Today is the Lady Mayor's show in #London - at Vintners' Hall we have a sumptuous record of the festivities performed for Samuel Dashwood as Lord Mayor in 1702. A remarkable piece of #book history, the cheap commemorative pamphlet has been augmented with gilded wine-themed decoration #Skystorians

Today we're excited to publish the 25th #OABook in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series w/ @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org, Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. Congratulations @latemedievalist.bsky.social! Read it online, download or purchase it here: uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...

My book is out today! 🎉 I wrote a blog on what the book is about and why you should read it! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f... #skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️

My book is out today! 🎉 I wrote a blog on what the book is about and why you should read it! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f... #skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

On Thursday we publish the next title in our New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes, is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

You can pre-order the book in print, or the #OpenAccess PDF and 'read online' Manifold edition will both be available later this week! uolpress.co.uk/book/forging... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

'Rachael Harkes achieves a tremendous blend of analysis and insight through meticulous document research' Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow by @latemedievalist.bsky.social is out this Thursday! #OpenAccess #NewHistoricalPerspectives #Skystorians #History

📸 Pictured: a wonderful event at @bookhaus.bsky.social last night, where our authors @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social chatted all things climate, energy and sustainability🍃 Huge thanks to all who attended! Drifting North and Electric Wind are out now📚

Publication – « The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing », éd. Sebastian Sobecki rmblf.be/2025/10/26/p...

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our team took part in the @bristoluni.bsky.social Discovery Day. Our aim was to engage children and families with the ‘Map of Bristol in 1480’. The map was edited by @profhelenfulton.bsky.social and published by the @historictownstrust.bsky.social #MedievalStudies #medievalbluesky #mappingthemarch

Great event yesterday with the Historic Town's Trust talking about our research work on an atlas of London on the Eve of the Great Fire. So pleased to be helping this fantastic project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social

The programme is out 📣 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages! A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social (We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon) Registration info 👇🏼 #medievalsky

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a professional landscape photographer? I’ll be sharing the highs and lows of photographing #Shropshire at the Long Mynd Camera Club next week. Wed Oct 29 at 7.30pm, United Reformed Church Hall, Church Stretton. Non-members welcome!

Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Is there anything better than a post-seminar discussion in the Highbury Vaults? Also proof, if it’s needed, that the CMS welcomes medievalists of all ages!

Yesterday, the CMS were lucky enough to see a snapshot 🧑‍🔬📷 of Dr Alexander Zawacki's (@achillghost.bsky.social) work in his seminar on ‘Analysing Manuscripts with MSI’. Thank you for such a fascinating talk Alexander, and thanks also to @benpohl.bsky.social for chairing! #medievalsky #skystorians

New Open Access article about how people in the Alps managed to adapt to the dangers of water (14th to 16th cent.), including fun stuff like bridge recycling or why a tree was a better border than the Rhine: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn... #SkyStorians #Medievalsky #EarlyModern #envhist

A very special evening celebrating @yorkisthistory.bsky.social!

Only a few more weeks until ‘Forging Fraternity’ is out in the world (Open Access for those who like ebooks)!

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

I can heartily recommend Laura's brilliant new article - innovative, creative and hopeful!

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy! #primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Earlier this week I had the privilege of attending the launch of the recently restored #medieval hearse cloths at Merchant Taylors' Hall - incredible work by Zenzie Tinker Conservation that really shows off these wonderful objects 💀 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #London

We are so delighted to welcome Kathleen (@themedievaldrk.bsky.social) back to Bristol, even if it is online! We can't wait to celebrate all of Kathleen and Melek's hard work! #medievalsky #skystorians

📢Devon folk: Chris and I are bringing our stories & songs to Exeter Phoenix! If you'd like to learn more about the lives of #EarlyModern folk, to join us on Saturday 11 October 1:30pm for music inspired by the wills & the #History behind them. @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map. Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd. datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Here it is! Thanks to all involved. #AcademicSky open.spotify.com/episode/7MQw...

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

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

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

Check out this RHS blog post by our author @mctom.bsky.social on his new book, Waterscapes, published #OpenAccess in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series! @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/28/w... The book can be downloaded from our website and read for free.

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

Hello #medievalsky - does anyone know if @medievaljuliana (from twitter) is here, or where I can make contact? They helped me read some Old French a few years ago & I'd like to cite this in an article, but editor tells me I need a full name. DM me or reply if you can help, many thanks in advance!

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

We've had a wonderful time at #Harlaxton Medieval Symposium this week. We caught up with author Kathryn A. Smith. Her lavishly illustrated book "The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF Fr.1)" is absolutely stunning - if we do say so ourselves. buff.ly/H9d2dUf #MedievalSky

Well, the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium has come to an end, and what a week it has been. There’s so much innovative and fascinating work being done on the medieval city by scholars of all stages, and it was a joy to bring them together for four days of generous and lively discussion #Skystorians

“A thoughtful, collaborative mediation on the often-thorny ways that friendship intersects with the political” @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

'Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures' is out now Edited by Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley, this collection goes beyond the familiar canon of medieval Celtic literatures to showcase a range of texts that are compelling in their literary imagination and technical innovation.

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

We're excited about this - in 126 years, @vchlondon.bsky.social has produced 250 of these big red books. These lay the foundations for the work of historians of all kinds, and the 250th takes in Westmorland for the first time. Learn more about the book and the project. Join us! #Skystorians

2025 is a big year for us with a first and a big milestone. The first: Westmorland I, Lonsdale Ward is our first ever #BigRedBook on that county, and is out *soon* from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. The milestone: Westmorland I is our 250th #BigRedBook Learn more and join our celebrations! 🗃️