Prof. Ben Pohl
@benpohl.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol | Books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell & Brewer (×2), Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press | Manuscript Detective™ 🕵️♂️ 📜 📖
Say hello to the Dept from their external examiner 😉
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Say hello to the Dept from their external examiner 😉
Absolute word salad. Meaningless drivel.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Absolute word salad. Meaningless drivel.
Wundervoll! Ich freue mich riesig für dich! Glückwunsch!!!
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wundervoll! Ich freue mich riesig für dich! Glückwunsch!!!
A great service to scholarship! Bravissima!
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A great service to scholarship! Bravissima!
Congratulations, Shauna!!!
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Congratulations, Shauna!!!
That’d be my guess, too, more specifically the Roman numeral 50 (e.g., 57 (lvii) and 54 (liiii) pounds (currency), respectively)…
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
That’d be my guess, too, more specifically the Roman numeral 50 (e.g., 57 (lvii) and 54 (liiii) pounds (currency), respectively)…
Did it allow free text in the form of emojis? 😉
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Did it allow free text in the form of emojis? 😉
At a glance, and judging from the low-res images reproduced in the article, the palaeographical evidence does not seem to point towards domestic production either…
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
At a glance, and judging from the low-res images reproduced in the article, the palaeographical evidence does not seem to point towards domestic production either…
I think it’s even worse: the lack of recognition that there even *is* such a thing as professional training in historical research!
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I think it’s even worse: the lack of recognition that there even *is* such a thing as professional training in historical research!
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It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.
It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.