But really pleased 😀 given the current sector challenges, to be joining @birminghamschoolofenglish as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval Literature for 2025/26 - looking forward to getting back to teaching, and starting with planning a new skills unit focused on Boccaccio's DECAMERON (📸)

⭐️Somehow, I've also kept up my own research, with my book WRITING ST GUTHLAC just about (!) in press, and a new Middle English / manuscript project started with @uofglasgowasc

⭐️ I've supported two impact projects @elcw_lancasterwords WALKING FOR WELLBEING focused on the cultural & literary history of crossing Morecambe Bay and CO-CREATE WITH LITCRAFT @litcraft.edu.resource getting young readers immersed in digital literary worlds

⭐️I've brushed off my old school teaching experience as a member of the Education & Outreach team at @lancastercitymuseums, leading school groups, family activities and also adult education sessions based on collections, and writing a online article for them on Lancashire's Anchorites

🎉

Ok, maybe there is hope

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A Tudor manuscript of a medieval poem collected by 18th antiquaries which ended up in a medieval university - a thrilling tale of medieval culture & its reception 😃

Thanks to @bobmaclean.bsky.social & the ASC team for facilitating 💫

/fin 🧵

It was the the elaborate initials (famously hiding an acrostic revealing the author's name, John Clerk of Whalley) and marginalia from later readers which occupied my attention this week 📝

2/3 🧵

Hope it goes well, pal!

Thank you for your interest :) It's on the backburner at the moment but definitely not something that is going away entirely - watch this space!

Ty :)

Yep for sure, I agree, it sounds like a formula. And people do discuss it a little e.g. Translating Troy by Alex Mueller.

Yep that's the one. I think there's a translation someone has published on Amazon, but it isn't peer reviewed, or by a medievalist as far as I know, so I wouldn't trust it completely!