⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS ⏰ Our September issue is 'Hidden Histories', so we'd love to hear from scholars working with subaltern studies, decolonial histories, or marginalised groups. We also welcome pitches from scholars working in all areas of historical research! Submit! 👇 tinyurl.com/2ryzusup

A few extra tickets are available for this weekend’s MACFEST event, book here: https://ow.ly/Xvo350ZiGHU ‘Illuminating Knowledge: Exploring Arabic Scientific Manuscript’ on Friday 4 July, 2-4pm. Discover more about Arabic scientific manuscripts, created by some of Islam’s most outstanding thinkers.

Really excited to finally get started on @nicmorton.bsky.social’s new book, The Crusader Storm!

A thread on trends in violence against Muslims in the UK🧵 📆Since 2017, around 1/4 declared terror attacks in Britain have targeted Muslims or Muslim migrants ⌛Such attacks have become more frequent since 2022 ⚖️There have also been several plots targeting Muslims, including foiled attacks on mosques

Today is the day! It is not too late to sign up! Register at bit.ly/londonmedieval

Spending today looking closely at images of the gorgeous al-Bawwāb Qur'an @chesterbeatty.bsky.social (which I will see in person next month!). The navigational features of this manuscript are brilliant. Here's the transition from Sura 3 to 4 (f. 43v): 🧵https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Is_1431/82/

We are delighted to have recently welcomed two new resident PhD students who are undertaking research projects concerned with our collections 🥳 Welcome Harriet and Finch! 👏 Read our blog to find out more about these wonderful students and their research: library.chethams.com/blog/chetham...

Looking forward to talking about Islam and Muslims in Mandeville’s Travels and Matthew Paris’s chronicle (manuscripts of both texts are part of Chetham’s collection) later this week!

Beyond thrilled to share the my monograph proposal “Sanctity, The Body,& Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture & Cryptomedievalism has *OFFICIALLY* been approved by @archumanities.bsky.social to be included in @aspencerhall.bsky.social new series “Intercessions: Sanctity in the Pre/Modern World”

Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University 'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries' Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c... @imems.bsky.social

So happy to see this one published, I had to watch over 100 TikToks for this and I don’t know if I can’t ever listen to Golden Brown ever again, so please all go read it to justify my choices

Want to learn more about Teaching Medieval Women? Come along to our free CPD day at Nottingham Trent University on Thursday 25 June! Check out our packed schedule below... Register via our Eventbrite before 19 June to secure your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teaching-m...

Looking forward to talking about Islam and Muslims in Mandeville’s Travels and Matthew Paris’s chronicle (manuscripts of both texts are part of Chetham’s collection) later this week!

Looking to connect with fellow researchers, students & anyone interested in Medieval Islamic History, political thought, Sufism & the Turkic/Arab/Persian worlds. Let’s share ideas, discuss histories & build a network. Feel free to reach out! 📚✍️ #Histodons #MedievalHistory #IslamicThought #Sufism

It's publication day! It gives me great pleasure to announce that my new book The Crusader Storm is now available in the UK. Offering a history of the early crusades from around ten different cultural perspectives, you can find out more here: basicbooks.uk/titles/nicho...

Tomorrow is the day! Hope to see you all there! Don’t forget to register at bit.ly/londonmedieval

2026 Ceræ conference – session playbacks available until 30 June! We’re pleased to offer access to recordings of all nine sessions and three keynotes until 30 June. In addition, we’ve reduced registration to just $10! Our 2026 conference Fame and Fortune has concluded and we’re pleased to offer…

Medieval World: Conflict and Culture is now on Bluesky! Keep an eye out for some exciting announcements as well as some great content 👀 @medievalworldmag.bsky.social

Join us for another amazing seminar! On 2 June, Saaleha Iqbal from @lcsleeds.bsky.social is presenting 'Reimagining the Status of Muslims and Muslim Women in Medieval French Culture'. More info linked⬇️ 🗓️ 2 June ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️In person @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 Online Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

NEW POST: ‘Legal cultures in Arab-Norman Sicily and Italy’ (29 –30 October 2026). Read the full post and call for papers on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

We have one spot left on one of our three hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9)! Theme of Premodern Timeliness and Timelessness. 🕰️ Late submissions received by 3 June will be considered. ✏️ #medievalsky #earlymodernsky www.facebook.com/CeraeJournal...

The Spring Term of the Long Middle Ages has now come to an end after nine fantastic seminars and eighteen amazing speakers! We hope to be back with information on the next stage of the series over summer, so thank you all for your support and we will see you soon! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

Check out the newest blog post for our LAST seminar of term happening TOMORROW! thelongmiddleages.com/2026/05/20/s...

On Thursday 21st May we have our LAST seminar of the term! We are happy to be joined by Inmaculada Villafranca (Universidad de Córdoba) and Erik Nilsson (Linné University). To attend, sign up here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

🎉 CFP for the annual NWMS Postgrad Symposium. To be held at Chetham’s Library Tuesday 4th August 2026. Open to any PG or ECR. This year we are particularly interested in research rabbit holes that you had to cut! Email title, ~150 abstract and short bio to [email protected] by 17th July 🎉

Looking forward to presenting at ICMS in one of two sessions in honour of Sharon Kinoshita and especially to talk about how her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, has influenced my research. @kzooicms.bsky.social #Kzoo2026 #medievalsky

The paperback version of ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME is coming out soon! And with an even more stunning cover 🥰

Leeds Institute for Medieval studies delighted to offer two £7000 scholarships for home applicants on low-income. Part- or full-time. Go to ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/s... and courses.leeds.ac.uk/7820/medieva.... #medievalsky #scholarships #doamasters

Check out our newest blog post for our seminar TONIGHT! thelongmiddleages.com/2026/05/06/s...

Our next seminar will be on the 7th May with talks by Maria Sandali (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Carlo Scapecchi (Arden University). Sign-up to attend either online or in-person here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

For those wishing to join us in-person, registration closes NEXT FRIDAY (8th May). Online registration will be open until the 13TH MAY. Please follow the link to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norse-in-t... #medievalsky #nitn2026

It's less than 24 hours to go until our virtual online conference 'Fame & Fortune'. Join us! ceraejournal.com/programme/ #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #ancientsky

Happening today! Follow the link to sign up to attend online or in-person!

Read our new blog post to learn about our lovely speakers presenting this THURSDAY! thelongmiddleages.com/2026/04/21/s... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

They encounter ... "Al-Khwarizmi, considered the “father of algebra”, Ibn al-Haytham, a pioneer who explored the camera obscura, and Mansa Musa, ruler of the Malian empire ... & Maryam al-Astrulabi, a 10th-century Syrian woman who developed the astrolabe astronomical instrument." #MedievalSky

Muslims in the Medieval European Imagination with Saaleha Iqbal 📚 A free talk on how Europeans perceived and depicted Muslims in texts from the 12th century. 📆 12 June, 6pm🔗 Book here: library.chethams.com/whats-on/muslims-in-the-medieval-european-imagination-with-saaleha-iqbal/

Get ready for another term of amazing seminars! As always, free! Just remember to sign up here: bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

Our next seminar will be Thursday 9th April at 17:15 GMT, with talks from Mehdy Shaddel (University of Cambridge) and Majideh Qazizadeh (University of Exeter). Please follow the link to register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

New blog post up for our next seminar happening TOMORROW! We hope to see many of you there! thelongmiddleages.com/2026/04/08/s... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

Congratulations @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social for receiving such great recognition from the Society for French Studies. Saaleha is part of the IMS postgraduate community in Leeds, one of the organizers of @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievalfrench @lcsleeds.bsky.social. Very well done!

The Jury adjudged ‘From Dragons to Divinators: Re-Imagining Muslim Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle’, by Saaleha Iqbal (University of Leeds), to be the runner up.

Very pleased to be the runner-up in this year’s Postgraduate Essay Prize competition by the Society for French Studies! My essay was on Muslim women in the Old French Crusade Cycle. And many congrats to the winner, Isabel! 🎉 @frenchstudies.bsky.social

Hope to see many of you there! #medievalsky #oldnorse #vikingstudies #studentconference #norseinthenorth

Super excited to hear more about this project!

The medieval world was brutal. Fortunately, it had chess. An award-winning study by @queens.cam.ac.uk Dr Krisztina Ilko reveals that chess promoted racial harmony in remarkable ways, celebrating intellectual prowess, irrespective of skin colour. Explore the full story 👇 https://bit.ly/4bPYU4X

Our next seminar will be Thursday 26th March at 17:15 GMT, with talks from Emma Nelson (University of Manchester/Chetham's Library) and Amber Peut (Leiden University)! Please follow the link to register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages