Looking forward to my trip to Edinburgh tomorrow!

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

One-Year Teaching Fellowship in Medieval English Literature at the Univ of Birmingham: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG641/t...

A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage edited by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis - Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean www.arc-humanities.org/978164189179...

Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

Coming up next month from the Hospitaller Research Forum online (www.um.edu.mt/.../proje......): Jochen Burgtorf speaking on 'Editing Hospitaller Material'.

Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History- UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB509/a...

Whatever else this moment is, it is not medieval. The 21st century needs to own its own darkness. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Middle order batting collapse”.

We've created a new Starter Pack of #History institutes and research centres in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3F3Eo2M Please do share. There will be gaps and recommendations are welcome. We hope this pack helps you keep in touch with work by and for historians in the UK & Ireland #Skystorians.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 15 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 14 #booksky

The programme for this term’s @ihr.bsky.social #Crusades and the #LatinEast seminar is now available here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/cru... #medievalsky #skystorians

ICYMI (I did), @nytimes.com says that the Middle Ages will be hot in 2025. a coincidence that this year is the centennary of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social??? #medievalsky link --> www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 13 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 12 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 10 #booksky

Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access! Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)

The best arguments for learning Latin are not the practical ones (it helps us understand legal terms, what the Pope is saying, or how to learn German) but those which remember how engaging with cultures, literature and people very different from ourselves enriches those who do it and so all of us

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 9 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 8 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 7 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 6 #booksky

Our #medieval lecture for 2025 will be given by Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) on the lives and travels of medieval women. Join us in person (London) or online on Friday 7 February at 6:30pm GMT. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1112882945...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 5 #booksky

Today I have been in my happy place. #medievalsky #skystorians

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 4 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 3 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 2 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 1 #booksky

This week, after joining University of Birmingham as a part-time MA student in 2015, I had my #PhD graduation ceremony in the Great Hall (built 1900) - thank you to all who supported me along the way!

Absolutely thrilled to see one of the volumes in the #CrusadingInContext series that I edit for @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social on this list. Massive congratulations to Tom Smith! #medievalsky #skystorians

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

this looks so interesting

My friend Marci Freedman died a week or two ago. She was great. It was nice to see her name in this contents list.

Pilgrimage contents (by request) #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage

…Santa?

When there was so little you could control about illness and feeding your family, pilgrimages provided hope and safety. Perhaps we need to remind ourselves that everyone deserves hope.

A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage – now in 3D! #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage

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Marc Bloch revolutionized the way we study history, not just the Middle Ages, though that was his specialty. In WWII he joined the resistance & was eventually captured, tortured & executed by the Gestapo. Entry into the Pantheon means that he will deservedly rest among the greatest heroes of France

And this one: a pilgrim souvenir depicting geese, a symbol of St Werburg of Chester, again from the excellent display at Salisbury Museum.

Pilgrim souvenirs on display at Salisbury Museum, depicting symbols associated with several medieval saints.

The most fundamental medieval impression I took from my vacation in Cairo was how thoroughly Saladin transformed the city, above all through the construction of this massive citadel looming on a ridge and dominating the space. Saladin the builder is underrated.

Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire. Founded 1135. “Buildwas is one of the most picturesque of ruins….This Abbey had a very respectable library. I have encountered a considerable number of books from it, at Cambridge, Lambeth and elsewhere.” MR James writing in 1925. #medievalmonday #medievalsky

Hello Bluesky. I work on medieval pilgrimage and on medievalism. My book on English and German medieval pilgrimage writing & my edited volume on international medievalism are here: boydellandbrewer.com/author/mary-... I’ve nearly finished my next book on Anglo-German medievalism in the long C19.

It’s been an appropriately long journey to arrive at this destination, but I’m very pleased to announce this morning the publication of the Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage that I’ve co-edited with Andrew Jotischky for @archumanities.bsky.social. #medievalsky #skystorians #newbooks #pilgrimage