Ryan Mealiffe
@rmealiffe.bsky.social
DPhil Candidate in History and Clarendon Scholar at Oxford researching toward a more (bio)diverse history of the medieval world. Environmental historian of birds 🪶 BAY | SEA | OX
I’ve been catching myself daydreaming about the PNW – specifically of the view from my old desk and trips to the Olympic Peninsula.
There’s something encouraging and tranquil about a skyline of evergreens and the quiet of mossy forest. Perhaps it’s that the current milieu is deficient in both.
There’s something encouraging and tranquil about a skyline of evergreens and the quiet of mossy forest. Perhaps it’s that the current milieu is deficient in both.
February 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I’ve been catching myself daydreaming about the PNW – specifically of the view from my old desk and trips to the Olympic Peninsula.
There’s something encouraging and tranquil about a skyline of evergreens and the quiet of mossy forest. Perhaps it’s that the current milieu is deficient in both.
There’s something encouraging and tranquil about a skyline of evergreens and the quiet of mossy forest. Perhaps it’s that the current milieu is deficient in both.
Since yesterday’s MS damaged by a canon ball was a hit, I figured I’d continue sharing objects from my overflowing folder of museum/archive snapshots.
Today I give you the historian’s version of r/whatismycookiecutter: what is my Iron Age brooch?
(Moesgaard Museum, DK)
🏺 #archaeobirds #aarhus
Today I give you the historian’s version of r/whatismycookiecutter: what is my Iron Age brooch?
(Moesgaard Museum, DK)
🏺 #archaeobirds #aarhus
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Since yesterday’s MS damaged by a canon ball was a hit, I figured I’d continue sharing objects from my overflowing folder of museum/archive snapshots.
Today I give you the historian’s version of r/whatismycookiecutter: what is my Iron Age brooch?
(Moesgaard Museum, DK)
🏺 #archaeobirds #aarhus
Today I give you the historian’s version of r/whatismycookiecutter: what is my Iron Age brooch?
(Moesgaard Museum, DK)
🏺 #archaeobirds #aarhus
A highlight from my trip to York: a manuscript hit by a canon ball!
This cartulary (c.1345-1480) may have been in St Mary’s Tower during the 1644 siege of York. The shape of the damage led to the theory that it was hit by a musket/cannon ball.
York Minster Archives, MSS XVI/A.1 #medievalsky #York
This cartulary (c.1345-1480) may have been in St Mary’s Tower during the 1644 siege of York. The shape of the damage led to the theory that it was hit by a musket/cannon ball.
York Minster Archives, MSS XVI/A.1 #medievalsky #York
February 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A highlight from my trip to York: a manuscript hit by a canon ball!
This cartulary (c.1345-1480) may have been in St Mary’s Tower during the 1644 siege of York. The shape of the damage led to the theory that it was hit by a musket/cannon ball.
York Minster Archives, MSS XVI/A.1 #medievalsky #York
This cartulary (c.1345-1480) may have been in St Mary’s Tower during the 1644 siege of York. The shape of the damage led to the theory that it was hit by a musket/cannon ball.
York Minster Archives, MSS XVI/A.1 #medievalsky #York
Some of the wildlife at Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isles of Scilly UK
February 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some of the wildlife at Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isles of Scilly UK
The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year's CfP! We look forward to receiving paper proposals (250 words) from graduate students on the theme of ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. The conference will be held in Oxford on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. More info on the CfP. #medieval #OMGC25 🗃️
November 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM
The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year's CfP! We look forward to receiving paper proposals (250 words) from graduate students on the theme of ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. The conference will be held in Oxford on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. More info on the CfP. #medieval #OMGC25 🗃️
I am excited to extend a CfP to graduate students for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference (8/9th April). We are looking for submissions relating to the theme 'Signs and Scripts.' Whether that means inn signs, theatre, spiritual signs... is up to interpretation! lnkd.in/eMjihfjc #Medievalsky
November 8, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I am excited to extend a CfP to graduate students for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference (8/9th April). We are looking for submissions relating to the theme 'Signs and Scripts.' Whether that means inn signs, theatre, spiritual signs... is up to interpretation! lnkd.in/eMjihfjc #Medievalsky
“October is the season of pumpkin spice, knit clothing, candles…” Nope, sorry, it’s poofy bird season. Always has been, always will be.
(Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)
(Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)
October 17, 2023 at 1:46 PM
“October is the season of pumpkin spice, knit clothing, candles…” Nope, sorry, it’s poofy bird season. Always has been, always will be.
(Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)
(Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)
I’ve been thinking about Cassiopea (“upside-down jellyfish”) way to much. Imagine getting to lie around all day in calm tropical waters, subsisting on the excess ATP from your symbiotic dinoflagellates. A friend of mine once said, “I wish I were a jellyfish.” I can’t help but agree.
October 13, 2023 at 10:46 AM
I’ve been thinking about Cassiopea (“upside-down jellyfish”) way to much. Imagine getting to lie around all day in calm tropical waters, subsisting on the excess ATP from your symbiotic dinoflagellates. A friend of mine once said, “I wish I were a jellyfish.” I can’t help but agree.