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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

This little manuscript contains a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe, and includes diagrams of eclipses and an astrolabe (UPenn LJS 26) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/41EAKFa

Pound and lock in the upper section of the flight of Fourteen Locks on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Crumlin Branch. (I think the gates visible beneath the trees belong to lock 18 -- but I may be wrong: see the plan here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee... ). Spot the two ducks on the pound!

We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...

Autumn light on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal at Risca this morning.

Today is All Saints’ Day. The redundant All Saints’ Church at Harewood dates from the fifteenth century, it is best known for its six pairs of alabaster effigies (1419–1510) commemorating the occupiers of Harewood Castle and nearby Gawthorpe. These

Today, November 1st, is All Saints’ Day. All Saints is the second most common church dedication in England, after St Mary. In rural Derbyshire, we care for a church with this very common dedication: All Saints', Ballidon. 📷© CB Newham

Happy 1st of November. Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe

*VACANCY* University of Wales Press seeks a Finance and Business Manager! For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/vacancies/ Closing date: 10 November

November in this calendar is the time to put flax in a ring and to break it with implements, and to scutch flax with a scutching knife. #MedievalCalendar MS M.399; Da Costa hours, illuminated by Simon Bening; ca. 1515 CE; Belgium; f.12v

Good news! And about time too

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 O 48(b), Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. The contents of this Irish-language manuscript are mainly religious tracts, lives of the saints, passions and homilies and some legendary episodes from the Ulster cycle and the tale of Fortinbras (Stair Fierabhrais).

Autumnal Gwent: a view of the Skirrid from above the Usk, near Clytha:

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫 A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩 Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?... #archaeology #history #Roman

Lots of lovely fungi about at the moment in the autumnal Gwent countryside!

Dear Academia.edu: Please stop claiming that I'm the author of articles which I EDITED. Editing is not the same as authorship!

I noticed a dabchick staring intently across the water. When I followed her gaze, I could make out two figures in a pea-green boat. And yes, they were flying the flag of true fidelity... @racheldeering.bsky.social @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

Marion Trévisi fait partie des historiennes qui nous ont motivés avec @vbarrier.bsky.social à nous lancer dans le docu sur les femmes dans les armées. Elle continue ses recherches dans le domaine et entendre sa voix après l'avoir autant lu, ça fait quelque chose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEhf...

📢 Announcing three(!) new opportunities for aspiring archaeologists to join our Archaeological Fieldwork Technician apprenticeship program! Apply now (closes Friday 24 October): www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000345576

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website! joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Join me next year at the #SSCLE conference in Porto, from 29 June-3 July 2025. Do please share this #CFP with anyone who studies the Later Crusades (post-1291) and would like to share their research with an enthusiastic and perceptive audience. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

It was a lovely occasion! Wonderful to see so many colleagues and friends in the room and online, and to have that volume in my hands at last! Thanks to @jembenham.bsky.social , @webstermedieval.bsky.social , @andrewdbuck.bsky.social , and everyone who helped to organise the evening.

Travelling home from North Wales today, we paused at Llanidloes for lunch and went to look at the Severn/Hafren (Latin: Sabrina), which is a young river here -- with a modern imagining of Sabrina:

Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀 Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you. 👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/

New podcast episode! @ewoodacre.bsky.social interviews Professor Nwando Achebe and Lydia Amoah, discussing the distinctive features of African queenship, including : royal women from across African history from ancient Egypt and Kush to the recent death of the Asantehemaa in Ghana.

Delighted to receive a copy of the latest volume from Brepols' 'Outremer' series!

Ancient cities and the development of urbanism in pre-colonial Africa: the view from Bonduku. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ci...

A perfect autumn day for the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway's 'Railway 200' event today. And as a bonus, the now privately-owned station at Gotherington Halt was open to visitors.

"Something happened in Northeast Africa in the early thirteenth century. It was swift, violent, destructive, and perpetrated by non-Muslims. It might have been accompanied by an outbreak of disease; it might have had apocalyptic overtones; it might have been several events rolled into one."

Calling researchers on the Knights Hospitaller! Coming up next week online from the Hospitaller Research Forum: (www.um.edu.mt/maks/las/our...)

An excellent talk well worth listening to given by Dr Paul Dryburgh, Medieval Records Specialist at The National Archives (UK), on the history of the medieval English colony in Ireland and the surviving documentary record: vimeo.com/event/510578...

There are only 4 more days to submit an abstract for our #IMC2026 panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We would love for this session to facilitate some interdisciplinary conversations, so please do get in touch with your ideas. #Medievalsky

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover! boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC. Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

A lovely image of Oldbury Nuclear Power Station yesterday afternoon, from the other side of the Severn Estuary. The Power Station is hidden behind the tree in the centre of the picture.

Call for paper and session proposals for the 11th quadrennial conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Porto, 29 June-3 July 2026). Speakers must be members of the Society. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. 11th-sscle-conference-porto-2026.mozellosite.com/call-for-pap...

This #medieval #skystorian got very excited when spying this in Troyes cathedral. #medievalMonday #memorialsMonday 📷 my own. For more info on the Counts of Champagne check out the work of Theodore Evergates

For online info about the Alliterative Morte Arthur and other Middle English alliterative poems, check out alliteration.net/historical-texts/translations-middle-english/

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Somewhere nearby there’s probably a hare taking a nap.

'Claricia' is of course a female clerk:

More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!

Let's have a late medieval castle. This is Berry Pomeroy castle in Devon, now in the care of English heritage. There are bats & wall paintings in the gatehouse, & picturesque views down the valley. It is rumoured to be haunted, but apparently that story was dreamed up for tourists in the early C19th