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.

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

This is a remarkable resource. A thousand years of women's writing, finally consolidated. The erasure was never complete - just scattered. Bringing it together changes what 'medieval literature' means.

Where is the Dark Academia novel in which Dark Academics spend 80% of their time writing grant applications to the Dark Funding Council and most of the rest being harrassed by Dark ResearchFish (RIP)?

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

Interested in Mary Magdalen? Look an article on her living in the wilderness in France! differentvisions.org/creating-the...

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

Isn’t it time we did this in academia? Hundreds from Met Police declare Freemasons links www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hilarious. The Torygraph doesn’t like the way I teach medieval women’s writing, and digs up a university news story from about 6 years ago so it can pretend it interviewed me, If you want the full text without clicking let me know.

Solstice sunrise

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

When I was in Camden Town yesterday getting my eyes tested, I saw that the historic ladies loo on Parkway now had a plaque (local Camden scheme, not blue, yet): www.blueplaques.net/show_images....

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

H is for Hawk. Encountered this falconer and his Harris Hawk out hunting in the woods while we were on our morning run!

Yesterday at West Horsley Place aka Button House from BBC’s Ghosts. Seriously haunting! I was in conversation with local historian June Davey about its putative links to Juliana Berners and The Book of St Albans. Amazing event, fabulous audience.