And bursaries are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

We made ink, quills, paintbrushes, and pigments. We did scribing and illuminating while Hildegard von Bingen played in the background. We did early medieval interlacing and bookbinding. It was such FUN!!! And we’re doing it all again this summer ⬇️

Returning to the London International Palaeography Summer School due to popular demand is our hands-on course that explores the materials and processes of manuscript production through experimentation 👇 #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

I’ll be reviving my irrepressible double act with Katherine Hindley for London International Palaeography Summer School 2026. We provide an introduction to manuscript studies ideal for anyone starting graduate study. It’s a lot of fun. #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p... www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/making... @bibliojenni.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to this at the end of the month. There are still a couple of places if anyone has students who would benefit. #MedievalSky @ihr.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

I’ll be talking about my experiences of recreating medieval manuscript techniques at the IHR Medievalism seminar on 25 February (hybrid) @ihr.bsky.social #bookhistory #medievalsky www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Could you be our next Creative Practioner in Residence? For 2026 we are keen to support a practitioner with interests in creative writing, particulary poetry. Monthly stipend of £1000 (up to 3 months). Apply by 6 Feb 2026. universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_cre...

As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social. Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

A press release from the University of Bristol about an exciting new article by @benpohl.bsky.social and published by Historical Research: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

A 🧵on all the courses on offer for our London International Palaeography Summer School. All information about the summer school, bursaries and booking information can be found here: buff.ly/WP2GKLD

This is going to be such a great addition to #bookhistory!

Christmas choir at Senate House 🥰

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!

Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

📣Booking is now open for the London International Palaeography School 2026 📣 We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out! 10% discount if you book before 23 Jan! ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

#DigiBodAdvent day 2, the so-called Amesbury Psalter (All Souls College MS 6). Come for the prefatory miniatures, stay for notated antiphons and extensive evidence of the book's use by John Grandisson bishop of Exeter (d. 1369) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/4c70...

Are you bored of advent calendars yet? I hope not, because I'll be highlighting 25 of the amazing medieval manuscripts added to Digital Bodleian @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this year. #DigiBodAdvent

So excited to be among such eloquent writers for this panel on writing books for a general audience #IMC2026

#IMC2026, Weds, 8 July, 7pm! Four medievalists who've published 'trade' books will discuss the process - from finding an agent to working with publishers & beyond. Sponsored by @ihr.bsky.social. @realmandeville.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

You can't beat a bit of practice-based research!

New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

If you love insular manuscripts & have always wanted to visit Hereford Cathedral's chained library, 2026 is the year to come! Shaping Early Medieval Faith: The Hereford Gospels will run 30 March-12 September 2026. More details, including about the manuscript's palimpsest, coming soon.

Join us in The Hague on 3 December for my book presentation! 🌷🌻🌵 Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project. Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D... See you there! 🌺

I've written about mead and its popular perception for The Conversation. theconversation.com/the-truth-ab... Mildly concerned that by pointing out that the Vikings (probably) didn't drink (much) mead, I will have annoyed all the re-enactors, many of whom have swords oh dear.

Still time to register for this free online talk tomorrow on making medieval manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky

Jess Hodgkinson from the @insularmss.bsky.social project discussing dry point annotations in Insular mss and photometric stereo imaging as a cutting edge technology to retrieve them!

#heritagescienceandmanuscripts has just started! Brilliant first talk by Brent Seales addressing technologies to retrieve writing and the Vesuvius project.

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Furiously finalising my campaign so I can press "launch". One last chance to sign up for first dibs (the limited rewards are very limited); the next reminder will be once the campaign is already live!

A cat on Catte Street. I’m building a model to help with my research of Catte Street, Oxford. Leoba is helping via physical manifestation (not to scale)

Quite. The lack of coverage of the BL cyberattack and its consequences has been dispiriting. There are multiple angles to it but apparently none of that has been found by editors to be especially newsworthy.

A perfect exit hole in a marble gall #everydaymiracles #irongallink

Good advice here from @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social

This has been my earworm for nearly 10 days now, so I'm so so sorry, but now I have to inflict it on you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsp...

The British Library has long relied on the good will of its fabulous staff, whom it treats shockingly, pays derisorily and ignores as much as it can. Faced with a contemptible 2.6% pay offer, the staff has, unsurprisingly, had enough.

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

I'll be talking to the Caxton Club next month on The Medieval Scriptorium - going through all the stages of making manuscripts, including demonstration videos. There may be cats in the background. Fri 14 Nov 12:00PM CT (5.00PM GMT) #medievalsky #bookhistory www.caxtonclub.org/event-6296386

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

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

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

Look what arrived earlier than scheduled…

Are you coming along to #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November 2025? Why not stay at Senate House for my #lecture in the evening, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public'. Book your free place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky