Sarah Scaife, PhD researcher at University of Exeter & University of Bristol, has had her article from the Journal of Medical Humanities included in the new National Centre for Creative Health's Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025. ncch.org.uk/resources/cr... @ncch.bsky.social

The 2026 English Department Research Seminar Series kicked off today with great talks from Dr Florian Stadler and Lauren Smith, and continues next week Dr Billie Gavurin on 'Palaeoanthropology and the Fantastical in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Literature'.

📻 Dr Laurence Publicover (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC Radio 4 #InOurTime to discuss Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social & Misha Glenny Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21wZOlR @bristolcms.bsky.social

New from Prof Ralph Pite, Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World, out now with Oxford UP:

'How do we reawaken and revive our cultural institutions and also give energy to those working with minuscule resources?' Dr Edson Burton (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) writes on Bristol's bid to become UK City of Culture 2029 for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

📺 Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC #PointsWest to discuss Hannah More, the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist and philanthropist Visit the new project website to find out more about her work and letters 👉 brnw.ch/21wZegO

We want to finish the week with some exciting news: following last year's success, the Bristol Common Press will be running a workshop at our 2026 conference too! 🎉 Can't wait!

New collection from our very own Dr Sean O'Brien @seanobrien.bsky.social, edited with Dr Madeline Lane-McKinley, The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present, from @plutopress.bsky.social. Sure to be of interest to students and colleagues alike. Available for pre-order now!

A reminder that our 8 week public course on #Crimefiction is running at #BristolEnglish from 4 February to 1 April 2026 and might still have a few places left! Click here for more information and to book: www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...

We're delighted to announce the first of our amazing keynote speakers: medieval historian, author, co-host of 'Gone Medieval' and 'We're Not So Different' podcasts, and co-creator and host of several HistoryHit TV series... Dr Eleanor Janega 🎉🎉🎉(@goingmedieval.bsky.social)! #medievalsky #skystorian

'It's a possibility that seems difficult to avoid' Prof @matthewsteggle.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) research on Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, features in a BBC article on the Oscar-tipped new film, Hamnet Read more 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way: www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...

✍️🗻 Dr @stevedehailes.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) tells us about his Medieval Mountain AHRC project which seeks to raise awareness of our historical relationship to mountains & our continued role in their preservation Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn

Next Thursday 4 Dec, Professor Ad Putter will be delivering a free lunchtime lecture at the Central Library to accompany a new exhibition of Bristol’s medieval manuscripts! Book here bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252... ‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social

🚨 Hwæt, medievalists: following its successful inauguration last year, the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School will be running again in 2026! 🚨 Please share the good news or—even better—sign up yourself: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... We're so proud of this course, and we'd love to see you! 🚨

Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email [email protected] for more info! ☺️ *Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*

For this week's CMS seminar, we are lucky enough to be joined by Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson for a paper on 'Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. We can't wait to find out more! #medievalsky #skystorians

Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social

Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections 6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB. Admission Free, All Welcome

Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm

Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833). Please follow and repost for updates!

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester! #medievalsky #skystorians

We love (haha) this review from the CMS' Prof Ad Putter!

@iancushing.bsky.social @callanjd.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk

Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.

We're very excited to be able to share this seminar online! Be sure to email Hattie to register! #medievalsky #skystorians

This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online! Contact [email protected] to register for online attendance!

Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians

Michael Kalisch on Andrew O’Hagan’s On Friendship - Book of the Day & lead review in the @newstatesman.bsky.social 📖 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies

Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians

What an amazing CMS event! We were so excited to celebrate not only Kathleen and Melek’s wonderful new book, but a bumper crop of new books from CMS members Matt Lampitt, Leah Tether, Rachael Harkes, Marianne Ailes, Adrian Ailes, Ad Putter, and Ben Pohl! 🎉🥳 Congratulations once again to all!

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year! Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after! All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

PhD student Sarah Scaife has recently published a new open-access 🔓 article in the Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Medicines of Uncertainty and Objects of Care: Creative Engagement with an Ancient ‘Folding Almanac”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋 @goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR

💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy 📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv

Bristol Balloon Fiesta took over the skies this weekend! 📸 by Dr Ronald Musto, including of the balloons rising up early on Saturday morning…

'A perceptive critical study that recognizes the power of images and the need to explain them.' Dr Laurence Publicover's (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) book, Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy, is reviewed in this week's @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

'These letters are a fascinating window into Anne’s world.' Prof @matthewsteggle.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) examination of a letter fragment which may reveal new details about the marriage of Anne & William Shakespeare is considered in NY Books www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word

Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

'Together, the pair make what they can out of the world they're left with.' Dr Noreen Masud (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Caleb Carr's new memoir, My Beloved Monster, in a new piece for @thetls.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...

A HUGE well done to the CMS' own Dr Hattie Soper for being awarded the University English Book Prize 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 What an amazing and well-deserved award; we're so thrilled for you Hattie! 🥰 You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un... #medievalsky #skystorians

We're excited to work with you @bristolunienglish.bsky.social!

We are excited to be taking part in this year’s Being Human Festival, 6–15 November. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social is the UK’s national festival of the humanities, led by School of Advanced Study with AHRC and ‪@britishacademy.bsky.social #BeingHuman2025. Find out more: beinghumanfestival.org

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