The newly re-released Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database, MLGB, as it is now commonly known, aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated with an institutional library during the Middle Ages. #siteoftheweek

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026

katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/fortun... 'Life has many delights, but Fortune never stops turning her wheel, raising some up and casting others down.'

Go round the outside.

Nothing quite like the intricacies of a carpet page Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social

I bumped into Bob Geldof on a zebra crossing. A few months later it happened again (also Bob Geldof, same crossing).

TGV - T.G.V. Partie 2 (Instrumental) [France, Electronic/Synth-pop] (1981) https://redd.it/b3d3oi https://youtu.be/eSOc52DgSuM

Today is Décadi the 10th of Nivôse in the year 234. Nivôse is the month of snow. Today we celebrate the flail.#JacobinDay More information on the flail

University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday! If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

Happy First Day of Christmas, and may we all find the Nexus.

Learn how women shaped and performed music in medieval Europe—sign up now! 🕯️🎶 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/wome... #MedievalWomen #Music

Always very pleased to see this idea spreading. I like the underlying premise that a relationship with music is a practice of devotion to one another, which is exactly the kind of weaponry we need in the war that's being waged on our spirit

At the Standing Stones of Stenness on the shortest day #Orkney

He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Green Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

Birmingham Town Hall (UK). New! Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853. #novella #fiction #literature #English

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18 ‘Trafalgar Square’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on! Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission. 📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

First non-PhD-related reading in a while. It's fascinating and contains a lot more detail than you might ever need to know about croissants and croissant-adjacent topics. But that's A GOOD THING. #croissants

Today, being St Lucy's Day and the Start of the Solar Weirdness, is the first day I can put my decorations up. This year it is also my first day as a Dr. #medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide

This will be good, please do share!

This will be good, please do share!

Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV) Galleria Sabauda, Torino

Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery! I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...

this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."

Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery! I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...

Portrait of Frances Eaton (mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart

A reminder, for anyone out there who has just woken up! My track 'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening/streaming/download on my Bandcamp page, for a limited time only: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla... #BandcampFriday #medieval #experimental #electro #music

'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page! Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla... Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release: darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a... #bandcampfriday #music #medieval

Artist: @dulcimerkate.bsky.social Looping, Dulcimer Core katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/rota-f...

'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page! Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla... Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release: darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a... #bandcampfriday #music #medieval

It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this. darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a... #music

It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this. darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a... #music

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint. And you could too....

Sounds like me?! In any case, I think this is pretty important.

It's #BandcampFriday and if you haven't yet got that special present for someone, take Gramophone reviewer Ed Breen's advice and snag one of our last few limited-edition double CDs with beautiful artwork and copious liner notes. musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

Now live on my Bandcamp page! Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla... #music

I love this!

Recent research carried out by the Teaching Medieval Women group supported by NTU, shows that women are critically underrepresented in History assessments in English secondary schools at GCSE and A-Level: theconversation.com/women-are-st...

Now live on my Bandcamp page! Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla... #music

Pretty wild! I don't know whether it makes more or less sense when you're familiar with the Abdel Halim Hafez version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-9...

Tomorrow, have a listen to my new track 'Complaint' & chuck £2 my way if you like it. After all, it's not every day you hear an electro-medieval hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's song of lament before he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com

Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

“The Arabic Dialect of Hama, Syria” by Maciej Klimiuk is now available in a two-volume edition! www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]

I'm trying to think of brilliant medieval examples from my own research, but so far my brain is only giving me the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I saw that as a metaphor for teenage psychological insecurity, trauma and trepidation about adulthood and the wider world.