I'm organising a @haskinssociety.bsky.social sponsored panel for @kzooicms.bsky.social 2027! This is a session that broadly focuses on all research concerning early medieval women (c.400–1100). If you know of anyone working in this area, please share!

The call for episode proposals for season 6 of the podcast is live! #medievalsky

We’re proud to be sponsoring these proposed sessions for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 on ‘Normans and their Communities’ Please share and submit your ideas!

We had such a great time at @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! If you have ideas for sessions at 2027 and you’d like us to sponsor the session, then please do get in touch via Emily Winkler or @rozierhistorian.bsky.social (VP for Europe) www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

We had such a great time at @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! If you have ideas for sessions at 2027 and you’d like us to sponsor the session, then please do get in touch via Emily Winkler or @rozierhistorian.bsky.social (VP for Europe) www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

If you’re still here and you have the energy, join us for our final two sessions with some exciting ‘Things’ 🙏🏻🤓

The Haskins Society@haskinssociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And on Thursday (yes, Thursday: please stay!) we conclude with some excellent sessions organised by @kateweikert.bsky.social on ‘Things Transcending Time’

Today! 🙏🏻🤓

The Haskins Society@haskinssociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next on Wednesday we have an exciting panel 1024 where we co-sponsor part I of ‘possible futures’

My first article is published today in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal. I'm so pleased to finally see it out in the world. My article outlines the maritime dimension to William fitzOsbern's lordship in the southern Welsh March in the years after 1066. doi.org/10.2307/jj.4... #MedievalSky

Looks like the latest @haskinssociety.bsky.social journal is out today. You can find me in it talking about the tenth century queenship (how surprising) making the case that the political changes encompassed in that century were foundational to the how the office of the Queen developed in England.

So pleased to see @tyguson.bsky.social’s excellent article on Billy FitzO and the management of Anglo-Norman maritime space published in the journal of @haskinssociety.bsky.social. A brilliant piece of scholarship! Read it here: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.41...

We start today! See you all there 🤓

The Haskins Society@haskinssociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First up on Tuesday, sessions 504 and 604 on the Angevin World with some really great experienced speakers

If you’re travelling to @imc-leeds.bsky.social this week, we’ve sponsored several sessions, outlined below. Non-tenured faculty speaking in Leeds sessions are eligible to submit their talks as articles for the Dennis Bethell prize: thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/bethellprize

Haskins Society Journal 35, hot off the press! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-has...

Beyond Exceptionalism III is off to an exciting start with Laura Gathagan's keynote! Just got to hear about a criminal being offered in effigy to a Norman abbess, to make up for stepping on her judicial prerogatives by executing him before she got to it 😂 Fascinating stuff!

Conference Beyond Exceptionalism III

17-19 de juny de 2026

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Day 2 is kicking off with the second keynote by Patrik Pastrnak on queenly rites of marriage and death—and an unexpected cameo by Margot Robbie's Barbie! (A great way to juxtapose the emotional intertwining of celebration and grief.)

Conference Beyond Exceptionalism III

17-19 de juny de 2026

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Third and final day! We're starting with Natasha Hodgson on women's influence on the Crusades—starting with the blurry boundaries of what even constituted a Crusader, a question with more than gendered implications.

Conference Beyond Exceptionalism III

17-19 de juny de 2026

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Thanks to Charles Insley for sharing these photos drom the Beyond Exceptionalism III conference! If you have photos from the conference, we'd love to see them!

Registration is now open for Beyond Exceptionalism III. e-ujier.uji.es/pls/www/!uji... The conference will be in a hybrid format, so if you can't attend in-person in Spain you still can participate online. #Medievalsky

The third-oldest surviving copy of Caedmon's Hymn found in Rome www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

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Today's highlight in Norway: News shared about the discovery of the largest coin hoard from the Viking Age Norway. Exciting times for colleagues @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and elsewhere! www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-...

Norway’s largest Viking Age coin hoard has been discovered: 'Truly exceptional'

The metal detectors searching for coins in a field in eastern Norway still haven’t stopped beeping.

sciencenorway.no

We're looking for an Assistant Editor for the Haskins Society Journal! Applications due by April 27.

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found after being missing for 40 years

An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon seal belonging to Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered more than 40 years after being declared lost. The wax impression of the ‘Saint-Denis seal’ disappeared without ...

news.exeter.ac.uk

We're looking for an Assistant Editor for the Haskins Society Journal! Applications due by April 27.

It's April & while no doubt there are some people labouring, these fashionable ladies are picking flowers and making wreaths. The April Labour of the Month from University of Manchester MS 164 4r

Happy Hug a Medievalist Day! #MedievalSky

Lieke Smits@elckerlieke.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s International Hug a Medievalist Day! Only with consent, please. Rochester Bestiary, England (Rochester?), c. 1230, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 42v

With 200+ tickets claimed for my public lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry on 30 April, there are only a few spaces left! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec.... When they’re gone, they’re gone!

We're delighted to loan Matthew Paris's (d.1259) 'Chronica Majora' to Lincoln Castle exhibition See the Siege of Lincoln in 1217 displayed along with Magna Carta - visit these two stars while you can! www.lincolncastle.com/events/event... CCCC MS 16ii, ff. 55v-56r tinyurl.com/mre3xwp4 #MedievalMSS

Chronica Majora – Lincoln Castle

Picture of The Chronica Majora on display at Lincoln Castle

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We are all saddened to hear of Stephen’s passing. Steven presented at Haskins and at Haskins-sponsored conference events, and published his excellent work in our journal. He will be sadly missed within our community.

St Peter's College, University of Oxford@spcoxford.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is with deep sadness that the Master and Fellows of St Peter’s College share news of the death of Professor Stephen Baxter, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History. Our full tribute will be shared soon. https://ow.ly/cy8J50Y0yrB

We're extending the deadline for submissions to the Bethell Prize to Saturday, Jan. 31 by midnight CST. Details at: thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/bethellprize If you've already submitted your essay but would like to use the additional time, feel free to submit a revised version. #MedievalSky

The remains, believed to be of 25 individuals including Emma of Normandy, were jumbled together in mortuary chests at Winchester Cathedral

Bones of Anglo-Saxon kings return to cathedral after DNA ‘jigsaw’

The remains, believed to be of 25 individuals including Emma of Normandy, were jumbled together in mortuary chests at Winchester Cathedral

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