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. 🥳

reading group next week 👾 👾 twisty-chiller-462.notion.site/gunnhilde-s-...

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!

A little while ago I was interviewed by the lovely Julian Morrow at ABC Radio about my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing book ✨Book Curses✨, and it aired a few weekends ago!

Are you thinking of applying to speak at our Winter Conference? Considering coming along to take part in the activities and enjoy the panels? If you do, you'll have a lovely time. Don't just take our word for it though... Our Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!

Two weeks left to get your abstracts in for #imc2026!!! We look forward to hearing from you 🤗 @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social #skystorians #medieval #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #imc #premodernrace #cfp

CfP for Leeds IMC 2026 on Premodern Masculinities. Do join 😊 #skystorians #medieval #masculinities #genderstudies #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Join us on Monday night for our monthly online session - this time around the theme of gender. DM or email us for the meeting link!

This cast of a medieval mirror case shows the rescue of a damsel from a castle tower. Eight knights on horseback cross over a stone bridge, and underneath a rowboat is passing with four passengers (an oarsman and possibly two lovers and a musician).

The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students. Book now! 09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This was a brilliant lecture on McCaffrey's Book of Hours research. Thanks so much to MEMRN for sponsoring it. #tudors

For those who missed our July guest lecture with the brilliant Kate McCaffrey, the recording of the event is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/-kYZuADoYI0

You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!

Our PHds @hspevans.bsky.social and Nik Frenzel are organising a panel for #IMC2026 on the topic of "Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region" Please find below their #CfP - full details in the AltText! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #acadmicsky #medievalsky #skystorians

All this hot weather is making me miss our misty medieval weekend at the inaugural MEMRN conference in Norwich last year 🧙 good thing we have another one coming up soon... 🥰🥰

We’re delighted to announce the two speakers for our upcoming August meeting! Join us at 6pm BST Monday 25th August to hear Chandini Jaswal and @margeryksbabe.bsky.social present their research. Members of our mailing list receive the meeting link beforehand, otherwise email or DM us to attend.

Have you sent an abstract in for our Winter Conference yet? This event gives PGRs a relaxed and supportive space to share work-in-progress and meet like-minded researchers. What are you waiting for!? Come and join us in November in Norwich!

ICYMI - We're having a conference! Get your abstracts in for this supportive and relaxed PGR conference hosted in the beautiful city of Norwich! Proudly sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

ooh MEMRN, we've got some exciting news for you all coming this week... 👀 Stay tuned for a big announcement!

A powerful blog post from one current Dundee University Humanities PhD student on postgraduate study during a time of huge uncertainty at the university sgsahblog.com/2025/07/03/p... #AcSky

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Are you an early-career historian with a love for radical, public history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

I wrote about one instance of this phenomenon here! (With help from the lovely community of online medievalists!) A case that arose from an article that's useful for teaching, so I tried to write a response that's also useful in teaching...

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

Our July meeting, with guest speaker and Tudor legend Kate McCaffrey, is tonight at 6pm BST! Make sure you’ve got your meeting link handy (or drop us an email to receive it) to hear all about her research into the Books of Hours of powerful figures at the Tudor court. You won’t want to miss it!

Our Tudor bonanza of a July meeting, with the amazing Kate McCaffrey, is only three days away! Makes sure to keep your meeting link handy (or drop us an email if you’d like to attend) for 6pm BST on Monday. We can’t wait to hear about Kate’s research and we’re sure you can’t either - see you there!

🚨Call for presenters🚨 MEMRN is looking for one additional presenter for our upcoming meeting on Monday 25th August. Presentations are online, last roughly 20 minutes plus an informal Q&A from our community. Presentations are welcomed from any field of MEMs studies, and WIP research is encouraged!

Woman's stays and busk of watered pink silk, probably Dutch, 1660-1680 (V&A Museum, London)

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

It's been less than a week since #IMC2025 finished and already our #IMC2026 Padlet page is being filled with so many Call for Papers.😁 Visit the link tinyurl.com/IMC2026Padle... to view sessions and roundtables which want your abstracts! 🎉 Email us your CfP's at [email protected] #Medievalsky

☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): The Orkney Witchcraft Memorial in Scotland. This memorial is located at Gallows Ha, where the victims of the witch hunts in Orkney were executed from 1594-1708. The exact number of victims is unknown due to missing records, although it is estimated to be around 70.

ICYMI yesterday - we've got an absolute belter of a session coming up for our July monthly meeting! Please share widely with all your Tudor and book-loving friends. MEMRN events are free and open to everyone! Proudly supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

We could not be more excited to share this month’s MEMRN guest lecture with you! This month we’re welcoming friend of the network and all-round Tudor crowd-pleaser, the utterly brilliant Kate McCaffrey, to speak on her research into the Books of Hours of powerful figures at the Tudor court.