Completely new Purcell?! Amazing archival work here www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid. Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026. Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU Deadline 16 Jan.

Fairly difficult writing day. Feeling the pressure to both be concise and for every sentence to be majestically perfect and powerful.

What a great opportunity 👇

And most of all, SOMEONE needs to give the world a good Troilus and Criseyde film. I need Criseyde arch looks (”what? May I not stand here?” eyebrows), Troilus wallowing (tossing and turning like Ixion in hell!), cool Trojan-London sets…

This was a really tremendous production. One gender swap I did not like at all. Hector looked like my favourite footballer (but wasn’t). Riotous laughter from the crowd at times which I didn’t expect at all. Very gripping! Horribly nauseating! Determinedly ambiguous!

Troilus and Cressida at the Globe later today. Looking forward to feeling unremittingly bleak about everything (in a good way?).

Hello #medievalsky. Where's the best place to search for images of manuscript initials? (Bonus: that I could use in an academic publication?)

Now with poster! The Middle English Reading Group this Michaelmas.

Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇

Apropos of universities jumping on the AI bandwagon. Are we not supposed to be, you know, trying to come back from the brink of extinction? Rather than increasing emissions by 50%? FIFTY per cent? Delusional. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It'll be a new Oxford term soon, which can only mean a brand new text for the Middle English Reading Group! We'll be reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It will be hosted at Lincoln College. Message or email me for details - anyone at Oxford welcome! @oxmedstud.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

Contrary to past reviews I felt really quite connected on Margate Sands

Name a more English seaside activity than fighting the wind to finish your Mr Whippy.

After the warm summer we've had the blackberries must be plump and ready for devouring! These hand-coloured beauties are from Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal #Blackberries #Autumn

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

The Summoner has entered the chat.

Does anyone has access to the journal Style? Published by Penn State University Press. I'm trying to access this article: Lian Zhang, Yu Yan or Fable: The Earliest Introductions to The Canterbury Tales in China muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...

Accidentally took the mathematically perfect shot of our local cat.

That’s the location of the next MAMO sorted, then 😍 @themamoconf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I can highly recommend @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social’s walking tour of Early Modern Latin in the City of London. Visited some new sites and finished off with a nice pub lunch and a toast to Wynkyn de Worde www.layersoflondon.org/map/trails/e... #layersoflondon

Perhaps relatedly (but not entirely!), we have a new blogpost up at @guildmedmak.bsky.social on 'what to do when you're stuck, creatively'! This arose from a spontaneous discussion at the end of our last Making Space session so we thought we'd write it up! www.guildmedmak.com/blog/what-to...

Barista-in-training spotted at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 🐭

Is anyone else having trouble viewing Cambridge ebooks? I fear something has happened...

Academic writing question: when writing an anonymous submission, what do you guys do with individual acknowledgements throughout the article? 'Thanks to [redacted] for their help here', or simply add the footnote in post-reviews? The latter seems to run the risk of looking citation-less.

Are you a late stage doctoral or postdoctoral reasearcher with expertise in medieval and/or early modern landscape history & an interest in working with or in the heritage sector? This opportunity with the University of Oxford and West Horsley Place may be for you: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Grateful to the Clarion for providing updates on this meeting. As Cllr Ian Middleton says in an earlier post: “I want Oxford United to continue to thrive... But the land is tightly constrained, there’s no room for expansion, and surrounding highways cannot absorb what this stadium will generated.”

We have a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost!🖋️ Meet Mary Flannery (@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social), the 'accidental medievalist' who writes about the medieval for both scholarly and public audiences:

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Everything‘s trying to stay cool at Knole today.

Update on the All Hallows series of FREE online lectures - all titles now available at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-h...

After waiting 119 years for a trophy, Crystal Palace have their second in a matter of months. The Selhurst Park side beat Liverpool, the Premier League Champions, on penalties to win the Community Shield, having beaten Manchester City to win the FA Cup in May. #CPFC

Glorious weekend. The Christmas infusions begin, earlier than ever.

Can attest that this is an excellent teaching book (and useful for those teaching, too!)

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

This is awesome!

Have a spare hour in central London and fancy seeing some sights from a new perspective? Why not follow the @neolatinsociety.bsky.social walking tour of 'Early Modern Latin in London'! We have uploaded the trail and stop details to this handy map 👇 www.layersoflondon.org/map/trails/e...

I had a great time in St Andrews this weekend - what a convivial, beautiful, charming place with fantastic medievalists. Presenting completely fresh work was energising and terrifying! 📸 credit: Alastair Minnis

Fellowship Opportunity! Corpus Christi College, Cambridge seeks one Early-Career Researcher (4 years). This year applications will be considered in the following subjects: Modern and Medieval Languages; Classics; Linguistics; Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY167/e...

Whispering different possibilities for pronouncing 'Boger' in the manuscripts reading room like I'm playing a weird version of Bogies

I am very excited to speak at the upcoming 'Global Glossing' conference at St Andrews! I'll be focusing on an odd aspect of the pseudo-Ovidian De vetula and its paratexts: a poem which tries to convince itself that the text is authentic.

Palace out on a technicality, Arsenal closing in on Eze… 😓😓

We've had a lovely time celebrating the publication of "Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature," edited by @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, at this year's #IMC2025. Congratulations to everyone involved in this fantastic book! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A warning for anyone polishing off summer conference papers from Horace (via @ivowolsing.bsky.social at @imc-leeds.bsky.social): 'Brevis esse laboro / obscurus fio' (I strive to be brief; I become obscure)

But before Leeds… garden carrots! The aches of sieving soil might have dissipated but the fruits (vegetables) of the labour have arrived.

Leeds is here! @imc-leeds.bsky.social. For all your classical reception needs, check out the series of panels on Classical Learning in Medieval Europe. I'll be speaking on Wednesday (16:30, Clarendon 1.01) on Ovid the mathematician and gamer. Basically: 'How did Ovid get so good at statistics?'

End of an era.

An exhibition of medieval manuscripts at Cambridge's @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social! Curated by Timothy Glover (Richard Rolle specialist and current Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow). Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!