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Dr Kathleen Neal@kbneal.bsky.social |
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Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | She/her
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Claire Jowitt
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📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 is live!
ECRs pls consider submitting an essay - 6k-8k, deadline 1 March 2025, 1st prize = £1250, & new for 2025 2nd prize = £250 ... Pls share widely ⚓️✍️⚓️✍️⚓️✍️
For further info see hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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The speed with which a global network of friends and colleagues has been made aware is a sign of the depth and breadth of his impact 💔
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Yes, at Christchurch. 😔
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Shocked to hear of the sudden passing of fellow medievalist Chris Jones. It's less than a week since we were chatting at the IMC. 🥺
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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It's hard to decide whether to laugh or vomit...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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It's so interesting to discover these conceptual distinctions between language worlds!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I would say this doesn't exist as a concept in English in the way you mean, even though there are ways to try to describe the idea.
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Insofar as I can imagine July 2026, I'm pretty sure another Shrek sequel is not part of that for me...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Simple. Change the target...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I like totally love this skeet
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Yep! What's your email?
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Oh sweet. Second COVID infection in 3 weeks.
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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TFW the owner of your favourite coffee shop comes out to give you a welcome home hug 🤗
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Elizabeth Biggs
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Did you know that there were a few 13th century women working in the exchequer- if not, here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
medium.com/@elizabethcb...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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There was some jockeying for the position closest to mum, so they decided to just do "stack-a-dog"
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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That's big progress for a sosige, famously the most judgy judges of any and all strangers!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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oooh *interesting*. hope it goes well!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Same! Until next time!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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😍Hope to see you again soon!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Research leave KPIs: 127 days 180 sosiges sighted average daily sosiges 1.42 max daily sosiges 15 most sosigey place Padua least sosigey place Dublin Nearly time to head home to these duffers...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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As much as I love a bit of Guns 'n' Roses myself, madam, I submit that a 5am sing-along is a fairly antisocial activity in an apartment block.
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Wait. Your butter knife is Excalibur?!?!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I'll put it on the baking list for when I'm back in my own kitchen next week!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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That looks delicious!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I really hope somebody countered by asking if that's so how come the pyramids didn't fly off into space...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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My feedback would be I wish my strand wasn't on Thursday so I could have watched the falconry and fighting displays!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Endangered rock wallaby, sighted and shared by my SO
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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😂
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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IMC2024 peeps, if you're at a loose end at 2 drop by the AUP stall in Parkinson for the launch of my colleague Jason Crow's fab new book on concepts of materiality in 12th C ecclesiastical architecture. Sneak preview I got last year was really exciting! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I hope your symptoms pass quickly!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Sorry - our library only has HC access, and I am not in the country
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S.C. Kaplan
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Hey friends with access to academic libraries, can you see if you've got e-book access to Jeanne d'Albret : letters from the Queen of Navarre with an ample declaration? I was hoping to have students read an excerpt tomorrow night...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Nom nom! Enjoy
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Here's a question. If you design your teaching spaces as wizz-bang multi-media interactive rooms and *don't* include ample and well distributed power points, then frankly, wtf were you thinking?
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I have been remarkably abstemious and only bought one thing so far! (Don't worry, it's early days...)
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I was *so* on track to have my Leeds paper done before the conference this time, and then I had to spend a week in bed instead of finishing the damn thing, so here we are again folks...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Good luck!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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New twist on the lollies in the jar contest: how many medievalists are jammed into the standing-room-only 11:03 from Kings Cross to Leeds?!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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I was once there when it was over 30, and to be honest, it wasn't great... Too hot for the infrastructure!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Ha! Yes! Our response to strangers in the street who tell us our dogs are cute is generally "And don't they know it!"
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Nice Blair!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Of course, the other traditional Aussie option would have been to call it Spotty..
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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What a great idea! Recover well.
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Ouch my ears, what *is* that sound...? Oh it's Ricky Ponting on the telly. Gee, it's been a while since I was home in Oz. 😂
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Rutger K.
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Reminder for the non-UK crowd flocking to the #IMC2024 this week: bring at least one of these bad boys.
You know, the thing you always end up forgetting.
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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(I read this as "it's wild whiteness..." and it kinda still makes sense)
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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archives could be much improved by a little beanbag corner with soft lighting for those moments when you just need a wee lie down before you can carry on
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Oh god I've hit a post covid wall and I still have documents to pack up and return and a 2 mile walk home from the archives... wish me luck!
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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Whoever has a line to the palace might want to have a word ...
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Dr Kathleen Neal
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That's very interesting
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