An amazing find! Gifted very kindly a copy of Marjorie Chibnall's Anglo-Norman England - and contained within is a letter from Chibnall herself to the book's owner, Michael Clanchy, thanking him for a recommendation 📖 What a rare treat! #medievalsky

Morning in tbe garden with this barnstorming, trailblazing book by Elisabeth van Houts. Run, don't walk, etc. @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Home after a typically exhausting, but inspiring IMC - my tenth year attending. Particularly in this dark moment for the discipline (and UK HE) there is something especially wonderful about being part of passionate conversations on topics as diverse... 19th century German historiography...

Anyone happen to know lawyers who specialise in health insurance (esp. Bonn/Cologne) and who might offer free consultation? My private health insurance company contacted me to claim that I lied to them 2 years ago, to terminate my insurance immediately and to refuse to pay c. 4000 euros owed.

Very much looking forward to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week where @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I have organised two panels on the Transformation of Political Culture in the High Middle Ages following on from the conference held in the @dependencybonn.de last year. We hope to see you there!

First-gen and second-gen from a different age (Stubbs and Maitland as discussed by James Campbell)

Dr. James M. Harland, Postdoctoral Researcher at the BCDSS, contributes to the July 2026 "Head to Head" in History Today: "How did the English Arrive in Britain?" buff.ly/ryhKjG8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

#Chance | PhD Prize of the German Historical Institute London. German & British history | London | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... @ghilondon.bsky.social #jewishstudies #jewsky #GermanHistory Deadline: July 31, 2026

Lovely quote (Stuart Jenks). Think about it a lot, when ecnouraging students to dive into a seemingly dry topic. "Alles oberflächlich betrachtet ist schlicht langweilig."

Struggling to parse this. Exeter is celebrating its overall global ranking to 136th, comprised (it reports) of 151st (Natural Sciences), 131st (Life Sciences & Medicine) and 76th (Arts & Humanities) while announcing plans to make 25% of Arts & Humanities staff redundant. Does this compute?

Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!

New book coming from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social , ed. by @marcusmeer.bsky.social and me: a starry international cast of contributors exploring image-breaking in medieval politics and society (as well as religion) - a big, neglected topic with much to tell us. boydellandbrewer.com/book/iconocl...

The last three days were successively Germany's three hottest days of all time.

For reasons, I have been calculating gender ratios for German professors of ancient history today. Turns out that 13% of chairs in Ancient History in Germany are held by women, less than in engineering (17%). That compares to 30% of chairs in Germany overall, and 44% in the Humanities.

The Angevin World, 1154-1204 edited by Stephen D Church, Laura Cleaver and Matthew Strickland offers fresh perspectives on how we understand the complex nature of the Angevin lands. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/F693EmF #BookSky @laurajcleaver.bsky.social

Mein erstes Buch 😱 für alle, die mehr über volkssprachige Urkunden, Formelsprache und female agency bei Bildung und Urkundenerstellung im 13. Jahrhundert wissen wollen! #charterrific doi.org/10.3813/9783777636115

🚨 If you missed my sold-out talk on the Bayeux Tapestry in Bristol back in April, you’ll get another chance in Oxford on 17 June courtesy of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social! Do join us and help spread the word! 🚨

1. Colleagues from History and Islamic studies have organized an exhibition in Bruges on the city's Connected Worlds c. 900-1500. It's marvelously organized and will share other highlights later. Just want to focus on this gem which had several Medievalists and myself in thrall tinyurl.com/49f82xbk

From a lecture on Die deutsche Königswahl by Prof. Dr. Stuart Jenks (in turn stolen from somewhere on the internet). Superb. Thinking about Verfassungsgeschichte explained via children's toys and I knew I had once thought of a parallel somewhere...

Pleased to see my first publication auf Deutsch is now online: a review of James Barnaby's Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century for Deutsches Archiv data.mgh.de/databases/da...

Our next seminar will be this Wednesday, 20 May, with Hannah Boston (@hannah-boston.bsky.social) speaking to us on 'Charters and ideas of property in England, 1000-1200'. All welcome, but please register in advance as usual! IHR Wolfson Room NB.02, 5.30pm.

Zum 01.10.2026 suche ich eine*n WiMi (m/w/d) an meiner Bochumer Professur — 65 % E13, 3 Jahre, mit eigenem Promotionsprojekt, 3SWS Lehre im Fach Geschichte. Interesse an Promotion zu transmediterranen Verflechtungen oder 'globalem' Mittelalter? Bewerbt euch (bis 31.5.) oder teilt gern weiter 👇

📢 The BCDSS invites applications for 3 Doctoral Positions/PhD (65%, TV-L E-13, for 4 years) from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 ℹ️ For all details regarding the application documents and process, please see here: buff.ly/t0fVXcb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Gerne möchte ich alle Interessierte im Raum Bonn zu meiner Antrittsvorlesung kommenden Mittwoch ab 09:15 einladen.

Chuffed to see this out. Very grateful to Jonathan Lyon and Simon MacLean for the opportunity to take part in this volume. Rightly dedicated to a scholar who, a decade ago, sat in the Ship and Castle patiently listening to me both enthuse and rant about the very text translated here

The great historian of Late Antiquity Averil Cameron, who has died, reminding us that class matters alongside gender in British society wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Ever more pertinent alas. Happy Easter to my friends who celebrate it

Non est hic, sed surrexit (Lk 26:4). Bernward Doors, Hildesheim.

When I worked in a Co-op our security guard was let go (staff told to 'take security into their own hands') and a friend threatened with a knife for stopping someone stealing a coke. The security tags were turned off as the noise otherwise would be endless. That was pre-2010. This is unsustainable.

An article last year claimed that tree-ring data shows a link between drought and late Roman conflicts such as the "Barbarian Conspiracy" of 367. We show problems with such claims and appeal for interdisciplinary palaeoclimatic research to respect historical method. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am pleased to share that I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write “The End of Roman Britain and the Arrival of the Saxons,” which I have been approached to write by the editors of their series “Cambridge Elements in the Late Antique World”.

The IHR's guide to its Monumenta Germaniae Historica collections (@monumenta.bsky.social) is a superb introduction for students of medieval German and European history. #medievalsky

We are thrilled that the important research carried out by Julia Hillner, Pia Wiegmink and Jamie Wood is making waves!🥳 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-...

More on the new digital heritage trail around Roman Bonn from @unibonn.bsky.social 's press release (sadly, in German only) www.uni-bonn.de/de/neues/dig...

#swbinfo Warnstreik am Freitag, 6. März Busse und Bahnen bleiben am Streiktag im Depot, betroffen sind auch die Nachtbusse. Der Busverkehr kann durch Subunternehmen in Teilen aufrechterhalten werden. Die Fahrpläne veröffentlichen wir schnellstmöglich.

Just published! Our special issue of JOLCEL (@relicsresearch.bsky.social), 'Tangling with the Classics: Rethinking Reception in the Middle Ages'. Feat @maryhitchman.bsky.social, Paul Vinhage, @ivowolsing.bsky.social, Philippa Byrne, Ramani Chandramohan & Alfred Hiatt jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26787/...

Pleased to see this is out and very proud to be featured alongside some truly superb colleagues classiques-garnier.com/pensee-polit...

"ratio of chinese to Indian restaurants near military bases" good grief, that's literally a bit from a 1970s BBC sitcom youtu.be/oJ-9R6NCZ0A?...

Awful, awful news. St Peter's has lost a great historian and the students a wonderful teacher. I only met Stephen a few times, but on each occasion he was remarkably generous, warm, and insightful (including during two interview occasions that he managed to turn into real fun). Just devastating.

Das Programm für unser diesjähriges Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (19.–20.3.2026, Innsbruck) ist da: fobim.hypotheses.org/forum-2026. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, alle Infos auf der verlinkten Seite. #medievalsky #skystorians

Sad news. While I disagreed with much of what he wrote in his later years, Fried was a true scholar and stylist, from whose work I always benefitted (esp when I disagreed with it).

I still miss doing A-Level Physics past papers (not a sentence I ever dreamed I would write). Something about the finality of the 'correct' or 'incorrect' answers...

Reminder: the deadline for proposals for the panels @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I are running on high medieval political culture is next Tuesday! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions

This is basically the range of the emotions that you experience if you catch a train from Cologne to Berlin. You will live all of this in the space of four hours.

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

Been meaning to post this for a while but, as some of you already know, I heard in May that I was successful in applying for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. After what had been a very difficult year, I am enormously grateful to the Stiftung for their support

I’m not saying this is a cover up for Otto I coming back from the dead. I’m just saying that if the Holy Lance in Vienna goes missing we’ll know why.

In the run up to Leeds, I am indeed feeling quite chicken-like today (from Carlo Ginzburg's 'Our Words, and Theirs A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today')

From Björn Weiler's cousin Jens. Do feel free to share the photos with those who will wish to see them. The phrase we used was a favourite one of Matthew Paris as Björn had examined in some detail. We hope he would have found it fitting.

Does anyone happen to have a pdf. of Nigel L. Ramsay and Margaret Sparks' 'The cult of St. Dunstan at Christ Church, Canterbury' in St. Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult pp. 311-323? Would be very grateful for a copy!