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Sara Charles
@saracharles.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
A cat on Catte Street. I’m building a model to help with my research of Catte Street, Oxford. Leoba is helping via physical manifestation (not to scale)
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A perfect exit hole in a marble gall #everydaymiracles #irongallink
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'll be talking to the Caxton Club next month on The Medieval Scriptorium - going through all the stages of making manuscripts, including demonstration videos. There may be cats in the background. Fri 14 Nov 12:00PM CT (5.00PM GMT) #medievalsky #bookhistory
www.caxtonclub.org/event-6296386
October 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You’re not working now. You’re giving me attention
October 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
@dannybate.bsky.social spotted in Waterstones in Brighton 🙌
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A rather fabulous looking tome has just arrived on my doorstep @dannybate.bsky.social 🙌
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
And the bunting reminds me of the fab medieval bunting @beccameriel.bsky.social made for my book launch 😍
September 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A great turn out for @cathamclarke.bsky.social and Hannah Lowe at the IHR Creighton Lecture - Doing History with Poetry @ihr.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Look how I have cruelly betrayed them by leaving home and going into work #cats
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@cathamclarke.bsky.social Spotted (not once, but twice) in the window of Hatchards in St Pancras
September 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sloe foraging so I can make some winter gin gifts 😊
September 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There’s lots of knopper galls out on the oak trees at the moment - where gall wasps have laid their eggs inside of developing acorns. These interesting shapes are good for making #irongallink, but they are very sticky!
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Look what the postie brought for me today @cathamclarke.bsky.social! That’s tomorrow’s reading sorted 😊
August 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I can highly recommend @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social’s walking tour of Early Modern Latin in the City of London. Visited some new sites and finished off with a nice pub lunch and a toast to Wynkyn de Worde www.layersoflondon.org/map/trails/e...
#layersoflondon
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you can, go and see this exhibition. It’s absolutely full of beautiful books of hours (as well as the calendar from Très riches heures)
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My face when I realise I now have to lug home the extremely heavy (but beautiful) catalogue I bought from the Très Riches Heures exhibition in Chantilly #medievalsky #medievalmanuscripts
July 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m in the foyer of the union building with all my manuscript materials on display. Come and have a go at illuminating or writing with a quill #IMC2025 #medievalscriptorium @ies-sas.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The medieval fun continues with the instruments of the Luttrell Psalter, played by de Mowbray’s Musicke #IMC2025
July 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Learning more about the fascinating world of relic labels at Chelles from the brilliant @ana0dias.bsky.social #IMC2025 #craftingdocuments
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Such a treat for medievalists at #IMC2025 - a fashion show by Tanya Bentham. So wonderful to see these costumes in real life 🥰
July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So exciting to chat with the Battle Abbey Tapestry Group working on this amazing new design - and to add a small part of a griffin outline #IMC2025
July 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM