Brilliant presentation at the coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today on religious manuscripts from Southeast Asia: youtu.be/PSQAWeweyOs

Now online: presentation of new acquisitions of Hebrew manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. NB: The @oxmedstud.bsky.social coffee mornings in the Weston Library start again this Friday! youtu.be/HjRoPmJ1Dxg?...

Starting now! medieval.ox.ac.uk/arsinquirendi/ Anthony Harris (Cambridge). Using Generative AI for Medieval Studies Research (II) - a hands-on workshop

www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-... Protest against the proposed closure of Modern Languages at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social from the students' perspective #languagesmatter

@fromtga.bsky.social Star is up! #Herrnhut

We always knew this but it is nice to see it confirmed! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-multilin...

An excellent opportunity to do e.g. intensive archival research for anybody with historic interests - calling on @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social

Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...

Senior Research Fellow with Chaplaincy @stedmundhall.bsky.social available for Oxford theologian - apply by 7 Feb. Lovely college & chapel community (& a medieval crypt!) www.seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/no...

The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!

Delighted to be chosen as one of the Telegraph's best books of 2025! See the complete list here: www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...

OUT NOW: 'A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib: In Search of Universal Betterment' by Charles Webster provides a comprehensive modern study of Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), a prolific correspondent and chronicler and a central figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life. buff.ly/FxO9zj8

Charles Webster's book on Samuel Hartlib has been published! A milestone in reconstructing a European-wide network of critical early modern intellectuals, linked with Comenius & al. @openbookpublish.bsky.social - open access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Do you have an idea for a #digitalhumanities #hackathon project? Would you like our (@ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social) DH students to work on it? Reach out! www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-char...

'Kapitan’s commitment to making her work freely available represents perhaps the best and most community minded way forward for future textual scholarship.' <3 So pleased that the reviewer agrees with what we (@emmahuber.bsky.social & @hlaehnemann.bsky.social) believe in: #openaccess & #opensource

Happening next Tuesday! Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern Germany, looking at examples from nuns’ letters, Reformation pamphlets, and songs. 👇

Tmrw 5pm @tayoxford.bsky.social ! Book launch for 'The Girl Who Lived in the Library' www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... - including a tour of the spoooky basement, a dramatic reading and looking at the exhibition

📚 Book launch! 📚 Join us for the release of our new 'Treasures of the Taylorian' book 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library'- written by Luisa herself, and edited by Christina Ostermann! 📍Room 2, Taylor Institution Library 📅 Wednesday 15th October ⏰ 5:00 - 6:30pm

New Weston Library Coffee Morning online: 100 years of the Explorer Club - with maps, notebooks & plenty of anecdotes youtu.be/08lZZZ7nU7Q

Join us on 28 October at 5:30pm (GMT) for a lecture by Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) entitled '1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History'! 📅 1/6

An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025

Thx to Emma Sarcol from PCER (Public&Community Engagement w/Research) for featuring #OxfordMysteries @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social in the latest newsletter! www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi... Pic Noah's Flood performed w/ St Giles choir dir by Siân Grønlie @stannescollege.bsky.social

#nuntastic exhibition in Kloster Mariensee: three photographers exhibit their take on modern monastic life in the huge Baroque attic rooms of the convent. www.haz.de/lokales/umla...

Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...

Watch out for this book by Charles Webster which presents the sum of his extensive research into early modern intellectual networks across Europe as seen through the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Happy birthday, @fromtga.bsky.social, celebrated by @spiegel.de as 'Winner of the Day' www.spiegel.de/geschichte/d...

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

Great postdoc position at the ‘Österreichischer Bibelübersetzer’ project in Augsburg, until end of 2027 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...

The full playlist for the #OxfordMysteries is now online in its full glory - many thanks to Ben Arthur's team who did a magnificent job & to Ashley Castelino @oxmedstud.bsky.social for editing metadata and subtitles! A highlight of the @stedmundhall.bsky.social calendar! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers

Today 1.30-3pm in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution Library

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July. Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...

Excitement rising! Just got from Ben Arthur the prefinal view of the whole @oxmedstud.bsky.social Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle ahead of the launch on Thursday medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 2:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...

Free to use from Friday 13 June to the end of the month: the great Cambridge Dictionary of Hymnology (I had fun writing the article on Leisen) hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk

An initiative true to Nigel Palmer's legacy - donate for a travel fund to support graduate students doing archival work mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... @mediumaevum.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Congrats to @nikokontovas.bsky.social Andrew Dunning, Péter Tóth & the other colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social for a superbly curated exhibition!

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material. Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

Brilliant teaser for the film documentation of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025 by the talented film team around Ben Arthur, now available on @oxmedstud.bsky.social Thx @torchoxford.bsky.social & @stedmundhall.bsky.social for support! youtu.be/CCQJzg4ldd8

For @oxfordgerman.bsky.social !

In addition to the established essay competition, we have introduced a Discovery Section designed especially for those with no prior knowledge of German, making the competition more accessible than ever.

We are delighted to announce the launch of this year’s 'A German Classic', our annual essay competition for sixth-form students run by the Oxford German Network. This year, we invite students to engage with Rainer Maria Rilke's New Poems (Neue Gedichte). www.ogn.ox.ac.uk/files/2025_r...

I am giving free tours of Iffley Church today 2.30-4pm; there will be a few chocolate Ladybirds hiding in the churchyard in case children (or adults…) need an additional incentive beyond Norman architecture! St Mary the Virgin, OX4 4EG iffleychurch.org.uk

Tomorrow (Saturday): Recital 1.30pm in the Teddy Hall chapel. Do come - a fun programme, over in 30 mins! @stedmundhall.bsky.social www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/music...

Here a recording of my introductory talk, 'Bach at Home', on the importance of family for the formation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music youtu.be/MiDTLkiiJkM

Yesterday's Toccata concert with Anhad Arora was so much fun! Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oxf...

For some fun, listen to the 'Liederspiel' podcasts Anhad Arora and I did as lockdown project in 2020 liederspieloxford.medium.com

Tmrw, Sat 23 May 2025, 2.30pm! First concert in the 'Bach Toccatas' series w/ Anhad Arora. I'll be talking about the social, literary, & religious context for Bach's works. Talk one: Bach at Home www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...