Levi Roach
Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
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- Cool to see this translated. Theotmar is an interesting figure because usually historians think he is not that important to Arnulf, but there are traces in the charters where I think we can see his involvement. So I think, as this letter also shows, he has a bit more of a role
- New on the blog, a century ends and a new world begins. The East Franks are ruled by a child, the Moravian empire teeters and Hungarians sweep across Europe. In the midst of all this, an archbishop has complaints about episcopal appointments. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/d...
- Hot of the press: new blog by Jeff Doolittle on a tenth-century manuscript on medical recipes, veterinary science and cosmetics cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/15/m... #medievalsky
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- New on the blog, a century ends and a new world begins. The East Franks are ruled by a child, the Moravian empire teeters and Hungarians sweep across Europe. In the midst of all this, an archbishop has complaints about episcopal appointments. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/d...
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- Alas, only until the end of August 😢
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- The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! First, @nevillemorley.bsky.social reviews _What is Ancient History?_ by @walterscheidel.bsky.social. Then, Ptolemaic mummy wrappings, recreating Maya Blue, ancient light in the Parthenon, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, and much more! 🧵
- Irish universities are under-funded, recent salary increases were not funded putting more pressure on budgets, there is widespread precarity of employment, research infrastructure is creaking, rarely funding for equipment repair & maintenance, and PhD scholarship stipends are inadequate etc etc
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- 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.
- 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...
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- Yes - it's also hard to square against the supposed green credentials, net zero targets for unis - you're just not allowed to discuss the impact on the environment.
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- 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/
- “Oxford and Cambridge will come through this OK because they have other sources of funding...But we may well see a serious contraction of humanities postgraduate research training…That would be devastating for the vibrant national system that we’ve built in recent decades.” @mcraeandrew.bsky.social
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- David is writing a book!
- SOME NEWS! I am delighted to announce my next book! Working title: A Short Handbook for Public Scholars from @hopkinspress.bsky.social and @gmbritton.bsky.social. A pragmatic guide for scholars - construed broadly as anyone at all whose writing is informed by deep learning. Expected Summer 2026.
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- AMÁRACH | TOMORROW Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social 'Sir Norman Moore (1847-1922): Medicine, Celtic Studies, and the Irish Language in nineteenth-century London’. DIAS 15 Bealtaine | May 2025 5.30 #DIASdiscovers @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...
- If the government wanted to do things that were cheap and popular, doing things to encourage people to get to know their neighbours and encourage clubs would be a good idea. But they aren't, which lets us draw some conclusions.
- Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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- A very busy week for advocacy: @britishacademy.bsky.social & @ucflangs.bsky.social joint Strategic Committee on Langs in HE today; #SchoolofAdvancedStudy Humanities Summit on Thurs; and #UCFL Exec Committee meeting Friday. Never more important for us to undertake this work and never so urgent 🚨
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- Such a joy to see this out in the world at last - and now available fully #OpenAccess from @brepols.net! Huge thanks to my co-editor @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, all our contributors, & @researchireland.ie for making this project possible against all odds 🎉🥂 www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
- On 20 May @kingshistory.bsky.social host a memorial event for the historian Jinty Nelson (1942-2024) bit.ly/42IX6Xa Jinty was also a distinguished President @royalhistsoc.org (2000-04). The event includes reflections on Jinty and the RHS by @petermandler.bsky.social and @pstafford.bsky.social 1/2
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- The National Audit Office says @ukri.org lacks "specific, measurable or time-bound" objectives...but that's because ministers haven't given it any DSIT and the Treasury are undertaking a "major prioritisation exercise" with UKRI, the NAO says, and it will be given new objectives in summer (Free)
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- As long as a statement may one day be true, it isn't a lie, I guess. It's a category of statement independent of past/present/future tense.
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