So happy! My new article “The Ritualistic Importance of Gallows in Thirteenth-Century England” is out. Read it & the other excellent articles in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain. #medievaltwitter #legalhistory #medieval #legalhist

Totally honoured & thrilled to have been awarded the 2018 Leonard Boyle Prize by the @canmedievalists for my King’s College London PhD thesis “Communal Justice in Thirteenth-Century England”. #medievaltwitter #legalhistory #history King's History King's College London

I’m happy to say that my Historical Research article (The Limits of Strong Government: Attempts to Control Criminality in 13th-Century England) is now available online. It won the Pollard Prize in 2017 & I'm proud of it. #medievaltwitter #legalhistory Institute of Historical Research #history #Law

I had a lot of fun writing this piece on sanctuary and criminals for BBC History Magazine, and I'm very happy to see that it's been put online.

Interested in reading about medieval social control, coroners, frankpledge & tithing, hue & cry, gallows, sanctuary & abjuration? Here are some links to my work which you might find useful. DM me for PDFs. academic.oup.com/histres/articl… cambridge.org/core/books/abs… brill.com/display/book/e…

This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist - Gallows with Kenneth F. Duggan (@kfduggan.bsky.social) medievalists.net/2023/08/gallow… #medieval #podcasts

My favourite sentence in the podcast: "If someone has an ear cut off, we don't hear anything about it". (at 21:45)

Bonnie posed for photos in a WWI helmet next to an artillery shell at a social event we had for students at Vancouver Island University. Doesn’t she look adorable?! VIU History @ VIU Dick King-Smith HQ #dogs (Thank you Dr. Bryn Skibo Parody Account for letting us borrow your beautiful dog)

Happy to announce that I have now got my institution’s version of tenure. Although Otto doesn’t seem to care, I am super happy!

Alison Somin Sara M. Butler Kenneth F. Duggan (@kfduggan.bsky.social) And here's Kenneth F. Duggan (@kfduggan.bsky.social)'s talk on deodand in the thirteenth century at the Cambridge Centre for English Legal History: youtube.com/watch?v=SB9Hvf…

Just heard my article was accepted with minor revisions. The reviewers' comments are very helpful. (Thank you, whoever you are, Reviewers 1 and 2!) One comment stated that I could engage more with the work of Kenneth Duggan. This has made me smile.

Look what came in the post on Friday: Jørgensen’s “The Medieval Pig” and Cybulskie’s “Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World”. Danièle Cybulskie Prof Dolly Jørgensen

Yesterday I bought Dr Pepper for the first time in over a decade. When I woke up this morning I read that yesterday Dr Pepper passed Pepsi as America's second most popular soft drink. Coincidence? I think not.

A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. But if you zoom in on the contents of the box you can see that he's actually making saints. True story.

Power outages need to be more considerate.

If anyone has (and is looking to get rid of) Vincent’s 8-volume set on “The Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154–1189”, I’d be happy to help by taking it off your hands.

Whenever bookstores sell me "as new" used books and I find pen markings in them when I receive the package...

I made a trebuchet for class. Here it is (without its weight).

Absolutely honoured and delighted to hear that Selden Society has awarded me the David Yale Prize for an outstanding contribution to the history of the law of England & Wales for my article “The Hue and Cry in Thirteenth-Century England”. #legalhistory #medievaltwitter #legalhist