Shauna Roach
@shaunaroach.bsky.social
Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
A very big day today… I have passed my PhD with minor corrections! Had a fantastic time talking Chaucer with my examiners #medievalsky #PhDone 🎓
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A very big day today… I have passed my PhD with minor corrections! Had a fantastic time talking Chaucer with my examiners #medievalsky #PhDone 🎓
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Alice Greedy Dyke
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Alice Greedy Dyke
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
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It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
my first-born turns two tomorrow. So proud of all the organisers - we have a jam packed programme of insanely creative papers 🍏
Tomorrow (Thursday 13th) is also brat symposium: the remix! Last year's inaugural brat symposium was created by CMS PGRs (pictured), and it was a huge success! Tomorrow's event promises to be just as exciting, with 14 papers on topics from environmental humanities to medieval studies! #medievalsky
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
my first-born turns two tomorrow. So proud of all the organisers - we have a jam packed programme of insanely creative papers 🍏
Living with chronic illness is physically and emotionally exhausting. Nine hours in A&E with such severe pain that liquid morphine didn’t even offer relief. All dismissed as ‘normal’ endometriosis symptoms
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Living with chronic illness is physically and emotionally exhausting. Nine hours in A&E with such severe pain that liquid morphine didn’t even offer relief. All dismissed as ‘normal’ endometriosis symptoms
I cannot wait for this paper. Bristol people, come along to brat symposium:the remix on Thursday!
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I cannot wait for this paper. Bristol people, come along to brat symposium:the remix on Thursday!
Putting together the slides for next week’s brat symposium @bristolcms.bsky.social (dun, dun) #medievalsky
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Putting together the slides for next week’s brat symposium @bristolcms.bsky.social (dun, dun) #medievalsky
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majoring yn English ys punk rocke
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
majoring yn English ys punk rocke
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
Get your proposals in by the end of the month! A title and rough outline is more than enough - and remember to sign up if you just want to be a spectator. We want to make sure there’s enough coffee/pizza/wine for all 💚💚💚
Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Get your proposals in by the end of the month! A title and rough outline is more than enough - and remember to sign up if you just want to be a spectator. We want to make sure there’s enough coffee/pizza/wine for all 💚💚💚
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Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂
We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂
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Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
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brat is back, baby. maybe one of my favourite academic events of all time, and the first paper I gave in Bristol to the best audience… it’s time for the remix 💚
Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏
Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
brat is back, baby. maybe one of my favourite academic events of all time, and the first paper I gave in Bristol to the best audience… it’s time for the remix 💚
Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏
Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏
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anyone in the area needs to attend this- the original was next-level and this one is not to be missed!!
Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
anyone in the area needs to attend this- the original was next-level and this one is not to be missed!!
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So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.
What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.
Good ol’ Neath train station. Makes a nice change from the usual human excrement found on the platforms
October 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good ol’ Neath train station. Makes a nice change from the usual human excrement found on the platforms
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Meanwhile in Neath / Castell-nedd…
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Cows delay trains for several hours after invading railway
Great Western Railway confirmed that services were disrupted on Sunday afternoon because of animals on the railway
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Meanwhile in Neath / Castell-nedd…
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan)
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan)
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
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At a time when patriotism can feel as as contested as ever, this is a bloody lovely ode to so much of what we love about Britain from @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...
Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...
Mr Blobby patriotism
Over recent weeks I have found myself thinking about the country we live in, what it feels like and what I like, and love, about it.
I guess I found myself thinking about this because of the summer w...
renewal.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
At a time when patriotism can feel as as contested as ever, this is a bloody lovely ode to so much of what we love about Britain from @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...
Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...
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Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
University English Funding
universityenglish.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
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One happy @bristolcms.bsky.social family!
Start of term = time for a new CMS photo! We love getting the CMS family back together! #medievalsky #skystorians
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One happy @bristolcms.bsky.social family!