This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

WE ARE HIRING!! Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities. It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature. In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site. nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...

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When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

New week, Old English! Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems #LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges

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

Today at #isseme25!

Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me, chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social

Look at this beautiful book cover. That shiny lady? That’s Saint Æthelthryth. Heck yes I named my cat after her.

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

I like how “nitpicking” must date from a time when picking nits out of someone’s hair was considered needlessly pedantic

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...

June is the time for hay making in the golden sunlight. #Medievalcalendar BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

this is very beautiful and the 3D print is a masterpiece and even the bone purist in me admits that being spattered with juice from a real pig bone is not necessarily for everyone

3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...

No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

We have landed on Bluesky!

let’s go girls x

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

I continue to be amazed by what the arts & humanities contribute with so little, and disappointed by the ongoing under investment in knowledge of human societies and cultures at a time of such fragmentation.

My thruppence on the current crisis across the UK university sector: THREE cheap easy wins that the government could implement to solve the short term issue, thereby helping us discuss the long term ones. tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...

this was probably Bad Luck

this was probably Bad Luck

Today! Speaking on 'Oaths on the Edge in The Battle of Maldon and Völundarkviða' for York Medieval Literature Seminar

A detail of glass by Adam O'Grady, 2000, at Guestwick, Norfolk, installed to mark the Millennium. Two large lights feature wildlife recorded in the parish. 1/3 Guestwick: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/guestwick/gu... #StainedGlassSunday

typical book project timeline

Rembrandt, 'Pannkaks-kvinnan' (1630 - 1669)

The University of York Centre for Medieval Studies has two full home scholarships for 2025-26 for the MA in Medieval Studies: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis shows

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

OBSESSED with the Greedy Peasant's St Valentine's Day Cards for Medieval Peasants, available on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/greedypeas... www.instagram.com/greedy.peasant

Current mood in face of all that is happening is Fuller Brooch

Pretty bracing reading...

Hi! At 10am this morning on BBC Radio 4 - You’re Dead To Me tackles the legend of King Arthur, with Arthurian scholar @mareganlefay.bsky.social & comedian Mike Wozniak This is the 30 minute edit, the full 57 minute podcast is on BBC Sounds

tune in or drop by at 5.30pm for: a partially successful replica of a medieval buzz-bone; noble early medieval toddlers riding sticks as if on horseback; a feathered girl making out with a mermaid! 🧜‍♀️

wēa-gesīþ, m.n: woe-companion, a companion in misery or wickedness. (WAY-ah-yeh-SEETH / ˈweːa-jɛ-ˌsiːθ) Image: Lament over the fall of Babylon in the Douce Apocalypse; England (Westminster?), c. 1265-1270; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 180, f. 50v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

talking about play next week! 🧸

Hey #medievalsky, the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose is now on Bluesky! Follow @onpdict.bsky.social for word of the day, solution to the previous day’s wordle, and occasional updates from our team of editors. Quoted here is today’s word of the day: eirketill ‘copper kettle’ #lexicography

tag yourself, i’m the shark unable to hide doubts about the conference paper

'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.

If you are in Bristol and want to hear me talk about sex you are in luck. I will be giving a talk called "What Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law" at the CMS Research Series on 27 February from 16:00-17:45. Arts Complex Research Room 6. Yay!