We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

CFP: Sowing the Seeds VIII: a Workshop for Early Career Medieval Economic and Social Historians × 13th Annual Conference of the Research Group for Late Medieval Economic History 5–6 Nov 2026. The conference theme is political economy, broadly interpreted. Full details: www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...

For the lovers of women's sports out there, I'll be playing in an exhibition game for the British University Ice Hockey Association's International All Star team against Team GB University. Puck-drop at 16:40 at Ice Sheffield, but it should also be streamed on the BUIHA Youtube channel.

I'm looking for suggestions for British novels 1800-60 which discuss tithes or church finances more broadly. Any leads would be most welcome! I'm assembling a reading list for myself for preliminary research for a possible future project.

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'The Dispersal of the Cotton Collection' - British Library & University of Birmingham www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline for student applications: 10 May

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest

📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE EXTENSION ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm on the 30th April 2026. 💻 Members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post are encouraged to apply. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE @unileiden.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

Calling all #historians 🚨 Our Summer Conference on 'The Church and Race' is now open for paper submissions. It will be held in London on 13-15 July 2026 at Royal Holloway, University of London. ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

📍 Manchester city centre ⏰ 17.5–21 hours per week (0.5–0.6 FTE) 💷 £32,000 pro rata 📄 10-month fixed-term contract 🗓 Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 13 April Full details and candidate pack available here: www.theportico.org.uk/vacancies

So lucky to be a part of this lovely team!

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

📢 Call for applicants! We are delighted to announce the SIMS-CSMC Fellowship, set up with our colleagues @sims-mss.bsky.social. It supports innovative approaches to the study of manuscripts and includes time at SIMS in Philadelphia and at CSMC in Hamburg. Apply by 1 May 2026! More info:

I certainly wasn’t expecting this article in the Guardian on the Milan fashion week to have a final section on Sutton Hoo

Don't forget to submit a paper proposal for our Summer Conference held in London, 13-15 July 2026. Plenary speakers include President Miri Rubin (@qmul.bsky.social), Prof Herman Bennett (@cuny.edu) & Rev Rowan Williams (104 Archbishop of Canterbury) ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

#CfP 'Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World' 13-14 July 2026, St John’s College, @durham.ac.uk With Keynotes by Dr Natalie Goodison (Durham), Dr Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) and Professor Stuart Carroll (York) @durhammemsa.bsky.social

📢 TOEBI Conference Grants 2026 #medievalsky ‼️ 💻We are now accepting applications from #TOEBI members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences. ‼️ Deadline: 5pm on the 31st March 2026. 📲 Details: www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g....

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

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Like Old English, dictionaries, and/or nineteenth century scholarship? Save the date for an online event celebrating Joseph Bosworth and his Old English dictionary. Register (free!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 Job Opportunity: Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in European History at #UCLA! The UCLA Department of History seeks applicants for a 2-yr Postdoctoral Scholar. Please apply or share with anyone who might be a great fit! 🗓️ Review begins: Apr 1, 2026 🔗Details & application ⬇️ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10862

Just registered to attend this. The programme looks incredible! Looking forward to it immensely.

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

#Medievalsky we'd love to hear from you if you're working on Yorkshire in some capacity! The event is free, and will take place on 19th and 20th June - so a (hopefully) sunny trip to York could be on the cards!

Join us (in person or online) on 3 March to hear my thoughts on some of the best images in the 'vie de Colette'! (This is absolutely an excuse for me to talk about demons).

ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

Towards a Literary History of Old English Prose with speaker Professor Francis Leneghan. This lecture foregrounds the richness of Old English prose, exploring its role in the emergence of Engla lond as an ‘imagined community’ in the long tenth century. www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...

As everyone starts thinking ahead to #IMC2026, make sure your plans include attending our three sessions on Old English in the Long 19th Century!

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Just dropped! A #CFP for a Sports Medievalism Special Iss of TSW, guest ed. by @mairistirlinghill.bsky.social! We’re seeking proposals for pieces that engage w/ the relationship between sporting culture & medieval aesthetic! Full CFP attached Deadline: 3/31 #medievalsky #academicsky #sports

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!