This is going to be a really interesting talk next Tuesday afternoon!

This on Tuesday afternoon is one not to miss!

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

The #Anthropocene is a street in the Netherlands. Clearly a multi-generational philosophical corner with Rene Descartes and Hippias

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....

I'm teaching on this (but don't let that put you off, etc)

I'm pining for chocolate hob-nobs.

New PhD app with Ghent University. PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities. co-supervised by Professors Marco Caracciolo, Stef Craps, and Elly McCausland - combining theoretical exploration with textual analysis. #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS381/p...

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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

A detail from the 25" Ordnance Survey Map of Cerne Abbas, published in 1888. Is it just me or have they missed out an important detail...?

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

On Sydney's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. An institution when I was young.

nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland rmblf.be/2025/09/11/p...

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 February, 2027. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Becca Searby and I are accepting proposals for ‘Approaching Medieval Sources’, a series which provides in-depth companions to medieval sources @routledgehistory.bsky.social We’d love to hear from you if you would like to discuss a potential volume! See the attached CfP for more information.

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific

Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Or by scrolling down the thread👇

In Oban there are apparently only two genders, East and West

We welcome enquiries about applications to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Interested? Contact a potential mentor in the School, then send a 1 or 2-page proposal and academic CV to [email protected] by 17 September 2025 standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/b...

All periods sucked to some extent. But if you think life was better in rural Pannonia during the Crisis of the Third Century than in Merovingian Gaul just because there were some Pretty Statues around then really, no-one can help you.

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Comhdháil lae - day conference St Deiniol and Welsh culture Bangor cathedral, Wales, 13 September 2025 Papers on St Deiniol in medieval literature, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Edmwnd Prys, Goronwy Owen and stained glass www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deiniol-a-... @dias.ie

"The margins are, for queer eels and for queer folk, safe places – places of liberation and pleasure." - Taylor Coyne niche-canada.org/2022/06/27/q... #queerecology #envhist #wetlands

I'm so angry about #KingAndConqueror because the exec producer says: 'there's an obscuring mist that allows you to take artistic license in a way that doesn't feel inauthentic or unethical, because there's only so much we can know. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... 1/

The SNP has forced through the approval of a toxic Salmon Farm on Loch Long in a Scottish National Park. The National Park, thousands of people, and environmental groups all objected to this disastrous plan. This is a betrayal of local people and the planet.

medievalists will be like 'if Bede were alive today, he'd breathe the true passion for learning we need back into the humanities and save them', no, he'd have started running his own Mastodon instance about railways and started getting in fights about rolling stock on the Brussels metro

If you're interested in spending a virtual hour live with me every week, plus plenty of chat via discussion boards, I'm running a course on Medieval Chivalry April-June '26: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... & I've made a video to explain more! drive.google.com/file/d/1o0L0... 🗃️

Publication day!! Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more 🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨

After the release of #KingAndConqueror, it seems an opportune moment to remind you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for 'The Past, Present, and Future after Conquest: 1066, 1169' is the end of next month. #medievalsky #Normans @leverhulme.ac.uk

There’s nothing he can do for the fluid on her feet, she will have to live with it. So I’m taking her out today. Thursday Princess Di’s here. I told Mum I would get her a flag to wave when we see her.

Only two days left to submit your abstracts for this session! We look forward to reading them! #IMC2026

Looking forward to reading this, by Vanita Seth www.routledge.com/UnDoing-Hist...

📜 CfP: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages, IMC2026, Leeds (UK) The session will explore the intersection of #minimalcomputing and #medieval studies for sustainable, accessible, and ethical approaches to #digital scholarship in a time of limited resources. 📅Deadline: 23:59 BST, 10/09/25

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

It may not have been worth bringing the accordion.

Researching medieval Wales? Why not share your research at the International Medieval Congress next July. We welcome proposals for sessions sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #academicsky

this morning, in graphs that tell important stories about universities today: in the decade since i got my first job, PGT students went from half the UG number… to equal. www.hesa.ac.uk/news/20-03-2...

Looking forward to teaching a short course on digital approaches to (medieval) history in the autumn. Does anyone have any favourite things they'd recommend the students read?

Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social