Last month, the Trust had the privilege of offering scholarships to five PGRs and ECRs to attend the Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium. Each YHT Scholar has shared their thoughts on the experience on our #blog, which you can read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/09/18/y... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

The 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium is over, but not an experience I’ll forget. Thank you again to the convenors, and to @yorkisthistory.bsky.social for a scholarship which allowed me to be part of this exceptional occasion.

Popping my head above the research parapet, I am thrilled to share that I have been elected a Postgraduate Member of @royalhistsoc.org, what a privilege! Now, back to the thesis...

It’s a big year for geeks who love both Jane Austen and JMW Turner and I am thriving

It seems like my usual peaceful instrumental music isn't working today, so it's Eurodance. The noise-cancelling is working overtime today...

Our first free online training session on #place based histories of #religion beyond the parish church is happening tomorrow afternoon. All the details about topics, speakers & how to sign up below 👇

📢 Coming Soon, the Art History and Museum & Heritage Studies Postgraduate Symposium. More information to follow!

I presented on my PhD research for the first time today 🥳

St Andrews cathedral

How did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life

There is something inexplicable about my love for maps

It’s 2nd December and time for the next festive treat on our #adventcalendar. The chapel screen is one of only a few original features left from the 15th century chapel. Here it is in all its sunlit glory.

For the final London Palaeography Seminar of 2024, we host the irrepressible @ccurran.bsky.social, who will talk to us about her new project: ‘Early Medieval Breton Manuscripts: an introduction to BretPal’. Tuesday, 3rd December, 5:30pm GMT, in person and online: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/early...

Show me your pet and what they were named after

Mon 25 Nov, 5:15: @mikecarrhistory.bsky.social (Edinburgh) - "Papal Graces as a Source for Christian-Muslim Contacts in the Late Medieval Mediterranean." Join us if you can - there's even a Teams link we can let you have if you get in touch. #medievalsky saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/categ...

#medievalsky Brilliant initiative by @medievalfrench.bsky.social : A Starter Pack of Centres for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond.

👋🏻 I'm Amy, a second-year PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews. I work in the School of Art History on 13th-15th century archiepiscopal patronage of York Minster, episcopal residences, and some suffragan churches. Currently working on a chapter, and paper for a research forum!

Important set of well-organised and freely available resources for medievalists and early modernists docs.google.com/spreadsheets...