🧵 St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn near Thornton-le-Dale is a Grade II* listed building often described as a hidden gem. Remarkably well preserved, it has origins in the Saxon period, with much of the present structure dating to around 1050. The church features carved stones from as early as the 8th or

We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here? 📼 Dr Tom Horne

Hello #MedievalSky and #Antiquity from the #PresentDead! Here's my #cfp for a hybrid conference on "interacting with the Dead in Antiquity & the Middle Ages", to be held in Graz, Austria on 2-4 Sept., 2026 presentdead.uni-graz.at/en/news/blog... Please do circulate it to interested parties :)

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

The IHR's guide to its Monumenta Germaniae Historica collections (@monumenta.bsky.social) is a superb introduction for students of medieval German and European history. #medievalsky

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'The Dispersal of the Cotton Collection' - British Library & University of Birmingham www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline for student applications: 10 May

Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the University Museum of Bergen, Department of Cultural History #Archaeology #AcademicJobs www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Starting to feel a bit sorry for Tom Licence. Reading and re-reading short passages of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is what early medieval history is all about…

This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

Hi guys. Please find attached my book. Some people say it will shape the idea of the English people. Don’t miss the section on the Synod of Whitby. My information is a little patchy, and I’m no fan of the Brits. Maybe you should supplement my work with archaeology? All the best, the Venerable Bede

Got just enough ALCS money to take my kids on an Easter trip to the theatre!

*facepsalm*

This thread is worth a read for anyone interested in scholarly applications of GenAI. Basically, the translated passage in the eg starts off ok, but the second half is just made up. On the one hand, this kind of thing seems fixable. But…

This is extremely sinister and worrying

Good article, though it barely scratches the surface of the issues: if early years education is important, then so are early years educators/carers. Also, a striking stat: in 1995, 4% of kids were in nursery. What a seismic societal change since then! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another thing that seems to really have happened

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

If you notice a friend exhibiting any concerning signs – especially rapid worsening over hours – take them seriously.

Lunt Roman Fort Stratford Butterfly Farm Rugby museum of rugby football Never did anything Shakespeare-related though, for some reason?? And I don’t remember going to Coventry cathedral with school but surely we must have.

£37,694 - £46,049 a year (pro-rata for part-time working). Deadline 10 April.

On students using AI: "They were getting worse, and feeling better about it"

bless the Victorians; “this church is mentioned in Domesday and therefore must have existed before the Conquest; how long before we cannot say, there is no evidence, but it is possible that [completely unsubstantiated claim] so we must assume that this is indeed the case”

Brilliant new work by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social!

My favourite Foundation Year seminar today - a Choose Your Own Adventure I made out of Gregory of Tours’s account of Sichar and Chramnesind. Mildly worried by how much my students related to the bloodfeud of the Franks…

This is absolutely deranged. A peer review that has been generated by AI to critique and reject a manuscript, which includes fake citations - claiming to be by the authors of the original submission. AI can’t peer review!! It just looks like a peer review! How can a scientist not understand this??

So much of the positive-leaning language around #AIinEducation (AIED) is about the technology's alleged capability to inclusively differentiate between learners' varied starting points and (for lack of a better word) abilities, in a way that is more actionable and rapid than human teachers...

Re-used medieval stone from the staircase of the South West tower at Elgin Cathedral in Moray. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #ElginCathedral #Moray

Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel. We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I think this must be my first time at the British Library in six years! So grateful for all the work done to recover things here. But strangely comforted to know that the wifi still doesn’t work

How are we in a situation where we’re banning social media for under 16s with one hand, and pushing this kind of technology on them with the other? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How are we in a situation where we’re banning social media for under 16s with one hand, and pushing this kind of technology on them with the other? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised! Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The 2026 Viking Society for Northern Research student conference takes place at the University of Liverpool on 11 April. Includes student lectures, launch of the paperback 'Embers of the Hands' by Dr Eleanor Barraclough & plenary lecture by Prof Howard Williams @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social

Are you in York tomorrow night? Or could you be? Come along to @yorkstjohn.bsky.social at 6.30pm, where I'll be talking about and discussing my new book on the Blair governments... It'll be great! More details below. 👇 www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT? As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc. It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece??? What?

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

My latest piece for @uk.theconversation.com is a review of @wellcomecollection.bsky.social’s small but brilliant exhibition, ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’, which is on until 19th April.

A ‘temporary’ but seven-year post in Medieval English literature.

Studies on wellbeing are fascinating, but they've felt a bit ahistorical. We are supporting this great conference in July looking at the ideals that shaped emotional and moral life in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to give a more historical view www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Now available, the British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), historian and first female President of the Royal Historical Society: bit.ly/4qUa0ua The memoir is written by Professor Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social and available via @britishacademy.bsky.social #Skystorians

Not bad as workplaces go

Say it a bit louder for those at the back! Also maybe universities are valuable in a) researching this kind of issue and b) understanding and tackling why it happens…

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...