Hilariously, I've just had an email from @britishmuseum.bsky.social saying they hoped I'd enjoyed my visit to the Tapestry yesterday and inviting me to take a two minute survey. Could someone hold my beer?
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Works in academic publishing but will one day find out what she wants to do when she grows up. Supports Norwich City so must have done something awful in a previous life.
Happy feast of St Michael and All Angels! May you defeat the dragons bothering you today.
I do hope the BM's management sort out the problems. The curatorial teams on both sides of the Channel and the visitors deserve better. 2/2
Oh ffs British Museum. Turned away from the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition because of closing early for a private event... after queuing for 45 minutes. Underwhelmed.
Rose Walker explores how people in the 12th century found and exchanged skilled craftsmen, revealing how artistic expertise travelled through powerful social networks & shaped some of the most striking artworks of medieval Spain and Portugal. Read the blog: buff.ly/NQ1PqHC #HispanicHeritageMonth
How Artistic Skill Travelled in the Twelfth Century
Rose Walker explores how artistic expertise could have been loaned or gifted as craftsman travelled across Twelfth-Century Iberia.
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Thanks to Charlie for spotting this. In which Hicks tries to do the most unlikely of things and talk about fashion. Thankfully the journalist took my advice and talked to Gale Owen-Crocker and @laurajcleaver.bsky.social...
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Charlie Rozier@rozierhistorian.bsky.social · 2w agoCutting-edge fashion with @laurajcleaver.bsky.social and @lvhicks.bsky.social ! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...
So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
New month, new books! 👀 From medieval battles to Portuguese cinema, explore August's new books from across our subject ranges as well as titles now available in paperback 👉 buff.ly/pQCJ4m0 #BookSky
🎉 eBook summer savings continue! Don't miss out, enjoy 50% off all eBooks until this Friday! Discount is automatically applied at checkout so all you have to do is choose your favourites 👉 buff.ly/Hi9UWGC #BookSky #Skystorians
Read about my walking experiments behind my book below⏬️👀
Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Like many saints, Guthlac’s death didn’t stop him going places." Emma Nuding explores St Guthlac’s journeys through the Fens to his lasting literary legacy in saints’ lives, poetry and modern writing. #BookSky #MedievalSky #Skystorians @eknuding.bsky.social Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/GrxtCRP
Looking forward to new proposals! And thank you to @lauraashe.bsky.social for taking on the editorial, and all the board members [including @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social!].
Mary Flannery@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo exciting to see @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social relaunch their Chaucer Studies series last night @newchaucersociety.bsky.social, to be helmed by @lauraashe.bsky.social! Get in touch w/Laura if you’ve got a book in the works on Chaucer, his world, or his reception! (Oh, and I’m on the ed. board!🎉)
"There is no question that this book is one of the most important studies of early Welsh literature published in this generation." SPECULUM The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau edited and translated by Patrick Sims-Williams is now in paperback. Learn more: buff.ly/ZIeHzud
At #IMC2026, we're pleased to be joined once again by the Monumental Brass Society, who will be attending as part of our Historical and Archaeological Societies Fair! Come and chat to them at their stall on Thursday 9th July for more information. #IMC2026 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #LeedsIMC
Margaret Clunies Ross explores how fourteenth-century Icelandic poets adapted the traditional skaldic style from Viking-age secular praise poetry into a form of Christian propaganda supporting the canonisation of Bishop Guðmundr Arason. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/6jgHw9I #BookSky #MedievalSky
The 49th palaeography summer school in Birmingham incudes an advanced course on wills. It could be useful to experienced genealogists. #Skystorians #AncestryHour #Genealogy 🌳📜 ‘I leave my soul to God’: Testamentary Records c. 1300-c.1600 (with Shelagh Sneddon) palaeography.uk/study/short-...
The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026
The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…
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Thomas H Crofts explores how the Middle English Sir Tristrem transforms the legendary romance of Tristan and Iseult into a vibrant tale crafted for performance, rich with adventure, humour, and emotional depth. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/SLLi6tq @hypermetrix.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social
👑 Learn more about Mathilda of Flanders with Laura Gathagan as she discusses this powerful queen with Danièle Cybulskie on The Medieval Podcast. #medievalsky #skystorians 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/owMTFZb
Mathilda of Flanders with Laura Gathagan — The Medieval Podcast
They say that behind every successful man is a woman, and when it comes to one of the biggest medieval stories of personal success, that seems to have been true. Everyone’s heard of William the…
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🎉 Join Richard Barber to celebrate 25 years of the Marlborough Mound Trust! To mark the anniversary a conference will be help on 15 April at the Society of Antiquaries which will look at the site's history and future plans. For more information and to book your ticket, visit: buff.ly/BpEfbRu
NEW: Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World explores the overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/9Desqlo
🎉 We're so pleased to be shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards for the third consecutive year! Thank you to our authors, partners and team members for making this possible. 🥂 Congrats to all our fellow nominees! #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings? I'm not convinced... www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...
Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings?
Headline news in all the papers this weekend: historians have got 1066 all wrong! Previously they had thought that King Harold, who was famo...
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I am very jealous
Dr Rebecca Tyson@tyguson.bsky.social · 7mo agoAs of this weekend, I now have two reconstructions of medieval fish traps. One is a copy of a fish trap found in the moat at the Tower of London and the other is a copy of the eel trap from the Luttrell Psalter. The Tower of London fish trap is willow woven with rushes. #MedievalSky 1/3
Medieval manuscripts are shaped by countless decisions made by scribes, illustrators, binders, and other hands. Thomas C. Sawyer explores how these choices, both material and textual, reveal the rich and complex world behind the making of a #medieval book. Read the blog: buff.ly/1iqlhvD #medievalsky
🎧 Listen to Kathryn A. Smith, author of The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible, talk with Danièle Cybulskie about the complexities of translating the Bible during the Middle Ages on this episode of The Medieval Podcast 👉 buff.ly/8HjuYqh #medievalsky #skystorians
The Welles-Ros Bible with Kathryn A. Smith — The Medieval Podcast
Much in debate in England in the fourteenth century was how – and even if – the Bible should be translated into everyday language. Enter Maud de Ros, Lady Welles, the woman responsible for the most…
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We're thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Independent Publisher of the Year award for the third time! 🎊 #nibbies #BritishBookAwards
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 7mo agoThe trade shortlists for The British Book Awards 2026, aka The #Nibbies, have been revealed, including the nine publishers who will vie for Publisher of the Year, with indies Canongate, Usborne and Nosy Crow among the honourees 👇 #BookSky
We don't know how much of the reward Licence donated. And tbh would have been better had he waived his portion of the reward so that a museum might have been able to purchase the hoard. Also, he and the landowner kept a coin each...