Did you know that you can now find MEMRN on LinkedIn? We saw so many of you over there and thought we’d come and join in the fun! Head over there and say hi! If you’re not sure where else to find us, use the linktree below or in our bio to get all the info: linktr.ee/chasememrn

Just found this post 😊 - the photos were made last year, when I had the luck of giving a paper on the CHASE MEMRN Winter conference and meeting many wonderful people (some included in these photos). ✨️

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

If you are into sagas and poetry our next seminar is for you. Sign up to attend online: forms.office.com/e/ngg1zukWH3 More details at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #poetry #sagas #orkney #shetland #icelandic #northernisles #vikings @judithjesch.bsky.social @ragnasislands.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended our last monthly meeting of 2025 last night! It's been another brilliant year. The MEMRN team will now take a festive break before returning with a fresh new programme of events for you in February 2026!

Our November meeting, with guest speaker Kristen Vitale Engel, is tonight at 6pm GMT. Make sure you have your meeting link handy so you don’t miss out! MEMRN’s monthly meetings are free and open to everyone so if you would like to attend just drop us an email or social media DM!

We’ve had a conference, now it’s time for our monthly meeting! Join us on Monday 24th November at 6pm GMT to welcome an exciting guest speaker for our November meeting. Mailing list members have already received the meeting link but if you’d like to attend, drop us an email or social media DM.

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

We're so excited and honoured to have @clairejowitt.bsky.social give a keynote lecture at this weekend's MEMRN Winter Conference. If you'd like to join in online, there's still time to sign up via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

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!

Final preparations are now underway in the MEMRN team for our second Winter Conference in a few weeks time. If you’d like to beam in to any of our exceptional panels, please register via Eventbrite. All are welcome!

It's a busy month with our winter conference in a few weeks 🌨️ but we'll still be meeting as normal for our monthly online get-together on Monday 24th November. Join us to hear Kristen Vitale Engel (Southern New Hampshire University) on 'Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography' 👯👯👯

There is still time to join us online for our 2025 Winter Conference. Our panel sessions will be available to view on Microsoft Teams for free - for everybody! The full schedule is available via our website and you can register to join in via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

For those attending our Winter Conference in person, you should have received your conference delegate information packs this week via email. Any questions? Just slide into our DMs or drop us an email at [email protected]

Our October meeting is tonight! You won’t want to miss these two fantastic speakers so make sure you’ve got your meeting link handy to join us at 6pm GMT via Teams. If you’d like to attend and haven’t already got the meeting link, drop us an email or social media DM and we’ll get the link to you

Only a couple of days until our October meeting! We’re so excited to hear about the work of these two brilliant speakers - if you haven’t already got your meeting link, get in touch! Our meetings are free for everyone to attend, so why are you waiting?

The MEMRN’s Winter Conference 2025 is still available for online attendance! 14-16th Nov - guaranteed to be great 🤍

Something for the early modernists!

Don’t forget to register for virtual attendance to our Winter Conference! We’ve got three days of panels, which you can listen to from the comfort of your own home (or wherever you may be). Check out the full schedule and sign up to attend via our website: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

Lecturer in Early Modern History, Liverpool Hope University: memorients.com/news/lecture...

It’s monthly meeting announcement time! We are so excited to welcome these two fantastic speakers to present their work for our community of listeners. As always, MEMRN’s monthly meetings are free and open to all, so if you’d like to come along then simply drop us an email or social media DM!

📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable 🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30 📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams) 🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.

Our next online seminar will be on Thursday 16th October! Join us for this interdisciplinary panel to discuss working in archives and methodologies! To book your place, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

Enjoyed hearing all about the amazing events and PG degree courses at @memsunikent.bsky.social yesterday. Please share, and feel free to enquire with questions! #medieval

We are delighted to announce the full schedule for the MEMRN Winter Conference is here! Head over to our website to check out all the amazing speakers and exciting events we’ve got lined up! While you’re there, use the link to sign up for virtual attendance! memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

#throwback to the delightful evening of presenting and reconnecting with @harrygilbert.bsky.social & @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social at @memrn.bsky.social!

ICYMI the full schedule for the CHASE MEMRN Winter Conference is now available to view on our website! You'll also be able to sign up to attend the conference virtually via the Eventbrite link on our page

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Our full conference schedule is now available to view on our website! Check it out here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter... And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

Tonight is our September meeting and we have guest speaker and Tolkien legend @willsherwood.bsky.social presenting! MEMRN meetings are free and open to everyone, so come along if you’re interested! If you haven’t already got the meeting link, get in touch via email or social media DM to attend.

All prepped for this evening's free talk (6pm) with @memrn.bsky.social on 'Tolkien's Romantic Medievalism'! There's still time to get the link - contact MEMRN.

There’s less than a week until our September meeting with guest speaker @willsherwood.bsky.social! We can’t wait to hear him talk about Tolkien! Don’t forget to email or social media DM us to receive the meeting link to this free event if you aren’t already signed up - all are welcome!

Looking for a bit of Tolkien in your life? We certainly are, so we’ve got @willsherwood.bsky.social presenting at our September meeting! Our meetings are free to attend and are open to all, so if you’d like to come along simply drop us an email or social media DM to receive the meeting link.

Massive congrats to Juliet, of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, on her first publication, documenting the important corpus of bone dolls from Dura-Europos. Juliet's PhD is exploring the archaeology of childhood from the archives of the site. 🥳

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our CfP – we're delighted by your abstracts and can't wait to put the program together! Registration link coming soon ... keep yer eyes peeled 🥰🥰

What if history could be 'weightless'? Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

It's the last week of #MagnaCarta1225 & you have this Wed, Thurs & Fri left to visit! Enjoy this final chance at a unique opportunity to explore the legacy of Magna Carta (1225) & the Charter of the Forest, marking 800 years since its reissue by Henry III – the version enshrined in English law.

Book now for this one-day conference that brings together art and architectural historians from Europe and the US to discuss architectural provenance across genres, material, place and time. Learn more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/archi... 31 October, 10am - 6pm #ArchitecturalHistory #Architecture

Please do share, so that we can get the invitation out far and wide 💌💌💌

We've had some really exciting proposals so far and can't wait to put together our program once submissions close 🧙 Here's Amelia giving her paper 'Inside the Plant/Human Body in Early Modern Texts' at last year's edition 🪱

Our CfP closes tomorrow 🫀🤖💭

September Print made by Elias Holl II, Nuremberg, c. 1638. (British Museum)

Wanna hear me talk about Tolkien? I have some new hits from my PhD that I’ll be premiering NEW material from my PhD 🥳 Contact @memrn.bsky.social for free access.

We are delighted to announce our September meeting’s guest speaker, @willsherwood.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Also the Education Secretary for @tolkiensociety.org, we can’t wait to hear him present! Join us at 6pm BST on Monday 29th September via Teams. DM or email us to attend.

The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions is happily and proudly sponsoring the following session(s) on The Emotional History of the Crusades in the next International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds on 6-9 July 2026. See the attached CFP - deadline for submissions is 15 September!

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Here at MEMRN, we're very passionate about balance. In amongst the academic panels and trips to old libraries, there's always time for s sociable pint together in a creaky medieval pub! Does that sound like your kind of thing? Submit an abstract before the 12th September and come and join us!

Some pics from our previous edition! 🐍

Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for our charming winter conference 🧙 sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social Come and join us in ye olde Norwiche on the 14-16 November!