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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 1d

It's got a terrific opener: "I began writing ''The Name of the Rose'' in March of 1978, prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk."

Whomst among us, etc

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Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 1d

London local history and heritage organisations starter pack, now updated to welcome @londontopsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 1d

***tomorrow‘s @londonmedieval.bsky.social seminar postponed***

London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow’s seminar has been postponed due to the speaker’s illness. We apologise for the change and will share a new date as soon as possible. We send our best wishes to the speaker for a swift recovery!

London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 9d

On 14 October we welcome Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, a medievalist by training, presenting her research on 20C London trade in & nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts📖

#medievalsky #skystorians

As ever - free & open to all, book here ➡️
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 6d

70,000 HE academic staff.

Almost half of teaching only staff.

Two-thirds of research-only academic staff.

ALL on fixed term contracts.

This isn’t flexibility, it’s exploitation.

Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ…

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Medievalism Seminar @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social · 11d

We are back and in our first seminar of the new year bringing you not one but two excellent papers! Lucinda Menaul (KCL), "The Knight-In-Shining-Armour and the Ghost of Pegasus in William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise" and Yasmin Ibrahim (KCL) "Eleanor Hammond (1866-1933): Scholar, and scribe".

A highly ornate title page from the Kelmscott edition of The Earthly Paradise by William Morris, with the initial lines of the prologue in a text box surrounded by intricate vine scroll decoration.

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 11d

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 12d

📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰

Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 18d

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖

bit.ly/londonmedieval

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 18d

Next week join us for the first LSMS seminar of the term with @annamolnar.bsky.social speaking on late medieval women’s financial literacy!

🗣️Online & in-person @ihr.bsky.social
🗓️ Tues 30 September
⏰ 17.30 GMT
✍️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

www.history.ac.uk

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24d

Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians 🗃️

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24d

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style.

So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Sep 10

Pleased to share the LSMS programme for this fast-approaching term 👇 featuring academics & practitioners working across times, geographies, methods—

as ever, *all are welcome* but booking required: bit.ly/londonmedieval

@londonmedieval.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky

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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · Jul 22

New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂
If you have any questions, please do reach out!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · Jul 11

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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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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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 28

back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by

🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social

🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social

🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

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MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Jun 21

There will be two panels at MAMO dedicated to Landscapes and Medievalisms!
Our first panel (Thursday, 1-2:30pm) includes papers by Emma Nuding (@eknuding.bsky.social, York), Maia Blumberg (@maiablumberg.bsky.social, Queen Mary), and Linsey Hunter (@linseyhunter.bsky.social, UHI). #MAMOmonth

Session 2A: Landscapes and Medievalisms (I) [Room K016]
Chair: Simon Trafford
Emma Nuding (University of York): More Foreign than ‘Fellow’: Finding the Early Medieval with Charles Kingsley and St Guthlac of Crowland
Maia Blumberg (Queen Mary University of London): Local Medievalisms and ‘Nostalgia for the Ordinary’: The Case of Malmesbury
Linsey Hunter (UHI): Why here? Why now? An analysis of Identity and Place in retellings of the legend of Finella, Lady of the Mearns, c. 1900-c.1960

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Friendly reminder to send in your app to the London Soc for Medieval Studies by 21 June!

the LSMS has been PG/EC researcher-led since 1970, showcasing the latest research on the Middle Ages by global scholars, committed to the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning 🗣️

Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led.

If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch!

@ihr.bsky.social

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Jun 17

TONIGHT join us for the final @ihr.bsky.social LSMS seminar of the year:

Rewriting the Middle Ages: Medieval Tropes and Postmodern Aesthetics in Iberian Fiction with Ana Rita G. Soares

💻 Online
📆 Tues 17 June
⏰ 17.30 - 19
✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/rewri...

Join us!

www.history.ac.uk

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led.

If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch!

@ihr.bsky.social

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Apr 22

QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance.

Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot

front of the leaflet: stop job cuts
Protect jobs now. VOTE to ask management to commit to:
• NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS • INCREASED VOLUNTARY PAYOUT AVAILABLE TO ALL
• STOP OUTSOURCING IN-HOUSE ROLES
• CAP SENIOR SALARIES AT £100,000

back fo the leaflet:
Our job security and the university's
future are at stake
Departments have been asked to deliver cuts to improve financial targets. These cuts are being rushed through, without assessing the risks to the university and the workers, despite management declaring that Queen Mary is currently financially stable.
There are already existing proposals for compulsory redundancies in some departments, while a voluntary severance scheme targets others. The joint campus unions have been alerted to more formal consultations being underway.

What can we do?
1.JOIN a campus UNION
2. VOTE ONLINE BY 28TH APRIL
(This is a necessary step before moving to the postal ballot. Check your mailbox)
3. POSTAL BALLOT will follow
(Ensure your Union has your correct home address)

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.

Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

The Guild of Medievalist Makers

www.guildmedmak.com

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · Apr 6

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

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