Absolutely delightful thread 📕

Very sad to hear of the death this morning of David Dumville. DND taught me palaeography, was a generous and thorough doctoral supervisor, and it’s devastating to think that his extraordinary mind is no more.

Rare visit: an Airbus Beluga XL is expected to land today at London Heathrow airlive.net/news/2024/09/0…

We are all sad to hear the news of the death of Professor David Dumville (1949–2024). He will be greatly missed. This picture captures him celebrating his 75th birthday earlier this year, with family. Aberdeen Uni LLMVC AberdeenHistory Scandinavian Studies at Aberdeen

Check out September 2024's #OG_H_AM of the Month, which is really something very special: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/ogha… In honour of, and in connection with, the #BrigidsWorlds Conference at Early Irish Maynooth Maynooth University @brigid1500 (brigid1500.ie/event/brigids-…)

A wonderful tribute to a wonderful scholar - David Dumville brought the many nations to life which lay hidden beneath the scelerotic cliches about “England” and “Scotland”

On International Day of Peace, browse our brand new Welsh Women’s Peace Petition website. Browse over 50,000 names (and counting) to see who you will discover? 🔗peacepetition.library.wales

Dan M ⚒ 🚲 Ian Dunt Brilliant clear piece of writing which also shows that Ian Dunt really knows his audience

The first 1000 of our digitised manuscripts have now returned and are available to view online. They include over 600 Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern items, from the Sherborne Missal and the Amherst Manuscript to the Eadui Psalter! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Delighted to receive my copy of this beautiful book - Peter Boston’s evocative illustrations are all reproduced and also inspired the endpapers 🐦🕯️

Cleverly out. Labour gain

A beautiful reminder to never forget to look up at the stars #aurora

Today’s highlight was the massed bands of the Egham Brass Project (many of whom started playing their instruments St Jude's C of E Schools Federation). INCREDIBLE sound! 🎺🎺🎺

From the eighth century to today, the layout of Old English poetry on the page is the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices, and one of a set of tools used to meets readers’ needs and to express identities. The book is out! Arc Humanities Press arc-humanities.org/9781802701166/…

This week the #WW2 Medal Index Cards were released by the The National Archives onto paid genealogy sites although there is some free access for a while. I first became aware of these when I acquired an unreturned Card many years ago (below). What do these record cards tell us? 🧵

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

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