Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC. Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

Today goes out to every single person who's ever told me I was being irrational, or paranoid, or foolish, or unreasonable, to worry that the UK would take my immigration status away from me someday. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

15 years here, the last 5 on Indefinite Leave to Remain. You are never safe as an immigrant in the UK. www.ft.com/content/4e16...

Entrants, please remember this square already plays an important urban planning role for the stadium. When people complain it needs *more*, they've clearly never used the station on a match day. Filling up the square will cause a massive problem with overcrowding if it's not taken into account.

This seems like a good time to impulse buy some second hand OMTs.

This week I've been doing a fun map for the Invisible Worlds project that's connecting storytelling & placemaking in Alderley Edge in England: invisibleworlds.ac.uk The team wanted something that would reflect the Edge's mythic history. I like when academic projects get creative with their maps!

This seems like a good time to impulse buy some second hand OMTs.

📣 Calling all PhD Students in Classics, Archaeology, Ancient History, and related disciplines 📣 Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event 22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe

A final reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is the end of next week #medievalsky Details 👇

Sitting in my GP's waiting room trying to write a Week 1 lecture...this is exactly how I love the term to start. (I'm fine. Just, I could use more time? Or less to take care of?)

Hey. Psst. Y’all are rad. Hydrate your skeletons. Take your meds. Check your posture. Have a snack. Whatever you need to do today/tonight, I believe in you. No matter how big or small it may be. I hope the week brings joy, relief, laughter, success, coziness. You got this. 💕

I just checked the calendar and realised today's the 15th. Who knew? If you're a little behind (like I am), drop me an email to let me know your thoughts on a potential abstract. #medievalsky

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

Here is your friendly occasional reminder that as a Tier 4 then Tier 2 immigrant, I could not access any benefits (and this was printed specifically on my visa), could not vote in any UK election (not even local council), and paid an NHS charge with the amount linked to the length of my visa.

Check out this podcast with my amazing anthropologist colleague Heidi Dawson-Hobbis about what she does - from red squirrels to Lucy! open.spotify.com/episode/3Onc...

Archaeology Mag provide a nice update on the work at Guédelon Castle. #MedievalSky #ExperimentalArchaeology #ArtchaeologyofStuff #Castles archaeology.org/issues/septe...

The Haskins Society is pleased to be co-sponsoring a sesson on "Things Transcending Time" at the 2026 IMC in Leeds. Abstract deadine: 15 September 2025 @kateweikert.bsky.social

10 days to go to submit an abstract for this @haskinssociety.bsky.social/Battle session @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026! #medievalsky

New investigation of the outer wall of the fortification at Den Burg on Texel shows it was constructed between 730 and 840. #medievalsky 📷 Roy van Beek www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society

For those of us who lived in the US in June 2009, it's a great mystery and punchline.

I just need everyone to understand the reference to 'hiking the Appalachian Trail' (though I also use it in reference to this and not as a metaphor) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sa...

Two weeks left to submit an abstract to my session 'Things Transcending Time' for @imc-leeds.bsky.social sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social, Battle Conference and the @uniwinchester.bsky.social CMRR! Details below.

Un soldat africain pendant la bataille d'Hastings (1066) ? Réponse de médiéviste : 1/ c'est possible ; 2/ c'est très improbable ; 3/ on s'en fiche car c'est de la fiction ; 4/ ces réactions outrées sont très signifiantes. Je détaille chaque point ⬇️

Some very cool stuff in the Wikimedia edit-a-thons! I'm excited to see Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd get a better article (and completely chuffed that @richardnevell.bsky.social thought to edit in my work on Empress Matilda!)

And the article on the Gesta Stephani has a paragraph on gender based on the excellent work of @kateweikert.bsky.social (hopefully I haven't grossly oversimplified things) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesta_S...

He's not particularly keen on Robert Curthose either, huh.

Carter Revard was Native American, from the Osage nation --and a scholar of Old English. That gave him a unique perspective. alliteration.net/poetry/trinityriddle/ #alliterative #poem #OldEnglish #riddle #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetry #alliterativeverse #Osage #NativeAmerican

Franklin Research Grants The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/franklin-res...

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Here's a brilliant round-up of our recent Student Colloquium by Student Rep Hannah Britton: medievalarchaeology.co.uk/student-coll... It was a truly global event with talks spanning centuries and continents. Thanks again to Hannah and her fellow committee members for organising a 5-star event!

Orderic: and William prepared the ships to sail to claim his promised throne from the English usurper Nobody: Orderic: let's talk about St Judoc first

Orderic: and William prepared the ships to sail to claim his promised throne from the English usurper Nobody: Orderic: let's talk about St Judoc first

Is there anyone that Mabel Talvas de Montgomery doesn't poison, according to Oderic Vitalis?

Really enjoying chatting to applicants over #clearing lines with my colleague @uniwinchester.bsky.social! Give us a ring and see what we can do.

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

northern europe be like 'come see our EARTHWORKS, they're maybe 12th century!' and southen europe be like 'yeah there's our dumbass basilica it's only like 5th century huh you want to SEE it idk ask Giovanni in the bar i think he has a key maybe if he's in today'

For this tragic historical anniversary, my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on how one of our worst naval disasters & one of our greatest movie monologues together help us remember the human horrors of war. 🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/08/cons...

CfP: The Noblewomen Network @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026. If you're working on medieval noblewomen, we'd love to hear from you! Please share widely. Deadline for abstracts: 5 September. #IMC2026

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

Some very cool stuff happening at Cookham (featuring some excellent students and my wonderful friend Thom!) #medievalsky BBC News - Unearthing end-of-life care at 8th Century Cookham monastery - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some very cool stuff happening at Cookham (featuring some excellent students and my wonderful friend Thom!) #medievalsky BBC News - Unearthing end-of-life care at 8th Century Cookham monastery - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Visited a very special friend today! Possibly a once in a generation exhibition in Chantilly, showcasing the recent restoration of the most magnificent medieval Book of Hours. Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Musée Condé MS 65, 15th century

I am once again asking

No, MS Word, I really do mean to type benedictio, not benediction. #medievalsky

🚨PRE-ORDER OFFER Get 25% off the paperback edition of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages with code SUMMER25 from #Waterstones Offer only valid between 28-31 July #WPreorder #medievalsky #bookhistory @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/the-med...

The Sutton Hoo helmet was discovered #OnThisDay in 1939. The helmet had shattered into over 500 pieces and it took 3 days to recover all the fragments. Overlooked at first, the helmet quickly gained notice & is now one of the most recognisable artefacts discovered in Britain. (Image: British Museum)