Make Ready! 🏰 On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: ‘The Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'. 🗓️ 03 March ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

Talking baby snm!!! #medievalsky

Louise Bourgeois, The Hour is Devoted to Revenge, 1999

Next week join us online for a double bill ✨ with curators Helena Lahoz Kopiske & Anushka Hosain discussing representing medieval Islamicate art at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid and @mfahouston.bsky.social 🏺🏛️☪️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #arthistory #medievalsky #museumsky

LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom. All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

😮‍💨 check out this term’s programme at the LSMS - material ! textual! visual! culture - big range of temporalities, scales, environments, disciplines. Lets go! Hybrid sessions, Tuesdays, 5.30pm Register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

Looking forward to welcoming Dr Tim Pestell from @norwichcastle.bsky.social for this term's last seminar! Tim will be speaking about the redesign of Norwich Castle's Royal Keep! 🗓️ Tues 9 December ⏰ 17.30 GMT 💻 ONLINE Remember to sign up here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

General Strike 100 National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike. All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100

TOMORROW!! Come & hear the excellent Olivia Baskerville (@ies-sas.bsky.social) about the book trade in London & the national & local claims to #medieval material culture TUES 25 NOV 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): bit.ly/londonmedieval #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #Skystorians

Our next seminar on 11 Nov (5.30pm) Joanna Tucker @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on multi-scribe cartularies and chronicles from medieval Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✍️📖 Hybrid session - join us online or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social Book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

@londonmedieval.bsky.social have the excellent Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, medievalist by training, presenting her research on the 20C trade in &nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts📖 25 Nov! AS EVER free & open to all, book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval

London local history and heritage organisations starter pack, now updated to welcome @londontopsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf

***tomorrow‘s @londonmedieval.bsky.social seminar postponed***

70,000 HE academic staff. Almost half of teaching only staff. Two-thirds of research-only academic staff. ALL on fixed term contracts. This isn’t flexibility, it’s exploitation. Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ…

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums @archumanities.bsky.social Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT) #MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums @archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰ Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖 bit.ly/londonmedieval

Next week join us for the first LSMS seminar of the term with @annamolnar.bsky.social speaking on late medieval women’s financial literacy! 🗣️Online & in-person @ihr.bsky.social 🗓️ Tues 30 September ⏰ 17.30 GMT ✍️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians 🗃️

Pleased to share the LSMS programme for this fast-approaching term 👇 featuring academics & practitioners working across times, geographies, methods— as ever, *all are welcome* but booking required: bit.ly/londonmedieval @londonmedieval.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky

New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!! @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂 If you have any questions, please do reach out! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

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

back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by 🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social 🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social 🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

There will be two panels at MAMO dedicated to Landscapes and Medievalisms! Our first panel (Thursday, 1-2:30pm) includes papers by Emma Nuding (@eknuding.bsky.social, York), Maia Blumberg (@maiablumberg.bsky.social, Queen Mary), and Linsey Hunter (@linseyhunter.bsky.social, UHI). #MAMOmonth

Friendly reminder to send in your app to the London Soc for Medieval Studies by 21 June! the LSMS has been PG/EC researcher-led since 1970, showcasing the latest research on the Middle Ages by global scholars, committed to the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning 🗣️

TONIGHT join us for the final @ihr.bsky.social LSMS seminar of the year: Rewriting the Middle Ages: Medieval Tropes and Postmodern Aesthetics in Iberian Fiction with Ana Rita G. Soares 💻 Online 📆 Tues 17 June ⏰ 17.30 - 19 ✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/rewri... Join us!

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

QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance. Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

Check out this podcast about NUN OTHER than Hildegard of Bingen with me & @medievallauren.bsky.social (link in 🧵) - written, edited, & produced by young historian, Mia Janett, from Universität Zürich on her year abroad at @qmul.ac.uk

Hey #MedievalSky, over a 100 of your peers have registered to the Open Access Medieval Studies conference. You can join too! This is the time to come and gather and be in solidarity. Take action! To view the schedule and register go: linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

Nice resource here if you are interested in how historic Insular languages sounded www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/spokenword/ The Spoken Word #celtic #asnc #oldenglish #oldnorse #medievalsky #languages

Recommend SOIL exhibition @ Somerset House! *fertile ground* for thinking about political ecologies & solidarities, unruly affections, and living and thinking with more than human worlds 🪱

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...

what’s the LSMS you ask? it’s the London Society for Medieval Studies: PGR-led since 1970, showcasing the latest research on the MA by global scholars, committed to the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning. Tonight we are thinking about MS! Come! bit.ly/LSMSMS

excited for tonight’s LSMS *double bill* w/ art historian Sophia Adams & conservator Edward Cheese, thinking about medieval MS -creation to ownership, use, transmission. Join us! for parchment handling & 🍷 🏢 @ihr.bsky.social & online 📆 Tues 11 Feb ⏰ 17.30 - 19 ✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/medie...

Premodernists! Submit your work to the symposium I am organising at UCLA in 2026! ✨ "Odious Comparisons Across and Beyond the Early Global World" (April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person], CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA). #Medievalsky Full (Plain Text) CFP HERE: bit.ly/OdiousCompar...

PhD Studentship: Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments- Manchester Metropolitan University - #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO927/p...

Literature is dying, the institutions are collapsing, it's all a rigged maze, you'll never make money doing this, everyone's attention span is 1.2 seconds so you better be able to spit out what that 80,000 words is about fast, and the apocalypse is nigh. Become a writer!