Offre d’emploi – 3-year postdoc position in medieval studies: Unlocking the Medieval Book: Texts, Crafts, & Networks of Northern Europe rmblf.be/2025/12/30/o...

This event looks amazing! Recent and recent-ish PhDs, why not sign up? It seems like there might be some fascinating opportunities for re-imagining the PhD-book here.

I'm organising this hybrid training event on PhD thesis to book for @sgsah.bsky.social Literature+ Catalyst on Fri 16 January. Great speakers inc. Sarah Bernstein, @drjamesbailey.bsky.social, @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @emilyalder.bsky.social. Please sign up! www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/disci...

I recommended Sophie Corser's work on reading today, & decided to treat myself to an article I hadn't read yet in Irish Studies Review. I'm moved by its closing account of reading under the conditions of precarity. OA here for your reading pleasure/labour: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

my book of the year is...PATTERN-BOOK haha I mean it's the book I wrote that came out this year other people's lists give me stress but if you bought a copy of PATTERN-BOOK in 2025 I would love to put you on MY list (a list of people I'll send a bookplate to): forms.gle/MXPCpzfVLoHo...

I recommended Sophie Corser's work on reading today, & decided to treat myself to an article I hadn't read yet in Irish Studies Review. I'm moved by its closing account of reading under the conditions of precarity. OA here for your reading pleasure/labour: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2

Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

In the tenth century a charm to control a bee swarm was added, upside down, in the margin of an earlier mss. It's one of the earliest Old High German texts. Tim Hertogh argues in recent article it was intended as an amulet to cut out & place in a hive - explaining the margins excised elsewhere.👇

An exciting new postdoctoral position focusing on Old English epistolary materials

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

g13 is here! More details on issues 12 & 13 soon.

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI 📜Theme: All Kinds of People 📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026 🏫Host: University of Nottingham ⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026 📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.

I also really loved (& found very moving) the poems about friendship in this collection, in addition to enjoying all the wonderful play with language and form.

A cultural impact study would really help make the case to funders generally of the importance of small presses; this cd also work for an academic study #academicsky

Less than a week to apply for this exciting role in our team. Come join us here in UCC! #ucc #viking #oldnorse #postdoc #politics

Exciting news- NorseMap is taking part in a 2-day workshop on 'Runes and Reception' organised by LMU München and RU Bochum. Professor Tom Birkett will be presenting on 'Runes and Branding', using preliminary data collected for the NorseMap Project. #norsemap #viking #runes #erc

Delighted to see this out! Thanks to @bruceholsinger.bsky.social for all his support and to @uccresearch.bsky.social Future Humanities Institute too #IrishKeywords

Please do share far and wide. We are committed to supporting PGRs through the entire process of submitting work and getting it published. Since taking over as Editor of English this has been one of my core commitments, and I will happily field any queries you might have about submitting your work.

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky

Last one spot left for tomorrow!

Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!) We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians

From editor Charles Mundye's article on A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems by Lynette Roberts. Read in full here: open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

This week from the archive: 'A Letter to the Dead (A lost poem in memory of Dylan Thomas)' by Lynette Roberts, published in PN Review 220, November - December 2014. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP... (in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)

On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where @francescabrooks.bsky.social and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems. Find out more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...

This week's Substack: an excerpt from Francesca Brooks' article 'A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts', published in our recent PN Review 285, September - October 2025. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

A terrific selection here. Includes one poem and a mention of the newly expanded collected Lynette Roberts from Carcanet.

With a paper from the wonderful Phoebe MacIndoe (who I taught in her very first year of undergrad studies, & who continues to be brilliant!).

On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where @francescabrooks.bsky.social and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems. Find out more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...

Very sorry to be in Manchester this week & missing this - do go if you're in Cork!

This will be a very enjoyable follow up to the @carcanet.bsky.social launch event tonight. Come & explore Lynette Roberts's writing in more depth, through discussion & writing exercises led by Martin. If you sign up it's possible to join online, if getting to the MPL doesn't work!

Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely! #medievalsky modmed.hypotheses.org/8517

Excited to share that Tom Birkett together with Dr. Elisabetta Magnanti will be presenting at SAMS University College Cork to speak on the topic ‘Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings with NorseMap’ this upcoming Wednesday #ucc #norsemap #viking #heritage

On Monday 1 December at 6pm, join archivist Stella Halkyard at the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle, where she will be reading from and discussing her recent Carcanet book, Library Lives. Tickets are 'pay as you wish', and can be booked here: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/a-book...

Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with: 🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com 🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show 🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe

Next Tuesday, join us online at 7pm for the launch of A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts. Editors Patrick McGuiness and Charles Mundye will hold an evening of reading and discussion around the new collection. For information and tickets, see here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...

CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!

This book is a treat from start to finish, and the perfect Xmas gift for bookworms & archive fanatics.

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

Congratulations to @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @luiciolfi.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social and @mtu.ie colleagues including @marygalvin.bsky.social and Susan Rea of MTU Nimbus 🤩 - Minimal Curation is funded by @researchireland.ie #COALESCE

I really enjoyed my research fellowship (back in 2022). Fabulous collections, wonderful archivists and librarians, and a brilliant city. Apply if there's something you'd like to work on (I'll happily share my application materials if that would be helpful).

I really enjoyed my research fellowship (back in 2022). Fabulous collections, wonderful archivists and librarians, and a brilliant city. Apply if there's something you'd like to work on (I'll happily share my application materials if that would be helpful).

Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.