Notre Dame is complete and it is beautiful! 😍 Bonus pics to show off how magnificent this set is. So intricate. So detailed. Annoyingly many typos in this thread but I blame it on the sore fingers and thumbs from trying to stick together all the tiny Lego pieces

CfP: The Noblewomen Network @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026. If you're working on medieval noblewomen, we'd love to hear from you! Please share widely. Deadline for abstracts: 5 September. #IMC2026

Okay I’ve left it on the coffee table this afternoon post build and every time I’ve walked past it I have to admit that those wand pillars look really good. Worth the faff and fiddlyness

Just little old me and my little new book at Leeds IMC. A free copy was available at the stand when I stopped by!

If anyone is interested in working at CSMC and has any questions, I’m happy to try and answer them

So I am finally starting to building this beauty 😍 Bought it on sale as a treat for submitting the last book manuscript to the publisher. That was so long ago the book is already out 😅😂 Thought I’d bring you all along for the journey. 34 bags with 4383 pieces

Thanks for the kind words Richard!

According to my publication metrics people like to use my stuff to update Wikipedia pages of medieval women … if anyone is updating the Margaret of France page, chapter 3 might be of interest 😅

Yay! My copies have finally arrived 😁 so happy to see it in print Contains introductory chapters on the records as well as a chapter on Margaret of France’s household diet account from 1307 and (of course!) another chapter on (my favourite document of all time) Eleanor of Provence’s ring account

Happy publication day for my little book 🥳🎉 I hope my copies are waiting for me in the office next week www.routledge.com/9781032267555

So cool bbc.com/news/article...

Very happy that this is now coming soon! Due for publication on 3 April! 🥳 www.routledge.com/9781032267555

Phew! Glad I’ve booked my ticket already for later this week. Was contemplating popping in this afternoon for an advanced sneak peek once I’m finished with my manuscripts 😕

Journée d’étude – Miracles in Glass: the Study and Conservation of Canterbury’s Stained Glass Heritage rmblf.be/2025/02/12/j...

The cormorants(?!) weren’t cooperating today. 8 (+1 gull) scattered across the jetty with 2 others on the water’s edge offscreen

If any journals need someone to review this, I’d be happy to www.cambridge.org/pl/universit...

Often see a few of these guys surveying the water from the rocks. Not sure what they are (cormorants?!) but today there were 11 standing in a row

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Do I have any buddies who are going to see the BL Medieval Women show who'd mind picking up a catalogue for me to collect in the summer? The shipping to Oz is ruinous! #Medievalsky

Deutsche Bahn’s Nikolaustag charm offensive

Happy to have been elected a Fellow of the RHS. Thanks of course to @medievalfemina.bsky.social for nudging me to finally do it and for supporting my application!

To be honest I’m glad they sent that because the email I received is illegible 😅

Have I been added to a list? My follower numbers have exploded overnight 😅

#medievalsky Register now for The Exercise of Medieval Power & Rulership (c1000-c1400) coming up online @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social on 20-23 Nov, UK time. Attendance supporting bursaries available. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-exerci...

Go litel boke, go! 🥳 That's the manuscript of this handbook on using household and wardrobe accounts off to the publishers! #medievalbluesky

#OpenAccess The Materiality of Medieval Administration in Northern England by @medievalabby.bsky.social 📜 #MedievalSky www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Congrats on the publication of Willibrord Michel!

So if anyone is working on queenship/record keeping/records or institutions of royal government etc and wants to put a panel together get in touch!

So if anyone is working on queenship/record keeping/records or institutions of royal government etc and wants to put a panel together get in touch!

Wondering if anyone who wants to give a Leeds IMC paper in 2025 is still looking for a panel? My paper doesn’t really fit the worlds of learning theme so wondering if anyone would like to team up to put together a panel #LeedsIMC2025

It has arrived! 🥳

So very happy that my monograph is now out in the world 🥳🥳🥳 Open access too! Just have to wait for my copy to land www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

It has arrived! 🥳

Glad to see our edited collection on ancient Chinese and medieval European record keeping - a collaboration between medievalists and sinologists at Heidelberg - is now available (OA!) online! Looking forward to receiving my copy in the post! 🥳🥳🥳 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Spent a week at TNA: got to see hundred of manuscripts. Went to the BL today: requested 4 manuscripts, got to see 1. Well I’ll not be putting on the lottery today based on my luck 😂😅 but a super productive research trip all in all. Enjoy some small seals

Working through the proofs and just received the cover image for my book! Due later this year in print and OA

Can’t beat a bit of comfort food. Even managed to find something in Germany resembling custard

Woop! Avoided the Thursday 9am slot at Leeds next year!

First Glühwein of the season

I have been Germanised. I can no longer spell anything with ‘sh’ without whacking a ‘c’ in the middle. Today I have been looking at an inventory listing lots of dishes. Or disches.

#medievalsky New volume on the networks of manuscripts and text. And open access! jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jh...

Deutsche Bahn being suspiciously nice 🤔

Last work computer had the German version of Word etc so I had to learn all the German shortcuts for stuff, like italics was ctrl+alt+k. New work computer is all in English and I have forgotten all the English shortcuts. 😅 Muscle memory is now the German ones 😬

No one was liking my tweets anymore so decided to join here too