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We are looking for a highly organised, efficient and detail-oriented person to join our busy team as a part-time Publishing Assistant. This role will assist colleagues across editorial, production and marketing, gaining exposure to all elements of the publishing process.
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?
π Caitlin Greenβs new History Matters is free for 7 days
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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-UniversitΓ€t zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-UniversitΓ€t academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
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I've had a number of exciting abstracts for the Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present conference but I've decided to EXTEND the deadline to 22 Feb, as I'm away the prior week so won't be reviewing apps then! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Please share. Ask Qs below! ποΈ
We are now open for booking for our London International Palaeography Summer School!
We offer both beginner and advanced courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies.
Discover more and reserve your spot here: buff.ly/WP2GKLD
#Palaeography #Manuscripts
This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.
Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series ππ‘οΈ. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
βThe Public Curatorship of the Medieval Pastβ
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Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free!
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Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Γpinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wifeβs Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Tollerβs An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
Officially got my silly little hat!
Went to York Minster today and spent quite a bit of time in the chapter house.
I'm back in York for my graduation, and it feels like coming home.
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
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Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
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Join us at York Festival of Ideas for A Day Out With the Vikings on Saturday 7th June. Weβll discuss viking festivals past and present, and have a live stream from a Viking ship on the Mediterranean! #vikingsky #publicvikings
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HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump.
Watch live here:
I would totally adopt her, but we are in CO. π
In case anyone in Edinburgh is free on Tuesday and wants to come listen to me chat about ways of tackling multilingual narratives, the impact of adaptation, and the (surprisingly contemporary) dynamics of medieval gender politics in very strange texts, here's your chance!
This was an amazing rally to be at! It definitely renewed my hope that the people are ready to stand against what is happening.
Same ππ€¦π½ββοΈ
These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists.
They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies.
So they want to kill all that.
I am constantly sick to my stomach. π₯²
π¨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!
Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!πΊ
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Trans people have always existed and that there are people who are actively working on recovering and interpreting those histories.
I've just added a couple of folks newer to Bluesky, so check out the starter pack again in case there's anyone you're missing. π³οΈββ§οΈ π³οΈβππΎ π³οΈβππ
Save the Date! Wednesday 2 β Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. Topics might include: β’ Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (dΜΔna), β’ Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) β’ Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. β’ Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare. β’ Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales. β’ Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. β’ Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University β’ Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk β’ AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025 PLEASE PUT βGMS 2025 ABSTRACTβ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL β THANK YOU β’ Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome β’ ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund. β’ Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU β’ Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.
This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31
Full info π medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...
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