Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Sorry about that! 😂

Special offer for May only: my award-winning tome 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth' is available on Kindle for just 99 of your English pence. www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Short-H...

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Sign the Petition Save Our Religion And Theology Degree!

Religion and Theology degrees are among those humanities programmes scheduled for closure at the University of Cardiff. Please consider signing this petition in protest.

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JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Na...

I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it

That sounds like a good day!

Oh thanks!

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Research Associate (Domestic Slavery in Late Antiquity) - 2 positions available in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team View details and apply for this Research Associate (Domestic Slavery in Late Antiquity) - 2 positions available vacancy in Leicester. Working as part of a collaborative and innovative researc...

WE ARE HIRING - TWO RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FOR 15 MONTHS

We are looking for someone who can use their expertise in ancient languages such as Coptic, Syriac, or Middle Persian to investigate late antique / early medieval sources for domestic slavery.

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I honestly think it’s the strangest thing - even though it’s relatively normal for America.

And as for the prayers and blessings - I have no (clean) words.

This inauguration is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.

Wonderful - thank you!

I’m trying so hard not to comment on Melania’s hat #inauguration

Greek and Croatian translations, both beautifully produced. Big thank you to the translators and publishers.

I love this piece

Two lynx on the loose in the Scottish Highlands Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) says the animals were at large within its grounds after a suspected ‘illegal release’

As night follows day, every dead sheep in the area will be blamed on them, though Eurasian lynx are specialist roe deer predators, and avoid open areas, where sheep graze.
This is what happened when a lynx escaped in Wales: all dog attacks became "lynx attacks".
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I’ve only been back at work for two days and I’m already behind with emails.

What a lovely shout-out! Thank you so much!

The Proustian rush of Hamlyn Children’s Bible in Colour - what’s your favourite?

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE | Kirkus Reviews A wide-ranging look at the human past and the possibility of our species’ extinction.

‘A serious but nonetheless entertaining look at the human race’s long-term prospects’ Kirkus Reviews looks kindly on ‘The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire’
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my students in the last decade have become teachers, barristers, lawyers, civil servants, midwives, ICU nurses, journalists, accountants, academics, advertising execs, museum curators, TV producers… because we give them broad skills. If I had to train them to do *a job* they’d all be historians.

Ah, a screenshot from the old days when bantz was a thing and Twitter was Twitter.

Next Archbishop of Canterbury ‘must break up the old boys’ club’ The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Rev Helen-Ann Hartley, led calls for Justin Welby to resign. She says the Church of England needs a radical overhaul

I’ve known Bishop Helen-Ann Hartley since our doctoral days (she remains a very important person to me). And she’s *always* stuck her own neck out to defend those who are vulnerable, marginalised, or traumatised. She’s always been completely ace.

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A little late. But can't wait to get stuck in.
If @proffrancesca.bsky.social writes half as well as she speaks publicly, this will be a belter.

Wonderful pic! Hope you enjoy the book!

Hope you enjoy it!

End-of-term present from one of my students, who was clearly paying attention in lectures when I explained (and then repeatedly referred to) the gods’ ‘Ready-Brek radiance’. If you know, you know (hi 80s kids)!