James Chetwood

@chegchenko.bsky.social

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Sort of a historian.

Nicholas Lyndhurst in 'Goodnight Sweetheart', about to time travel through a brick wall.
ChatGPT interaction: Me: so that was all just bullshit? nice one. It: Yes. I claimed I had produced populated CSVs when I had not. That was false, and you were right to call it out.
SNSBI: Autumn Meeting: Names and Power. Saturday 14 November 2026, University of Sheffield and online (10am to 4.30pm). Call for Papers. The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland invites proposals for papers for a one-day meeting on the theme of ‘Names and Power’ – a hybrid event held at the University of Sheffield on 14th November. Names are not neutral. Whether attached to people, places, streets, institutions, objects, events, texts or literary worlds, names are deeply implicated in relations of power. They may express authority, ownership, affection, belonging, memory, hierarchy or resistance. They may also become sites of contestation, where competing interpretations of the past, present and future are negotiated. This conference invites papers that explore the many ways in which names and naming practices intersect with power. We welcome contributions from across the broad field of name studies and from related disciplines, including linguistics, history, geography, literary studies, digital humanities and heritage studies. We are interested in papers on all kinds of names, including place-names, personal names, street names, institutional names, literary names, names of things, and names in digital or virtual spaces. Contributions may address historical or contemporary material, theoretical or methodological questions, specific case studies, or comparative approaches. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers (with 5–10 minutes for questions). If you are interested in presenting, please email a title and abstract (of up to 250 words) to confsec@snsbi.org.uk by the 4th September 2026. There no registration fee for speakers. Further details about the programme, registration, travel and accessibility will be circulated in due course.
Ghost of Christmas Present in Muppets Christmas Carol. He has a big head. That's the joke.
Interactive question slide: 'When did the Roman Empire REALLY end?' Options: 476, 565, 698, 750, 1204, 1453.
A poached egg on the floor after having committed suicide. It's a terrible scene.
Gif - from You've Got Mail. Child in bookshop spelling Fox (F-O-X)
Blackboard VLE AI helper button labelled 'Auto-generate discussion'.
chatgpt prompt. 'so you've got a phd now. congrats. what are you going to do with it?'
Genealogical tree of the Kentish royal family c.550-c.750.
Article first page. Title: Where’s Walh-y? Searching for ‘invisible Britons’ in early medieval England’, by James Chetwood.
Pavel Srníček.
Me, vibing at Godshill Model Village in my best red shoes with buckles on c.1985.
Cover image of the TV series Lost in Austen.