On Monday, we held our third annual online Postgraduate Symposium, where we were honoured to hear a plenary lecture from Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL & VP of the EHS) on 'Church History and the History of Religious Cultures: What and How?' youtu.be/SDLVOfgrmQM?... #ChurchHistory #Skystorians

Need a new podcast episode? 🎧 One of our former EHS Presidents, Peter Marshall, is on That Shakespeare Life podcast to talk about how Shakespeare would have celebrated #Easter ⬇️

We've got an amazing lineup of keynote speakers for our Summer Conference this year! We're currently calling for 20-minute papers on the topic of 'The Church and Race', so make sure to submit your proposal by 15 April to join our fabulous speakers. ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

📜 New on the blog: Bryce O'Connor explores the Synodikon Vetus, a fascinating source for the history of councils, orthodoxy and memory in the early Church. Find out what it reveals about imperial legitimacy in the 800s. 🔗 Read more: wp.me/p7o0HV-sk #ChurchHistory

📣 Call for Papers – Summer Conference The Ecclesiastical History Society invites 20-minute paper proposals on the theme 'The Church and Race'. We welcome contributions from scholars at all career stages. 🗓 Submission deadline: 15 April 2026 #CFP #ChurchHistory #Skystorians

Next Monday 30 March we are holding our online Postgraduate Symposium. Check out the schedule below, and register to join us for great discussions on church history and a chance to connect with fellow postgraduates. 📅 30 March, 3-7pm BST 🔗 Secure your place and register now! shorturl.at/ppwQ2

✨ Call for Papers ✨ Are you a postgrad, ECR, independent scholar, or heritage professional researching any aspect of Midlands history? We'd love to hear about your work at our New Voices in Midland History Conference on Saturday 6 June at Newark Museum. CfP details below 👇 deadline 31 March.

Today we launch a call for the Society's next round of 'Public History Grants' and 'Conference Panel Grants', 2026-27: bit.ly/4lNt8ck Public History Grants support collaborative projects by historians working in / outside HE; Panel Grants enable conference attendance on a shared theme #Skystorians

📅 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where we welcome @williampurkis.bsky.social (University of Birmingham): Portals to Holy Places: Relics, Round Churches, and the Reshaping of the Crusading Ideal 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!

Wow! Behold St. Mary of the Lake in Uptown, designed by the great Chicagoland church architect Henry Schlacks. A thread with some pics if you have a moment to scroll.

Keen to gain a better understanding of handwriting from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern periods? This course provides an intro to manuscript-production in Britain and Ireland over the course of a millennium. Book your spot here 👉️https://buff.ly/36zXyHL #palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

Call for papers: @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social 🗃️ conference on The Church and Race @royalholloway.bsky.social, 13-15 July 2026. #CFP deadline 15 April. Keynotes from incoming EHS president @mirierubin.bsky.social, Herman Bennett, and Rowan Williams ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

Save the dates: advance notice of our next All Hallows lecture series on 31 Oct and 7 Nov. Preliminary information at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-h...

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!🇮🇪 According tradition, St Patrick used the shamrock to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity. The symbol became linked with his teaching and remains central to modern celebrations. ☘️ Shelfmarks: MS. Tanner 17, fol. 031r MS. Douce 80, fol. 196r MS. Douce 256, fol. 013r

Happy St Patrick's Day! 🍀 Here he is in statue form, peering down from his niche on the grand façade of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Edinburgh's Cowgate, an area of the city known from the latter half of 19th century as "Little Ireland." www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-pa...

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...

For #MementoMoriMonday the cadaver effigy of Paul Bush, first bishop of Bristol (d. 1558). An interesting character - Augustinian prior, theologically conservative but married. His wife d. in 1553, he was nevertheless deprived of his bishopric - but his effigy has a mitre under the head and crosier

Our new blogpost is by PhD candidate Bryce O'Connor (Cambridge) on the Synodikon Vetus, a medieval account of every church council from the apostles to the 800s. Was it a history intended as propaganda in a contemporary Church schism? Bryce investigates: wp.me/p7o0HV-sk #ChurchHistory

The countdown is on! 🎉 We’re excited for our Postgraduate Symposium on 30 March — and the schedule is now finalised. Expect inspiring research, great discussions, and a chance to connect with fellow postgraduates. 📅 Monday 30 March, 3-7pm BST 🔗 Secure your place and register now! shorturl.at/ppwQ2

The countdown is on! 🎉 We’re excited for our Postgraduate Symposium on 30 March — and the schedule is now finalised. Expect inspiring research, great discussions, and a chance to connect with fellow postgraduates. 📅 Monday 30 March, 3-7pm BST 🔗 Secure your place and register now! shorturl.at/ppwQ2

ICYMI: Submissions for our annual PhD Lightning Talks event closes this Friday 13 March! If you are in the first two years of your PhD, work on the field of British history in the long 18th cent (1660-1830) and are looking to share your research, get in touch! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/ihr...

Calling all #historians 🚨 Our Summer Conference on 'The Church and Race' is now open for paper submissions. It will be held in London on 13-15 July 2026 at Royal Holloway, University of London. ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

Our upcoming Postgraduate Symposium is this month on 30 March! Register your place now by emailing Michael Fraser, [email protected] The plenary lecture will be given by EHS Vice President Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL) #History #PGConference #ChurchHistory

Join us for a fascinating evening with David Scott on the Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian Style.

The magnificent five panel east window in St Thomas' Church, Aboyne, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, is by Morris & Co. Some 16th and 17th century Flemish and Spanish stained glass fragments were pieced together to form the medallions used in other windows in the church. #WindowsOnWednesday

Still spaces available for the first lecture in our FREE Spring series - Sophie Oosterwijk on precious-metal effigies, 14 March 5 pm. Details at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/gilde... - and the whole series is at churchmonumentssociety.org/events

March is Women's History Month! Women are present throughout our collections but their narratives can be harder to find. Our online guide addresses this imbalance by highlighting archives and rare books relating to women, which can be accessed for research or enjoyment. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM

Don't forget to submit a paper proposal for our Summer Conference held in London, 13-15 July 2026. Plenary speakers include President Miri Rubin (@qmul.bsky.social), Prof Herman Bennett (@cuny.edu) & Rev Rowan Williams (104 Archbishop of Canterbury) ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

Calling all #postgrads 🚨 Register to attend our upcoming EHS Postgraduate conference on 20 March: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium... #twitterstorians #history #conference

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Widely accepted as one of the finest examples of English decorative stone carving in existence, the Percy Canopy in Beverley Minster dates to between 1340 and 1349. It is possibly in commemoration of Eleanor, daughter of Richard Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel

CfA 📢 2026 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize (@eccleshistsoc.bsky.social)🏆Awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published in 2025. ⏰Deadline: 28 February 2026 🔗 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr... #HistoryOfChristianity #BookPrize

A reminder of our next ITQ Lecture (TOMORROW EVENING) Tuesday 24 February with Prof. Adele Reinhartz. All most warmly welcome. Do please register to alert us of numbers.

Our second PG Symposium is coming up on 30 March! Join us online to explore more about 'Theories, Frameworks and Concepts' in #ChurchHistory. If you would like to attend, please email Michael Fraser ([email protected]). ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium...

🚨 Upcoming #ChurchHistory conference: The Rev. Alford, A.W.N. Pugin & the Restoration of Wymeswold Church 📍 At St Mary's Church in Wymeswold, England 🗓️ Saturday, Apr 11 from 10 am to 4:30 pm More info ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rev-al...

A scandal occurred in 1820 when George IV of England attempted to annul his marriage to estranged Caroline of Brunswick for adultery. The Queen Caroline Affair was often contested in Anglican places of worship. Dr Nicholas Dixon explores the ecclesiastical dimension the ‘Affair’: shorturl.at/XMluA

We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history Keynote speakers: ▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social ▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu ▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams Deadline: 15 April ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

#CfP 'Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World' 13-14 July 2026, St John’s College, @durham.ac.uk With Keynotes by Dr Natalie Goodison (Durham), Dr Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) and Professor Stuart Carroll (York) @durhammemsa.bsky.social

We aren't surprised! #Historians love a good library (we prefer one full of #ChurchHistory books) 📚🧠

Deadline: 28 Feb The Society is now running its annual #bookprize, primarily aimed at early career researchers. The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year. ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr... #ECR

Another more traditional view of the ornate interior of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris 📷

#OTD in #ChurchHistory: Puritan leader and advocate of religious freedom, Roger Williams, arrived in Boston from England in 1631. He would go on to establish the first settlement in present-day Rhode Island. Image: Naragansett Native Americans receiving Roger Williams via New York Public Library

The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians Deadline: 15 April 2026

Medieval floor tiles from Meaux (Melsa) Abbey dating back to between 1249-1269. The Cistercian abbey, near Beverley was one of the most important and wealthy in Yorkshire. Although no buildings remain above ground, foundations and earthworks indicating the substantial size of

Whilst we are looking at Meaux Abbey, this is the nearby church of St Peter at Wawne. What is known of its early history comes mainly from the medieval chronicle of the Abbey. Before 1160, its founder William de Gros granted the monks land in Wawne and the church’s revenues in recognition of

For those in #London who want an in-person introduction to Stuart London (including some excellent #churchhistory), check out the Mary Ward Centre's newest 8-week #history course. Begins Saturday 7 February, 14:00-16:00 www.marywardcentre.ac.uk/course-detai... #SkyStorians

Our #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 @royalholloway.bsky.social is now open! More details: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

New #churchhistory exhibition: 28 Jan- 4 May 2026 Lambeth Palace Library presents Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time, exploring the legacy and influence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/primate-of-a...

Evesham is the one house for which we have a sense of how the day of dissolution actually unfolded. The commissioners entered the abbey church ‘at evensonge tyme the covent being in the quere at this verse: Deposuit potentes. And would not suffur them to make an ende.’