'Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.'

- Wyrd Sisters -

Art: Marc Simonetti

It's now a week from this excellent event. I will be talking about life in the crusader states and the ways that settler communities constructed their identities. Attendees get some great offers in return, while all profits go to MacMillan Cancer Trust. Do come!

Self-awareness and compassion are two criminally underrated (and underrepresented) characteristics in modern academia.

When you're working out how to title an article or book, you're often told to make it as obvious as possible so people will find it. Yet, you can put an exact phrase/name in a title and still people won't effing cite your work, so what's the point?

Also, the Super Loop is bloody excellent.

Time is a flat circle. As is the ven diagram of people who publicly protest about ULEZ in Chiselhurst, voted Brexit, and deny climate change.

Hi GWR why is it that your Cardiff to London trains are never now the 10 carriage trains you sell tickets based on. I haven't had my reserved seat exist for several journeys now ...

You let DOUGAL do a mass???

This was surreal and ridiculous. At one point I nearly choked from laughing. Go see!

Happy ALCS day everyone

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Facebook also reminds me that on this day, 11 years ago, Bernard and I got a bit wine drunk at a conference reception in Temple Church where he ruined my schtick about being the first crusades historian from Croydon by noting that he'd beat me to it by several decades.

I wouldn't have ... pegged Prince William for a cheater #hereallweek

It's not a crisis if it's by design. It's all going to plan for these grifters

I don't usually advertise reviews I've done, but this, of the superlative book on monasticism in the crusader states by Andrew Jotischky and the late Bernard Hamilton, is one I will. An honour to mark Bernard's final book. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/12…

Come hear me talk about the Crusader States, and it's for an excellent cause!

Now playing Kate Middleton