User:Alarichall

I'm an academic working on north-west European, and on a good day Islamicate, medieval history, literature and language, and on modern Icelandic culture. See further http://www.alarichall.org.uk and Alaric Hall.

For some of my opinions about Wikipedia, see 'Are you an academic who vandalises Wikipedia? Then stop it!' and 'How to Change (Medieval) History'.

I was quite chuffed to find that Joe Lewis, 'University strike action in the UK' ([London]: House of Commons Library, 23 May 2023), is largely a précis of 2018–2023 UK higher education strikes, which I've maintained over the last few years (even with the same picture on the cover!). This is a bit cheeky, because the Creative Commons license for Wikipedia specifies that people adapting the material should give due attribution to Wikipedia, and it doesn't. But otherwise it's nice to see my work saving a civil servant some effort and helping inform Parliament :-) When those strikes are finally over I hope to tame the article and make it less of a sprawling chronicle.

I look after the account https://commons.wikimedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Mercedes-Benz &lang=en&q=User:NSBReynolds.

I love http://rcmap.hatnote.com and http://listen.hatnote.com/.