Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭

My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life." RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

With the support of a Research Project Grant, @hwaetspur.bsky.social and his team @kent.ac.uk undertake the first-ever thorough analysis of Britain’s much understudied early medieval letters, opening unique windows into the past. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

CFP "Historical Aspects of Engla Land: Beyond Beowulf" Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at @kzooicms.bsky.social 2026. We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social!

Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?

The deadline for this job is this coming Monday!

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht... We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

Interested in early medieval letters? Then the latest EME article, by Robert Flierman and Hope Williard, is for you! Now on Early View, open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

I'm delighted to share the programme for the first workshop of the Loyalty Research Network, taking place this Friday 6th June from 1pm UK time. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in loyalty across the medieval world, so please message me if you'd like the link! #medieval

Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England! #medievalsky

Fantastic opportunity: 4-yr fully funded PhD at Galway on textual obscurity in the early medieval insular world

Deadline for applications is this Friday - still time! 🙂

Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres

Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres

Really excellent piece on the UK HE crisis

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open! 24-26 June, London. Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look: themamo.org

Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany: www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/890776...

Final push on this from me before the weekend. Please sign if you agree and you haven't already! We will keep it open as long as we can, but don't delay! ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

This is a cool discovery! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Check out this opportunity with Julia Crick & @hwaetspur.bsky.social 🎉

I highly recommend this thoughtful piece by Julia Smith, on the history of early medieval as a category of historical study. Just published in Early Medieval England and its neighbours! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜New Directions in Old English Prose 🏫University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 📅30–31 March 2026 ⌛️Deadline: 1st August 2025

This new volume is fantastic: a lucid and imaginative account of early medieval social history, which is usually (but wrongly!) seen as dry and confusing. Highly recommended! Available Open Access for a limited time only! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

This is all really interesting. Bringing back student number controls won't cost anything, will work to stabilise the hugely-unstable HE sector, and help a lot with other parts of Labour's agenda (as suggested below). But the Government just doesn't seem interested, for no obvious reason at all.

Exciting stuff! 👀

A little Late Antique holiday cheer. A 5th-6th c. textile Nativity with Jesus in a stone-built manger, perhaps made in Syria (Metropolitan Museum, NYC, MMA 90.5.11a-e).

This includes a fully funded PhD to work on Anglo-Saxon charter single sheets with Julia Crick and me. Please spread the word, and hmu if you have any qs!

We in @memsunikent.bsky.social are excited about the news of these projects and the open call for PhD funding:

This is the day! New projects available now on www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/ for five lucky future PhDs. Four projects will be based at Kent while one at King's. Waste no time and check them out as they are set to begin in the autumn of 2025 #phd #cfa #callforapplication #komldsp #medieval

Call for Papers for a Roundtable on Gender in Latin Studies. RELICS is organizing a digital roundtable on the topic of gender in Latin Studies on March 11, 2025. Proposals for impulse talks of 5 minutes should be sent to [email protected] by January 13. More info:👇 relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...

Always a highlight of the teaching term: examining original Anglo-Saxon charters (including the 'Fonthill letter') at Canterbury Cathedral with @memsunikent.bsky.social MA students. This year they were treated to a double act of @hwaetspur.bsky.social and me.

A policy that has created so much unnecessary stress and instability in UK HE, and has already led to job losses and people leaving the sector

What did a medieval scribe look like? This boy, aged c.13-15, was buried in Ipswich in the middle of the seventh century with an iron stylus in a leather sheath, accompanied by just a knife and belt-buckle, in a non-monastic cemetery.

NEW from the Royal Historical Society: the terrible damage done to university History departments by (1) drift and negligence, (2) appalling policy and (3) the bad behaviour of a handful of universities determined to survive at all costs. royalhistsoc.org/value-of-his...

'Jinty belongs with the giants.' 👏👏👏 A beautiful tribute by @pstafford.bsky.social blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/10/25/j...

On the blog this morning, a rather depressing post to try and sum up what it feels like working in UK HE at the moment for those who perhaps haven't realised what it's like in the sector.

After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won't | Nesrine Malik

This is incredibly useful from the amazing @memsunikent.bsky.social graduate students who run @memslibukc.bsky.social - a listing of British Library manuscript catalogues you can access, even in the aftermath of the cyber attack: www.memslib.co.uk/post/researc... Thank you, @memslibukc.bsky.social!