Watch last Friday's fascinating talk by PhD researcher Georgie Anderson from the University of Kent, who traces the Black Knight in medieval manuscripts to shed light on processes of race-making in medieval Europe. Find the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf36... #RaceInHistory

Race Making and Romance in Medieval Europe (Georgie Anderson)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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From ancient Alexandria to Britain during WW2, the Bodleian hosts lots of ... rubbish! Listen to today's talk by Péter Tóth and Andrew Honey about dumped papyri form the 3rd century, a recycled map from the 1940s and other kinds of rubbish held at the Bodleian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10T...

Rubbish in the Bodleian! (Péter Tóth and Andrew Honey)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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Learn about the first western discovery of the star tables of fifteenth-century Timurid astronomer-ruler Ulugh Beg and watch last Friday's presentation by Daniel Fried, doctoral student at New College. 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEL...

The western discovery of the star tables of Ulugh Beg in the Bodleian Library (Daniel Fried)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce

The Witch and the Child in the Bodleian's Douce Collection (Jana Lammerding)

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Let James Freemantle of the St James Park Press, the current Printer in Residence, introduce you to Artists' Books from the Bodleian and from his from his private Collection. Watch the full presentation from last Friday's Coffee Morning at the Weston Library here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafb...

Artists Book in the Bodleian Library (James Freemantle and Chris Fletcher)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to artist and art historian Ashkan Sepahvand presenting the 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran, including an unpublished epic romance manuscript by a an Iranian peasant. 📖 Watch the latest Coffee Morning presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWye...

The 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran in the Bodleian Libraries (Ashkan Sepahvand)

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Take a look at the Conservative Party Archive in the Bodleian Library, presented by Fran Allen and Hannah Bithel-Vaughan at last week's Medievalists Coffee Morning in the Weston Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAv...

Conservative Party Archive in the Bodleian Library (Fran Allen & Hannah Bithel-Vaughan)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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A trip back to the ... 1980s at yesterday's Medievalists Coffee Morning, with Jack Orchard's fascinating talk on the history of technology and personal computing culture in 1980s Britain. #chuckiegg 👾💾 Watch the full presentation on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WF...

Chuckie Egg! Personal Computing from the 80s in the Bodleian (Jack Orchard)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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Last friday's Medievalists' Coffee Morning sparked excitement for Hilary Term, with Visiting Fellow Jarrah Sastrawan presenting on religious transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia. 📜☕️ Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQA...

Religious Transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia in the Bodleian (Jarrah Sastrawan)

YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

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Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...

Oxford Mystery Cycle 2025 (Behind the Scenes)

Behind the Scenes

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OPPORTUNITY 📯 Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham! Deadline: 3 September 2025 More details at durhamcollections.org.uk

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies. 🖊️ Apply by 14 July

📅 Join the public lecture by prof Henrike Lähnemann @ox.ac.uk, titled "Early modern code-switching between Latin & the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated." 10 July, 4:30-5:30 PM, Van der Leeuw hall, Academy Building. @rug.nl @oxmedstud.bsky.social More info 👉 lnkd.in/eQDev2ih

Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!! Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.

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📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!! Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.

Oxford Medieval Studies@oxmedstud.bsky.social · last yr.

📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

It's Week 7! Just two more weeks to go, which means two more weeks of fantastic medieval lectures, seminars, reading groups, and more, all viewable now in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m...

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Alt: Gif of the dwarves from Snow White with the caption 'Seven!!'

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📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays! 🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm 📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

It's Week 6! Just 3 more weeks until the end of the academic year but we're nowhere near done yet - find out what's in store this week in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/02/medieval-matters-tt25-week-6

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Alt: Cricketer in a blue shirt raising his arms to the number Six!

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🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️ Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!

Somehow, it's already Week 5 and we're half way through the term 🙀! See how our medieval community is marking this midpoint with this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/26/m...

It's Week 4! Take your mind of exams and essays with one of our many fantastic medieval events, all in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/19/m...

Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

Review: Medieval Mystery Play Cycle – 'Comedy, choirs and inflatable hammers' - Cherwell

Against the backdrop of St Edmund Hall’s medieval architecture, these short plays offered a tantalising window into medieval theatre.

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It's Week 3! Check out the latest events in the world of medieval studies in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/12/m... And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!

It's Week 2 of Trinity! From French palaeography to the science of the stars, check out what's going on in Oxford this week in the latest instalment of Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/05/m...

@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome! 📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW) ⌚️ 10am - 4pm

Friday 2 May, 5pm, @regentsox.bsky.social and on zoom I'll be talking after the AGM of the Henry Bradshaw Society @oxmedstud.bsky.social. #medievalsky