Historians love a good turn, from the Spatial to the Emotional Turn, from the Environmental to the Digital Turn. So “turn” to this excellent study! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #earlymodern @massimorospocher.bsky.social @toffolosandra.bsky.social

CfP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027: "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We welcome papers (15-20min) from all disciplines of medieval studies by scholars at any level, on any aspect of medieval queer and trans community, in person or virtual. Abstracts due 31 Aug. We'd love to hear from you!

Geography and Sustainable Development lectureship at St Andrews (specialisms in coastal environments encouraged): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK679/l...

Lecturer in Geography and/or Sustainable Development - AC2883 at University of St Andrews

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Please consider signing this petition in support of the philosophy programme at Dundee if you haven't seen it already. This is a really bad time to be closing down one of the few remaining programmes in continental philosophy that exist in the UK www.change.org/p/save-the-p...

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The Eisteddfod celebrates its 850th anniversary in Pembrokeshire this year. Discover art inspired by the festival in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/is-there-peace-art-inspired-by-the-national-eisteddfod 🧑‍🎨 Harry Hughes Williams (1892–1953) 📷 Oriel Môn

Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

here are wonders supernatural

Getting the OfS involved in PhD examination would be an incredible, disatrous and egregious assault on academic independence.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterday

Calls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

🏺 Look at the ears on this hare! From Late Period Egypt, now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/237...

Whilst I love an OMT edn, having 3 open at once has necessitated me cracking open the post-it's to avoid confuddling myself more than usual

Medievalists, I'm proposing a CfP for a couple of sessions for @imc-leeds.bsky.social on "Multilingualism in the Global Middle Ages. Creating Communities through Inclusion and Exclusion". Please share and apply (and check out the beautiful 12th c. quadrilingual epitaph from Palermo) #medievalsky

That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts

Just over a month left to submit your abstract! CFP below We very much look forward to bringing together global scholars of the Reformation(s) and environment ⛪🌳🐟

Nicole Maceira Cumming@nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

Call for papers Communities in Medieval Wales & the March, @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027, sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. If you are researching any aspect of Medieval Wales & the March, please consider submitting a paper proposal for our strand at next year's IMC. #MedievalSky #Skystorians

The 12th century Mole. This amazing Norman doorway is at Kilham, Yorkshire East Riding. It has six orders with plenty of zig-zag as well as decoration in the gable above. On one capital is a roundel featuring a mole, as often depicted in medieval bestiaries. bestiary.ca/beasts/beast...

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2027 on Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.). Posted on behalf of Dr Robyn Stewart (University of York) who is not on Bsky. Deadline 1 Sept 2026 for 250-word abstracts.

What happens when an Iron-Age British hero, some early-medieval Welsh saint, and a 21st century French philosopher of the climate crisis walk into a bar? Find out in my (Open Access) article now out in an Early View copy with @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/hith...

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to prem....

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What happens when an Iron-Age British hero, some early-medieval Welsh saint, and a 21st century French philosopher of the climate crisis walk into a bar? Find out in my (Open Access) article now out in an Early View copy with @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/hith...

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to prem....

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Join us in a couple of weeks (21/07, 1300 BST, on MS Teams) to hear @alicewolff.bsky.social talk to us about Late Medieval and Early Modern weeds in the fields of Scotland and England. For a full abstract and to sign up see the eventbrite page here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodle-for-...

discovering the unicode ỽ has made me unreasonably happy

Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...

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A reminder to join us on Tuesday for our next seminar, where Sandra Liwanowksa will be discussing 17th ctry English local natural history and the curative potential of soil. Join us 09/06/26 at 1300 by signing up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humble-cla...

Humble Clays, Global Claims: Rbt Plot & the Medicinal Value of English Soil

The Northern Environmental History Network welcome Sandra Liwanowksa (University of Cambridge).

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PhD position in Human Ecology at Lund University. Project in history of environment/energy/technology. The candidate must be able to read/speak Swedish. #envhist

Kristoffer Ekberg@krekberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kom och bli humanekolog! Vi rekryterar en doktorand till det tvärvetenskapliga projektet "Den svenska elen" som fokuserar på nationalism i relation till elkraftsutbyggnad. Tjänsten är knuten till den historiska delen av projektet. Sprid gärna!

Laura Bassi Scholarship, Summer 2026. Provides editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study. Open to every discipline. ⏰ Apply by 12 July 2026 🔗 View details and apply: bit.ly/3OinHp2 #funding

🎶 you'll never park like common people... 🎶

Rob Klose@robklose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As seen in Oxford! 🤣

We've been asked to share a CfP for a workshop organised by a group of historians at Leeds. Papers on a variety of topics related to the Environmental History of Northern England are invited: the orgnaisers hope to develop some papers presented into a special issue of @northernhistory.bsky.social

One of my greatest flaws as a scholar is that my brain stops functioning when the room I'm in gets above 21 C

We look forward to hearing your rabbit holes!

North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network@northwestmedieval.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 CFP for the annual NWMS Postgrad Symposium. To be held at Chetham’s Library Tuesday 4th August 2026. Open to any PG or ECR. This year we are particularly interested in research rabbit holes that you had to cut! Email title, ~150 abstract and short bio to nwmsreading@gmail.com by 17th July 🎉

I haven't mentioned my symposium in DAYS so this is a reminder you can now sign up for this very cool event! wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...

Cardiff University proposes to repurpose the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library, removing 7km of books and vital study space to make way for teaching rooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!

7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

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