That seems like a sensible idea to me, tbh
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That seems like a sensible idea to me, tbh
What can medieval England teach us about modern work-life balance? From sick leave allowances to negotiated time off, Alex Brown & @graceowen.bsky.social from @durhamhistory.bsky.social have found that medieval working life was more structured than many assume.
Find out more:👉 bit.ly/3ZC7i1c
Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
Are you passionate about wildlife and keen to engage local communities and young people in heathlands as part of our Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands project?
Apply to be our next Project Officer! 🔗 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/jobs/project...
#NationalLottery #HeritageFund
For those interested in pursuing a PhD
PhD Studentship: Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for Hispanic Studies
University of Birmingham - University of Birmingham, College of Arts and Law
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG221/p...
NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire.
All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
Very useful online resource: Dictionary of Medieval Names
from European Sources, which clears up a lot of confusion when trying to parse personal and familial names, particularly from Latin sources dmnes.org #medievalsky #earlymodern
Job klaxon: Trainee Archivist at Gloucestershire Archives, from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
screenshot from My Winter Car of a sceptic truck half perched on the roof of a Finnish barn
I'm live
twitch.tv/geddstation
Medieval bestiary, image showing a panther, deer, camel, goat, snake, lion
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Bears attacking beehives for the honey, surrounded by large angry bees
Medieval bears! And medieval bees!
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky #bees #bears
St Dunstan pinching the nose of the devil (represented as wolfish creature with an additional growling face on its stomach
St Dunstan pinching the devil
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance!
All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January.
#medievalsky #skystorians
Congratulations!
From sick leave to bereavement leave, Drs Alex Brown and @graceowen.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social have been exploring the surprising workplace benefits available in Medieval times. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
Just sharing this again - a piece in @uk.theconversation.com that Alex Brown and I wrote about peasants and the surprising amount of 'sick leave' they were given in the middle ages #medievalsky #history #medieval
theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Alex Brown and I have a new piece in @uk.theconversation.com - check it out! #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
We are looking at a large room with several oak posts down the centre of the room. The floor is stone flagged with a row of deep set windows in a stone wall - light from those casts light on the floor. In the distance is a screen to a chapel.
You are building a guild hall in 1357.
What materials are you going to need?
60 trees from Bolton Percy for 27s. 6d., 100 oaks from Thorpe Underwood for £21, 14 tons of stone from Tadcaster and 20,000 bricks for £6 from the Carmelite Friars of York.
That should keep you going!
Close up of a stone bat sculpture. Both wings outstretched and a big grin on its face. Dark in colour
Stone walls and tiled Portuguese houses photographed from below. In centre there is a large gothic arched window with two lights. The bat sculptures are on the capital on the column dividing the two lights. There's no glass as it opens onto the cathdral cloister. Probably dates from the renovations of the early 20th century, although the cloister is originally 14th century. Bright blue sky above and to right
Close up of same window with a bat in the centre capital.
Happy Halloween from Leeds IMS - and from the friendly bats on this cloister window from Lisbon cathdral #medievalsky #gothicarchitecture #sedelisboa #bat #Halloween
New article alert 📢! Alex Brown, Tudor Skinner and I have written about the sick leave rights of unfree peasants in Medieval England. You may be surprised by the long length of absences that were granted! Read through open access here: doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... #History #Medieval
The chronological and geographical survival of manorial accounts, which include allowances for infirmity on the Ramsey Abbey estate.
'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)
Job researching plants and enslavement
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...
📢 #medievalsky: The #CfP for #TOEBI2025
📅Date: Saturday, 25th October 2025
📜Theme: "Education and Early Medieval England"
🏫The #TOEBI conference and annual meeting for 2025 will be held at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
⏳Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 2nd May
Had a great time with @pampowell.bsky.social at Lincoln cathedral and castle, topped off with seeing the magna carta (meaning I have now seen all four!) #history #medievalsky
📢Academic Job Klaxon📢
Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies.
Could you be one of our new colleagues?
Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe
Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.
📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
If I'm looking at the right letter then I think it is a 'p'.
Haha, yes!