Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!
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Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!
You can see me there looking intently at all your applications!
Join us and learn Latin or Early Modern English Palaeography. There will be many manuscripts, many videos, and many live sessions.
Book now!
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Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖
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
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It's the @rarebookschool.bsky.social-to-@digitalscriptorium.bsky.social pipeline! Learn how to identify and catalogue fragments in your collection by taking a class at Rare Book School and then join the Digital Scriptorium consortium to make them discoverable!
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One of Those Days™️. Currently screaming in job market…
The hand is not exceptional, but have a look at the layout of this glossed Bible. Some early-modern binder must have liked it, too! (Paderborn, Universitätsbibliothek, Th 45a)
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A drawing of male head wearing a hat with an arm and hand pointing at written text.
Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#marginaliamonday
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Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day.
They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach!
I can help. Let’s chat.
Discover 17th-century codes with our new online course, 'Working with Early Modern Letters'! 🤫✒️ tinyurl.com/5d9r8rcp
✔️A week's worth of content for just £100
✔️Optional Q&A sessions with an expert
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Pictured: John Pell's 17th-century equivalent of an Enigma machine.
🎺 We're opening applications for the last term of our biweekly seminar series!!! 🎺
Submit your abstract/proposal of no more than 250 words to our email, memsa.committee@durham.ac.uk, by Sunday 15th March. Check the post for further details!
We can't wait to have you join us next term!
I am, thank you! The surgery wasn’t too serious, but it takes long to heal. The inbox can wait, I hope!
Back at work after c.3 weeks medical leave and let me just say, this is rough.
The whole having to reset the authentication app to work and the crushing weight of my inbox are not helping…
My wonderfully talented brother has published another one of his beautiful compositions.
Do give it a listen, it’s gorgeous.
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Yay! Isn’t it lovely?
The graft goes in there!
- Manuel Muñoz Garcia, ‘Matthew Paris as Scribe: Idiosyncrasy and Collaboration’, The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris (Cambridge University Press). Read here: 👉 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Happy publication day to the Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris, a great collection of scholarship from wonderful colleagues.
It also includes my humble contribution on Paris’s hand.
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The gasp I gasped…!
Great news to finish off the year! The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris volume - to which I was lucky to contribute a chapter - will be out on Jan 8!
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Squeezed in one application before logging off 2025…
If you need some New Years reading, may I suggest the latest issue of Fragmentology?
My article on in situ fragments in Beinecke incunabula is in excellent company alongside tasty reads by @pieterbeullens.bsky.social and @lisafdavis.bsky.social 😊🤩🎉
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All the very best for 2026!
2025 has been an extremely intense year for me, in good and not so good ways. Plenty of things are coming my way in 2026, so I just wish for the strength and energy to be able to give it all my best.
#Omen
📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Looking for a bit of bookish distraction this Christmas break? Look no further!
Warning: Features gorgeous manuscripts.
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
Whether Bibles & Books or Hours, Codicology, Church records or Early Modern books, we at the @imems.bsky.social got you covered!
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Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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