📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!

⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Just over one week left to submit your abstracts! Come join @rafletcher.bsky.social, Dr Thijs Porck, and me at #IMC2026 talking about "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century".

Are you a late stage doctoral or postdoctoral reasearcher with expertise in medieval and/or early modern landscape history & an interest in working with or in the heritage sector? This opportunity with the University of Oxford and West Horsley Place may be for you: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Astrolabes and quadrants return to display in the Upper Library at Merton College with special thanks to Nikki Tomkins, Oxford Conservation Consortium, Khris Watts, Harriet Campbell Longley, and @stephenaj.bsky.social It took many hands! #astronomy #astrolabes

12-week research post available in medieval and early modern landscape, focusing on West Horsley near Oxford: www.tss.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Congratulations, Sian! Can’t wait to hear more about this!

We are devastated and enraged by the murder of Awdah Hathaleen by Israeli settler Yinon Levi earlier today. Awdah was a writer, teacher, and activist in his village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, and a friend of Vashti Media. May his words resound through the entire world:

I entirely agree.

This is disastrous for access to the Humanities for all but the independently very wealthy. My own doctorate was a student-led AHRC-funded project (ie I came up with the project). It’s awful to see these opportunities taken from the next generation, especially given the huge increase in tuition fees

Now just under two months to get your abstracts in for Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. Do get your thinking caps on because we've already received some great abstracts and are look forward to reading everybody's proposals in September!

Yes! Ant would also love that. @sianwitherden.bsky.social couldn’t believe that you and I somehow hadn’t actually met when I told her!

I can’t believe I missed yet another opportunity to meet you in person!

Love it when what is presented as "academic publishing" is really just "publishing in STEM fields" :/

basically none of this is true for humanities publishing, and especially for humanities books

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Ready to chair @imc-leeds.bsky.social panel 1634: ‘Learning the Middle Ages in the Long C19 II: Language and Literature’ at 11:15

Happening now at @imc-leeds.bsky.social : the first of three panels in memory of Dr Johanna Green. Speakers in the first panel will speak about one of Johanna’s greatest passions: Old English literature.

I must go to this!

An exhibition of medieval manuscripts at Cambridge's @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social! Curated by Timothy Glover (Richard Rolle specialist and current Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow).
Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!

Today I’m representing @germancambridge.bsky.social at the @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social’s Careers Roadshow. Looking forward to meeting lots of school groups!

I had a Leverhulme ECF until last year, and if you want to chat about anything to do with the application etc, feel free to reach out to me. It was a real gift to hold one of these fellowships.

I am! Wednesday to Thursday.

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...