Happy holidays!

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Festive times

Exciting year ahead in Kent! From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events. See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/

Absolutely amazing day yesterday at @britishlibrary.bsky.social with Knowledge Orders!

Three-year postdoc on the TGL-ReACH project emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Find yourself someone who looks at you the same way I look at my paper on Servetus. Thank you, UEA and @memrn.bsky.social for having me again this year! #phd #conference #servetus

Thrilled to be interviewed by the Timpul newspaper, one of the oldest running newspapers in Romania. Attached, a 19th c edition of it. I'll be speaking about my academic journey thus far and the key to success as a foreigner in various environments. #newspaper #research #phd

You’re almost out of time to sign up for virtual attendance at our Winter Conference… because it’s almost here! Get yourself over to our website to check out the full schedule, or sign up using the Eventbrite registration link found below. You won’t want to miss these three days of exciting panels!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next week! I'll talk about Servetus' Christianismi Restitutio and the possibility of a Transylvanian copy surviving the 16th century via Giorgio Biandrata ⚔️📚

Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Hever Castle and surroundings.

You're gonna be popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to the Deans, I'll show you what methods to use, how to frame your views, Everything that really counts to be popular! I'll help you be popular! You'll hang with the right cohorts, you'll be good at grant reports #halloween

I just watched Dracula A Love Tale and I am deeply obsessed. This was a gorgeous film with an intoxicating story. I may never recover 🖤

⤷ Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)

Whoops #1 - Dracula A Love Tale. Whoops #2- Balling like a baby. Loved it.

Dracula: A Love Tale is cinematically beautiful. I’m only 25 minutes in and I’m in love 🥰

It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France. Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!

Is there some sort of thing going around those who teach Latin in universities? I keep on hearing bizarre things about them as opposed to the praises I always hear about those teaching ancient Greek... #eveningmeditations

Majestic Cluj.

From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

So excited with the Renaissance Skin book launch! Are you getting the book? I sure am!

Grab your Transylvanian medieval fashion right here! Bonus: weapons may be included if you're an early bird 😜 St Michael parish church, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Currently writing about its Unitarian phase trying to reconstruct the interior... #cluj #stmichael #medieval #gothic

My academic #ShadowCV includes, * unsuccessfully applying for way too many permanent jobs, * working at 5 universities, and nowhere tenure-tracks were available, or installed after me, or for others only, * too much time spent on trains working the laptop, * never had a contract longer then 3 years

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

It was a privilege to talk about the radical C17th women in my book with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for Not Just the Tudors. We had a brilliant and wide-ranging discussion about a Yorkshire maidservant who met the sultan of the Ottoman Empire … and much more! shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

Foreigners: Cluj seems like a new city. Meanwhile, ancient Roman Cluj people:

I've been reminded that this happened 2 years ago for my MA philosophy title 🫶

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

So happy to meet again with my amazing diva friend, Vienna-based soprano Rodica Vica, and listen to her concert at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London 🙌💝

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies? Join us on the 8 October to find out more. @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social bit.ly/41UPOyG

Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Melc melc codobelc 🐌🐌 Moving is always another type of fun.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬

Train read. Servetus' life is so mind blowing the more you look into it 😵

The Trust is pleased to invest £15.5 million in supporting early career researchers. Projects funded this year include unifying glacier sliding theory to improve global sea level rise projections, and women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Read more👉 tinyurl.com/year566p

We've been such a lovely group and I'm so grateful for all the friendships I managed to form during the week of the summer school. Thanks again to the chairs, Marion Romberg & Mona Garloff, but also to the group leaders Adinel C. Dinca and Martin Holly + the organizers.

Some highlights of our summer school trip to Alba Iulia where I became an unexpected translator for the team 🫶🤣

Today's highlight! e-Cost Action Summer School. Turning a New Leaf: Unexplored Central European Bookscapes 1400-1800 in Cluj

It's been a pleasure to join this!

Friends: "it's a casual outing, don't be extra" Me:

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Sânziene luminoase! Photos by Patricia Marina Toma.

Showing my face here after a hectic while. It's been a pleasure to give a quick paper at Queen Mary during the 2nd Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe. I focused on *shocked face* anti-Trinitarians in Cluj/Kolozsvar/Klausenburg #unitarians #unitarianism #earlymodern

Room with Scottish view.

There's still time to join the London Palaeography Seminar's final meeting of this academic year here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/corpu... Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, w/ @markfaulkner24.bsky.social & @elimagnanti.bsky.social

Now that my first research trip is over, I wanted to share that I've decided to donate some archival equipment to the Cluj Regional Archives for the use of future researchers like myself. Hopefully the donation will reach them soon 💗 #youarethechange #donation #archives

On 20 May, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting an afternoon commemoration of the life, work and legacy of Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA. Booking for this event is now available bit.ly/4cwX1ZW. Jinty was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-04) #skystorians 1/2