'Working with Early Modern Letters' has arrived! ✉️✒️ An introduction to early modern letters and a guide to their use as historical sources, designed to be taken at your own pace. 📲Join us and book your place for just £100: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...

'Working with Early Modern Letters' has arrived! ✉️✒️ An introduction to early modern letters and a guide to their use as historical sources, designed to be taken at your own pace. 📲Join us and book your place for just £100: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...

Why did 17th century letter writer Katherine Thimelby use this curious patchwork style? ✒️ 📅 Find out more about women's letter-writing in the new IMEMS online short course 'Working with Early Modern Letters'! Available to book from Monday 9 February 2026.

The latest exhibition at the Oriental Museum, Durham University is on view until 31 May 2026: 'Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum' www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do... @ducollections.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @imems.bsky.social

IMEMS travels to Parma! 🌍 Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.

Our Research Showcase yesterday featured Dr @Ben_Raffield from the University of Uppsala speaking on slavery in the Viking age. @uppsalauni.bsky.social Read more about Ben's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.

New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts. 📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...

With the first week of term underway, here's a round up of recent publications from the IMEMS community, including with @universitypress.cambridge.org and @saqibooks.bsky.social ✍️...

So exciting! The first IMEMS Press publication of 2026. 🎉

This week, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Mary Watt, our 2025/26 Slater Fellow, who joins us this term from the University of Florida. 🌏 Learn more about Mary's research and plans for the fellowship here: durham.ac.uk/research/ins... news.clas.ufl.edu/italian-stud...

We turn on the heating or grab a hot water bottle when winter hits but how did medieval monks cope with the cold? ❄️ Historian Professor Giles Gasper takes a step back in time to explain. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @durhamhistory.bsky.social y.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social s.bsky.social

We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026! Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su... - 1 week intensive course - Expert-led & hands-on - Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age

📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳ Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'. All are welcome to attend. Please complete your registration by 5 January. We look forward to seeing you there! More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉

Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜 relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr... RELISH: relisheu.org/about/

*DEADLINE*⏳ Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓 🎨Daphne and Her Sisters: durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

7 more days 🥳 Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online! Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...

Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️ 📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉

Hot off the IMEMS press...📚 This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins. Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...

Yesterday we met these two! 🤖 From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬 Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027. ✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️ Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...

📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓 durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

November To-Do List 🐗📆 - Thrash acorns - Fatten pigs - Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev... Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!

Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓 Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c... Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...

Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓 durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...

So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉

Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻 Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents. Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup

📢 Share, share share! Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻 Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d... Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!

The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)

This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with @durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)

Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚 The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy. Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...

Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠 Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem... Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292

📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓 durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

To mark the annual @16csociety.bsky.social conference, there is 50% off and free shipping on all the books so far published in the series. Enter the code BB151 here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... #skystorians #Jesuits #nuntastic #Inquisition @imems.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Attending the #SixteenthCenturyConference in Portland later this week? Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to  Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia

Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth. Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...

Congratulations to IMEMS member and short course tutor Dr Arnold Hunt, whose article on circumcision in the English Protestant Imaginary has been published in the latest issue of Reformation! Read online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Another exciting publication! IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

We're excited to be collaborating with @durhamhistory.bsky.social for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎

📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇 This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram. 💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...

The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance. Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Don’t forget to register for virtual attendance to our Winter Conference! We’ve got three days of panels, which you can listen to from the comfort of your own home (or wherever you may be). Check out the full schedule and sign up to attend via our website: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...