Did you know that every Scottish queen consort since the wife of David II (r.1329-71) has undergone a ceremony of coronation? Dr Amy Hayes (OU) has written a new blog for us all about 'Crowning the Queen Consort in Late Medieval Scotland': eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/cro… #twitterstorians

Me, extremely depressed, trying to make friends as a graduate student:

I’m sorry but three grand for a conference? What the actual hell?!

Finally decided on the hoodie I'm going to wear to the #ErasTour

That feeling when you think someone’s just published the article you were writing but you read it and it’s relevant but completely different.

It’s still absolutely wild to me that a cereal company managed to persuade a whole bunch of us that eating their cereal twice a day would be healthy and contribute to weight loss.

Celebrating #BlackCatAppreciationDay today with this little row of black cats trotting along a #medieval margin.

9 years ago I took a mad punt and applied for this fellowship. It's one of the best things I ever did. Do consider applying. Generous stipend plus housing allowance, but most importantly TIME to work in stimulating and beautiful surroundings. shc.stanford.edu/stanford-human…

My A level results weren’t great, now I’m in the final year of my PhD. Being disappointed in your results today doesn’t make you a failure.

I downloaded cappuccino as a new social media app… sharing little mini podcast episodes with my friends and hearing about their day is exactly the kind of good energy I need in my life.

This upcoming academic year is going to be the busiest one of my life and I am so excited but I’m already exhausted.

I’ve been invited to an event which finishes at 3am. A work event too!

All of the void's favourite toys are just rubbish. Toilet roll tubes? Excellent to chase. Boxes? Great hiding spots. Paper bags? The perfect outlet for his anger somehow?

My grandma baked me a birthday cake 😭🥰

My dad has a little travel tin of Yorkshire Tea he’s brought up to Scotland 😂 can’t go anywhere without it.

inky pawprints left by a medieval cat on a 15th-century manuscript from dubrovnik, croatia

It is not lasagne day 😭