Next year marks five years of Arms, Armour, and the Arts of Combat at IMC_Leeds. There's just over a week left to get your abstracts in. Please do circulate our CFP to anyone who may have a paper for us. #medievaltwitter

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the 14th annual King and Queens Conference is now out! 🎉 Hosted by Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa/@letras_ulisboa, #KQ14's theme is "Beyond the King: Diplomacy, Social Roles and Family Dynamics in Monarchies"👑 🧵

It was a pleasure to be invited to speak at the Arms and Armour Society conference at the Armourers & Brasiers's Hall last weekend, I was able to present some significant finds from my thesis, meet up with some old friends, and hopefully make plenty of new ones. What a venue!

I submitted my thesis this week.

I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with Gabrielle Kent in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here. 32auctions.com/organizations/…

these non-consensual sexualised images have *realism* because they are to some extent *transparent*. This philosophical concept explains why so many women (and children) feel a sense of violation and why these images are so wrong even though there is no 'physical' violation 👇