Tender opportunity 💡 As part of a review of the Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund, we're commissioning some impact research to explore where our funding has most impact.

These are great - but we love manorial documents more than most! Many of this collection in Chicago are digitised (and should anyone be interested in supporting a history of any of these Norfolk or Suffolk parishes, please get in touch...):

So pleased to launch the CfP for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities!! Looking forward to your paper proposals 🤗🥳 Deadline 31 Jan 2026 @ebenbow.bsky.social @emmaolson5.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #cfp #earlymodern #history #urbanstudies #callforpapers

We’re delighted to be advertising for a Community & Advocacy Manager to work with the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association @ukiedh.bsky.social. It’s a full-time position (fixed term) and we’d love to hear from you #DigitalHumanities

Many thanks to the @rsaorg.bsky.social for sharing a notice of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death. www.rsa.org/news/709728/.... I will be attending the RSA meeting in February, so get in touch if you want to plan to talk teaching strategies! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #histmed

Been having fun resourcing medieval costumes, jewellery, games, craft and herbal props for @beinghumanfest.bsky.social interactive 'Creative Walking Between Past and Present' immersive experience on Nov 14 and 15th! Watch this space for more details ... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-w...

We look forward very much to taking part in #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November, hosted @ihr.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social, and featuring more than 70 organisations that enable historical research. It's chance to discover the rich infrastructure that can support your work. #Skystorians

Final call #HAP26

What kind of #AdventCalendar do you want this year? Join me and #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems for a #TimeTravelAdvent: one chapter (and a time machine into #history) for each day of December, right up to Christmas Day. I'll be posting on here as you read along.

Delighted to see my work 'A Heritage Trail Bio-adaptation of Rebecca Paston's Letters: Presence and Process in Conversation with Renaissance imitatio' published in Adaptation: academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

As Margaret Paston might say about the heatwave: “I beseech you, good folk, beware of your health in these perilous times, for the [heatwave] doth spread swiftly through the town and no man can be sure. I pray God keep thee from such a fate.”

Happy New (Academic) Year 📖 😭😭😉

Wonderfully thoughtful blog post about “Cartooning the Medieval” from Anne Le, a postdoctoral fellow who joined us at the Newberry in June for the event! sites.nd.edu/manuscript-s...

Writing on heritage, diagnosis, and the ethics of analogy (with reference to the Creative Health agenda in the heritage industry)

Spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why, on my latest article draft, I had written the note 'Put eggs in'. Why eggs? In what? (writing has nothing to do with food). Then realised typo of double 'g'. Think I need to take a break from the writing and refresh my old mind. Off to look at real clouds...

Chatting to my neighbours back from holiday: 10-year-old son saw a book on the Pastons at a National Trust property. Boy "look, Mum, we can get this for Karen". Mum "she probably has every book on them!" So sweet - even the kids think of me on hols when the Pastons are about!

There's still time! Check our CFP and let's talk about Chaucer and medievalism in Nancy. Please share widely. Poke @creananterre.bsky.social, @saesfrance.bsky.social, @globalchaucers.bsky.social. #ESR #medievalsky

Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

This is a fantastic post about a fantastic research project by @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social — it could be an episode in AS Byatt’s Possession! It also highlights the importance of serendipity in research and also how online research will only get us so far. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Anyone here a dab hand at localizing 15thc Dutch dialects?

#CFP for #IMC2026 'New Approaches to Medieval Office Liturgy'. @imc-leeds.bsky.social Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

Just reviewed a grant application - timely intervention in a global area, astute research questions, robust methodology, nuanced theoretical framework, far-reaching outcomes. Excellent partnership framework. Yet with a 5% success rate in the grant competition, will it see the light of day?

this is such a beautiful conversation with @zenakamash.bsky.social about the power of connection and healing through tangible and intangible cultural heritage—please take a few minutes to hear more about this amazing work! #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #ArchaeologyLovers

I've been scribbling. In the next few days excited to share deets on a creative-critical pedagogy article and an essay on heritage trails as an adaptation method. Have also been sorting the final publisher's manuscript of my latest monograph.

1/2 A superlative, benevolent & generous scholar, whom we lost this year, in his last email to me, said “Supporting rising talent, I have come to understand, whether through direct teaching or indirect support and mentoring, is ultimately more important than anything I’ve published. …

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled. It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info. #historysky #academicsky 1/3

I'm at that exciting stage: the final stages of one book's manuscript while discussing co-authoring the next one. It feels like saying goodbye to a dear friend as they go off on an adventure into the big world while having exciting meetings with new thoughts/'friends' bubbling in ...

Is England's earliest Valentine's letter an expression of love or a shrewd marriage bid? pastonfootprints.co.uk/margery-brew.... Biography of Margery Brews Paston by @FLovellInfo. Sharing the love this #ValentinesDay listen to Margery's letter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9z0...

You know what never gets old and continues to amaze me - finding hidden stories in the archives. Have just written an article to shine a light on one forgotten figure. More anon after peer review ...

I'm currently writing on the curated decay of heritage storytelling. Can't wait to read this article 👇

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...

Obligatory intro post! Hello! I lecture in medieval literature at the University of Bristol. I wrote a book about local place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales (pic below).

Museum Storytelling for Transformative Change How could innovative approaches to storytelling help us (and our audiences) imagine new possibilities and open up capacity and agency for transformative change? Read more and sign up for our online workshop shorturl.at/Yiy3P Tues 4 Feb 12.30 - 14.00

I recently worked with Literature Compass to co-edit a cluster of essays in honor of the work of Dr. John Ganim and in celebration of his retirement. I'll link the individual articles below; I wrote a short introduction that provides some context for the essays. doi.org/10.1111/lic3...

15th Century Starter Pack, the best of all the centruries AM I RIGHT? ⚔️ go.bsky.app/3wEUeqJ

Not necessarily where I expect to find fifteenth-century English poet Lydgate cited, but I'm not mad about it

It has been a while since I was on bluesky .... just spent a few minutes trying to recall how to sign out and I'm so joyous I've figured it out I've stayed to post again!

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023. Nominate your work or a work that you 💜. Deadline 31 May. Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

I usually do professional messages but this time it's personal. My dearest friend has a bleed on the brain and is being prepped for neurosurgery. If you are the praying type, prayers for J, her family and all the doctors working with her much appreciated.

Would you like to help shape our Centre for the History of People, Place & Community? Are you an #ECR researcher, practitioner or professional working in a relevant area? We’re looking for 2 or 3 ECRs to join our Advisory Board. Apply by 23/11. blog.history.ac.uk/2023/10/invi...

Delighted my pastonfootprints.co.uk project won the 2023 Bishop of Norwich's First Nature prize. Encouraging wellbeing benefits for children on Paston heritage trails via medieval pilgrimage, herb gardens, wool industry, plague wellbeing strategies, hunting for Goshawks, imagining griffins etc

Excited to announce the second of our 'Disability & Climate: In conversation with' sessions! Join @emmageen.bsky.social on Zoom on 16 Nov 2023, 6–7.30pm GMT to discuss the process of co-producing a disability inclusive climate plan! Find out more & sign up online: forms.office.com/e/f667CHSWSP

Grateful to the Royal Historical Society for funding my new teaching this semester on @PastonFootprints heritage trails with Medical Humanities students: Society awards seven Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2023-24 | RHS (royalhistsoc.org) Wonder what #MargaretMautbyPaston would make of it?

A note on John Fenn: tinyurl.com/yjd48cc9