Dr Sue Oosthuizen

With 200+ tickets claimed for my public lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry on 30 April, there are only a few spaces left! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec.... When they’re gone, they’re gone!

... the myth, the ideology of early medieval population movement into England, and aspects of its internal logic, serve us poorly as an interpretative framework today.

Migration cannot currently form a useful paradigm for understanding post-Roman Britain. (2/2)

Newly downloadable - here's my invited paper for the Society of Medieval Archaeology's 2022 conference.

Taking a quite different, more abstract, approach to that outlined in 'The Emergence of the English', it argues that the discourse.... (1/2)

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This should be mandatory reading for anyone considering investment in, or even engagement with, AI.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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This is incredibly shit but also completely unsurprising. Every single large corporate in the UK is dropping everything useful or sustainable they might have been doing in favour of miraculous snake oil sold by grifters

In memoriam: Prof Stephen Baxter (1969-2026) It is with deep sadness that the Master and Fellows of St Peter’s College share news of the death of Professor Stephen Baxter.

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Talk: Mapping Cambridge’s History The Historic Towns Trust’s ‘Historical Map of Cambridge’, published in December 2024, portrays the city’s history over nearly two millennia, from Roman times to the 20th century, giving equal promi…

A very knowledgeable speaker lined up for this
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Yes.

Many congratulations to @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social for winning the @medievalacademy.bsky.social prize for best article in critical race studies!

Absolutely 👍 our digital atlas of Edward I towns is archived with @ads-update.bsky.social
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Cambridge students help unearth possible Viking-era ‘execution pit’ on training dig - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources The aftermath of a battle or execution from around the 9th century AD has been discovered by Cambridge University archaeologists and students conducting a training dig as part of the University’s unde...

"Cambridge students help unearth possible Viking-era ‘execution pit’ on training dig"

Especially interesting is the trepanned skull.
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Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off the...

Update on our archaeological excavations on St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and the first direct evidence linking the island to the Bronze Age tin trade.

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Exploring the itineraries of King Edward I 🤓

Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents* Abstract. The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a

Some very interesting reading from @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill! academic.oup.com/past/advance...

The list of my publications on my wordpress site has been now updated - many are freely downloadable from the site. 💐
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Sounds wonderful! Keep posting!

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Gary Abbey Bay stone medieval fish weir, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland/ Picture by Paul Montgomery.

The cultural landscape on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the nature of the weirs and the cultures that made them—linking small local and indigenous communities to the resources of both the land and the sea from prehistory onwards. 2/8 #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

The old test in moral philosophy ‘what if everyone did that?’ is coming back to haunt us. LLMs only work because the information they are sucking up was not generated by LLMs. But as they drive more and more real researchers out of business they are building layers and layers on their own quicksand.

Stunning!

There are also boat trips around the fjord, but may be too ££

Bryggen Old Wharf? Thetamuseet?Bryggens Museum, and/or the Hanseatic one nearby?). The nearby Mariakirken (marked +? The university museum is interesting but it's a bit of a trek. The funicular (Fløibanen) is fun too. Have a great time!

That's gorgeous 🙌

A small wooden anthropomorphic figure with a stylized human face, deeply carved eyes, a pronounced nose, and a simple smiling mouth, displayed upright on a clear stand against a yellow background.

During these challenging times, we could all benefit from a smile, so I would like to present the oldest smile in the world: the Mannetje van Willemstad (the little man from Willemstad, Netherlands).
The Mesolithic figurine, dating about 5400 BC, was carved in oak wood. 🧵 1/2

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St Aemilian - with his sheep, lute & bedroll - blowing his horn to bring in a 6thC New Year on an ivory plaque made c.1060-80 for the reliquary on his shrine at San Millán de Suso, the 6thC monastery built on his hermitage at La Rioja, Spain.

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Thank you - and happy Christmas! 💐

Lovely, isn't it - an entire narrative in the image

Thank you!