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Chandini Jaswal @jaswalc05.bsky.social · 2d

#throwback to the delightful evening of presenting and reconnecting with
@harrygilbert.bsky.social & @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social at @memrn.bsky.social!

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is going to such a fun one! Get in touch with the @memrn.bsky.social team to join in!

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are delighted to announce our September meeting’s guest speaker, @willsherwood.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Also the Education Secretary for @tolkiensociety.org, we can’t wait to hear him present!

Join us at 6pm BST on Monday 29th September via Teams. DM or email us to attend.

MEMRN meeting on September 29th 2025, 6pm BST. Will Sherwood from University of Glasgow is presenting ‘Tolkien's Romantic Medievalism’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 30

The @memrn.bsky.social Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!

Head to the network’s website & social media for aaall the details 🎉

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Are you thinking of applying to speak at our Winter Conference? Considering coming along to take part in the activities and enjoy the panels? If you do, you'll have a lovely time. Don't just take our word for it though...

Our Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 29

I had the pleasure of contributing to this episode of the brilliant You’re Dead to Me! It’s very informative and also very, very silly. Lots of nipple talk.

Now available on all podcasting apps!

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 Our episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about the lives of Viking Women is now available worldwide on all podcast apps — featuring very funny comedian Chloe Petts and Viking expert Dr Eleanor Barraclough

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 19

You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 5

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

BIG NEWS! We, the MEMRN committee, are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the University of East Anglia and online for three days of panels, social events, workshops, networking sessions, and adventure in the historic city of Norwich.

The Call for Papers and details on how to apply to speak at the event are available via the MEMRN website and our social media. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday 12th September.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 5

The @memrn.bsky.social team have worked so hard behind the scenes to organise our second annual Winter Conference. Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract for this lovely, supportive and academically diverse event

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 5

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November.

Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich.
We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including:

* History and politics
* Philosophy and theology
* Literature, drama, performance culture and music
* Latin and vernacular languages
* Art history, architecture and archaeology
* Manuscript studies and book history

For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE.
All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday
12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered.

Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 4

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 4

ooh MEMRN, we've got some exciting news for you all coming this week... 👀 Stay tuned for a big announcement!

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jul 17

ICYMI yesterday - we've got an absolute belter of a session coming up for our July monthly meeting!

Please share widely with all your Tudor and book-loving friends. MEMRN events are free and open to everyone! Proudly supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 16

We’re so thrilled to share this event with you all! Please do come along to hear more about Kate’s fascinating research!

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jul 16

We could not be more excited to share this month’s MEMRN guest lecture with you! This month we’re welcoming friend of the network and all-round Tudor crowd-pleaser, the utterly brilliant Kate McCaffrey, to speak on her research into the Books of Hours of powerful figures at the Tudor court.

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Dr Gabby Storey @gabbystorey.bsky.social · Jul 11

delighted to return to the excellent #YoureDeadToMe pod with @gregjenner.bsky.social and Cariad Lloyd for a brill episode on Empress Matilda, King Stephen, + 'The Anarchy'...or was it?

Catch the episode here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great fun + huge thanks to the wonderful production team!

You're Dead to Me - Empress Matilda: civil war in medieval England - BBC Sounds

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about Empress Matilda and the Anarchy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · Jul 11

Final Reminder that today is the last day to register for next week’s @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes event!
@ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
#Twitterstorians

Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · Jul 4

Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 10

Wow Emily!!!! Massive congratulations! 🥳

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 8

Unquestionably the best vibes panel of the day for me 👏

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just me, popping up again to say that everyone should come to Norwich because it's amazing and full of great stuff. Get in touch with the Bookscapes team for more info!

Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · Jul 4

Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 2

Alas! I do not have a book just yet! This research forms part of my PhD thesis though which will be finished later this year ☺️ Happy to share the conference paper via email and to discuss it if you’re interested in the subject

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 2

Good god I wish they’d stop remaking and rebooting and live-actioning things that are ALREADY FINE 🥲

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 2

@chase-dtp.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is going to be amazing, heritage & archaeology folk, get yourself to Norwich and see the country’s best castle ever

Our Royal Palace is about to be reborn - Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery - Norfolk Museums Service

A four-year project to reinstate the Norman floors and rooms in the Castle Keep

www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nervous and excited to share that I’ll be presenting some of my research tomorrow at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Bristol! Catch me yapping about Cortés and dusty books in Panel 4.2 📚

First slide of my presentation with the paper title ‘Knights of the New World: Cortés, Spanishness, & Late Medieval Iberia’s Chivalric Renaissance. The slide features a woodcut from an early printed edition of sergas de Esplandián, a continuation of Amadís de Gaula

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jun 20

Missed one of our monthly meetings? Dont panic! Our meetings are recorded and uploaded to our website, so you can catch up whenever you want!

Check out this amazing presentation from guest speaker @nicmorton.bsky.social about surviving a Mongol invasion!

memrnchase.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/g...

Guest Lecture: Dr Nicholas Morton

In November 2024 we were delighted to be joined by Dr. Nicholas Morton, author of The Mongol Storm (Nottingham Trent University) speaking to us on ‘Surviving a Mongol Invasion’. Buildin…

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jun 19

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jun 10

Would you be interested in being part of the MEMRN Winter Conference in 2025?

If that sounds like a bit of you, please consider registering your interest via the link below and help us bring you a brilliant event later in the year! forms.gle/c64Zx7AXcJin...

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · Jun 13

June lineup announced for @memrn.bsky.social !!! Email or DM us for the link 🎉

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are thrilled to announce two brilliant speakers for our June meeting! We’ll have Elizabeth Austin (@elaustin.bsky.social) and Auriel Tiltman presenting their research to our community.

Join us at 6pm BST via Teams. Mailing list members receive the meeting link, otherwise email or DM to attend.

MEMRN meeting on June 30th 2025, 6pm BST. Elizabeth Austin from University of Essex is presenting ‘The 1618 Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: Medical Practices, Occupational Boundaries and Trust Building’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.

MEMRN meeting on June 30th 2025, 6pm BST. Auriel Tiltman from University of Lincoln is presenting ‘Preserving the Past: Conservation with a Student Conservator’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · May 28

Come and join in with us this Friday for a brilliant day of global research!

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · May 28

BIG NEWS! The meeting link for our Spring Showcase online day-conference on Friday has been emailed out today!

Weren't on the list? Don't worry, it's not too late to get involved! Email us at [email protected] to join us on Friday for a day of brilliant global research

@chase-dtp.bsky.social

Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · May 15

This is going to be a wonderful day of knowledge exchange! You can register via the @memrn.bsky.social website 🎉

MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · May 15

TWO WEEKS LEFT! Please consider joining us for our Spring Showcase on the 30th of May. This excellent online day-conference is bringing together scholars from around the world to celebrate the diverse research being done in the MEMRN community. Register here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-spring...