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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 2h

This is the view from the top of Woden Law, an Iron Age hillfort in the Scottish Borders. Below it is a Roman road known as Dere Street and in the distance are the Eildon Hills. This was the start point for my journey that inspired my recent book 'The Road to Mons Graupius'. #HillfortsWednesday

A view from the top of a hillfort. A road can be seen leading into the distance, as well as clusters of trees and hills on the horizon.

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Rhonda Barangan @jamesmajesty.bsky.social · 2h

Wtf is wrong with these idiots??!!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

The ICE GOONS attempted to murder a baby by hurling a gas canister at it.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 14h

You are always super fun to chat to! Who knows what random but Viking-Age related rabbit holes we will go down this time! #medievalsky

The Vikingology Podcast @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social · 14h

We are very much looking forward to our chat tomorrow with @downham.bsky.social !!! We always have a great time. Stay tuned!

vikingology.substack.com

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Jelmer Evers @jelmerevers.com · 14h

"During a cruel presidency where many people are in desperate need of hope, the inflatable frog stepped into the breach."

Peter Kodde @peterpolder.bsky.social · 14h

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

www.404media.co/the-surreal-...

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

www.404media.co

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Farhad ☮️🆓🇵🇸 @faab64.bsky.social · 15h

Israeli army raids the family of a released Palestinian

Yatta, Occupied West Bank

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 18h

Artefact handling day in the Vikings in Britain and Ireland module! North West Heritage CIC brought a collection of artefacts from northern England including these beauties from Aldwark viking camp #yorkshire #mythology #medievalsky #archaeology #history

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 22h

This needs to include the permanent end of the genocide in Gaza, an end to the occupation and apartheid in Palestine, and a negotiated settlement that means both Israelis and Palestinians can live in lasting peace and security.

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Quakers welcome Gaza ceasefire

We welcome with deep relief and thanks the ceasefire in Gaza, the release of the living Israelis held hostage in Gaza and the release of Palestinians, including children, held in Israeli military dete...

www.quaker.org.uk

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 1d

“For right-wing populists, the cost of living crisis is the gift that keeps on giving, allowing them to blame the experience of declining living standards on migrants and perceived ‘outsiders’.”

Our Director @mathewlawrence.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

What with being from Kingston, where our main historic feature is the Coronation Stone, and we have schools and suchlike named after Æthelstan, I always found it confusing that he wasn't better-known in the rest of the country, so very much here for this.

Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 15d

just published on BBC website, an article on #Aethelstan inspired by David Woodman's new book (with a bit of commentary from Sarah Foot and er, me) #medievalsky www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

How England misplaced its first king

In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by history.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!! Really appreciate you taking the time to explain. I am loving this alternative to academiadotedu.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Knowledge Commons share 'Warfare and Peoplehood: The Vikings and the English' from Y. Stouraitis ed. War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages East, West, and Beyond (ARC Humanities Press: 2023) works.hcommons.org/records/sass... #medieval #viking #history #archaeology #warfare

image of Thor's hammer pendant from Repton Derbs

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 2d

This #medieval illuminated manuscript has been digitized and is now available online #openaccess !

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky 🏺

www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

www.openculture.com

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 2d

Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 2d

Hi on my KC Profile there is a heading Blogposts. Is this where I can add links to blogs I have written in the past? If so, how do I add the links? I cannot see how I can populate this heading. Thanks in advance :)

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Knowledge Commons share 'Viking ethnicities: A Historiographic overview' works.hcommons.org/records/4m53... (Image of a Viking Age mass grave at Ridgeway Hill)
Photo: Dorset County Council/Oxford Archaeology. #history #archaeology #medievalsky #vikings

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

New evidence that Walter Rauff, a former SS commander, helped design and manufacture vans used to disappear dissidents in Pinochet's Chile: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman

In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

www.nybooks.com

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 2d

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 2d

It’s clear that the government immediately needs to introduce rent caps! We should also tax billionaires fairly so they can’t pay far left protestors (which my boyfriend told me about from Twitter) it’s not worth the risk.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 5d

Tar chuig an léacht seo le Viktoriia, 4 Samhain
Come to hear Viktoriia on 4 November
#DIASdiscovers
www.eventbrite.ie/e/medieval-m...

Medieval Murder Mysteries: Homicide in Early Irish Law

Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova from DIAS School of Celtic Studies brings us on an intriguing journey as part of Samhain agus Science 2025

www.eventbrite.ie

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3d

Several sources told The Observer that the Electoral Commission had been given prior notice by a party, understood to be Reform UK, that it had received a donation made in cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Reform is the only political party in Europe to accept donations in crypto

Calls for transparency on political funding after first crypto donation made to UK party

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is understood to have been handed to Reform UK

uk.news.yahoo.com

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 5d

You know what happens if you come at a giant frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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