Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Neville Morley
Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth
A long interview with the early medieval historian Rosamond McKitterick, reflecting on her life and work, ably conducted by Richard Pollard youtu.be/pvBdJyUAwyY?...
In the wake of Rosamond McKitterick's death, on the blog @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social remembers her as a teacher and a mentor:
salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...
Genuinely hilarious that someone who regularly decries the ‘politicisation’ of scholarship also runs a seminar series named after a catch-phrase of Conservative alleged philosopher Roger Scruton.
Fraser McNair
In memoriam: Rosamond McKitterick.
thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/14/r...
Photo of Rosamond McKitterick, taken by the author on 1 February 2020 overlooking the Forum at Rome. Rosamond McKitterick died on Saturday 13th June 2026. As a sentence, that’s easy to write and im…
The author may not thank me, as they have been trying to talk me into abandoning my blog and are therefore perhaps averse to readers, but this website (where the posts are deleted automatically after a while) is rather wonderful.
unstory.eu
Is this the “Starmer Unleased As Nothing Left To Lose” we were promised?
Beyond boilerplate “our research has present relevance, honest” I’m not really sure what that is supposed to mean. We’ve got literary sources indicating both varied practices and varieties around the Western Med, partly tailored to local conditions, and also exchange of techniques and varieties…
Coming soon: Anthopic’s Magic Beans.
“The researchers said this provided biological evidence of long-distance agricultural networks across the Roman empire that might have contributed to the standardised production of wine today.”
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