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If you want to find me, nowadays I am where there are fewer menacing clouds.
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David Rundle
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David Rundle
@DrDavidRundle
Palaeographer and Renaissance historian. Managing Editor, @Medium_Aevum. An ex-Xer: find me in a better place.
Canterbury, England انضم Eylül 2013
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@RonFilipkowski You misheard: he likes the sound of grosseries.
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Wow. I never knew. People called them that back in the day?
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Likewise an old-fashioned term that we use groceries, it's an old-fashioned term, groceries. A bag with different things in it
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@percy_gryce The previous owner did not have the same public profile or the same apparent desire to associate Twitter's fortunes with his own.
More importantly, Musk seems to imagine that saying whatever you want, however ill-informed, constitutes free speech. A failure of responsibility.
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@DrDavidRundle The prior ownership was more abusive of free speech—including colluding with government agencies to censor speech—and no one thought that using Twitter then was an endorsement of Jack Dorsey or his management.
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@percy_gryce Staying is in danger of being seen as an endorsement of Twitter's present owner and his repeated abuse of free speech.
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@PStiffell @bookscapes Along with Richard III and James II. A certain sort of gallery.
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@DrDavidRundle @bookscapes Thank you David 🤣. Isn't this just a wonderful portrait. The Thomas Plume Library is a beautiful place & the guys there are incredible. It is interesting how only Mary & Edward are present in the Collection.
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Break my ban on posting here (join Bluesky for timely updates) in order that @PStiffell can enjoy this from @bookscapes visit to the Thomas Plume Library in Maldon.
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It involves a previously unnoticed manuscript from the collection of the most generous medieval benefactor to the library of the University of Oxford, Humfrey, duke of Gloucester - but its illustrious history does not start or end with him...
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If you are not yet on Bluesky, then you will be late to the news: booking is open for an exciting event @bodleianlibs celebrating a new arrival in its medieval manuscript collection, taking place on 21st March 2025 - and free!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/fr…
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This is TOMORROW! Still time to book...
David Rundle@DrDavidRundle
If you're only on X, you will be late to the news but for all palaeographers and fragment-lovers, we have a treat for you next week: come to hear Jaakko Tahkokallio, Tuesday 11th Feb, 5:30pm (and online too): ies.sas.ac.uk/events/fragmen…
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There is now only ONE WEEK to apply for this fully funded studentship. Get sharpening those pencils (no pens allowed, of course).
Lost Manuscripts@lostmss
There's still time to apply for this amazing PhD opportunity or get in touch if you have any questions! 📜
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Reading for a wet Sunday, inspired by @britishlibrary's Medieval Women exhibition:
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/med…
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If you're only on X, you will be late to the news but for all palaeographers and fragment-lovers, we have a treat for you next week: come to hear Jaakko Tahkokallio, Tuesday 11th Feb, 5:30pm (and online too):
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/fragmen…
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A reminder for those of you have still not upgraded to another site:
Just under a fortnight to apply for this funded PhD position working within @memsunikent and with @westminsterabbey on #fragments @lostmss
If you have any questions, do drop me a line.
Lost Manuscripts@lostmss
There's still time to apply for this amazing PhD opportunity or get in touch if you have any questions! 📜
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@DrJaninaRamirez Haven't checked but, based on similar cases, suspect @internetarchive Way Back Machine will be your friend.
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People of Twitter! I need your help!! I have to access a part of Queen Victoria’s journal for 1842 but keep getting this. If any of you have a copy or online access could you send me the sections concerning her Bal Costumé around 12th May. You’ll be my friend forever!!
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As I said over in A Better Place, this is an exciting time for @lostmss - upgraded and ready for some new adventures in 2025...
Lost Manuscripts@lostmss
Fragments suited and rebooted! We are thrilled to launch our brand new website with our growing database of medieval fragments and host volumes, IIIF images and project highlight pages. Check it out at the link below and follow for more updates! 📜🚀🎉 lostmss.org.uk/project
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@ThomasplumeS Willim Thomsson booke
(wonder how much of it he read)
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@stephenpollard @dustshoveller Good thing I don't follow Elon Musk.
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This is not just bizarre. It's grotesque. And frightening.
I follow all sorts of foul, loathsome people. I want to see what they are saying and doing.
The idea that you can only read the words of people deemed morally acceptable to a panel of your peers is profoundly wrong. It's a ban on thought...
James Esses@JamesEsses
🚨This takes guilt by association to a new level. Today, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (@RCSLT) published a 5-month long investigation into the fact that its CEO was ‘following’ Tommy Robinson on X. You read that correctly. Not that he praised Tommy Robinson. Not that he amplified or re-posted Tommy Robinson. But that he was ‘following’ Tommy Robinson, from his own personal X account. A sub-committee was established with a barrister appointed to investigate, in order to reflect the “gravity of the situation”. Even more ludicrous, the investigation found that “on the balance of probabilities it was deemed that this was an accidental follow”. The outcome? The CEO has been forced to issue a “personal apology for his actions”. In this apology, he has apologised for the “hurt, distress, fear and anger that this caused”. This is utter madness, from a body of therapists.
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@william_whyte We all wish Prof. Stair all the best during their principalship, but are sorry that they have become so august they need to be winched like Henry VIII in later years.
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@JenniferRichar7 Indeed - the air is so much fresher there. No dank musk.
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Heartening to see this but by using Musk's platform, we are unavoidably complicit in his poison.
Jennifer Richards@JenniferRichar7
We stand by @jessphillips theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
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