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

Call for Papers! A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century Deadline 31 December 2025 voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

The best kind of writing feedback is excitement from your friends! Thanks to @mckeagns.bsky.social for reading my thesis' tithes chapter.

Can anyone tell me if the Institutio Canonicorum (Rule of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)) of 816 is definitely not the same thing as the Statuta (First Capitulary) of Gerbald of Liège? I'm two-ish weeks out from my thesis submission and do not have the time to go on a deep-dive for a footnote.

We are now welcoming papers for the EHS online Winter Meeting on the theme 'Creeds, Councils and Canons'. Meeting: Saturday 10 January 2026 Proposal Deadline: Friday 31 October 2025 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me... #churchhistory #skystorians

We are supporting applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Submit your internal expression of interest by 10 November 2025 – selected applicants must complete the full application to the Leverhulme Trust by 19 February 2026. More info: www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

This is useful. Negative parallelisms and rule of three are clear markers for me. (Not once, but repeatedly throughout a short piece of writing.)

Deadline tomorrow (1 Sept)!

Deadline for abstracts is tomorrow! Join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social for #IMC2026, bringing the nineteenth century to Europe's largest conference for medieval studies.

Manchester Medieval Quarter Festival 📅 Sat 27 Sept ⏰ 11am-4pm 📍 Chetham's Library 🎟 Free – No booking required Be thrilled by keen-eyed birds of prey, entranced by historical re-enactors, and entertained by lively performers – plus stalls, a medieval fashion show and tournament!

Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky

Just over one week left to submit your abstracts! Come join @rafletcher.bsky.social, Dr Thijs Porck, and me at #IMC2026 talking about "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century".

The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026 Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026 Updates & CfP announced: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-... [Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]

"Your focus will be the following Power and the People topics: King John and Magna Carta, Simon de Montfort and the origins of Parliament, and the Peasants’ Revolt."

#CFP for our session “Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region” at Leeds International Medieval Congress #imc2026 !!! Please share with anyone who may be interested! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #medievalsky

#CFP: "Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment" Conference (Tennyson Society and Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK, 14-17th July 2026) Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026 Info: tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202... #envhum #ecocriticism #ecolit #environment

Call for Papers (deadline: 1 September, 2025): 'Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century' (IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026) @imc-leeds.bsky.social

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Archbishop Matthew Parker was born #OTD in 1504. He left the bulk of his collection to @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social but in 1574 gave us 100 books, including this new edition of the Gospels in Anglo Saxon type (1571). The notes are by Abraham Wheelock, first Cambridge Professor of Arabic. CUL 1.24.9.

🧵(1) Born #OTD 1775, Daniel O'Connell. Known by supporters as 'The Liberator', O'Connell was considered the leader of Ireland's Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century, and 'by far the most prominent Irishman in the Commons' from 1830. buff.ly/eBmk09B

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September

CfP @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026: New Studies in Old Norse Hagiography Session Jointly Sponsored by the Norse Hagiography Network and the Viking Society for Northern Research Deadline: August 24. [Alt text in thread]

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.

I don't care that it was a foundational work in manuscript studies, I hate using Humfrey Wanley's catalogue with the fire of a thousand suns.

📣 We're hiring! MUP are looking for a Marketing Coordinator to elevate our Academic History lists. ➡️ Marketing/publishing experience ➡️ Interest in History & Art History ➡️ Passionate about delivering multi-pronged campaigns Full-time, hybrid role in MCR, £26,444-£29,605 tinyurl.com/bdfxz77f

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August. Please share with ECRs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish ⏰Reminder: Submission deadline: 1st August 2025‼️ 📜New Directions in Old English Prose 📲Details: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer... 🏫University of Oxford 📅30-31 March 2026

So it looks like the University of York's own hideous website redesign is part of a sector-wide competition for the ugliest, most useless, and most meaningless 'branded' websites.

🌟 We're looking for an Assistant Production Editor to join our team! 🌟 This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate looking for an entry-level role in #publishing. Find out more 👉 buff.ly/93dqb6h #publishingjobs #workinpublishing

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

#CFP for ##IMCLEEDS 2026. Looking for scholars who are interested in the relationship between bodies and time. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #IMC2026 #IMC2025

Bursary applications for #IMC2026 are now OPEN!!! 🎉 The deadline is Wednesday, 15 October 2025 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1) All the details on the criteria and supporting statements can be found here on our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

It's been less than a week since #IMC2025 finished and already our #IMC2026 Padlet page is being filled with so many Call for Papers.😁 Visit the link tinyurl.com/IMC2026Padle... to view sessions and roundtables which want your abstracts! 🎉 Email us your CfP's at [email protected] #Medievalsky

We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share! www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

In usual IMC fashion, now that #IMC25 has concluded we are searching for papers exploring New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora. Please get in touch if you are interested and share widely! #IMC26 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it! I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun! A 🧵👇 1/9

I had such a wonderful time at #IMC2025! If anyone is starting to formulate medievalism CFPs, let me know! I promise I won't use "antidisestablishmentarianism" on a slide again, unless that's the session theme you're going for.

Survey deadline extended to 13 July www.nationalchurchestrust.org/survey

Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?

OPPORTUNITY 📯 Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham! Deadline: 3 September 2025 More details at durhamcollections.org.uk

This is tomorrow! Get a good night's rest after the #IMC2025 disco so you can join us bright and early for nineteenth-century medievalism.

🎉 Congratulations to John Bulaitis joint winner of this year's British Agricultural History Society Thirsk Prize for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History with his book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936! @braghs.bsky.social buff.ly/s4AUf6P

Have made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social - if you're following me here, come and say hello if you see me! (Also, obligatory self-promotion: I and my excellent colleagues are speaking on Thursday if you are interested in the 19th-century reception of Old English.)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval History- University of Exeter - Department of Archaeology and History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT434/p...