Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works: www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265... #MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme. The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians

In case anyone is in Edinburgh and free a week on Thursday: www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Probably the most personal thing I've ever written, about living in crip time, about precarity, and how crip scholars grinding in precarity are further marginalized by academia's timezones (and rhetoric of timeliness) #MedievalSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Writing a first book feels like screaming into the void. Beginning to write a second book feels a lot like trying to have a more reasonable conversation with the old self that was doing the screaming.

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill

Delighted and slightly emotional about this unexpected turn of events...😭 www.walpolesociety.org.uk/post/2025-be...

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happening in 3 days! ✨

Friends, looking for advice about how to look up/search for citations. Found a section of Augustine's Enarrationes in the PL & CSEL ed that is omitted from 19th cent English translation & want to know if this has affected how often it's been cited... I have Googled but there must be another way?

If you're interested in my new project on medievalism & the extreme right, you can read the first update on our blog here: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... As the project progresses, @siobhanhyland.bsky.social and I will write updates to share info & upcoming events. @errnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️

Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)

Our book launch for Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, will take place on Tuesday 23 September, NYU London & online - please do join us for an evening of discussion & celebration #medievalsky Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-an...

We're starting day 4 of the strike with Jack the cat's full support. He also says that this is a manufactured crisis because there is no deficit at the University of Edinburgh. Clever cat.

On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here's a post for those of us who have lost someone to suicide or who fear losing someone that way: rachelemoss.com/2025/09/10/o...

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

Delighted to learn that this book by Siân Echard, which I had the pleasure of reading & blurbing, is now out in the world. One of those books that takes a scholar w a hyper particular blend of skills, knowledge of different fields, & intellectual flair to write. www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

This is fascinating, "performing" is exactly it... wish I'd written more about teaching as performance & how it feels as an autistic person in my essay for our Accessible Academy vol but I wrote that at the start of my teaching fellowship & I think it was too close/scary to formulate anything then.

Congratulations to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social on the publication of her book. This launch at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social looks fabulous. It’s running as a hybrid event on 7 October. Remember to book your place!

We [almost] have a book! 📖✨🎉 @jillharrison1.bsky.social, Giovanna Guidicini and I could not be more excited to see this out in the world soon. #gettingthere www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Call for book proposals! Are you passionate about punk? 🤘 Do you have an idea for a book? 📖 Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶 More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

Many thanks to Emma @erdorfman.bsky.social for including me in this group of researchers writing letters to their first-year-PhD selves!

Join the free launch event for this brilliant book on Tuesday 7 October: register to hear from Hope and other discussants and enjoy a drinks reception at IASH! www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/book-l...

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

Happy official publication day to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social ! Her book Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire is now available and I can confirm it's a fascinating read manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Still (re)composing my first-person translation of The Phoenix in what little time remains of the summer. Thinking with and about fire as a model for creative-critical practice. What can destructive recreation do? How can we remake old poems by burning and breaking them down?

In the wild!! (i.e. on my mum's sofa)

📕This work takes a fascinating look at themes of accessibility and inclusion in relation to medieval studies — including a chapter from our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, who also co-edited the book! ⬇️ Find out more below about a hybrid book launch being held for it next month: bit.ly/3HRAM5W

Lovely picture just appeared in my inbox of me & @bryonycoombs.bsky.social with our activity 'Making Medieval Manuscripts' at #GlaSciFest back in June ✨

Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.

If you're interested in spending a virtual hour live with me every week, plus plenty of chat via discussion boards, I'm running a course on Medieval Chivalry April-June '26: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... & I've made a video to explain more! drive.google.com/file/d/1o0L0... 🗃️

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 350: Respect your readers. Think of them with affection and trust. If you think of them with contempt, resentment, or a sense of superiority, it will show up in your writing.

Thinking about an MA in History, Archaeology or Classical Studies this autumn? Last chance to apply for a scholarship at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social. The Carena scholarships are open to Archaeology applicants and the Peltz scholarships open to all. Deadline Sept 1st! www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

1/ Reading about AI because I want to understand more about why we call things AI when they are not 'intelligent' in the slightest. it might be a sophisticated automated system, but it has no context or awareness - no intelligence at all... hence all the weird mistakes it makes. This is especially..

lancasterucu.home.blog/2025/08/18/c... University management keep citing a report from KPMG to justify the cuts to staff. Lancaster UCU branch have responded with some critical analysis of the framework of the report.