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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Aug 20

But really pleased 😀 given the current sector challenges, to be joining @birminghamschoolofenglish as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval Literature for 2025/26 - looking forward to getting back to teaching, and starting with planning a new skills unit focused on Boccaccio's DECAMERON (📸)

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Aug 20

⭐️Somehow, I've also kept up my own research, with my book WRITING ST GUTHLAC just about (!) in press, and a new Middle English / manuscript project started with @uofglasgowasc

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Aug 20

⭐️ I've supported two impact projects @elcw_lancasterwords WALKING FOR WELLBEING focused on the cultural & literary history of crossing Morecambe Bay and CO-CREATE WITH LITCRAFT @litcraft.edu.resource getting young readers immersed in digital literary worlds

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Aug 20

⭐️I've brushed off my old school teaching experience as a member of the Education & Outreach team at @lancastercitymuseums, leading school groups, family activities and also adult education sessions based on collections, and writing a online article for them on Lancashire's Anchorites

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢 I've had a great time this year, working on a range of impact projects both within and without the academy 🧵

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎉

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ok, maybe there is hope

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 28

#literaturesky #skystorians #medievalsky #museumsky

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 28

back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by

🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social

🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social

🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 24

#literaturesky

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 24

#medievalsky #skystorians

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 24

A packed & satisfying day of giving historical walking tours to secondary school students around #Lancaster 👣 but finally on the train heading to @themamoconf.bsky.social - looking forward to attending the oldest conference fully dedicated to medieval reception! 😃

A train window somewhere in the midlands

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 15

#medieval #books #history #middleenglish #glasgow #skystorians #poems #manuscripts #research

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 15

A Tudor manuscript of a medieval poem collected by 18th antiquaries which ended up in a medieval university - a thrilling tale of medieval culture & its reception 😃

Thanks to @bobmaclean.bsky.social & the ASC team for facilitating 💫

/fin 🧵

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 15

It was the the elaborate initials (famously hiding an acrostic revealing the author's name, John Clerk of Whalley) and marginalia from later readers which occupied my attention this week 📝

2/3 🧵

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 15

A delight this week to make the aquaintance of this 1540s ms (Glasgow UL Hunter 388), the single surviving witness to the ME alliterative Romance, The Destruction of Troy (c. 1400), as part of my visiting fellowship at the University of Glasgow Library 📚

1/3 🧵

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · May 14

Book update 📢

Judgement just in from the press reviewers, #writingstguthlac is 'excellent', 'full of scholarly pleasure', 'argumentatively compelling' and 'written in a very engaging prose style' 🥳

Last push to carve out time as I head towards publication with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social 👣

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Dec 4

Well I've booted up Bluesky again to see what the craic is here, thanks for all the follows

You all might as well have my latest research update

The ms of WRITING ST GUTHLAC is just now on the last proof read before being sent off to the publishers :)

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · May 12

I've got a little public-facing piece out on the Lancaster City Museums website (part of my outreach role there)

I explore two contrasting portraits of Lancashire's Medieval Anchorites for Women's History Month

Check it out if you are interested! :)

www.lancaster.gov.uk/sites/museum...

Lancashire’s Medieval Anchorites - Lancaster City Council

Lancashire’s Medieval Anchorites

www.lancaster.gov.uk

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hope it goes well, pal!

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thank you for your interest :) It's on the backburner at the moment but definitely not something that is going away entirely - watch this space!

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ty :)

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 Pub. day for my latest piece of research, looking at women who played knights & pages in 1910s-1920s historical pageants and their likely influence on Radlyffe Hall's 'Well of Loneliness' (1928), with its gallant girl-boy chevaliers, heritage closets, cropped hairstyles & dreamy Romance loci ✨️😃

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Mar 25

Ok I'lll bite.

While my main discipline is EngLit, my current museum edu/outreach role means I'm also a Public Historian.

Here I am just after giving a talk on medieval women to visitors. Should have ironed my shirt & added a tie in case @bbcnews came knocking looking for a #typicalhistorian

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Feb 18

Yep for sure, I agree, it sounds like a formula. And people do discuss it a little e.g. Translating Troy by Alex Mueller.

Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Feb 17

Yep that's the one. I think there's a translation someone has published on Amazon, but it isn't peer reviewed, or by a medievalist as far as I know, so I wouldn't trust it completely!

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