Do you or your students work with medieval Greek sources? We have specialist palaeography training for you! Online in February 2026 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Will you be in London on Dec 3rd? Perhaps you'd like to come to UCL and hear me talk with Matthew J. Smith about my new book, and potentially even get a book from me without paying international shipping! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...

Remember remember! Some very blurry printing on this highly sectarian pamphlet about 'the 5th of November' printed in 1679

“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true." #UKHE www.leicester.news/university-o...

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.

I strongly endorse this level of detail in ownership inscriptions.

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New development at the British Library announced today amid very difficult times for both staff and readers.

Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.

Having fun at History Day with @ies-sas.bsky.social #HistDay25 ❤️📚📖

It’s History Day #HistDay25 🎉 I’ll be there to talk about the courses in Book History offered by @ies-sas.bsky.social 📖🪶

Intermediate Latin palaeography will run online in February 2026 for those who want more advanced training. Book now 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This coming week (Tuesday 4 November), we look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 @ihr.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We'll be bringing badges and our new set of postcards #Skystorians

If you see this, quote with a vampire that’s not Dracula.

Some shameless self promotion if anyone happens to be in Chicago and wants a beer and a talk on medieval manuscripts.

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...

Pulling this out from the camera roll for the day that is in it!

HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November

Please join us on 22 November to discuss Women and Knowledge. We cannot wait to listen to and engage with all presentations 😁 This event is free to attend, but prior registration is required through this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Thank you! We look forward to seeing you there!

Great to have a piece in The Conversation about the @witchmapproject.bsky.social I was part of with @janmachielsen.bsky.social and our brilliant student interns Abi and Gabriel. #hextag #earlymodern #skystorians theconversation.com/witch-memori...

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#Medievalsky Anyone going to be in the TNA map room this week who could check some Latin for me? Or alternately, anyone who has pics of C 77/7, m.7d., they could share by any chance? Gratitude and acknowledgement shall be thine!

RESCHEDULED! Excited for Olivia Baskerville‘s @ies-sas.bsky.social seminar on the early 20C #manuscript trade and local&national claims made on Bede‘s Life of St Cuthbert & Carrow Psalter 🗓️ 25 Nov ⏰ 17.30 GMT 🏢 @ihr.bsky.social &online Sign up 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky#skystorians

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social. Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨Manuscripts Event🚨 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages 📆13-14 November 📍The Queen's College, Oxford

My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you! F/t and permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE029/d...

Very excited to help with this in January. It’ll be history manuscript-tastic 🤓 Please share!

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 30 (Noon ET, on Zoom), we'll bring out LJS 266, a collection of genealogical and chronicle material in Middle French, written in France between 1440 and 1460. #medievalsky #cwac Register here: https://bit.ly/4qHymbR

Still need to update our #TheTraitors display...🗡 #IYKYK

I'll be talking to the Caxton Club next month on The Medieval Scriptorium - going through all the stages of making manuscripts, including demonstration videos. There may be cats in the background. Fri 14 Nov 12:00PM CT (5.00PM GMT) #medievalsky #bookhistory www.caxtonclub.org/event-6296386

Come join us! www.newberry.org/calendar/pre...

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Do you or your students work with medieval Greek sources? We have specialist palaeography training for you! Online in February 2026 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#MedievalSky #Manuscripts #BookHistory

The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history! Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community. Deadline: 16 January 2026 womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse... #WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

Now open for applications ✨ International Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, Reykjavík, June 15-25, 2026, organised by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the University of Iceland, the University of Copenhagen & the National and University Library of Iceland.

Medieval Latin teachers, help! Disaster for our @memsunikent.bsky.social Latin learners: the Memrise pages for Collins's Primer have disappeared. Do you know where they might be now and, crucially, what substitutes there are. I have seen pages on Quizlet and Brainscape. Recommendations?

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

Gossip, paleography, and "a massive, almost unstudied source" in @rayclemens.bsky.social's latest post: open.substack.com/pub/raymondc... #medievalsky

Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.

Joumana Medlej, artist-scholar and former Merton Visiting Research Fellow, will open our science-themed term with a workshop entitled 'Pocketing Cosmos'. Join us at 5 pm on Friday 24 October in the John Roberts Room at Merton College! 📷 Joumana Medlej, 'Circles of Time' (2025). #OMMG #medievalsky

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Had a great day with @trichocolea.bsky.social at @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about how to read herbarium records! #PalaeographySky

Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...