Cathy Hume

Very excited for this: as well as all the stellar papers, we’ll be presenting a first look at my AHRC grant funded performance of ‘The Life of Job’, directed by Elisabeth Dutton, with music, acrobatics and cake. Register now!

@Claire_A_PS Yes sorry, I got whisked away to dinner quite quickly! Nice to see you from afar.

@Claire_A_PS wasn’t that you in the crowd this evening? If so sorry we didn’t get to say hello!

Antipopes should always have the opposite name to the reigning pope at the time; so Urban/Rural Clement/Inclement Paul/Peter Innocent/Guilty Pius/Impius Benedict/Maledict Francis/Dominic ... and so on

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.

Bristol CMS @britishlibrary ‘Medieval Women in Their Own Words’. Can confirm that plenty was spent in the gift shop 📖 🎁

TODAY: Prof David Scott-Macnab (North West University, South Africa) is giving the Department's annual Tucker -Cruse lecture on animals and humans in the late medieval hunting treatise The Master of Game. 16:00 in LR8! Followed by drinks reception in Hums Research Area!

@NoreenMasud What exactly were the side effects? Was it piles?

I’m very sorry but Noreen has unfortunately died from the side effects of constantly keeping a nice expression on her face while people say stupid things

Don’t forget (see what I did there 👀) to send your abstracts!

The #LastBattleOnEnglishSoil didn't end with the surrender of the Jacobite troops on Preston market place at 7am on 14 November 1715. The Government troops were allowed to plunder the town, stealing 'moneys, plate, goods and chatles ... contrary to the laws of this nation'.

This is a beautiful use of language… Chapeau 🎩 Monsieur 🇫🇷

@ITimbrell I have just been talking to my son about this - he's in Y6 in Bristol and regularly hears it as an insult, and we have been talking about the importance of challenging it and involving teachers. Thanks for taking this on.

We are seeing huge increase in ‘That’s So Gay’ used as an insult, especially in primary schools. I’m in a primary school in Cardiff today working with all of KS2 to develop understanding of what gay means, through the lens of family, to raise empathy & stop its use as an insult.

@phil_tinline Ha sorry I’m being dim and failing to realise you were linking your own piece! Should stop reading on my phone.

@cathyhume The ones I mention in the piece + various other ordinary non-extreme Americans - a driver, guy at a Greyhound stop, young guy I met in Levittown PA fixing his mom's car, shy young woman who'd just been to a Trump rally, white, black, Hispanic, younger, older. More on this soon.

I just spent a week in Pennsylvania, and found myself telling friends Trump might edge it there. Seeing loads of Trump signs where I didn't expect them, and talking to people I wrongly guessed would vote Harris, made me begin to think what happened last night might happen.

November 5th, Eric Ravilious, 1933. It depicts the view from Eric and Tirzah’s flat in Stratford Road, Kensington, #London. The original artwork is in a private collection. #BonfireNight #fireworks #5november

For no special reason, here's a list of old English words 7. Geoluhread = orange 6. Mumpsimus = bigoted opponent of reform 5. Jingle-boy = a rich man 4. Whangdoodle = a ranter 3. Blatteration = foolish talk 2. Slubberdegullion = worthless wretch 1. Betrump = to cheat and deceive

Girl are you an em-dash? Because you keep interrupting my train of thought but in an elegant way

November is here and you know what that means... only a few weeks until our first colloquium of the year on 'Identity'! Make sure to register online via Zoom: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…