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2025

On contrarian historyoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2025
On AI and the golemoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
On Crusades, or, how not to identify with losersoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
On what Americans know about medieval historyoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2025
In praise of difficult histories, or, I saw Edward II at the RSC and it was so so so goodoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2025
On what we choose to rememberoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025

2024

On spooky animalsoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2024
On side hustlesoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2024
On body countoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2024
Let me explain something to you: the mendicantsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2024
On gossiporiginal ↗
14 Jun 2024
On fake medieval devices – both torture and sexualoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
On Delft Old Churchoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2024
On obscenity and modernityoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
Bologna’s medieval canalsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2024
On women’s anatomy and the power of paying attentionoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024
Let me explain something to you: periodisation and the Middle Agesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
On secret romantic communicationsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2024
My fav saints: St Margaret of Antiochoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2024
On the Black Death in Africa and Asia, and the interconnected Middle Agesoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2024

2023

My top medieval books of 2023original ↗
18 Dec 2023
Doctor does actually mean someone with a PhD, sorryoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2023
No, “the Church” did not kill Joan of Arc, you credulous dullardsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2023
You are not, in fact, the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burnoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
On sickness and conspiracyoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2023
Against Voltaire, or, the shortest possible introduction to the Holy Roman Empireoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2023
On successor states and websitesoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2023
On the 11,000 virgin martyrs, iconography, and beauty standardsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2023
On catsoriginal ↗
16 May 2023
On nobility, courtship, moral justification, and sexy tapestriesoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2023
On dating advice and menoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
Medieval Women Were a Vital Part of the Workforce. We Can Learn from Them – for Timeoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023
On women who talk, and also write booksoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2023

2022

On maintaining monarchical successionoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2022
Podcast alert: medieval abortion on History Hackoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
On beer, or, why chicks rockoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2022
On heteropessimism and maternal expectationsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2022
On disavowing sexual assaultoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2022
On medieval kink (part 2)original ↗
8 Jul 2022
A medieval abortion reading listoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2022
On medieval kink (part one)original ↗
24 Jun 2022
On conflating drag, (and femininity), with sexualityoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2022
On men, romance, and trick questionsoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
My fav saints: St Sebastianoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2022
On indulgencesoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2022
On women, pleasure, and semenoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2022
On non-written communication (in Norwich)original ↗
18 Mar 2022
On finding inspiration for changeoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2022
Podcast alert: The Conceptualization of sex on Way Too Interestedoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2022

2021

Podcast alert – Medieval Christmas on You’re Dead to Meoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
On visiting Westminster Abbeyoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2021
On cathedrals and cooperationoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
On the commemoration of the dead, and poppy seasonoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2021
Podcast alert – Fare Thee Well: the timeless endurance of Renaissance Faires for 1Aoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2021
On looking in the past for a better futureoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2021
On periods, and the dudes who fear themoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2021
On Margery Kempe and the Bad Art Friendoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2021
On apocalypticism, extinction rebellion, and ahistorical cossetingoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2021
On semen retentionoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2021
On the power of pushing back against the marginalisation of sex workersoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2021
On bad summersoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2021
On leisure in Augustoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2021
On damsels and influencersoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2021
Podcast alert – Medieval Contraception at Medievalists.netoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2021
I assure you, the Black Death was actually badoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2021
On putting sex work on the maporiginal ↗
11 Jun 2021
Sneak Peek: The Middle Ages, a Graphic History (out now!)original ↗
4 Jun 2021
Annoy a medievalist Bingooriginal ↗
19 May 2021
A Very Short Introduction to the Black Deathoriginal ↗
12 May 2021
Radio alert – Going Medieval on White Supremacists on 1Aoriginal ↗
10 May 2021
On women having sex with themselvesoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
On the commemoration of royal deathoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2021
So I made a TV seriesoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2021
On canonical hours, comfort, and daylight savingsoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
On pickup linesoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2021
Podcast alert: The myth of the “Dark Ages” on History Hackoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2021
There are no white knightsoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2021
Podcast alert: Tiny Titty Apocalypse on LOL My Praxisoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
On the myth of short life expectancy, and COVID complacencyoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2021
On history versus chroniclesoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
On weather, winter, and changing climatesoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2021
Podcast Alert: We’re Not So Differentoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2021
On slavery, propaganda, and “apolitical” historyoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2021
Podcast alert: Medieval sexuality on Tangentially Speakingoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2021
Podcast alert: Coup Anon on QAnon-Anonymousoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2021
Podcast alert: Gender and sex in Medieval Times – a conversation on Gender Storiesoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2021

2020

On treating sex with the utmost reverenceoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
On men born in the Summeroriginal ↗
10 Dec 2020
On Adventoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2020
Magna Carta will not save usoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2020
A brief introduction to Antipopesoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2020
On No Nut November, then and noworiginal ↗
13 Nov 2020
My fav Saints: St Procopius of Sázava, a spooky saintoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2020
Podcast alert: Medieval medicine on Sick to Deathoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2020
On colonial mindsets and the myth of medieval Europe in isolation from the Muslim worldoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2020
Podcast alert: Medieval martial arts on the Sword Guyoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2020
On Masculinity and Diseaseoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2020
On Michaelmasoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2020
On Q Anon and Antisemitismoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2020
On constructing the “ideal” womanoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2020
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