Private contractor processing visas for students and staff in UKHE is profiteering *and* not fit for purpose. Global Britain ftw theguardian.com/education/2019…

Coronavirus—we need to contain the parallel epidemics of xenophobia and misinformation - go.shr.lc/2SdgypA Together with Wenham's view, looks like we're having 3 parallel outbreaks going on :) #andcounting Outbreak of a coronavirus, viral fake-news & xenophobia.

I’m really excited to give a paper at IMC Leeds for the first time. Tomorrow 14.15 I am going to talk about my research on financial records of Medieval York. IMC_Leeds #vIMC2020 #IMC2020

We are sorry to announce the death of Mark Ormrod, a much loved teacher and colleague who was the first Dean of our Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Read more about Mark's life: york.ac.uk/history/news/n… University of York History Department

I feel really sorry for this. The first time I met Mark was in 2016, and he encouraged me to apply for a PhD project in uk. Last summer Mark read a draft of my thesis chapter and gave a lot of comments on the use of royal records. I appreciate for his help these years.

Newly published: Tom Johnson (Tom Johnson of University of York History Department), 'Soothsayers, Legal Culture, and the Politics of Truth in Late-Medieval England' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I feel excited to share my latest article (open-access) for Urban History. From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–1307 | Urban History | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/49oaqAn

Hooray! My book, Law in Common, has just come out in paperback, and is now a mere £30 Some representative index entries: - Custom, acting against - Highways, pigs in - Law-courts, feasting at - Mariners, testimony of - Theft, of eels - Vagabonds tinyurl.com/4kp237yz

I've followed JMH since my undergraduate years, and I never imagined I'd be able to publish my research here one day. Thanks to Tom Johnson for his encouragement! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…