Adam Chapman
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
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- Norfolk hospitals to defy Supreme Court ruling in trans care “We provide health care, not political statements, and our clinicians determine where all our patients are best cared for." - Prof Dwyer, chief executive of the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group 👏🏻👏🏻 Article 👉🏻 archive.md/l3g6r
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- “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” - Douglas Adams
- Work like this, by David Carpenter and Nicholas Vincent (both Fellows @royalhistsoc.org), requires expertise, deep knowledge, judgement and analysis. Such work enriches us and culture. We should celebrate and value it as we do discoveries and breakthroughs in other walks of life #Skystorians
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- Bangor University are looking to make more cuts & the University Archive Service, which is accessible to all, is in the firing line. It may not affect you directly, but it will have a huge impact on Welsh & Global history research. #history #heritage #University #archives #Wales #saveyourarchive
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- WAKE UP GIRLIES, CALVIN ROBINSON HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF ANOTHER CHURCH
- Current Calvin Robinson church history: Church of England (???-2022) Free Church of England (2022-2023) Nordic Catholic Church (2023-2024) Anglican Catholic Church (2024-2025) Reformed Episcopal Church (2025-2025) (licence revoked after approximately two days of membership)
- With this breaking news that Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of the Reformed Episcopal Church after approximately 48 hours, I have updated the meme.
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- 📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- To put this in perspective, current "deficit/savings need" at CCCU is £20 million. That alone has led to an enormous programme of cuts and staffing losses, and to perhaps 400 staff leaving by this year end. Labour's master plan is to hand that sort of deficit to each uni in the sector?
- Numbers crunched on a 6% levy on international student fees by @patrickjack.bsky.social. A £41.5m bill for UCL, £27.3m for Manchester, £21.8m for King's - but impact may be greatest for smaller unis www.timeshighereducation.com/news/big-uni...
- Someone working on diplomatic could get a full article out of "concepts of 'copy'" in popular understanding of Magna Carta. Hey ho. Fun, though, and genuinely hard work to establish this,as well as great outcomes from sharing collections information online.
- What does 'original' signify in summarising medieval recordkeeping practice for headlines? Discuss.
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- And sometimes politicians have to be morally ahead of the public. Like they were on legalising homosexuality or getting rid of the death penalty.
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- *sobbing* stop. inventing. buses
- I made this point in my inaugural. Lack of specialist training will mean fields like mine disappearing from all universities except the very wealthy. This has knock on effects for widening participation. 1/
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