A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.

Our #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 @royalholloway.bsky.social is now open! More details: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

After the reveal of the #IMC2027 Special Thematic Strand 'Communities', we now have a #IMC2027 Padlet Page! 🎊 Any session Organisers who want to advertise their 2027 Call for Papers, email [email protected] with your CFP and we will add it to the Padlet! 🙂 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Hey, #medievalsky - I just launched Compilatio ( oldbooks.humspace.ucla.edu/index.html ), a quick-and-dirty site that assembles completely digitized #medieval #manuscripts (mostly from UK repositories) in one convenient location. Check it out, and do let me know what you think.

I'm especially excited for #IMC2026 because this year I'm part of the @imc-leeds.bsky.social team! I look forward to seeing everyone in July!

#IMC2026 PDF Programme and January Newsletter is available on the IMC Website!🎉🎉 Go and read about your involvements in IMC 2026, registration details, exciting exhibitors, events, excursions, and keynote lectures! #IMC2026 is all starting to become very real now!🎊 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Ready to level up your birdwatching? 😎 Here’s another 10 birds to keep an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch... From colourful Jays to stealthy Sparrowhawks, who have you spotted on your patch before? PS - Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

If you’ve got an itch to develop your creative practice across page, stage and screen - then we have a brand new MA programme that might just interest you. Come & learn with my colleagues & I in beautiful York! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

A very remarkable woman indeed. More here, including the moving "tombmates" inscription for Gurney and her partner (her word) Sarah-Maria Buxton. (Quakers: rarely constrained by other people's ideas of what shape life should be...) queernorfolk.com/news/anna-gu...

University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

I am pleased to say that on 18 December I passed my viva with @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social. Thank you to my examiners, Prof Jim Watt and Prof Joanne Parker, for a lively and engaging discussion! Thank you also to my supervisors Dr Emma Major and Prof Matt Townend for their support and guidance.

'Best Medieval Recipe' goes to Ellen Gallimore (English PhD) for their Anglo-Saxon hearth cakes.

Not in the programme yet but hoping to participate at #IMC2026? Our Late Call for Proposals is now live! Find sessions looking for papers, and timeslots available for late session proposals here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/lat... #Medieval #Medievalsky #Skystorians

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...

If you have students interested in an extremely trans- and interdisciplinary PhD in humanities, check out our new PhD in Magic: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...

📣 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies scholarships 📣 We are delighted to announce that we will be awarding two MA scholarships for the 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies cohort. Full details can be found on the CMS website: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu... Spread the news!

Make sure you book a late train home on Thursday to be able to see all three panels on Old English in the 19th Century at #IMC2026!

Postgraduate Symposium 2026, ‘New Directions for Church History: Theories, Frameworks and Concepts’ Date: Monday 30 March 2026 Location: Online only Abstract deadline: 19 December 2025 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium... #SkyStorians #CfP #History

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Join our Committee! 🎉 We're looking for a new conference secretary. Applications, comprising a CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience should be made by 30 January 2026 to the EHS President, Professor Sara Parvis ([email protected]). ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/vacancies/

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Up to 6x 2026-29 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships in Humanities, University of Oxford. Come join our thriving research community for a postdoc in New Testament! Deadline 9 December; contact a senior Faculty mentor ASAP to discuss. nt4ox.link/Leverhulme26

BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us

One of my favorite conferences, the Kentucky Philological Association, has opened submissions for the 2026 conference! If you're nearby, consider submitting an abstract--it's wonderfully supportive. Goes double if you are a student. www.thekpa.org

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

CFP for "Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present," 15 – 16 June 2026 that forms the latest @menysnoweballes.bsky.social exciting series of events and publications on this theme. Deadline 14 February 2026! Details are included on the link below. 🎉 www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

Doing a presentation on my thesis for the @yorkmedieval.bsky.social postgraduate research forum and one of my historians doesn't have a known image, so he's now Mr Collins.

The British Academy invite applications for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The scheme aims to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

I picked up my bound thesis from the printers today. After taking a few weeks to not think about it, it's time to dive back in before the viva. I'd appreciate any advice on how to productively and proactively engage with my thesis! What have other people found useful or wish they had done?

CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic 23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December #litcrit #fantasy fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC! my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

Bonjour, fellow medievalists! I'm very pleased to announce a conference on Beowulf next March at the @cema-su.bsky.social Sorbonne. I have the honour of joining Francis Leneghan in giving one of the keynotes. Link below has the CFP and registration info, please spread the word! cemasorbonne.org

While I love bringing extra materials to class for my students to engage with, I think my back would love it if I hadn't chosen to walk four kilometres to campus carrying the biggest book I own.

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

The Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2026-2027. The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.

New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.

Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

With our partner @jsps_sns, we invite applications for the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2026. The scheme offers early career and postdoctoral researchers the chance to conduct collaborative research in Japan. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3WQ14Jw

Behold! A new prize of £500 for early career scholars of medieval church history (incl Crusades) @medievalists.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @nicmorton.bsky.social

CCASNC will return on 21 February 2026! We hope to see you there!

4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

My icebreaker for my class is ready to go.

Submissions are now open for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026! 📅Deadline: 12:00 midday (GMT) 1st December 2025 📝6,500-8,000 word essay 👩‍🎓Open to graduate students and those who have graduated from a higher degree in the last 3 years 🏆£500 Read more on our website: mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize