Can't miss this line-up of amazing scholars!!

This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31 Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP

And here it is!

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

🔔Exciting news!!! 📢 The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions organizes its Second Conference. Check out the Call for papers below.👇

Following in the footsteps of Margery Kempe in wonderful King's Lynn (formerly known as Bishop's Lynn, of course)

Congrats to Prof. Jaume Aurell on publication of his "Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry", the first new title for 2025 in the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Available free to download till Feb. 5. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Breaking News: As of 20 January 2025, the prevailing cosmological model will be that God started the Big Bang to Make the Universe Great Again.

If you find yourself using “detached from the Hubble flow” as a metaphor for loneliness, then you, my friend, are a true cosmologist.

Kudos to the branding team! #OntheRoadAgain

Only 5 days in and we have over 400 votes! Some of the contests have clear winners, while others are separated by only a few votes, so please vote and encourage others to do so (but only once! duplicates are deleted!). And stay tuned to see who makes it to round 2.

Interested in women, religion and networks? Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded people!! The CfP for the #H-WRBI annual conference is out. Deadline: 31 January

Tomorrow, join us if you can for a much needed conversation between disciplines on how to address violence against women @qmul.ac.uk

High winds won't stop us! Here we come Whitby Abbey

Weekend in Durham, fulfilling my cathedrals-to-visit bucket list. Bede and Cuthbert in one place? Couldn't miss that! #DurhamCathedral

All welcome! Tuesday 10 December 2024, 6 PM Brussels time durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thanks to an agreement with #SEGA our students are learning about historical games directly from Senior Producer, Janos Gaspar, and Senior Game Designer Luke Holmes! How to deal with 'difficult' pasts, teleology and anachronisms? Q&A to follow! @qmul.ac.uk

De Madrid al cielo, o eso dicen...

In Madrid for a fascinating workshop to train PGRs in network methods, women and objects! @qmul.ac.uk

Thanks @medievalists.bsky.social, we'll keep them in mind for our Medieval Worlds on Film module next year! 😂 @mirierubin.bsky.social

Happy Saint Andrew's Day from here down south

Don't judge me... someone had to start 🤗🤗

Exciting project is looking for a postdoc fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This is what cultural appropriation looks like in our home, not half bad! Happy TG to all who celebrate!

Preparing tomorrow's lecture on Medievalist gaming, so much needs to change still, but at least now we're asking the questions! Playing Spot the Difference with these two images... #PremodernWorldsonScreen @mirierubin.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk

I wrote up a short blog post for a heritage campaign I'm involved with, trying to save the Control tower at former RAF Tangmere savetangmeretower.com/tangmeres-ro...

After the amazing paper by @drhanwill.bsky.social in the last seminar, I'm counting the minutes to hear about Sean Irvin's work in our fantastic School's Research Seminar @qmul.bsky.social

On Thu, 28 Nov, 5:30pm UK time, Carlotta Paltrinieri (RHUL ) will speak about ‘Women in the (Early Modern) News’. In person at the IHR London and also online via ZOOM. All welcome! Please share. To register, please visit www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

Today's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and it's the perfect day to announce the second event in the Gender Forum series with the brilliant @jecfree.bsky.social and Isadora Cruxên. Join us if you can!

There's no rest for the (wicked) medieval scholar, thankfully so! At the November Colloquium of the London Medieval Society on Identit(ies)

In a couple hours I'll be the respondent in a session on women prophets organized by *The Other Sister* project. Frances Kneupper, Eleonora Cappuccilli & Unn Falkeid are the speakers! The Erithrean Sibyl (in BL Royal MS 16 G V) hasn't confirmed her attendance yet...

When a friend sends a voice note with an "emergency question" about heresy at 8 in the morning, that means they know you well!!

Now that Ridley Scott is trending, we're turning to his Kingdom of Heaven to discuss race and racialization in historical 'premodern' films @mirierubin.bsky.social #QMHistory

Reproductive Health Care across Time starts! Caitlin Williams convincing us to stop using "medieval" to describe poor health care, many would be surprised!

It's snowimg in Bedfordshire! 😍😍🥶🥶

Getting ready for the launch of our Gender Forums tomorrow. An interdisciplinary dialogue on women, gender and sexuality across time periods put together by the excellent @jecfree.bsky.social and myself. Join if you can! @qmul.bsky.social #QMUL_IHSS

I just heard of Björn Weiler's passing. He was such a character. I saw him last back in December, at a conference in Cambridge. His laptop was down, his slides gone, and he improvised a whole paper just standing there and dazzling everybody with his booming voice. Sit tibi terra levis.

It's Children in Need Day, help out if you can! www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk

Sorry about the trains, but that was one hell of a seminar in the best possible way @drhanwill.blsky.social

The theme for our Pre-Modern Worlds on Screen class today, had a last minute addition. Apologies in advance!

Very excited abot my digital seminar this week. How can we account for absence in historical sources? Can the digital help?

Taking the liitle one to her first Halloween party 🎃🎃🎃🎃

Climbing down from the roof of Elstow Abbey's tower. The cobwebs are NOT Halloween props...

Taking Halloween way too far...👻