Francesca Brooks
@francescabrooks.bsky.social
Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
🚨General registration is now open for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference on Gender & Creativity in Oxford in Sept! We have an amazing line up of speakers, so please register asap to avoid disappointment! (Numbers are limited!). Link via GMS website medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
Get your tickets to the next Gender & Medieval Studies quick, while they last! What a fantastic programme.
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨General registration is now open for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference on Gender & Creativity in Oxford in Sept! We have an amazing line up of speakers, so please register asap to avoid disappointment! (Numbers are limited!). Link via GMS website medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
an fyi, fabric veils and bookmarks kept within medieval books remain precisely this vibrant too--they're nearly painfully bright, even after 600 years!
Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3w agoGreen!
Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol (salary £312,251): “I take a really personal view on this. My oldest daughter is the only child in my family who really is making a very significant amount of money.”
Elspeth Van Veeren@evanveeren.bsky.social · 3w agoAnother excellent example of just how incurious and limited the UK press has been about this crisis. Not one mention of the cuts to humanities that Bristol’s own VC is trying to push through at the moment in this article about her position on the cuts 🤔🙄. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excited to finally be attending my first GMS conference this September! The programme looks wonderful.
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last mo.The provisional schedule is now up the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford this Sept! (And I'm hoping that registration will be live by the end of the month! Let me know if you'd like to be on the mailing list for details). medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
#medievalsky job 🎺. Glasgow lecturer in medieval history (c.800 CE to 1500CE) wanted - with either/or-and comparative transnational perspective / interdisciplinary approach. Open-ended. 👇
Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
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Not one question on the HE financial crisis in this 40-min interview with Bridget Phillipson, UK Secretary of State for Education. @lewisgoodall.com could you please press ministers on this? We’re losing social mobility, learning opportunities, economic prosperity, research, arts at an alarming rate
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 4w ago"I seem to be living rent-free in Kemi Badenoch's head," Bridget Phillipson tells Lewis Goodall. With 93% of UK children in state schools, she says she "owns" the 'spiteful class warrior' dig over Labour's 20% private school fees increase www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/brid...
General registration will be live via the GMS website from Mon 20th July!
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last mo.The provisional schedule is now up the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford this Sept! (And I'm hoping that registration will be live by the end of the month! Let me know if you'd like to be on the mailing list for details). medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
Excited to finally be attending my first GMS conference this September! The programme looks wonderful.
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last mo.The provisional schedule is now up the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford this Sept! (And I'm hoping that registration will be live by the end of the month! Let me know if you'd like to be on the mailing list for details). medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
Permanent medieval lecturing job at Glasgow, asking for Europe and contacts with external cultures, or collaboration beyond traditional discipline boundaries: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...
Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
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Very nice not only to have good news but to have it shared - thanks @martindoyle.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Claire Connolly wins Robert Rhodes Prize
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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Hello, I’ve an event for my Muriel Spark biography next Weds (15th) at Waterstones Liverpool. We’ve sold barely any tickets, however, and it might be cancelled as a result. Please get a ticket if you’re nearby - it’ll be a lot of fun, and I’ll bring badges! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterstone...
Back from a trip to London & Sussex (in the extreme heat!), where I was grateful for some research time in the British Library (aircon!). I did a little detective work with the microfilm of the Argentine newspaper 'La Nación' to try & track down some of Lynette Roberts's Spanish language journalism
Are you at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and presenting on a creative-critical topic? Tag us know and we will repost your panel for visibility! #IMC2026 #IMC #medieval
Pleased to say that I’m now Associate Editor at JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing and an Artist Member at Two Queens in Leicester. I decided I missed editing and I’ve never been a member of an artists studio group before so this is a new venture into balancing the various aspects of my practice.
A wonderful treat at the end of last week to get to tag along on this site-visit to the Viking dig at Woodstown (and the weather was incredible!).
NorseMap@norsemap.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe project team was privileged to visit the new excavation of the Viking settlement at Woodstown near Waterford at the invite of Neil Jackman, and to see the finds that are already coming to light from this Irish/Norwegian dig. Big ideas for the site, which would be such a boost to the region.
The open letter regarding industry and applied bias in Research Ireland's strategy is still open for signing ... openletter.earth/concern-abou...
Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
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Elaine Burke@elaineburke.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlso I feel very much like I was just at an Enterprise Ireland announcement, not a Research Ireland one. Major focus on industry, commercialisation of research, turning scientists into entrepreneurs, creating a talent pipeline for industry, and an overriding theme of fairly ill-defined "scale".
University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities. Almost 2,000 sign open letter criticising Research Ireland for favouring industry and commercial interests. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities
Letter to Min Higher Ed
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This creative-critical project is finely researched and deeply moving. It was a privilege to see @katewilcox.bsky.social develop this wonderful work and I recommend this short piece to everyone. #history #family #creative #WW2
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · 2mo agoRecent @ihr.bsky.social MA student and Library Services Manager @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @katewilcox.bsky.social, has won the Phil Batman Family History Prize (Centre for Regional & Local History, University of Leicester). Discover her powerful and moving project: blog.history.ac.uk/2026/06/crea...
Hairy text! Surely a Jersey calf here? Durham Cathedral MS A.III.12.
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English. @uoftcms.bsky.social www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
Jobs For Medievalists
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English.
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A really important Open Letter for anyone with an investment in the research landscape here in Ireland.
Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉@stane.bsky.social · 2mo agoResearchers in AHSS fields with any connection with Ireland might want to consider signing this. openletter.earth/concern-abou...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Data Centre.
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.
Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here. We also updated …
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for #internationalmuseumday, we are celebrating once again the Crafting Medieval Spain project—a remarkable collaboration between academics and museum professionals that enabled the close study of the torrijo ceiling at v&a east storehouse
Exciting news if you're a fan of Lynette Roberts, a major modern poet whose work is finally getting the attention it deserves.
Francesca Brooks@francescabrooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoEmerging from an intense period of marking to share the lovely news that I've signed a contract, alongside wonderful co-editors Daniel Hughes and Siriol McAvoy, to edit and publish 'Lynette Roberts: Selected Prose and Radio Broadcasts' with Bloomsbury's Modernist Archives series!
#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Global Medieval History
Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out research and teaching in global medieval history? Do you have an established background in interdisciplinary global medieval studies? Are you est...
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Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social has two new poems in the forthcoming edition of The Stinging Fly - now available to preorder. Supriya is this week's 'Featured Poet' in @helenmort.bsky.social's A Time and a Place. stingingfly.org/product/summ...
Summer 2026 – The Stinging Fly
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New open access volume on languages and identities in early medieval Europe (inc a chapter by me on Britain) 🤓
Ed Roberts@ecroberts.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe proceedings from last summer's medieval 'semana' in Estella-Lizarra, on Languages and Identities in the Early Medieval West, have now been published (OA)! Feat. excellent studies by @francescatinti.bsky.social, @elvabjohnston.bsky.social, @hwaetspur.bsky.social, and many others not on here.
Emerging from an intense period of marking to share the lovely news that I've signed a contract, alongside wonderful co-editors Daniel Hughes and Siriol McAvoy, to edit and publish 'Lynette Roberts: Selected Prose and Radio Broadcasts' with Bloomsbury's Modernist Archives series!
