From ancient Alexandria to Britain during WW2, the Bodleian hosts lots of ... rubbish! Listen to today's talk by Péter Tóth and Andrew Honey about dumped papyri form the 3rd century, a recycled map from the 1940s and other kinds of rubbish held at the Bodleian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10T...

Learn about the first western discovery of the star tables of fifteenth-century Timurid astronomer-ruler Ulugh Beg and watch last Friday's presentation by Daniel Fried, doctoral student at New College. 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEL...

A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce

Let James Freemantle of the St James Park Press, the current Printer in Residence, introduce you to Artists' Books from the Bodleian and from his from his private Collection. Watch the full presentation from last Friday's Coffee Morning at the Weston Library here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafb...

Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to artist and art historian Ashkan Sepahvand presenting the 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran, including an unpublished epic romance manuscript by a an Iranian peasant. 📖 Watch the latest Coffee Morning presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWye...

Take a look at the Conservative Party Archive in the Bodleian Library, presented by Fran Allen and Hannah Bithel-Vaughan at last week's Medievalists Coffee Morning in the Weston Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAv...

A trip back to the ... 1980s at yesterday's Medievalists Coffee Morning, with Jack Orchard's fascinating talk on the history of technology and personal computing culture in 1980s Britain. #chuckiegg 👾💾 Watch the full presentation on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WF...

Last friday's Medievalists' Coffee Morning sparked excitement for Hilary Term, with Visiting Fellow Jarrah Sastrawan presenting on religious transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia. 📜☕️ Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQA...

Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...

OPPORTUNITY 📯 Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham! Deadline: 3 September 2025 More details at durhamcollections.org.uk

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies. 🖊️ Apply by 14 July

📅 Join the public lecture by prof Henrike Lähnemann @ox.ac.uk, titled "Early modern code-switching between Latin & the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated." 10 July, 4:30-5:30 PM, Van der Leeuw hall, Academy Building. @rug.nl @oxmedstud.bsky.social More info 👉 lnkd.in/eQDev2ih

Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!! Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!! Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.

It's Week 7! Just two more weeks to go, which means two more weeks of fantastic medieval lectures, seminars, reading groups, and more, all viewable now in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m...

📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

It's Week 6! Just 3 more weeks until the end of the academic year but we're nowhere near done yet - find out what's in store this week in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/02/medieval-matters-tt25-week-6

🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️ Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!

Somehow, it's already Week 5 and we're half way through the term 🙀! See how our medieval community is marking this midpoint with this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/26/m...

It's Week 4! Take your mind of exams and essays with one of our many fantastic medieval events, all in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/19/m...

Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

It's Week 3! Check out the latest events in the world of medieval studies in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/12/m... And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!

It's Week 2 of Trinity! From French palaeography to the science of the stars, check out what's going on in Oxford this week in the latest instalment of Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/05/m...

@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome! 📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW) ⌚️ 10am - 4pm

Friday 2 May, 5pm, @regentsox.bsky.social and on zoom I'll be talking after the AGM of the Henry Bradshaw Society @oxmedstud.bsky.social. #medievalsky

📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯 As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!

Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing! Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...

Having fun at the Medieval Mystery plays at Teddy Hall, especially Hans Sachs' "Adam & Eve". @hlaehnemann.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social

An amazing day for the 2025 @oxmedstud.bsky.social Medieval Mystery Plays! Our very own @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students gave a fantastic performance in a Middle English comedy of the Crucifixion 🎭📯🎉

And here are the intrepid Crucifixioners at rehearsal today, with @hlaehnemann.bsky.social! @oxmedstud.bsky.social

👇🏼Honestly one of the most fun things that you can do in Oxford! Amazing, extraordinary, insightful - and just plain bonkers! Go. Have Fun. Free. Open to all.

Just 3 days to go until the biggest medieval event of the year - the 2025 Oxford Medieval Plays! 📯📯📯 Join us from noon on Saturday 26 April @stedmundhall.bsky.social. Visit www.seh.ox.ac.uk/mystery-cycle to view more details on timings and to download the full programme.

📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯 As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!

We're 2 weeks away from the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays but the fun has already begun! A performance of the 🔥Apocalypse🔥 is now available to stream for History Hit's new documentary The Medieval Apocalypse. Read more from Shaw Worth at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/10/a...

The latest addition to the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee morning playlist is the brilliant @ashleycastelino.bsky.social talking about dogs in medieval manuscripts! Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social youtube channel youtu.be/kiGFH9LTrGI

Just released: the HistoryHit Apocalypse episode with @goingmedieval.bsky.social, @liber-ray.bsky.social, @lauraashe.bsky.social & a motley crew from @oxmedstud.bsky.social performing an extract from the Towneley Last Judgement play @stedmundhall.bsky.social. Here the outtake: youtu.be/RTM3Cys9E0I

The Enterlude of the Godly Queen Hester - a satire on the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey - will be performed for the first time since the C16th in Christchurch, Oxford, the college he founded, by @edwardsboys.bsky.social. Friday 28 March 18.30: www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/play-... @oxmedstud.bsky.social

The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays are fast approaching! As a special preview, join @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and Beyond Shakespeare for a walking tour around the route of the event @stedmundhall.bsky.social... Listen now at audioboom.com/posts/866279...

Join Edward's Boys for a performance of the fascinating 'Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester', a political satire about the demise of Cardinal Wolsey, preceded by free talks on Esther and the purimshpil! 📆 28 March, 18:30-20:15 📌 Research Centre, Christ Church Meadow

Listen to Rob, Liza, Antonia, and me discussing the upcoming Medieval Mystery Cycle @stedmundhall.bsky.social, staged by different groups from @oxmedstud.bsky.social on 26 April 2025 on @beyondshakes.bsky.social audioboom.com/channels/495...

It's Week 8! The end of Hilary is almost upon us but we have one final full week of OMS events for you to enjoy. See them all at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/10/m...

It's Week 7! Find out what's in store for you this week at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/02/m...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professor in Byzantine History The Oxford Faculty of History and Corpus Christi College seek a highly motivated, inspirational person to join their thriving academic community and bring exciting perspectives to the teaching and study of Byzantine History at Oxford.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Professor in Latin Palaeography The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are seeking an outstanding palaeographer to join the team of medieval historians. Applications are welcome from candidates at all post-doctoral career stages, including at professorial level.

Join Carolin Gluchowski and @torchoxford.bsky.social's Medieval Women's Writing Network for an exciting talk on 'Breaking Walls, A Graphic Novel: Reflections on Public History'. 📆 THIS FRIDAY 28 Feb, 5pm 📍 Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College More info at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/26/m...

Welcome to Week 6! Oxford is finally warming up, as is our weekly offering of medieval events and opportunities. Find out more on this week's Medieval Matters at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/24/m...