Queer cafe in the Surrey countryside 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

A very interesting Reuter lecture from @dianewatt.bsky.social on Margaret Paston. Good to think about Medieval stuff again.

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These are extraordinary findings for the High Court to make. Hard to see how the so-called Office for Students can survive in its current form.

Exclusive: Academic hiring at UK research-intensives falls 19 per cent in two years. Data obtained through freedom of information requests reveal impact of financial crisis on job opportunities. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

‘Perhaps most damaging for the regulator meant to oversee freedom of speech, the accusation of bias in the process was also upheld‘ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

I found this old notebook today. How it started v where it went.

TIL: There's a whole network of databases named after the 12thC abbess and intellectual, Heloise! The network is devoted to gathering historical data on Europe's universities. If that isn't a legacy, I don't know what is! heloise.hypotheses.org #MedievalSky

We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933. 35 hours per week £30,842 per annum Apply by 12 May 2026 Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #jobopportunity #UoL

Let's be clear: the destruction of universities is a political choice. It doesn't have to be like this. Sure, there are issues, some serious, but Ireland's universities aren't totally screwed, nor The Netherlands'. The UK government has made a choice - it is demolishing and incinerating education.

Good news, but... ...can we now #RejoinEU as a whole? #Erasmus

Yesterday I saw this beautiful butterfly and, in the evening, heard a skylark sing.

Indeed www.ft.com/content/5032...

Steen has managed in this article to mis analyse the gender pay gap- it’s not only the care issue, it’s a systemic gendered hierarchy which has existed forever.Even women without children are paid less than their male colleagues! Do better Ms Steen it’s just not about you,it’s the patriarchal system

Que fait l'exil à la famille (anarchiste), et comment les liens familiaux déterminent-ils en retour l'expérience de l'exil? Mes réponses dans ce podcast de la toujours brillante Romy Sanchez, dans le cadre du projet FAMEXIL. on.soundcloud.com/qZ8RdnzcimCN...

Prospect Cottage pilgrimage

Lamb House, Rye, home of Henry James

EVENT! Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | The Editing Women in the Archives Project (27 March,14:00 – 15:00) This Project aims to locate, collate, conserve & provide access to endangered women’s literary, lifestyle & art publications in Pakistan. englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...

As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥 Read more by following the link below👇

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

"Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself."

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-dabis-to-dwight-18093 🧑‍🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales

Research, old school style

The original Brigadoon

New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #medievalwomen #medievalstudies

There is something about a British pub …

Really recommend!

What a joy to see our @rsliterature.bsky.social President Elif Shafak deliver the National Humanities Lecture at the School of Advanced Study @sas-news.bsky.social. A beautiful reflection on and defence of the long form of literature, and many other things too.

I wish I believed academia was ready for co-written dissertations in the humanities. Yeah, dissertations, paired work (or bigger teams!) between people with true expertise in different arenas. The most obvious/urgent (IMO) is in languages, but there are many kinds of expertise that might work.

BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC understands www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Great new work by @dianewatt.bsky.social and colleagues on a millennium of medieval women's writing from across the globe www.surrey.ac.uk/news/thousan...

Great to see this story featured!

St Anne's holy well, Caversham (Berkshire). 📸2021

If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

...Sparta lost.

The other thing I've been thinking about that hoard - there was no opportunity, none at all, for the heritage community, the public to intervene to stop this. 1/4 #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Explosion of middle managers ‘ruining university life’ #Highered #edchat #AcademicSky #business www.timeshighereducation.com/news/explosi...

JOB! Come and be my colleague! Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford. Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

Did you read all the way through your @royalhistsoc.org newsletter? If not you may have missed my CFP! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nos...

Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities: When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...

An amazing opportunity!

AI generated! (Only kidding)

Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

Wow, what an analogy! And 💯 on the nose. I follow some sci/med types who rave about it constantly. But for most of the world I inhabit, it's lethal--ethically & intellectually. #AI #histSTM #histmed

Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant. c.org/N2cycpKrpB

Many thanks! There's actually more of her work known than is summarized in my edition of the *Trotula* ensemble from 25 years ago. In fact, it's been a treat re-engaging w/ Trota's authentic corpus, now that the Breslau Codex has been (photographically) recovered: bsky.app/profile/moni...

Very happy to have an entry in this fabulous beast of a collection. 'Women’s Poetry in Medieval Gaelic Scotland' discusses four poems by three women compiled c.1520s in the Book of the Dean of Lismore, the earliest #Gaelic compositions made in Scotland attributable to named female poets.