What can medieval England teach us about modern work-life balance? From sick leave allowances to negotiated time off, Alex Brown & @graceowen.bsky.social from @durhamhistory.bsky.social have found that medieval working life was more structured than many assume. Find out more:👉 bit.ly/3ZC7i1c

Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Are you passionate about wildlife and keen to engage local communities and young people in heathlands as part of our Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands project? Apply to be our next Project Officer! 🔗 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/jobs/project... #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

For those interested in pursuing a PhD PhD Studentship: Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for Hispanic Studies University of Birmingham - University of Birmingham, College of Arts and Law www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG221/p...

NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social. The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire. All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Very useful online resource: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, which clears up a lot of confusion when trying to parse personal and familial names, particularly from Latin sources dmnes.org #medievalsky #earlymodern

Job klaxon: Trainee Archivist at Gloucestershire Archives, from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I'm live twitch.tv/geddstation

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

Medieval bears! And medieval bees! Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky #bees #bears

St Dunstan pinching the devil Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance! All proposals to be sent to [email protected] by 17:00 on Friday 9th January. #medievalsky #skystorians

From sick leave to bereavement leave, Drs Alex Brown and @graceowen.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social have been exploring the surprising workplace benefits available in Medieval times. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Just sharing this again - a piece in @uk.theconversation.com that Alex Brown and I wrote about peasants and the surprising amount of 'sick leave' they were given in the middle ages #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...

Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Alex Brown and I have a new piece in @uk.theconversation.com - check it out! #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...

You are building a guild hall in 1357. What materials are you going to need? 60 trees from Bolton Percy for 27s. 6d., 100 oaks from Thorpe Underwood for £21, 14 tons of stone from Tadcaster and 20,000 bricks for £6 from the Carmelite Friars of York. That should keep you going!

Happy Halloween from Leeds IMS - and from the friendly bats on this cloister window from Lisbon cathdral #medievalsky #gothicarchitecture #sedelisboa #bat #Halloween

New article alert 📢! Alex Brown, Tudor Skinner and I have written about the sick leave rights of unfree peasants in Medieval England. You may be surprised by the long length of absences that were granted! Read through open access here: doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... #History #Medieval

'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)

Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

📢 #medievalsky: The #CfP for #TOEBI2025 📅Date: Saturday, 25th October 2025 📜Theme: "Education and Early Medieval England" 🏫The #TOEBI conference and annual meeting for 2025 will be held at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social ⏳Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 2nd May

Had a great time with @pampowell.bsky.social at Lincoln cathedral and castle, topped off with seeing the magna carta (meaning I have now seen all four!) #history #medievalsky

📢Academic Job Klaxon📢 Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies. Could you be one of our new colleagues? Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Spent the day at the National Archives, looking through a cartulary. I will never stop being amused by the doodles and marginalia in medieval texts #history #medievalsky

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

📣New post alert!📣 It is common to assume that unmarried mothers and their children were disadvantaged in the past - and it is true that they did have notably worse life outcomes. But why? @amrcampop.bsky.social explores some social, economic, and demographic factors. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog

Join @vchlondon.bsky.social & experts in British nonconformity, Judaism & Global Majority Evangelical church communities for this free online training session in March.

📢We are hiring 📢 We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History! 5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“ jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 Please spread widely! @econtribute.bsky.social #EconSky

I've spent a lot of time trawling through manorial accounts at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the last few weeks and it never ceases to bring me joy finding marginalia like this!

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others. Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

The full IHR #London #SummerSchool 2025 programme is now live! Join us in July 2025 as we explore London’s history through its #REBELS. 10% discount still available until 13/12/24! https://buff.ly/4fUSvVX