Something really big happened #OnThisDay 1,100 years ago! 🏰 @davidwoodman45.bsky.social from @robinsoncollege.bsky.social ‬and @camhistory.bsky.social thinks someone in English history deserves far greater fame. Find out why in our full film 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhj...

📢 Congratulations to Fernanda Gallo, Associate Professor in History and Politics (@fernandag.bsky.social), recognised by @ecpr.bsky.social in the prestigious Political Theory Book Prize 2025. Her "stunningly written" book 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought' was awarded an Honourable Mention.

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183) Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

Congratulations to Professor Lucy Delap, appointed new Chair of Cambridge's History Faculty, to succeed Professor Mary Laven on 1 October 2025. Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @cam.ac.uk and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. @lucydelap.bsky.social @marylaven.bsky.social

➡️ What is it like to study History at Cambridge? ➡️ Why does History matter? ➡️ What are we looking for in potential students? Get an inside look at why History at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk stands out ⬇️ 🔎Interested? Here’s how to apply: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/hist...

One of the most astonishing - like really astonishing things - @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge. The Moore Bede - prime manuscript of the first English history, given by the King-Elector George I in 1715. Seems to have spent time at the court of Charlemagne. Isn’t that just multiple wow?

Excellent opportunity! Scholarships for MA in Medieval Studies @leedsims.bsky.social Highly recommended…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... On now at the Cambridge University Library!

Lecturer in Medieval History of Art University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND415/l...

Cambridge medieval history has now moved from the other place and are now on here @camedieval.bsky.social. Please follow us!

Fellow medievalists, esp. charter people, a question out of ignorance: how common was it that single people were 'exchanged' as Heloise and Emeline were in the act below (source: The Cartulary of Blanche Countess of Champagne, ed. T. Evergates, p. 58). Thanks!

Good morning #Academicbluesky. What has been published on the effect on current public debate/life of using terms like 'fascist' and 'communist' to describe political adversaries? Thanks!

Good morning #Academicbluesky. What has been published on the effect on current public debate/life of using terms like 'fascist' and 'communist' to describe political adversaries? Thanks!

📢Upcoming Talks #medievalsky 🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024 🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University 📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary' 📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024

Applications are now open for the Mellon Fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for 2025-2026. Really enjoyed my time there in 2023-2024, so can thoroughly recommend applying 👇 pims.ca/article/post... #medievalsky #skystorians

Fancy doing a PhD on the archaeology of medieval Europe, c. AD 400-1500 at Oxford? Scholarship available here: www.stx.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-son...

#medievalsky Register now for The Exercise of Medieval Power & Rulership (c1000-c1400) coming up online @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social on 20-23 Nov, UK time. Attendance supporting bursaries available. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-exerci...

This is desperately sad news. Björn was one of the kindest and funniest people in our trade, as well as a brilliant scholar. He will be terribly missed - and live on in our fond and grateful memories.

Gregory of Tours describing a historical event ▶️🔘───────── 00:07 Gregory of Tours about that one guy miraculously healed from hiccups, St Martin be praised ▶️🔘───────── 7:35:12

In this "Teach Yourself to Be a Missionary" compendium you get short snippets from authors like Isidore or Jerome but also this little FAQ: Who was the first pope in Rome? Peter. Who built Rome? Romulus. You know, just in case people ask questions! 4/

If you’re in Dublin in a fortnight, what a coincidence! Come and hear about ordinary Early English manuscripts (as if there’s such a thing!)

The #CFP for the 17th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law is open till 15 December! The congress will be hosted in Canterbury at the University of Kent, 7-13 July 2024 - its 1st visit to the UK in 40 years. Full details: icmcl2024.org For any queries, feel free to email [email protected]

Medieval murder maps of three English cities offer window into past Online project draws on 700-year-old records of coroners’ inquests in London, Oxford and York www.theguardian.com/science/2023... #History