How to be a footballer 2, I robot Out this October ! po.st/apbpws

Today is the first day of my Midlands4Cities research placement at Universidad de Sevilla where I'll be working with Prof. Emma Falque on the 1111 decrees of Santiago de Compostela.

This is class, what a response. 👏 x.com/molerogascon/s…

Still as sharp as it gets

Right Let’s reveal parched this week

Does anyone know of any accessable resources on the usages and production of medieval seals (caracteres)? I work on twelfth-century Leon-Castile but anything relevant would be appreciated. Thanks! #medievaltwitter

Would you like to come to Universidad de Salamanca to work on #MedievalManuscripts or #MedievalHistory ? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie IF actions are open! ec.europa.eu/info/funding-t… Topics could be: Spanish Palaeography-Diplomatic-Codicology, Social or rural history of NW Iberia

🧵 Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the fifth year running. To celebrate and share our joy I though to share some of our Christmas carols with the interantional audeince. Maybe these will make you as happy as us Finns! 1/6

Pope Leo XIII, born in 1810, is the earliest born person ever filmed. Born in the same year as Chopin, he was a year younger than Lincoln and two years old when the War of 1812 started. Filmed in 1896.

HELP: trying to find an audio or video clip of the Irish Taoiseach John A. Costello. Drawn a blank so far. Can anybody help? We’re putting together an intro for the podcast and want to include audio for all 15 Taoisigh.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Irish Taoiseach podcast will launch on Monday 13 February. Listen to the 4 minute trailer explaining what it's all about and why I'm doing it, and then SUBSCRIBE! On Global Player globalplayer.com/podcasts/colle… Please RT

I'm on Newsnight later talking about the Canadian experience of euthanasia. I won't have time to cite all these examples of what's going on... all presented to MPs this week by Canadian doctors Leonie Herx and Dr Ramona Coelho at a meeting of APPG for Dying Well. Read on:

This GIF shows the incoherence of England's policy geographies. This incoherence is a barrier to both cross-sector policymaking and devolution. This is one key finding from our new report on English government bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/d… Michael Kenny Bennett Institute for Public Policy Institute for Government

Elena Caetano Álvarez kicks off day 2 at the #ahgbi discussing her prize winning book on Alfonso X. @LCAHM_UoB College of Arts+Law University College Dublin

We discovered Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours…and it’s the book painted on Cromwell’s desk by Hans Holbein the Younger in his famous portrait of Cromwell!! Hever Castle Owen Emmerson Solving a 500 year old mystery - A THREAD (1/9)

The two Snow cousins, Peter and Jon, at a memorial event yesterday for the great ITN editor Sir David Nicholas, 1930-2022.

My colleague Ethan Davies asks Andy Burnham how he's feeling about the HS2 debacle Manchester News MEN

It's 2023, 109 years after WW1 started, yet the pre-WW1 imperial borders are still visible on the election map of Poland - and on many others, for that matter. A thread 🧵🧵🧵-->

Decided to go through this systematically. Incumbent government performance in wealthy democracies since March 2022, when Ukraine invasion really spiked things upwards: 🧵