‘A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter’. Out in Oct 2024 @ManchesterUP !