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Dr Will Wyeth

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Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. (Mostly) Recovered Long Covid. Views mine, he/him. Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · Mar 27

libcom.org/article/ur-f...

Ur-Fascism

Umberto Eco's classic text on the eternal attributes of fascism.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 1d

One of those days where I fully didn’t believe it’s halfway through October. I thought it was still Sept. Might be coming down with whatever’s doing the rounds!

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Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I visually reconstruct heritage buildings and monuments in #Blender3D guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and by working in collaboration with historians and archaeologists.

Website: bobmarshall.co.uk

ALT: A speculative digital reconstruction of the Bass of Inverurie - a late twelfth-century timber and earthwork castle held by the Earls of Garioch (pronounced "Geary" in the local tongue)- members of the extended royal family of Scotland and the ancestors of King Robert the Bruce. Personal project © Bob Marshall 2017. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Speculative digital reconstruction of Tor Alvie hillfort near Aviemore, Scottish Highlands. The site was identified as a hillfort in 2010-11 (Historic Environment Record: MHG55341). The reconstruction model was created in Blender 3D using a combination of high-resolution digital terrain data obtained from Ordnance Survey, which I used to create my backdrop of the Cairngorm Mountains. Although the fort has never been excavated, the line of its rampart walls can broadly be determined by a stony bank that encloses an area of roughly 85m x 30m, bearing immediate similarities in size and shape to Craig Phadrig hillfort near Inverness. However, unlike Craig Phadrig, there is no evidence that Torr Alvie was vitrified. It is difficult to know how thick the ramparts were, whether there were timber palisades, and how many entrances the fort had, so imagination plays a large part in this visualisation. With grateful thanks to Eve Boyle and Adam Welfare of Historic Environment Scotland and Professor Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen for their input and assistance. © Bob Marshall / badenochstorylands.com 2020.

A speculative digital reconstruction of the early sixteenth-century chancel screen of St Mary's parish church in Youghal, Ireland. Using survey measurements, I developed a computer model to help me work out a possible design for the screen and its loft. Its form is guided by the information written in historical documents and from a single piece of decorated timber, which may have been part of this original screen, found underneath the church floor during recent archaeological investigations. I have combined influences from some surviving medieval screens found in churches in several English counties. The depiction of the Last Judgement painted above the chancel arch is imaginary, and also influenced by similar mural paintings found in several medieval English churches. The Last Judgement, sometimes also referred to as a ‘Doom’, was a common feature of medieval churches. It was an instrument for highlighting the contrasts between the rewards of heaven and the agony of hell, intended to guide Christians away from sin and misbehaviour.

A digital reconstruction of Brougham Castle shows how it may have looked in 1388 following the additions and alterations made by Roger Clifford, 5th Baron of Westmoreland. This view of the castle in wintertime is from the northwest. Artist: Bob Marshall. © Historic England / English Heritage Trust. Contact Historic England Archives for Licensing enquiries.

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 7d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 4d

“Fancy C-ing you there” was there all along smdh.

Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 4d

An especially fancy C from TNA earlier today.

Photograph of an 18th century document. In the centre is a large, ornate letter C.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 6d

I saw this vid on Reddit a few days ago and I’m obsessed with this dog. The smile at the end!

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 6d

Device forts, preceptories, castles.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

Mary of Guise had a lady in waiting called Big Anne (La Grant Anne), according to the master of the wardrobe in 1553

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 7d

As many, I didn’t enjoy, but it did make me go back through earlier TS work. Which *is* great.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 7d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 7d

Every word of this.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 7d

I see Indiana Jones in a kilt.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 7d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 8d

Not a source per se, but as someone interested in medieval ironwork: depictions of either the harrowing of hell or Samson and the city gates of Gaza can sometimes show small fittings. Probably nails rather than screws tho! Depictions of Nicodemus at crucifixion also good for this.

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 9d

1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning from the coast!

Photograph of a beach and estuary in the low morning sunlight. The view is of Belhaven beach and bay.

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 10d

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Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 11d

This isn’t even all of them!

Photograph of a box full of green conference pears.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 11d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 11d

Weather update: the overnight gusts have felled nearly all the pears from my pear tree. Advice on what to do w kilos of unripe Conferences, let me know. 🍐⬇️💨

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 11d

This CfP is 🔥

callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk?p=1147

Call for Papers – Heating in the Castle (10th-18th centuries) -Techniques, practices, and uses for thermal comfort in elite residences | Calls for papers

callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 12d

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 12d

What's a life well-lived? Researchers looked at 38 MILLION obituaries over 30 years to study virtue.

Among the fascinating results, this one is chilling:

After the pandemic, benevolence dropped in popularity and never recovered. In its place, tradition as a virtue experienced a popularity surge.🧪

An exploration of basic human values in 38 million obituaries over 30 years | PNAS

How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed 38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...

www.pnas.org

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