We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

Do you know an aspiring historian in Year 12 at a UK state school? Encourage them to join us in Cambridge for a free History taster day on 16 April hosted by our students, staff & Fellows. Find out more & apply online by 1 April at caths.cam.ac.uk/tast.... @camhistory.bsky.social 📸 Caroline Gonda

Did you know the Catz libraries are home to >350 DVDs & Blu-ray Discs? Our Librarian Dr Colin Higgins (2018) has published a paper exploring the shift from physical to digital media consumption, arguing DVDs & Blu-ray Discs remain essential to libraries:

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

digital tools are going to change the world! btw that database you rely on no longer exists; that website you got a grant for will be gone in 3 years; have you considered doing an online edition instead?; we only do PDF review copies, For The Planet; would you like me to summarise that PDF for you?

Congratulations to our alumni elected to the fellowship & membership of @royalhistsoc.org last month: Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison (2014, English), Dr Arthur Keefer (2014, Theology), Phyllis Weliver (1993, English) & Miranda Rainbow(2018, ASNC). Learn more:

A little plug for the Adornes book, posted on another site by Brepols, so I will add it here! Brepols publishers Now Available 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲, 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 Edited by Bryony Coombs, Jill Harrison and Giovanna Guidicini

Are you a 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh? You can apply for a paid internship opportunity this summer, to work with IASH and @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social for 10 weeks. Applications due 18 March! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We are very pleased to announce today the election of 250 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members & Postgraduate Members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4kM8yZd We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org today #Skystorians 1/2

Lovely news this morning - I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)!

Students had it tough during the worst of covid. But their education continued and they were able to get their degrees, despite a global pandemic and dysfunctional government. Like 1000s of colleagues, I worked way over the odds, while dealing with domestic pressures. This action feels very cruel.

Happy almost Valentine's Day with a detail from an extraordinary survival of a pre-Reformation Scottish textile: The Fetternear Banner held by the NMS. The heart motif relates to the arms of Gavin Douglas (1474-1522) at the top of the banner, the scallop shell relates to the Graham family ❤️🐚❤️🐚❤️

#medievalsky does anyone know if there are any texts (biblical, medieval, or anything in between) about whether Judas was thought to have been born before Jesus, or the other way around? Grateful for any advice!

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

Saints Outside Hagiography starts next month! A new workshop-style series, discussing work in progress on saints in unusual sources. Come and join us ❤️‍🔥 drive.google.com/file/d/1-BPc...

There's still time to propose a paper for 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies' #BIAJS2026 as the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 February!

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/

Next week we will be running a roundtable on 'Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', co-organised by with the Scottish History Seminar. The event will take place on Tue 10 Feb, 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. All welcome!

cost of living crisis is absolutely demolishing students' capacity to study but no worries, we've funded everyone to have a go at this thing that makes you worse at learning...no you are not getting paid, the tech companies are, obviously

literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine

Tomorrow evening! Especially for early-career scholars in Jewish studies…

The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/

Flashback to a key Auld Alliance moment for me - making haggis from scratch for my in-laws in France - a mildly traumatic experience! Also an early recipe for haggis, Sloane BL MS 1986, f. 55r. Happy Burns night! #BurnsNight

*Reposted CFP with alt text* III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved London, 11-12 June 2026 Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026 Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history

Get your hands on some really great books in British & Irish Jewish studies, including Gavin Schaffer's 'An unorthodox history', Tony Kushner's 'The Jewish pedlar', a study of Jewish refugee nurses by Jane Brooks, & 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social

Thank you so much for inviting me & for all the wonderful conversations afterwards @kateai.bsky.social & @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social ✨

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions! 🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature. 📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

New articles in the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos 1) "Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social : doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1302/i... #openaccess @openlibhums.org @mosspepe.bsky.social @daisyeblack.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social

ICYMI just 133 days until Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. The committee are so excited for April and hearing all of the amazing papers. What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!

Super excited to see that the sessions that Birgit Wiedl and I organised for @imc-leeds.bsky.social have been accepted! Four panels, and a round table, considering Jews and Christians in medieval Europe!

My article 'Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome' is now published in OLHJ & available open access. Very grateful to Bettina Bildhauer, @janebonsall.bsky.social & the @7sagesresearch.bsky.social community for making this work possible. doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Final proofs off for Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. It is so beautiful! Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

I can't do a poll, but I can make an executive decision, so🥁🥁🥁 I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now... (Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

The Middle English Reading Group I set up this semester has been reading Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. For our last session of the year, a student baked excellent biscuits. Of course, we started by eating the green knight’s head!

Phew: another output for the PTAS project ✔️ A really stimulating afternoon discussing experiential learning, heritage in education, recipes, historical fashion, pedagogy & so many exciting projects currently underway. With massive thanks to @jillburke.bsky.social for a fabulous keynote✨

it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change

It somehow is always the widening participation programmes that are the ones that get cut first, that get deemed dispensable. Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Delighted to be heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a very full dance card - don’t miss Dan Reeve and I’s four sessions on queer and trans temporalities ! 🏳️‍⚧️⏰ #imc2026

Excited to be going to #IMC2026 - missed it last year & only attended one day in 2024. Would love to meet up with friends old & new!

Some photos from @bryonycoombs.bsky.social fantastic workshop, Embodied Knowledge: Experiential Learning and Manuscript Studies hosted at the Centre for Research Collections here in Edinburgh.

Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have. Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb... Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.

So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐

It's Book Launch day for Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison! Tonight she'll celebrate 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh. @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Can't find your ballot? Get another. Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance. In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history. Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1836: Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.