This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

My book, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain" (or "True Britons and Celtic Empires", if you'd prefer) is now AVAILABLE FOR HARDBACK PREORDER Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no? boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...

The text, from the Welsh Law of Hywel Dda, concerns the rights of the bakeress. 🍰 The eighth additional officer of the court (and second of only three female officers), she was entitled to “a cake from every type of flour which was baked” and to protection for “as far as she may throw her spatula”.

🇺🇸 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 📜 Just got my copy of the most recent issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, which includes my article on Welsh books in the Huntington Library, L.A. Available to read (with sub) here muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... Diolch i’r golygyddion a’r darllenwyr am y cyngor a’r cymorth!

One more bookish set for good measure. These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... On now at the Cambridge University Library!

Hello friend www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700

Marginal notes from past readers are something I miss in ebooks, for all their convenience.

And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use. What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity. At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.

More than 1,000 people are already backing efforts to reverse the proposal

If M.R. James wrote safety signage

My article on "Old Irish Healing Charms and Protective Spells" is now openly accessible online on the @brepols.net website at: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

Bob Berkhofer announcing the winner of the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize: Rory Naismith. Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social !!

Are you attending @kzooicms.bsky.social this week? Stop by the Waldo Library today for Katharine K. Olson's paper! Discover more of Katharine’s writing in her upcoming co-edited title 'Memory and Nation': www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-... #MedievalSky #KzooICMS #KZoo2025 #ICMS2025

1/5 Delighted to announce a new collaboration with Kilkenny Mile Museum to digitise the Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, Kilkenny’s oldest civic record. 📜 #LiberPrimus #Digitisation @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers #IrishManuscripts

These posts are getting more and more belated on my part, but tomorrow I'm speaking at the ASNC Research Seminar at 5 pm! If you're in the area, come by to see a lot of examples of medieval handwriting and a lot of speculation about them by me.

New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.

Today marks the start of #TransHistoryWeek, a new initiative by @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️‍🌈 This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals! Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social #TransRights #TransHistories

I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

"Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is the culmination of a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments ..." #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Mary Magdalen is so done with your shit. [Anonymous Flemish-Spanish artist; Museo de Salamanca]

In our new research blog, @rhyskamjones.bsky.social tells the story of how Thomas Pennant brought Horned Gods to Welsh Hillsides Read on for witchcraft, Reformation martyrdom, and the enlightenment's unintended consequences curioustravellers.ac.uk/horned-gods-...

In 2022 I wrote about 'female parish clerks' from the late 1700s to the early 1900s for @friendlesschurches.bsky.social. While some saw it as 'unseemly and unbecoming to appoint a female to such an office', many of these women were highly respected in their local communities. #WomensHistoryMonth

A poem composed early in the 16th century in a margin of the Black Book of Carmarthen begs God for protection from a series of enemies, including the English and the Irish, but the worst of all is saved for last: kerdd Wiliam Sion ‘the poetry of Wiliam Siôn’ #WorldPoetryDay

Read a nice little blog on the Bonnacon today so thought I’d share. If you have never before heard of this mythical creature who attacked with its farts and poo then…enjoy blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-bon...

This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/n...

I could not be more proud that my article on Elizabeth Elstob, precarity, scholarship, teaching, women's time, and having toast for dinner has now been published in this special issue on 'Precarity.' This one was personal and meant a lot to me. academic.oup.com/english/arti...

Glad to finally see this article in the flesh: my edition and study of 'Finn and Mac Lesc', including the poems 'Fuitt co bráth' and 'Tánic sam' in the latest Celtica! Abstract below.

important conservation-based counterpoint to arguments for academic sustainability

Another day ... another #CelticStudies programme under attack. Please sign the petition to send a strong message to the University of Western Brittany that Breton is highly valued internationally: chng.it/cdStWfKmbz The Master's of Celtic Languages and Cultures in Contact blog: l3c.hypotheses.org

Purrfect initial 'P'(arabole) at the beginning of Proverbs Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 048; Bible; c. 1170 CE; St Albans; f.154v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

Some thoughts on St Patrick & his writings for the day that’s in it - products of pragmatism & trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This morning we’re re-sharing a fabulous discovery for #MedievalMarch – a medieval seal matrix from Mottisfont in Hampshire. It's believed this is the only one in the UK to be reunited with its original home, 500 years after it left, and the first Mottisfont seal to be discovered! bit.ly/4klvSN3

Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

This was so fun! A really engaged and supportive audience and then a delightfully long manuscript conversation afterwards (and by delightfully long I mean it went on until they closed the building for the night).

Please encourage your graduate students to submit to this year’s GMS essay prize! Deadline 30th April. medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa...

That's literally everyone I know who works at Cardiff: all good people, excellent teachers and researchers, friends, colleagues, people whose work has informed my own. And for Welsh as a discipline, that's a substantial proportion of the scholarly community on the planet. Absolutely catastrophic.

"The image of the painter and illuminator of this work. Hugh the painter" Hugh, the 11th century artist of Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 717, goes meta and paints himself at work on the manuscript itself.

Cú Chulainn is mad! #StopDeSloop

Really excited to be speaking at the London Society for Medieval Studies seminar tomorrow night at 5.30 pm! I can promise copious saints and even more copious manuscript images.

A 3-year medieval history teaching post @uclhistory.bsky.social to replace me during maternity and research leave. A wonderful place to work. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested in applying. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New today on the HGN blog: in the first blog post from our "Medievalism" panel speakers, James Baillie (@jubalbarca.bsky.social) discusses reinterpreting elements of the medieval past in the strategic RPG The Exile Princes: www.historicalgames.net/between-imag... #gamingthepast #historicalgames

I wrote a public-facing thing! The world feels really different from when I wrote this I the new year, but my core point remains: '...we must carry on with mundane adaptations and holding to account the mice who undermine them...'

The open-access digital research and educational resource, 'Mapping Saints', has now been officially launched! Check it out here: saints.dh.gu.se

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

Myrddin yn cyfathrebu drwy'r oesoedd: golygiadau digidol newydd yn dod â'i farddoniaeth ddiweddarach yn fyw @prosiectmyrddin.bsky.social www.uwtsd.ac.uk/cy/newyddion...

This is a fantastic early-career research fellowship - the Parker has so many treasures, especially medieval!