Enjoyed listening to this podcast by @rorynaismith.bsky.social on his new book about King Offa: newbooksnetwork.com/offa

Enjoyed this week’s special? 🎧 Support the author and the show by grabbing Offa: King of the Mercians by @rorynaismith.bsky.social via the History Rage Bookshop! 📚 📖 Order: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/3fa95f #History #Podcast #AngloSaxon #Medieval @yalebooks.bsky.social

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

🚨FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Before England, there was Offa👑 @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains how he dominated southern Britain 💥 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Before England, there was Offa of Mercia 👑 @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains how he shaped what came next 🏰 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Think you know Offa of Mercia? 🤯 @rorynaismith.bsky.social reveals the real story behind the myths 🏰 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 Was Offa of Mercia really the villain we’re told? ⚔️ @rorynaismith.bsky.social digs deeper 👇 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

From Pompeii to Kim Philby, Renoir to Offa of Mercia, here’s a selection of history books that will be released over the month ahead. With books from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @richardstrachan.bsky.social, @rorynaismith.bsky.social and more👇

For anyone in/near Nottingham who wants to hear about Offa of Mercia next month … checkout.square.site/merchant/MLC...

Huge thanks to @rorynaismith.bsky.social for joining me to rethink King Offa 👑🔥 More than a conqueror—think currency 💰, diplomacy 🤝, and shaping Alfred the Great. Out 10 April for the Gloucester History Festival 🎧

@rorynaismith.bsky.social's Making Money in the Early Middle Ages is an examination of coined money & its significance to rulers, aristocrats & peasants in early medieval Europe. Read a free preview & save 30% on the new #paperback edition with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I heartily recommend this new volume to all early medieval types who love a good map. Covers the period c. 400-1000.

A fragment of a Roman imperial decree or rescript from the fifth century (the only such survival?), now in Paris.

Should anyone (in Cambridge) want to hear more about Offa of Mercia ... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/offa-rory-...

Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (@department-asnc.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...

For all those interested in the early Middle Ages, economy, money, etc. Even more affordable now!

Early Medieval England and its Neighbours has had some cracking new articles published in the last week, including on movement of manuscripts in the eighth century and charter forgery at Westminster, as well as an impressive debut article on Byrhtferth of Ramsey: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

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

Stephen Baxter the Scholar: an Appreciation by Julia Smith www.history.ox.ac.uk/stephen-baxt... There's also a lot of moving tributes to him on the St Peter's webpage: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

For anyone who's interested @waterstones.bsky.social is running a special pre-order offer (no pun intended) on my new book about King Offa of Mercia, valid from Friday 20 Feb. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Many congratulations to @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social for winning the @medievalacademy.bsky.social prize for best article in critical race studies!

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in World History, 1700-1850 (Temporary Cover) University of Cambridge - Faculty of History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ490/a...

A very interesting viking (?) find from south of Cambridge: www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Some very interesting reading from @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill! academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

More very sad news for medievalists … www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/david-a...

Very grateful for this support so @jk-viking.bsky.social and I can attend a fascinating conference in Fukuoka this Spring. dajf.org.uk/news/daiwa-f...

Very sad news indeed.

The wonderful @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social has a hugely interesting new article just out in Early Medieval England & its Neighbours, all about Alfred the Great's embassy to India - free to read here #India #AlfredtheGreat #medieval www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Finally, 2026 has started properly, with a new issue of Early Medieval Europe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...

For those who want a short, sharp shock of early medieval coinage and what it can tell the historian: youtube.com/shorts/6iOzs...

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...

On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii" by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Enmeshed in marking, but just thought I'd point out that this article is now out, open access: Simon MacLean, arguing that the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious could be rather later than historians have assumed: might 'the Astronomer' be Jonas of Orleans? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

54 years and a day apart this week two Early Medieval hoards were discovered in Cheshire. The Castle Esplanade hoard of Viking silver & Anglo-Saxon pennies, AD900-950 found #OTD in 1950 & the lovely Huxley Hoard of Viking arm rings, an ingot & lead fragments found in 2004, AD850-950 📸 me & NML

For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.

Third-year ASNC students visiting the Wren Library (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social) to look at medieval manuscripts with @rorynaismith.bsky.social - many thanks indeed for being such gracious hosts!

Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto rmblf.be/2025/11/25/p...

Interested in early medieval history? Read the proceedings of the latest Dorestad conference online FREE here, including my chapter about gold and silver in Frisia after Dorestad's disappearance in the 850s. For a .pdf of my chapter, DM/email me. #medievalsky www.sidestone.com/books/dorest...

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Congratulations to the FeedSax team! You can get it in print from Nov 21st. @archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..." So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy. It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on. Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s

For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne. shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...