Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art? Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh: Global Premodern Art (MSc) History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc) Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc) Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)

Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art? Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh: Global Premodern Art (MSc) History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc) Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc) Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)

👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇

'Applications are invited from both early career and established scholars of any nationality, engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations, that include the analysis of the material features of original manuscripts'. up to £2k.

Well, off I go to this - a first for me, so I will keep you posted. Double expresso and a good book to see me there!

The phenomenal and enigmatic rock crystal and gold 'jar' of Bishop Hyguald from the heart of the Galloway Hoard is NOW on display for the first time ever. It was held back for Kirkcudbright while the rest of the Hoard continues its world tour in Melbourne (1/2)

An interesting mix today. I'll be discussing AI with my first yrs and thinking about Sonja Drimmer & Christopher Nygren's very interesting work on this. This coincides with the week I ask them to take notes with quills and ink & consider embodied learning. Its going to be an interesting contrast...

HAD to put the bookplate there, didn't you...

Very interested in this... when can I get to Norway? www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...

I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works: www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast

I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works: www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast

This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19👀👇), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS

Ohh look at this:

ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.

This might include book history, textual transmission, the making and use of manuscripts, publishing, printing, bookbinding, book-ownership and book-collecting. These awards are intended to support research that advances the understanding of book cultures from all parts of the World.

CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World” Conference at the University of Amsterdam Monday, 15 June 2026 How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world? #earlymodern #C18L 1/6

These are the terrifying Halloween carved turnips of my youth....

Had a meeting in the Scottish National Gallery yesterday and just enough time to reacquaint myself with what is on view... Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...

The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.

Oct 28: Feast of Dorbéne mac Altaíni (†713), abbot of Iona. Scribe of the earliest surviving copy of Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Fáelchú mac Dorbéni succeeded him. 📸Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen #medievalsky

We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme. The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians

𝗠𝗮𝗲𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟯 Edited by André Stufkens More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7 #Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt

six views of Beinn Sgritheall, a word-mntn for Loch Hourn; the the-ben-of-screes

Thank you all for joining us to celebrate Franco-Scottish friendship and the 730th anniversary of the #AuldAlliance! We were delighted to organize two inspiring conferences with Dr. Bryony Coombs and Clarisse Godard Desmarest as well as a wonderful choir concert at St Giles' Cathedral

Pink Panther Returns?! #Caturday #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5656)

Found a joyful fragment in my collection: a 15th-century parchment leaf once reused in a bookbinding! 🎶 It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum — the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas — complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather. #BookHistory #Fragmentology

There are still 5 spots left in my upcoming workshop on ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’! You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It has been a big week, with a lot of talking to people. Now to catch-up on all the other things...

This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We don’t know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa

#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2) Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).

Colloque – Zooming In and Out: Reconsidering Hans Memling rmblf.be/2025/10/20/c...

📚 Author Event: Bryony Coombs at the Institut français d'Écosse 📆 Thursday 23rd October, 3pm 📍@ifecosse.bsky.social, Edinburgh @bryonycoombs.bsky.social will deliver a lecture among the celebrations for the 730th anniversary of the Auld Alliance!  🎟️ Book your free ticket: 

When is the summit of a Munro ever like this?? (Meall Chuaich)...

Taking little annual leave and what a day for a Munro....

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good! 🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

Zachary Boyd’s Books: Recovering a 17th-Century Scottish Library 21 Oct @uofglasgow.bsky.social & online – free @profastreete.bsky.social has worked to reconstruct Boyd’s library, bequeathed to UofG – a new & substantial archive #C17 #earlymodern #bookhistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adrian-str...

In case anyone is in Edinburgh and free a week on Thursday: www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

I think my previous post got censored, but I do think you need to see this little guy and his enormous tooth - as he points to where it hurts! 🦷 (From a medical ms - Edinburgh CRC ms 314)

Today was fun: medical manuscripts this morning at Edinburgh CRC (ms 314, ms 170; ms 168). Followed by an urban foraging lecture (quite medicine based) and 16th C recipes at the historical reconstruction lab. So interesting!

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

If in doubt (or experiencing existential dread at the state of academia), I can recommend a stormy beach walk collecting pigment shells....

In the proud tradition of staff-student solidarity at Edinburgh, a moving call from EUJPS at our 8 Sept. strike rally to stand together against unaccountable and unethical management of University finance #UCU #WeAreTheUniversity #DivestNow www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/ckdj6l6...

Definitely an endless scream kind of a day....

At Early Medieval Europe we’re thrilled to team up once again with the BSR to sponsor a fellowship! One doctoral student or ECR will have the chance to carry out a month of research in Rome. More info below

She is holding a book! 📖 Currently writing a section on visual evidence for book use in medieval Scotland - so this could not be better timed... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...