4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky

A scolding usage note, from Webster's 1864. Does anyone know of such things (as an organized category of typeset notes) in an earlier dictionary? @misterslang.bsky.social @jessesword.com @jacklynch000.bsky.social

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Stefan Fatsis on the current state of American lexicography www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...

A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Reasons to read/not read my new book: Pros: -You'll finally figure out what "puce" is -The phrase "cattier than a hot tin roof" is used in reference to opponent color theory -Pliny the Elder joke -Weird history & shit Cons: -Very little cussing -You might cry at this one spot? -History & shit

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries! www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Just over one week left to submit your abstracts! Come join @rafletcher.bsky.social, Dr Thijs Porck, and me at #IMC2026 talking about "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century".

After the release of #KingAndConqueror, it seems an opportune moment to remind you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for 'The Past, Present, and Future after Conquest: 1066, 1169' is the end of next month. #medievalsky #Normans @leverhulme.ac.uk

Call for abstracts for 20-min presentations about a dictionary collector, a dictionary collection, or dictionary collecting (or some combination of the three) at a symposium celebrating Madeline Kripke and her collection's move to Indiana University. blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2025/0...

Join us in the DSNA! It's inexpensive for what you get, and full of people with all sorts of relationships to dictionaries. dictionarysociety.com

Great to see the hard work of my former colleagues getting recognition!

Call for Papers (deadline: 1 September, 2025): 'Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century' (IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026) @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Today's Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction news: A nice antedating of _terrestrial_ 'an earthling', from the first English translation of Jules Verne's _Hector Servadac_ (a.k.a. Off on a Comet) in 1877. sfdictionary.com/view/1195/te...

Archbishop Matthew Parker was born #OTD in 1504. He left the bulk of his collection to @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social but in 1574 gave us 100 books, including this new edition of the Gospels in Anglo Saxon type (1571). The notes are by Abraham Wheelock, first Cambridge Professor of Arabic. CUL 1.24.9.

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

I am the largest language model anyone could ever need I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...

A #hivemind question for anyone who knows about the @uniofeastanglia: does the university still have a James Platt Centre for Language Learning? And if not, what happened to it?

James Platt junior (1861–1910) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

To mark the start of BBC Proms 2025, here’s my version of the Postman Pat theme tune in the style of a tango.

And right after I signed the petition about the Australian National Dictionary Centre, I had cause to use their work. When @patthomson.bsky.social commented elsewhere about someone “getting a Guernsey”, the AND was there to tell me what it meant slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc...

The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university. Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow! Do join if you can :)

This is tomorrow! Get a good night's rest after the #IMC2025 disco so you can join us bright and early for nineteenth-century medievalism.

Have made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social - if you're following me here, come and say hello if you see me! (Also, obligatory self-promotion: I and my excellent colleagues are speaking on Thursday if you are interested in the 19th-century reception of Old English.)

Lovely friendly letter from 1739 from antiquary Joseph Ames to the Northamptonshire vicar Edward Lye: ‘[I] hope when your affairs call you to London you will make a day at least at my house’. In an Anglo-Saxon edition of Orosius’s world history (London 1773). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S717.c.77.1.

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

Be sure to keep your Thursday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all three panels of Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century! #IMC2025

The digital edition of the Gersum Project's Legacy of Medieval Scandinavian Encounters with England and the Insular World is now available. You can read my contribution here. www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

Over the year I've been collecting new medieval publications and reading suggestions to add to summer reading lists, and the time has come for updating. Some highlights in this thread, mostly found by word of mouth recommendations or social media. Please add other recent publications you've enjoyed!

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht... We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

Important additions from (modern) fandom for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "fix-it", adj. & n., from 1999 and 2001 respectively. Cites from LiveJournal, Tumblr, the Fanfic Symposium, &c. sfdictionary.com/view/2394/fi... sfdictionary.com/view/3031/fi...

It's now just a year since I autotrombated about my website http://themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com…and I see there are now over 10#OEDMakersrs on it. So I'm renewing my appeal: please mention it to relevant friends, link to it from relevant places, etc. I think some will find it of interest.

again in awe of the beauty of the íslenzk fornrit capitals

(Sharing on behalf of a friend) two postdoc positions in history of English/corpus linguistics at the University of Stavanger: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. In this new article Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the global significance of inventing Japanese Braille.

What sad news. He was a kind and generous scholar.

Supervised by myself and Prof Seager! Deadline 7 May 2025

Very excited to reveal the beautiful cover of THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my queer Bisclavret retelling coming this November from @gollancz.bsky.social – and January 2026 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social in the US! Art by Tom Roberts :) More details/still image here: finnlongman.com/the-wolf-and...

Just came across this treasure-trove of 70+ public lectures published by the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications...

Need to know the story behind this. In a copy of Alexander Top’s ‘Saint Peters rocke’ (London, 1597). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.7.59.106.

The Gersum Project comes to a close with this excellent volume from Brepols, now available to order. Wall-to-wall chapters from my scholarly heroes in here, a real privilege to be a part of it. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜New Directions in Old English Prose 🏫University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 📅30-31 March 2026 ⌛️Deadline: 1st August 2025

This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/n...

George Green Loane (1865–1945) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

A Latin-English-Gaelic dictionary begun in 1712 by Father Francis Walsh of Dublin. It was purchased by Marsh's around 1743 for £20. We went with the entry on trees as it's #NationalTreeWeek as well as #SeachtainnaGaeilge! See the full manuscript on ISOS: www.isos.dias.ie/MARSH/MS_Z_3...