There's room for another historian (or anthropologist) at @girtoncollege.bsky.social ! 3-year postdoc research fellowship, apply by 12 January! www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

goodbye old year, hello new books

Some of the faces of @chestercathedral.bsky.social

Chester Cathedral in Lego, in Chester Cathedral @chestercathedral.bsky.social

Recorrer Europa como un caballero medieval 🧭 "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale entre los mejores ensayos para regalar estas Navidades recomendados en el especial del ABC ✍️ www.abc.es/cultura/cult... #ÁticoHistoria

'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress. Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.

We are still accepting applications to the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026, open to both early career and established scholars of any nationality. Awards are tenable for a maximum of 12 months. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

"In Bactria there are more griffins than elsewhere...On his feet the griffin has long, large talons like ox-horns, and they are very sharp. From these talons people make drinking-cups, like we make bugles from horns, and from his ribs they make bows for archery." Trans. @realmandeville.bsky.social

To celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years of 'In Our Time', five well-known fans chose their favourite episodes, and Girton Fellow Prof Anthony Bale features in one! Author & columnist Caitlin Moran chose the episode on English medieval mystic Margery Kempe. 🎧 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cyfkg

I am very excited to speak alongside the alarmingly fantastic @cathamclarke.bsky.social, @realmandeville.bsky.social and @saracharles.bsky.social about the experience of writing a trade press book at #IMC2026, which is something I did not necessarily envisage myself doing!

Radio 4 is currently repeating this wonderful episode of In Our Time BBC Radio 4 - Margery Kempe and English Mysticism share.google/9liBWxkcH4pC...

Si siempre has querido saber cómo era hacer un viaje en la Edad Media, este libro de @realmandeville.bsky.social publicado en @aticodeloslibros.com es lo que estabas esperando historiaeweb.com/2025/11/20/g...

アンソニー・ベイル/ ダコスタ吉村花子訳『中世トラベルガイド』(河出書房新社) 読了 歴史学者である著者が旅行記などから中世の旅とはどのようなものだったのかを描き出す。とはいえ中世の旅行記には行ったこともないのに想像で書いたものもあるので注意が必要w 旅の目的は巡礼と交易が主だったようで(旅があまりに苦難の連続なので物見遊山の旅人が少ないのは当然だ)、巡礼ならヨーロッパからエルサレム、交易であればもっと東方(インドや中国)までの旅が紹介されている。時折はさまれる旅の注意や、作法などのコラムが楽しい。それにしても、落書きしたり、記念物の石を削り取って持ち帰ったり、人間はあまり変わらないのねw

🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships invite writers, translators, and scholars in the humanities from around the world to spend at least three months in Iceland. Fellows receive support for travel and living expenses during their stay. Apply by 1 December. arnastofnun.is/en/snorri-st...

Reading rec: 📖🧳 A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes 🧳📖 by Anthony Bale (@realmandeville.bsky.social) www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... Entertaining exploration of how medieval European travelers made sense of foreign lands and the world.

The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal! Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD

you should read this book, one of the most interesting things I've read in years

Anthony Bale: "En el siglo XV ya había turismo organizado en Europa" El medievalista británico publica una guía que transporta al lector a los caminos, hostales y ciudades de la Edad Media. es.ara.cat/cultura/hist... #ÁticoHistoria

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values. Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Few signed copies at Atticus Books in New Haven, CT if anyone’s interested! (And in good company @realmandeville.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social) #medievalsky #booksky

Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Hoy tengo niña con galipandria de caballo e inminente mañana perdida en el CAP, pero en cuanto tenga un rato os tengo que hablar de este maravilloso libro y su excelente autor. De lo mejor que ha pasado por mis manos en el último año. Ya os di alguna pinceladita, pero luego MÁS

Spanish translation published by @aticodeloslibros.com today! Plus Benny the cat, contemplating his imminent breakfast aticodeloslibros.com/197-anthony-...

¿Turismo en la Edad Media?: Gaza, Jerusalén y Tierra Santa, destinos de los siglos XII, XIII y XIV Consejos para cruzar el desierto o la tabla de tasas para Tierra Santa en 'Guía de viajes por la Edad Media' elconfidencial.com/cultura/2025... @elconfidencial.bsky.social @realmandeville.bsky.social

Delighted that my article 'Thinking with the Renegade' has been published in JMEMS, tracing the history of the 'renegade' as a figure in English culture. It is part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project on cultural representations of Ottomans and others around the Siege of Rhodes 1480

¡Novedad! "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media", del mayor experto en el viaje y la peregrinación en la Edad Media Anthony Bale, llegará a librerías el 29 de septiembre 📚 Descubre cómo era imaginado, percibido y experimentado el mundo por los viajeros medievales✨ aticodeloslibros.com/inicio/393-g...

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

The beautiful monastery at Sázava 🇨🇿 where the Charles University Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is holding its summer school, themed this year around medieval travel. Many layers of history and a great atmosphere

📌 15 de septiembre: "Flashman y señora" de George MacDonald Fraser 📌 15 de septiembre: "Muerte en el Ártico" de Tom Hindle 📌 22 de septiembre: "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale #ÁticodelosLibros #ÁticoHistoria

"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

Got a book on ‘black magic’ from @thelondonlibrary.bsky.social 🧙🏼‍♂️Discovered that John and Cathy had been using it for practical fortune telling. At least they only wrote in pencil

"Wir nehmen uns selbst mit, wohin wir auch gehen, und unsere Werte und Ansprüche erlegen uns Grenzen auf, selbst dann, wenn wir auf der Suche nach Freiheit sind." Anthony Bale über das Reisen (in seinem Buch: "Reisen im Mittelalter")

Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@[email protected]) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

Os va a en-can-tar esta deliciosa guía del viaje en la época medieval que ha escrito @realmandeville.bsky.social: "Guía de viajes en la Edad Media", con visita de autor y goce garantizado. En librerías el 22/09.

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

Join me and Larisa Grollemond @gettymuseum.bsky.social talking about medieval travel next month: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Girton Fellow Professor Anthony Bale has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, in honour of his outstanding contributions to scholarship. Read more ➡️ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/girton-medievalist-professor-anthony-bale-elected-fellow-british-academy

British Academy elects twelve @cam.ac.uk researchers to Fellowship in 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Had a great time running the #thelondon10k and raising money for the amazing underwear charity Smalls for All, to say pants to poverty: gofund.me/46de96dd

Marina Warner’s eloquent and urgent new book, tracing the rich human histories of sanctuary - on what it means to find and to lose a place of shelter.

'The British Library has acquired five medieval manuscripts of outstanding national heritage significance, formerly in the collection of Longleat House' @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

The RES annual essay prize for postgraduate students: deadline 30 June academic.oup.com/res/pages/es...