Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

Because it’s raining and I’m under deadlines: Wayland’s Smithy last weekend, on a scorching hot bike ride along the Ridgeway

Immediately adding to the ‘to be read’ pile!

{New book} This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...

12-week research post available in medieval and early modern landscape, focusing on West Horsley near Oxford: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

I’m delighted that James Spellane & I are among the first cohort of @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History grant recipients. Our project, ‘London’s Watery Heritage’ aims to enhance knowledge & understanding of a unique collection of medieval & early modern water maps at the London Charterhouse

Want to know if your place is among the (roughly), 6,300 English places whose histories we've published in the last 126 years? The excellent 'Medieval Genealogy' webpages have an index:

Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team. We're seeking a fixed-term Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on our projects, including research, publishing and digitisation. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️

#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

A short-term paid research opportunity on the records of Snodhill Castle, details here: www.snodhillcastle.org/documentary-...

A week to go for this online lunchtime lecture I am giving for the National Library of Ireland on a major political controversy which gripped the English lordship of Ireland in the late fourteenth century.

Since the BA has switched to Liverpool UP as its publisher, seems like a good time to point to our collected volume "Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe" on the new site—especially since LUP offers 20% off on direct orders! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Delighted to be able to share news about this volume, produced in honour of a wonderful scholar

I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to [email protected]. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance. #medievalsky #skystorians

I'm delighted to share the programme for the first workshop of the Loyalty Research Network, taking place this Friday 6th June from 1pm UK time. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in loyalty across the medieval world, so please message me if you'd like the link! #medieval

The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee! One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led. If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch! @ihr.bsky.social

Delighted to see @richardpurkiss.bsky.social 's brilliant new article on the Danelaw is out in @enghistrev.bsky.social— and open access!

The research assistant is hard at work today

Such dainty mouse bites (C13th charter)

Fabulous Saxon windows at Thursley church (Surrey), still with some decoration

This is going to be a cracking paper! Free to sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/john-...

Part-time, permanent tutor job in my Department. We're looking for a local/architectural historian to teach two asynchronous online courses. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV263/d...

Happy Friday Everyone! We've been working hard to recreate the historical townships of Wales from various historical sources and map. The pre-1840 Township boundaries for Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire & Radnorshire are now available on the Historical Boundaries of Wales website!!!

Fascinating paper on use of sealskin in medieval bookbinding, and important Norse trade links royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Fun times in Lincoln this July 🤩🏺 Not completely accurate and a lot left out but they did use a pic of me blinded by the sun! ☀️ 😝🫣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💥Job Alert!!💥 We’re seeking to appoint a permanent Assistant Professor of Archaeological Science (materials), following the retirement of Prof. Julian Henderson. Deadline May 5th 2025. #Archaeology #archeology #archaeologicalScience 🧪 Full details here: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

On 20 May, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting an afternoon commemoration of the life, work and legacy of Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA. Booking for this event is now available bit.ly/4cwX1ZW. Jinty was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-04) #skystorians 1/2

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have an opening for a paper in the @imc-leeds.bsky.social panels that Jess Holt and I organised. If you have a paper, do think of us (happy to answer ?s). @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @lincolnrecsoc.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

Very excited about this international conference on Languages and Identities in Early Medieval Western Europe. It will take place in the lovely town of Estella, Navarre on 15-18 July. More info and programme at www.siem-estella.es/es/inicio

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Don't forget the poster session is open to everyone, but the prize is only available for postgrads. For more details get in touch with Prof @laurajcleaver.bsky.social! #medievalsky #skystorians 2/

The speakers for this year's Battle Conference are listed here! battleconference.wordpress.com/2025-battle-... #medievalsky #skystorians 3/3

Attention postgrads! Here's the call for applications for the Muriel Brown bursaries to attend the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies in Manchester this year - 3 available battleconference.wordpress.com/muriel-brown... #medievalsky #skystorians 1/

Excited to see @ajt55.bsky.social (Alice Taylor) and Danica Summerlin's special issue on 'Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance' out in the new issue of _The Journal of Legal History_! The project was funded by the British Academy. @britishacademy.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/flgh20/4...

…fair enough

NEW | Medieval Warhorse publishes today! The first ever systematic and integrated scholarly study of medieval warhorses spanning archaeology and history is available now. Discover more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Visited the #MedievalWomen exhibition at the #BritshLibrary? Learn more about Mathilda of Flanders in the upcoming book, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083 by Laura L Gathagan. Now available to pre-order. https://buff.ly/4i6x8BE

Very pleased to review @hannah-boston.bsky.social 's excellent recent book for EHR, and the review has just appeared: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Compare and contrast: Paul Vinogradoff edition (h/t Alice H for pointing out the second pic, which I am in no way cool enough to have known about)

Colleagues! I am looking for a good coursebook to teach Medieval History 500-1500 to 1st year undergrads and preferably not too Eurocentric. We currently use Rosenwein’s Short History. What are the pros and cons of your favourite books? #medievalsky #skystorians #MedievalHistory

This article has been a long time in the crafting. It is much of what I have to say about why we, as humans, make law. And what we expect of it. Thanks to the many readers and reviewers who gave it their time and the excellent @esclh.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social

10 Free Medieval Articles from The English Historical Review https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/free-medieval-articles-english-historical-review/ - congratulations on 600 issues @enghistrev.bsky.social #historysky

A medievalist job in Warsaw. A postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, in project “Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages: Local and Papal Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered”. historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer...

In December's 'History Today': George Garnett on modern pilgrimage and the relationship between pilgrimage and history! www.historytoday.com/archive/maki...

Rather melacholy circumstances in which to share this, but here is the draft programme for the workshop in honour of Björn Weiler and Alheydis Plassmann, organised by Ryan Kemp (Bonn). Please email [email protected] ASAP if you would like to attend online or in person.