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...

📢 #CfP #OldEnglish #medievalsky #SELIM35 📜The 35th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM 35) 📅24th-26th September 2025 📲Details: selim35.uma.es/call-for-paper ⌛️Deadline: 30 March 2025

Week 5 rolls around – stave off the blues with an extensive course of medieval events! Find them all at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/16/6... #medievalsky

Huge fun yesterday at the Weston Library Coffee Morning @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social with Niko Kontovas lively presentation of #queerlove in #Persian & other #Asian #manuscripts - incl. reading 4 languages & his own rhymed translations! youtu.be/jcyAQhqUBuY - a feast to listen to!

Almost halfway through the term now - it's week 4! As we prepare for Valentine's Day, join us as we celebrate our love for the medieval with a plethora of events every day this week - find out more at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/09/m... #MedievalSky

Interested in manuscripts? In John the Good of France, or in Humfrey, duke of Gloucester? Or in the fortunes of French manuscripts across the Channel? Then you will want to know about this free event discussing fresh evidence on 21st March: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/...

Hallo zusammen! 👋👋 The Associate of German Studies is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates on all things German Studies in the UK, Ireland and beyond. Looking forward to building a vibrant community together here! #GermanStudies #BlueSkyLaunch

All Aboard! A fun @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Coffee Morning today from Alyssa Steiner on early modern printed copies of the Ship of Fools! 🤡⚓️

Fantastic Weston Library Coffee Morning @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social with Alyssa Steiner @britishlibrary.bsky.social presenting Ship of Fools, the #earlymodern #bestselling printing sensation, from around Europe #Narrenschiff youtu.be/rwQ69h29lTQ