We are now open for booking for our London International Palaeography Summer School! We offer both beginner and advanced courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies. Discover more and reserve your spot here: buff.ly/WP2GKLD #Palaeography #Manuscripts

This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.

Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP “The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past” olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/

Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Officially got my silly little hat!

Went to York Minster today and spent quite a bit of time in the chapter house.

I'm back in York for my graduation, and it feels like coming home.

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies. 🖊️ Apply by 14 July

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free? Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods. Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

Join us at York Festival of Ideas for A Day Out With the Vikings on Saturday 7th June. We’ll discuss viking festivals past and present, and have a live stream from a Viking ship on the Mediterranean! #vikingsky #publicvikings yat.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...

HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump. Watch live here:

In case anyone in Edinburgh is free on Tuesday and wants to come listen to me chat about ways of tackling multilingual narratives, the impact of adaptation, and the (surprisingly contemporary) dynamics of medieval gender politics in very strange texts, here's your chance!

This was an amazing rally to be at! It definitely renewed my hope that the people are ready to stand against what is happening.

These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists. They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies. So they want to kill all that.

🚨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!

Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Application deadline: February 24, 2025 Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

Trans people have always existed and that there are people who are actively working on recovering and interpreting those histories. I've just added a couple of folks newer to Bluesky, so check out the starter pack again in case there's anyone you're missing. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈💾 🏳️‍🌈🎓

This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31 Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Interested in women, religion and networks? Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded people!! The CfP for the #H-WRBI annual conference is out. Deadline: 31 January

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

If you are interested in Old English, Old Norse and Viking Studies at MA level, please come and join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT for a virtual information event. More here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/pros...

I'm definitely going to read one of these articles.

Slowly putting together the syllabus for my Women in Medieval Europe class that I will be teaching this spring semester, and I must say... I am very excited. ❤️ Hopefully, the students are as enthusiastic as I am for learning about medieval women. 🙏🏼

Wonderful news! I am excited to announce that I have accepted a position as Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. I am thrilled that I can continue teaching medieval history in higher education and hope to continue for many years.

Apply now for Virginia Ramey Mollenkott award for best academic paper in LGBTQ religious history lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/vrm-award

Fancy doing a PhD on the archaeology of medieval Europe, c. AD 400-1500 at Oxford? Scholarship available here: www.stx.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-son...

Great news—we’ve got a new dedicated feed for royal studies on BlueSky! Follow this account for updates on the Royal Studies Network, the Royal Studies Journal, the Royal Studies podcast and the Kings & Queens conference series! 👑

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

My work buddy today. ❤️

Happy Halloween!