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Katy Bennett
@katybennett.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in history at the University of York, working on loyalty and changing allegiance in 14th/15th century Gascony. She/her
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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 14h
At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · Oct 14
For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Sep 8
And speaking of exciting work, exactly one week left to submit to our strand on Loyalty for IMC 2026! We already have some brilliant papers lined up and would be especially keen to hear from ECRs and those working on underrepresented aspects of loyalty #CfP #medievalsky
The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty. We particularly welcome abstrats which explore who is 'left out' from traditional scholarly frameworks of loyalty, such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Sep 8
Back to the thesis after an enjoyable few days at the Fifteenth Century Conference in Durham last week! Always nice to step out of the bubble and be reminded of the exciting work going on in the field
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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians
Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Aug 6
Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September
The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty , such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · Aug 21
And Open Access, too! 😁
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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 21
{New book} This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 12
Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA

We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Aug 6
Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September
The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty , such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.
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Laura Tompkins @aliceperrers.bsky.social · Jul 24
CFP: Leeds IMC 2026
The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates.
📅 6–9 July 2026
📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025
✉️ [email protected] & [email protected]
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Jul 13
Félicitations! 🥂
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Jul 8
For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I’m part of what promises to be two great sessions on oaths, trust, and allegiance this afternoon, both in Esther Simpson LG.08. Looking forward to discussing all things allegiance!
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · Jun 26
If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Jun 25
And this less than a week after being told the university was aiming to become ‘the university of opportunity’
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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Jun 25
I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 25
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Jun 25
I remember discovering and being v entertained by John II and John III Paston as an undergrad
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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Jun 20
I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to [email protected]. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: • Legal jurisdictions • The natural and the supernatural worlds • Socio-economic strata • Ritual and religion • Space, time, and the environment • Gender and sexuality • Disability • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.
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Centre for Medieval Studies @yorkmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 19
Congratulations to Robyn Stewart who passed her viva yesterday. Robyn’s thesis “Harmonising the Word: A Textual and Philological Study of Iohannes Scottus Eriugena’s Gospel Quotations in the Periphyseon” was supervised by Mary Garrison, Thomas McLeish and Thomas O'Loughlin (Nottingham).
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Jun 15
It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social
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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · May 19
A fab opportunity for #MedievalHistory students interested in the Medieval March and the Mortimer family. The Mortimer History Society have opened applications for their 2025 Student Bursary: 2 awards of £1,000!

Check out the application here: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/burs...
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · Apr 14
New job at Oxford - do please share widely!

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Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Feb 11
The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist.
The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...
Associate Editor of the journal French History – SSFH
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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · Mar 5
The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.
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Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · Mar 4
Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025.

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Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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