An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

Anyone who’s followed me for a while will know that I love a good medieval mystic! Victoria Mackenzie’s ‘For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain’ is the story of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich; it’s concise, but incredibly vivid and moving. I loved the meeting between the two women!

It was such a pleasure to work with Susie on this post! Do check out the intriguing prompt too! 😯 And seek out Susie’s new book from Guillemot Press, WASTELANDS.

Throughout February and especially on Ireland Reads Day, February 28th, Libraries Ireland is calling on people across Ireland to get lost in a good book. It doesn’t matter what you read, where you read or how well you read, as long as you read. www.irelandreads.ie

The study of the environmental impact of hanseatic trade and is a truely novel approach. If only you feel just a tingle of interest, do it. Not only is Sander quite a sharp thinker, Ghent is a great place to be, too!

Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13: gorse.ie/book/no-12/ gorse.ie/book/no-13/ (Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

My review of the new book 'Runes: A Concise History' is out in the latest edition of the @historytoday.com magazine! The review in brief: runes are great, so is this book, and it does a good job separating runic fact from runic fiction.

if circumstances were different I would 100% be applying for this gorgeous job — maybe you should?

On a totally different subject, this brilliant article on the legacies of Rorke's Drift is also currently free to read on History Today! It was the anniversary of the battle this week.

It’s #CfP time for the Association of Welsh Writing in English: this year’s themes are Sites of Memory: Making, Remembering, Forgetting. 15th-17th May, hybrid and Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. www.awwe.org/conference.h...

Check out the CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford in Sept! Theme is ✨GENDER & CREATIVITY✨ Conf generously support by University College, Oxford; the John Fell Fund (Oxford University); the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; the GMS group; & @guildmedmak.bsky.social

One of those publications that slipped out without me noticing A contribution (amongst others) to reflections on the new Digital Bibliography of Welsh Writing in English I'm C18th-ing, but see also Charlotte Williams on Black Welsh writing, @francescabrooks.bsky.social on Welsh modernism and more!

Brilliant to see this out in the world, with so many rich and fascinating directions for pursuing Welsh writing in English! It was a pleasure to write a little intro on Welsh Modernism, and I'm looking forward to exploring other pathways.

On a totally different subject, this brilliant article on the legacies of Rorke's Drift is also currently free to read on History Today! It was the anniversary of the battle this week.

Brilliant to see this out in the world, with so many rich and fascinating directions for pursuing Welsh writing in English! It was a pleasure to write a little intro on Welsh Modernism, and I'm looking forward to exploring other pathways.

Proud and excited to present Apardjón's latest special volume. Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland is a fantastic exploration of the influences on Norse Scotland at the time of Bishop Adam. Incredible work from our guest editors and contributing authors. 💪🏻 #MedievalSky

“It should not be necessary to risk your life to demand fair treatment and just decisions. But when everyone in power has stopped listening, there are few remaining options.” – @georgemonbiot.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3Z13K8h

Tell the government to take action before it's too late ⬇️ goodlaw.social/3e3320

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....

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

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-...