Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!) We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians

Delighted to announce that more than 80 MS fragments from Gubbio, dating to s. XI-XII, have just been published online, thanks to the hard work of my PhD student, Laura Rogari. You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...

Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.

Big thanks to the folks at Industrial Light & Magic Vancouver for making me feel so welcome this week. And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.

If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.

I missed my train this evening and, as it was late, I bought a pasty from West Cornwall Pasty inside Temple Meads station. The last time I bought a pasty from them, in 2014, it was ca. £4.50. Now it's £7.59. That's an increase of about 68.7%. Happy inflation, everybody!

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.

Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!

We can't wait to watch this!

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester! #medievalsky #skystorians

Delighted to run this summer school again! Please, take a look at our new site and share this with colleagues and students who may be interested. www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.

We absolutely loved having you -- come back and see us soon! 🥰

The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.

Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn...

A great review of an excellent documentary, which is a lot of fun to watch! I'd also strongly recommend the interview with the director, Jon Spira, on Jamie Benning's podcast channel: @filmumentaries.bsky.social.

Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford ([email protected]) ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r... fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ

Just arrived!

Book review just published! Send me an email if you’re interested in a copy: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... 📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Fragments from classical authors are rare! MS of Seneca's Letters 64 & 65 (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2855). The connection with Fragm. 1622 was not noticed. www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Straw men: Robin Hardy's "British folk horror oddity like no other, now fully authorised" THE WICKER MAN (FINAL CUT) (2013) rescreens 9pm tonight, NFT3 BFI Southbank #MovieDrome projectedfigures.com/2013/09/27/t...

Those of you working on manuscripts may be interested in this new imaging device, which is really a game changer: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Publication day! Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature is out 🥳 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social have been fantastic to work with and all the contributors are incredible - brilliant chapters, a dream to work with, supportive throughout. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @ucu.org.uk

Printed book of Aquinas's Disputed Questions with two loosened pastedown leaves in Hebrew. Interesting ex libris that seems to indicate that late-medieval monastic libraries in Trier had books in Hebrew! (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, XY 489 4') nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

You can now listen to the BFI panel "The Star Wars Influence" that I was a part of. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Congrats to @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and Melek Karataş on the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections, the latest title on our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures (BSMC) series with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. If you’d like to be next, get in touch! @bristolcms.bsky.social

All three series of David Lynch's TWIN PEAKS are now on MUBI UK & Ireland. Here's a piece I wrote, about a third of the way into THE RETURN (2017), on the way it thematises and reflects its viewers' incomprehension projectedfigures.com/2017/06/25/i...

One incunable, binding waste from two different MSS. To the left a bifolium from a commentary on the Pauline epistles, right a leaf from a Summa confessorum. 🕵️ (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Inc. 220) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

Just arrived! Looking forward to reading it.

Check out my latest episode - A great conversation with author Max Evry about his wonderful book "A Masterpiece in Disarray" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

REF sub-panel chairs and deputy chairs have been announced and it’s very good news for colleagues in Classics. Congratulations to @katherineharloe.bsky.social (Chair) and Catherine Steel (Deputy). More info in the link for other Panel D sub-panels! 2029.ref.ac.uk/main-panel-d/

Looking forward to this!

We're so close to reaching our target! Can you help us get to shoot the final chapter of our documentary on legendary production designer Joe Alves? Your support would be very much appreciated. gofund.me/7b6c629a

The Cicero Poeta conference was such a joy to organise and run, and I'm ever so grateful to our participants (online and in person) for the excellent papers and the thought-provoking discussion! www.altphil.uni-freiburg.de/termine/cice...

An unmissable event for anyone interested in movie making and living in the Southwest!

I need your help. We’re raising funds for a last-minute chance to get to Martha’s Vineyard and film at the Jaws 50th anniversary event. The footage will be a key part of our documentary, about production designer Joe Alves. A donation or a share — would mean a great deal. gofund.me/13795716

2) Sitting on a panel discussing my @rarebookschool.bsky.social Fragmentology course, its curriculum, and its goals (Sat. at 3:30, same room). rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...

Applications for the University of Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School are closing THIS SUNDAY (4TH MAY)! Don't miss out -- get your application in today! Find out more and apply today at: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... #medievalsky #bristolsummer

I just booked James Kahn on the podcast!

On Professors of Latin at Liverpool… just published: … www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

Dozens of Ancient Artifacts Seized in Greek Island Smuggling Raid - The National Herald www.thenationalherald.com/dozens-of-an...

"The fragment was preserved by accident in the binding of a book in Hereford Cathedral’s library." Like I always say: survey those early bindings...you never know what you might find! #Fragmentology ftw! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

For those of you interested in cinema and filmmaking, this episode of @filmumentaries.bsky.social will be a boon: youtu.be/__S1J1iQAfQ?...

"Playing like a Jarmusch – or Amirpour – joint," Karan Kandhari's SISTER MIDNIGHT (2024) is "a droll, strange, cool freak of a film, never... following through on narrative expectation." 9pm tonight at @bifff-festival.bsky.social. Review for @lwlies.com. Recommended. lwlies.com/reviews/sist...