Bursary deadline for this summer school course is April 7th! 👇 tell everyone you know. ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

This summer school has 4 courses: intro level courses on Latin and reading medieval documents and advanced courses on wills and inquisitions. Check it out #Skystorians and tell your students (please and thank you) 👇📚🎓📜

Yes, yes she will.

For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 26 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will show LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero). Spain, first half of the 14th century.. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4rr6uaV

Hey guys I know it's really hard to be conscious of your health right now, so please remember that after every hour muttering "wtf" while scrolling on your phone you should stand up and banshee scream for at least 5 minutes to stretch out your lower back

Yes, yes she will.

Friday 24th. [...] I took leave of Mr Coke & Lady Anne, [...]. The day proved uncommonly cold, & the whole way from Fakenham to Brandon it snowed & hailed. [...] at Cambridge [...] I got inside, & fortunately slept the remainder of the journey to town. #otd Full entry www.madden1826.com/24-march

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

Still receiving applications! 📜📜

Thursday 23d. In lib'y all day long. Finished the Jurisprudence [...]. I start tomorrow, & am to have the Carriage to Fakenham,- & then proceed by the two oC. coach to town, – and thence to see my own dear M. as fast as four horses can convey me. #otd Full entry: www.madden1826.com/23-march

We are looking forward to seeing many of you, in person or online, tomorrow. Because of illness, this will be a single bill! We send Petra best wishes and look forward to hearing Clotilde on 'Exploring the Reception of Marbod of Rennes' _De ornamentis verborum_ (c. 1100-c.1300)'.

Please kill me

Outcome meetings confirm: Our academic staff are being moved into subsidiaries on inferior terms, using TUPE to avoid redundancy while cutting jobs. Most academic staff will no longer be employed by the University. We are fighting back. #UCU #CoventryUniversity #TUPE

Tuesday. 21st In lib’y all day long. #otd 📚️

For our next seminar we're thrilled to have @laurajcleaver.bsky.social speaking on 'The market for medieval manuscripts in the age of Modernism, 1914-45'. 17.30 GMT Wed 25/03/26 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Further details/registration at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨Booking is now open for our AMARC Spring Event🚨 Exploring Business Archives: Collections and their Use 💻Virtual seminar hosted by the University of Glasgow 🕰️24th April 2026, 13.00-16.30 For booking and a schedule, see our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

Monday 20th. In lib'y all day. Got through the Latin Fathers. I have now a bookbinder with me from Wells all day, to number the MSS. according to my directions, & to arrange them, which is a great assistance. I propose going away on Friday #otd

Bursary deadline for this summer school course is April 7th! 👇 tell everyone you know. ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Sunday 19th. Cold day. Went in the carriage to Church with Mr Coke & Lady Anne. In the lib’y the rest of the day – arrang the MSS. #otd

⭐️ There is still time to sign up to our Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshop on 1st April! If you can't make April, we are running it again on 3rd June Open to students, researchers and professionals who want to learn more about archival research.

Timeline cleanse #bookhistory

Incredibly cool 1920s bookseller catalogues from Theodor Ackermann Antiquariat in Munich. Alchemy! Magic! Dreams! Now joining my reference library. I might bring them to the course I co-teach in June on ‘The New Trade in Old Books’ at London Rare Books School (@ies-sas.bsky.social).

Hey #MedievalSky, any thoughts about how you might render "coffre a sest [fest?]" in English? I'm unsure if this is a chest made of a wood I can't identify, or if it's a term for a certain type of chest that I don't know because I don't really work on furnishings.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Saturday 18th In liby all day, & finished the Greek Fathers. D~m them! — they have given me more trouble than they are worth! Wrote to Roscoe in the morn'g. #otd

Keble is cat biscuits

I see your Claude/Gemini “Research Assistant” and raise you Benny - the only assistant I need.

Enjoyed a quick trip to @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to see their exhibition Londoners on Trial.

Feels like spring.

For those of you who cannot get enough palaeography and all things manuscript: join us next Tuesday, 24th March, 5:30pm for the latest seminar in London's Senate House featuring a stimulating double-bill of excellent young scholars, Clotilde Lemarie and Petra Mijanovic: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Next week’s medieval manuscripts seminar is a double-bill. Join us in person or online, Tuesday 17.30 UK time. 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

This new summer school course will introduce students to handwriting in England from 700-1700, explaining how to read a range of scripts as the language evolved. 8-12 June in London 📚 (bursary applications due 7 April) #Skystorians #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social 👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

#MedievalSky Reminder that bursary applications for the practical manuscript-making summer school course are due by 7 April. The course runs in London 8-12 June @ies-sas.bsky.social 🎨👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Applications open for IES Fellowships starting in October 2026! We welcome applications from researchers who will work in advocacy for the discipline, and we also welcome applications from independent researchers. Terms from 6 months to 3 years. Deadline: 10 April ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

We've put together a select listing of c.100 national #history societies active in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/4rANJ52. These subject specialist societies facilitate research and promote the value of historical knowledge. Many are membership organisations and invite historians to join them #Skystorians

Are you a masters or doctoral students with an interest in heritage (inc. heritage science)? Check out The National Archives 6 new student placements @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @doctoralexeter.bsky.social

So kind and knowledgeable Bluesky Peeps - I have another clothing question for you. I’m thinking that full crinolines like this were about 1850-60? But the chap on the left in breeches and possibly a wig I think (difficult to tell) would be much earlier than that, more like the beginning of the

Thursday 16th. ... We went over ... the Greek poets, & many of the Historians. I find all these MSS. are of the XVth Centy. & of little value – altho’ very splendidly written. Mr Roscoe is perfectly ignorant of the age of MSS ... #otd full entry: www.madden1826.com/16-march

Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

Tuesday 14th. In liby all day. Archdn. Glover returned, & we set hard to work again. The Greek Fathers are not yet completed. #otd

I removed a goat from a pub once

Fantastic workshop with @bibsoc.bsky.social today on bibliogaphical digital skills with Christopher Ohge and Giles Bergel (@chapbookpro.bsky.social)!

Monday 13th. In the lib’y all day. Capt & Mrs Greville dined with us. I received a letter from Mr Roscoe, who acquiesces in all I have done. #otd

Things like this do not appear for sale very often ... www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...