My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

Well I certainly won't ever use them again

Yes, it was a tender reading

This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...

Georgia is fab, great to see everyone at UWP reception last night. Thank you to all our guests

Popping this out there for the evening crowd. It's part of a new writing project - I'm excited and nervous, so any support would be welcome! Here, I'm writing about how a long-ago writer captured grief for a wanted baby that didn't come to be. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...

#GMS2025 was fantastic-inspiring, encouraging, and also exhausting. I thought I might have a wander around London tonight, but after 3 days of conferencing and 1 of walking the entirety of Canterbury I ordered food in and am going to watch some fluff.

This will be amazing!

If you read nothing else today, read this.

I appreciate all the shares I’ve had on this! It will be a really fun course & it also gives me some welcome additional income after the cuts that were made to my main post, which kick in from August… The realities of HE life these days.

This comment absolutely made my day. I've been working really hard with my writing, and it is so lovely to feel as if we're starting to build a real community here on bluesky.

#PrideMonth might be drawing to a close, but we’re just getting started: Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages! medievalgender.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GMS-2025-Conference-Programme.pdf @medievalcanter.bsky.social

Possibly the best backdrop for a Medieval Studies conference (and the prettiest name tags). A great day at #GMS2025, thank you @medievalcanter.bsky.social!

Will you be attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week? Join us in celebrating our brilliant Medieval Animals series on Tuesday 8th July at 5:30pm in the Parkinson Building🥂 @medievalcanter.bsky.social @vickiblud.bsky.social

So many highlights of #gms2025! @menysnoweballes.bsky.social plenary, the Unruly Wombs roundtable, all the care that @medievalcanter.bsky.social showed us (cake & more!), and spending time with the most wonderful people ❤️ Thank you!

Great first day of the Gender & Medieval Studies 2025 Conference. Thanks to Dr Diane Heath @medievalcanter.bsky.social and #CKHH Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh for organising! Looking forward to tomorrow! #GMS2025

The final bkog from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh as she is leaving CCCU. An appalling decision by the University blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

So much going on, MEMSFEST report, Faversham Magna Carta talk Cathedral document workshop - and tea! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

At the University of Bologna today for a meeting of the Coimbra group of European Universities. Great talks and a sharing of challenges and perspectives. But best of all...the Rector has a 16thc portrait of Gaspare Tagliacozzi in his office, which features his treatise on rhinoplasty. #earlymodern

Lots to enjoy in Sheila's latest blog, MEMSFEST GMS and oodles of greatvthings about Christ Church Gate and Becket miracle windows - what a great week! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

I managed to see the Worth exhibition in Paris & it’s drool worthy!

Faversham talks, MEMS Fest at UoK and all sorts of great research - please read Sheila's blog here blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Great week for the Centre for Kent History and Heritage - a brilliant Becket Lecture from Professor Rachel Koopmans and a Cathedral workshop too. blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Sheila and Claire at Buckingham Palace blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Finally it's in print! A #free booklet on the #archaeology of #ShorneWoods. Almost 20 years in the making and a showcase of the amazing #volunteers at the park and their #communityarchaeology work 👏🏻👍🏻🌳❤️

It’s disheartening - and infuriating - that a popular history conference is ending because of university staff cuts. Institutions should be encouraging public engagement, not preventing it! This loss echoes far beyond CCCU #SaveTheHumanities #HistoryMatters #CKHH #Canterbury

A blog that is tinged with great sadness but also pride. It has been a great honour to be involved for a number of years but this year that pride is marked by anger at a ridiculous situation brought on by what can only be described as bungling ineptitude

Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh's standing ovation at Tudors and Stuarts Weekend. The end to a very successful series of public history events. blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/... Huge 25% discount to visit St Augustine’s Abbey for our CCCU Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend ticketholders. Fab!

Maritime History from Kent to Hull blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Great post from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh - enjoy! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

🚨You wouldn't know it - it was buried on the day #DisabilityBenefits cuts were announced, but there is a government #consultation on #Race & #Disability pay gap reporting for the upcoming #EqualityBill. It only runs until 10 June. www.gov.uk/government/c... www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Equality-B...

Middle Ages for Educators is here on bluesky and we are ready to rumble! middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu

Wow best dog kennel ever! Ightham Moat, Norman history, tarantulas and frogs, plus wills, Church walls and upcoming events - see Sheila Sweetinburghs blog for all the Kent History and news blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Five years ago today: picket time #fiveyearsago www.katherineweikert.co.uk/post/five-ye...

For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.

Reposting for the Monday crowd!

There are countless undated manuscripts in Highland and Southeast Asia. Our workshop ‘Filling the Time Gaps’ gathers experts from the humanities, the natural sciences, and computer science to discuss traditional and current methods of dating them: uhh.de/csmc-time-gaps Hybrid event, all welcome!

Read about Kieron Hoyles research and the joint winners of CCCU Thirdk Prize. blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Dover At Night rrport and other nes from Centre for Kent History and Heritage blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Aphra Behn's statue in Canterbury unveiled by the Queen, and loads more in this week's blog blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Looking at what's coming up in the Fab Tudors and Stuarts Weekend blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Supe Lyle Lecture in Clageet Auditorium for HA from fantastic Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...

Really looking forward to @mareganlefay.bsky.social at the @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social next week. Still only just coping with writing 2025 as the date, though.

Hi @laurakalas.bsky.social

Check out the #CHW2025 Tudors & Stuarts events, speakers and all the books here: bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/tudors-and-s... @medievalcanter.bsky.social @lvhicks.bsky.social @drcbartram.bsky.social @davehitchcock.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social @amylicence.bsky.social @jackieeales.bsky.social

Yum! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Please send in your abstracts on Charity and Carebin the Gloval Midfle Ages, we need more caring now! Thank you