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richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Richard III Society of Canada
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What it says on the label. Interested in late 15th C with a focus on the Wars of the Roses but promotes anything medieval of interest.
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Members of the Richard III Society will be pleased to know that there are places available for the talk by @richardasquith.bsky.social on 'Death of a Yorkist Mayor: Executing the Will of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1478)' This zoom meeting is on 22 November. Check your email for details on how to register.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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bristolcms.bsky.social
Please do pass this on to anyone who may be interested! ☺️ #medievalsky #skystorians
bristolcms.bsky.social Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 2d
Exciting news! 📣🎉The Bristol Summer team are hosting a Q&A event for people to find out more about the Bristol Summer School in Medieval Studies. 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ The event will run Jan 2026 (date tbc), and you can register your interest via the QR code or the link in the comments!😊 #medievalsky #skystorians
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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liber-ray.bsky.social
A fun look today at @rialibrary.bsky.social’s manuscript of the week! The 15th-century Leabhar Breac / The Speckled Book (RIA MS 23 P 16) is a collection of religious, literary and historical works, including the lives St Patrick, St Brigid and Alexander the Great 📜🎉
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.

I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Take a peek at our new book of hours! Made in Bruges, ca. 1470, this lovely illuminated book has several full-page miniatures, decorated margins, and many large and small illuminated initials. (UPenn Ms. Codex 2324) #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4hO98Va
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!

In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
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Meme. Medieval drawing of a cooper, putting the lid on a barrel with a hammer, while surrounded by other barrels. The man -- we'll call him Ædwallow-- is wearing a pink shirt and blue leggings, as if he's planning on going to gender reveal party later and he wants to cover all his bases. He's wearing a somewhat shapeless red hat that might -- or might not -- keep his ears warm. He has a white apron tied around his waist. He is clean-shaven, and his face looks young. His expression is terribly intense, and it doesn't take much imagination to believe that he is sealing his rival in this barrel. Perhaps this was a man named Flord whom Ædwallow had called a friend in his youth, until he had ran off with Ædwallow's mother to live a life of crime together as petty toast thieves in Malta. Ævence spent years tracking them down, & now's he's caught them and stuffed them in barrels to ship back home, for reasons only he knows. Meme text reads: "Staring down the barrel of a too-eelaborate plan"
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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kharveyhistory.bsky.social
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs

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Huntington Exchange Fellowship - University of Birmingham
Information for prospective applicants wishing to apply to the Huntington for a Fellowship to visit the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Hmm. I wonder if we or @richardiiisociety.bsky.social are there. We were very early adopters! But maybe our reach wasn’t enough… 🤔
aspencerhall.bsky.social Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Nov 18
The ToC gives a flavour of what you're in for, incl analysis of

👉 Margery Kempe as/on social media
👉 Owl and the Nightingale as Twitter toxicity
👉 Subtweeting troubadours
👉 The Chastelaine de Vergi as subtweet
👉 #MedievalTwitter - good, bad, everything
👉 medieval studies & accessibility
& more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction. Context Collapse Chapter 1. A Social Manuscript Chapter 2. #Medieval Twitter Chapter 3. Will the Real Margery Kempe Please Stand Up? Chapter 4. Dear Nobody: Private Publics and Public Privates Conclusion. Larry’s Dead Glossary Bibliography Index
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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renaudadam.bsky.social
Does anyone recognize this 15th-century coat of arms (Italian?)
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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yorkisthistory.bsky.social
Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians
A Road Map of the Yorkist Age
The Trust On…A Road Map of the Yorkist Age In a slight departure from our normal blogposts, here we present a guest post: Dr David Harrison discussing his fascinating new publication, Histori…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Our monthly meeting is today! Because our membership goes coast to coast, we hold it via Zoom. After a talk on Francis Lovel and the Rebels of Furness Fells, we will have a short business section then general chit-chat. It’s always a good time.
A mockup of a Zoom meeting but the attendees are all medieval people including Richard III, Anthony Woodville, Cecily Neville, and others.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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matthewholford.bsky.social
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Owned by Richard Haute, cousin to Elizabeth Woodville.
allantadams.bsky.social Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 15d
An #ADoorableThursday offering from the archive: Ightham Mote in Kent. The gatehouse was an addition to an earlier part of the building.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #Drawing
#ArtShare
Pencil drawing of a gatehouse tower. It is built of stone and has a doorway with timber doors on the ground floor and two floors above with three light windows. The parapet is made of brick and partly obscures the structure that protects the head of a stair to the flat roof.
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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uoftcms.bsky.social
@utoronto.ca Celebrates: @uoftcms.bsky.social PhD Candidate Jack McCart's academic achievement.
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Jack McCart awarded Dean's Doctoral Excellence Scholarship
Jack McCart, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been awarded the faculty's Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes stud...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
A Falcon and Fetterlock misericord in Ludlow. This was the heraldic sign either for Richard duke of York, or his son, Edward IV. For #WoodenWednesday
a Misericord. In the middle is a bird surrounded by a fetterlock on which it is standing. On either side are similar, closed fetterlocks.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Medieval floor tiles (still in situ) at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey #ScottishBorders
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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allantadams.bsky.social
'To add colour or leave it alone, that was the question...' Answer: add colour to a print and leave the original. Heraldry on Micklegate Bar, York, dating from 1350-75 includes the Royal Arms of England and the arms of the City of York.

#MicklegateBar #ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
Pencil and watercolour drawing of a masonry wall with two cross-shaped arrow loops and three rectangular windows interspersed with shields bearing coats of arms. Two are the Arms of the city of York. The third are Royal Arms of 1330-1350 with a great helm with a lion crest above it. Pencil drawing of a masonry wall with two cross-shaped arrow loops and three rectangular windows interspersed with shields bearing coats of arms. Two are the Arms of the city of York. The third are Royal Arms of 1330-1350 with a great helm with a lion crest above it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
North Americans! (Well, most of us). Time to Fall back tonight. An extra hour of sleep!
(Image: BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 455, fol. 4rof) Louis de Gruuthuse in front of a clock by the master of Margaret of York.)
A man sits in front of a very large clock with tools at his feet. He has both arms raised. A crowd of people in late 15th C clothing stand near him, most with their hands folded as though in prayer.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
It's November. Why just knock acorns down from a tree the usual way when you can do it as an interpretive dance?
Image: The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry the Met (54.1.1 f12r)
Beautiful image with many gold highlights. 4 pigs are eating acorns on the ground. The swineherd, wearing a bright blue robe, has one foot forward, and the other behind him.He is leaning back, his body slightly turned with one arm thrown out in a big gesture. He holds a small stick that looks inadequate to the job but clearly isn't as there are many acorns on the ground.
November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
The auction closes tomorrow!
richardiiisocca.bsky.social Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 22d
Among the other rare items is this reproduction of a great Seal of Edward IV, issued in 1979 as part of the Quincentenary Celebrations of the founding of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. It is 50 years old & in great shape as you can see. Bid before it is too late. www.richardiii.ca/auction-2025/
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Happy Halloween! Have a picture of what is supposed to be bats but we think are clearly people in bat costumes in an "Oooh aren't we scary" pose. From the 13th C Northumberland Bestiary (Image: Getty Museum MS 100, fol. 37r)
Painting in a medieval manuscript. Two bats stand side by side with wings outstretched. There is a frame drawn around them but their wings and one tail is in front of the frame. They look scary with sharp teeth.
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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uoftcms.bsky.social
A reminder that next week, CMS will hold two Open Houses - one in person, one virtual - for prospective students wishing to learn more about our MA and PhD Programming. Register your spot for November 4 or November 6! uoft.me/bWp
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! Have a picture of what is supposed to be bats but we think are clearly people in bat costumes in an "Oooh aren't we scary" pose. From the 13th C Northumberland Bestiary (Image: Getty Museum MS 100, fol. 37r)
Painting in a medieval manuscript. Two bats stand side by side with wings outstretched. There is a frame drawn around them but their wings and one tail is in front of the frame. They look scary with sharp teeth.
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM