Mark Hudson

This war may not have been entirely thought-through.

Deborah Friedell · Short Cuts: Versions of Melania The enduring liberal fantasy that Melania Trump is unwilling, trapped, in need of rescue, #FreeMelania, has never...

‘She claims to speak French, German and Italian, but her encounters with French, German and Italian speakers suggest otherwise.’

@deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Melania Trump.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rigatoni is annoyed I didn't write a cat into my new book '24 Hours in Shogun's Japan' 😅

There are dogs, a goat and a canary but (for no particular reason) no cats!

www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...

She naps on a pile of books? 🤣

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Now only a month before publication of 24 Hours in Shogun’s Japan.

Translation rights have been sold for France, Spain, Germany, Serbia and Ukraine!

www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...

As yes, the one I saw in Ljubljana!
I will order for our library!

Has the map you used been published somewhere?

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

'an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, ... proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.' 😅

Currently advertising: PhD project on Neolithic waste, based with Henny Piezonka. Project focuses on spatial analysis and the Neolithic. Deadline is 9th Feb. A chance to work with a cool range of sites from Serbia to Poland and you get to live in Berlin, so what's not to like! Link in next post.

About - L-Università ta' Malta About

Final call for the talks for the 11th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies in November www.um.edu.mt/events/xippc...

Catholicism and Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire

only a handful days to go until our conference in Rome

- many thanks to my co-organizers incl #janBernot

First academic gathering of my @fwf-at.bsky.social
project :-)

www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/In...

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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An overhead view of a Roman mosaic showing all manner of fishes, sea shells and even a cheeky little prawn.

FISH!!
#MosaicMonday

A sighting of the new book by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social in the wild in Ljubljana

It's a declaration of economic warfare. The EU should be ready to respond

This little fella is later (1st millennium BC) but a great smile!

Isedotai site, Final Jomon, Japan

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

'Japan’s Resonant Pasts: Materiality, Landscapes and Heritage': a session at next year's European Association of Archaeologists conference in Athens organised by myself and Claudia Zancan.

The call for papers opens today. Looking forward to moving the field ahead with this exciting session!

Royal Historical Society lectures for early 2026 - RHS The Royal Historical Society begins its 2026 programme of lectures on Friday 6 February when Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) will speak on ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Que...

Booking for the first @royalhistsoc.org Lectures of 2026 is now available: bit.ly/48N0CCY

> Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’
> Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire'
> David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective'

#Skystorians

I did the same thing in Japan but you have FAR more students than I ever did!

And of course there are whales for @aikerots.bsky.social 😇

Really proud of the whole team for the all the hard work they put into this. Our database lists depictions of fish and other marine organisms in prehistoric Japan, something not previously available even in Japanese.

openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Intelligence Briefing w be Danish intelligence officer, @jacobkaarsbo; "Denmark just labelled Trump's America a threat to the Danish people" Denmark makes UNPRECEDENTED announcement: Trump's America is a National Security Risk to the State of Denmark...

Denmark just did the unthinkable:
They labeled the United States — under Trump — a national security threat to Danish citizens. And there are more coming.

Early Modern mercury production using ceramic vessels at Idrija, Slovenia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Early Modern mercury production using ceramic vessels at Idrija, Slovenia

Our new publication on the archaeology of early modern mercury production at Idrija, Slovenia (a UNESCO World Heritage site).

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Donald Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela is closed President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’

I can't see how this is not a declaration of war against a sovereign state by a neo-imperialist USA?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...