Gabriella Williams
@gabbymedieval.bsky.social
Historian. Doing a PhD on late medieval English political rumours.
ChatGPT now has a yearly wrap up feature and it summed up my year in this image, described in its own words: 'A Yorkist boar badge leans against a half-edited proposal, Latin flashcards spill beside an empty espresso cup, and a glowing laptop hums faintly with deadlines.' Scarily accurate. 😅
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
ChatGPT now has a yearly wrap up feature and it summed up my year in this image, described in its own words: 'A Yorkist boar badge leans against a half-edited proposal, Latin flashcards spill beside an empty espresso cup, and a glowing laptop hums faintly with deadlines.' Scarily accurate. 😅
This is how I will answer all conference questions moving forwards.
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is how I will answer all conference questions moving forwards.
Also, while I'm here, you'd better all not be too hungover at IMC 2026 because you're all obviously attending my Thursday 9am paper. (Pray for me).
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Also, while I'm here, you'd better all not be too hungover at IMC 2026 because you're all obviously attending my Thursday 9am paper. (Pray for me).
Weird stumbling across this footnote in a 25 year old Ricardian article. Things become unexpectedly controversial. 😂
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Weird stumbling across this footnote in a 25 year old Ricardian article. Things become unexpectedly controversial. 😂
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Call for Papers on The Long Fifteenth Century at Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026
Sponsored by the Yorkist History Trust
£300 bursaries for scholars without institutional funding (at any stage of their career). Application deadline 18 September 2025. For more details, email
[email protected]
Sponsored by the Yorkist History Trust
£300 bursaries for scholars without institutional funding (at any stage of their career). Application deadline 18 September 2025. For more details, email
[email protected]
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Call for Papers on The Long Fifteenth Century at Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026
Sponsored by the Yorkist History Trust
£300 bursaries for scholars without institutional funding (at any stage of their career). Application deadline 18 September 2025. For more details, email
[email protected]
Sponsored by the Yorkist History Trust
£300 bursaries for scholars without institutional funding (at any stage of their career). Application deadline 18 September 2025. For more details, email
[email protected]
My train north for the C15 conference is currently delayed due to a cow on the line. Apparently said cow is currently 'heading northbound' and we are following it. I suspect it might take a while to get to Durham...
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My train north for the C15 conference is currently delayed due to a cow on the line. Apparently said cow is currently 'heading northbound' and we are following it. I suspect it might take a while to get to Durham...
Reposted by Gabriella Williams
Happy to see this out as an ebook - hard copies out next month. It’s something I was interested in writingall the way back as an undergraduate in 2006
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Protest, Resistance and Popular Politics in Late Medieval Scotland
This book is the first sustained analysis of popular politics in Scotland during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
link.springer.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Happy to see this out as an ebook - hard copies out next month. It’s something I was interested in writingall the way back as an undergraduate in 2006
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
I have finally found a Latin tutor who teaches Latin like a modern language. I was almost convinced such a thing didn't exist. I will never have to look at another grammar table again. I am genuinely overjoyed.
July 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I have finally found a Latin tutor who teaches Latin like a modern language. I was almost convinced such a thing didn't exist. I will never have to look at another grammar table again. I am genuinely overjoyed.
If you missed my IMC paper on rumours of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester's murder you can watch it on catch up here (registered delegates only). It was my first Leeds paper so if you have any criticism of it I would LOVE to hear it so I can get better next year.
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
The Wars of the Roses, I: Stories of the Death of Princes - Royal Blood, Rumour, and Commemoration
This session examines late medieval responses to the controversial deaths of three members of the English royal family at key points in the Wars of the Roses. All three papers consider ideas about the...
imc-leeds.confex.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If you missed my IMC paper on rumours of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester's murder you can watch it on catch up here (registered delegates only). It was my first Leeds paper so if you have any criticism of it I would LOVE to hear it so I can get better next year.
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
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A recording of my paper on Sir Thomas Mortimer and the Lords Appellant Revolt of 1387 for anyone at Leeds who missed my paper during #IMC2025 (only available to those registered for the conference)
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
14th-Century England, IV: Land and Power in the Reign of Richard II
Each of the papers in this session considers aspects of the reign of Richard II. The first paper examines the role of Sir Thomas Mortimer during the events of the Appellant crisis of 1388, the importa...
imc-leeds.confex.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A recording of my paper on Sir Thomas Mortimer and the Lords Appellant Revolt of 1387 for anyone at Leeds who missed my paper during #IMC2025 (only available to those registered for the conference)
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...
Three dukes of Gloucester before 10:30am, what more could you want in life?
It's been a fantastic day with so many fascinating papers. Successive dukes of Gloucester featured prominently in this first session.
A brilliant first session at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, with three fascinating and closely related papers on burial, rumour, and lineage in the fifteenth century #Skystorians #MedievalSky
July 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Three dukes of Gloucester before 10:30am, what more could you want in life?
Joined Bluesky to say how much I enjoyed the past few days at Leeds IMC and to thank the Yorkist History Trust (@yorkisthistory.bsky.social) for letting me give a paper in such a fascinating session. Already looking forward to coming back next year!
A brilliant first session at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, with three fascinating and closely related papers on burial, rumour, and lineage in the fifteenth century #Skystorians #MedievalSky
July 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Joined Bluesky to say how much I enjoyed the past few days at Leeds IMC and to thank the Yorkist History Trust (@yorkisthistory.bsky.social) for letting me give a paper in such a fascinating session. Already looking forward to coming back next year!