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Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social · 1d

I can heartily recommend Laura's brilliant new article - innovative, creative and hopeful!

Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 6d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 1d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 7d

Earlier this week I had the privilege of attending the launch of the recently restored #medieval hearse cloths at Merchant Taylors' Hall - incredible work by Zenzie Tinker Conservation that really shows off these wonderful objects 💀 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #London

Photograph of one of the Merchant Taylors' hearse cloths framed on a wall. It is flat, with a central panel with foliate motifs and applique embroidered images of tailors' shears, St John the Baptist, and the Agnus Dei. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

Photograph of one of the Merchant Taylors' hearse cloths framed on a wall. It is flat, with a central panel with rich embroidery showing scenes from the life of St John the Baptist. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

Two people (myself and Lisa Monnas) talking in front of one of the hearse cloths. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 8d

We are so delighted to welcome Kathleen (@themedievaldrk.bsky.social) back to Bristol, even if it is online! We can't wait to celebrate all of Kathleen and Melek's hard work! #medievalsky #skystorians

Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 8d

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!

Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!

All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 8d

📢Devon folk: Chris and I are bringing our stories & songs to Exeter Phoenix!

If you'd like to learn more about the lives of #EarlyModern folk, to join us on Saturday 11 October 1:30pm for music inspired by the wills & the #History behind them.

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

A poster advertising 'Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives, an event at FUTURES Festival of Discovery, with Chris Hoban and Laura Sangha. There is a photo of a will and the university of Exeter and UKRI logos.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13d

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

doi.org

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

datamap.gov.wales

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 10d

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

photo of two book covers, one called "Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany", and one called "Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", both by Erika Graham-Goering. Princely Power has a green cover with a picture of a medieval document and green wax seal, while Gendered Reputations has a grey cover with a medieval drawing of a crowd of people raising their hands to a man and woman couple.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 10d

Call for applications! 📣

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 10d

Here it is! Thanks to all involved. #AcademicSky

open.spotify.com/episode/7MQw...

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

doi.org

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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 21d

Last month, the Trust had the privilege of offering scholarships to five PGRs and ECRs to attend the Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium. Each YHT Scholar has shared their thoughts on the experience on our #blog, which you can read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/09/18/y... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

YHT Scholars at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium

The Trust On…YHT Scholars at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium PGR/ECR presenters at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, including the five YHT scholars (courtesy of Ana Roda Sanchez) …

yorkisthistorytrust.org

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Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 27d

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out this RHS blog post by our author @mctom.bsky.social on his new book, Waterscapes, published #OpenAccess in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series!

@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social

blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/28/w...

The book can be downloaded from our website and read for free.

Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales | Historical Transactions

blog.royalhistsoc.org

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

A photo of Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing a navy blue shirt holding an author copy of her book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, against a background of green trees/bushes.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hello #medievalsky - does anyone know if @medievaljuliana (from twitter) is here, or where I can make contact? They helped me read some Old French a few years ago & I'd like to cite this in an article, but editor tells me I need a full name. DM me or reply if you can help, many thanks in advance!

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Aug 21

We've had a wonderful time at #Harlaxton Medieval Symposium this week. We caught up with author Kathryn A. Smith. Her lavishly illustrated book "The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF Fr.1)" is absolutely stunning - if we do say so ourselves. buff.ly/H9d2dUf #MedievalSky

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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · Aug 21

Well, the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium has come to an end, and what a week it has been. There’s so much innovative and fascinating work being done on the medieval city by scholars of all stages, and it was a joy to bring them together for four days of generous and lively discussion #Skystorians

Professor Caroline Barron delivering the Pamela Tudor-Craig memorial lecture at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium.

A large printed copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, open to a double page spread showing a woodcut image of the city of Nuremberg.

Jenny Stratford and Michael Michael at the launch of England and France before 1500: proceedings of the 2023 Harlaxton Symposium held in honour of Jenny Stratford.

A photograph of the book England and France before 1500: proceedings of the 2023 Harlaxton Symposium held in honour of Jenny Stratford.

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 17

“A thoughtful, collaborative mediation on the often-thorny ways that friendship intersects with the political”

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common:
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny

We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · Aug 15

'Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures' is out now

Edited by Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley, this collection goes beyond the familiar canon of medieval Celtic literatures to showcase a range of texts that are compelling in their literary imagination and technical innovation.

‘Written by distinguished scholars in the field of
Celtic Studies, this volume’s insightful and
original chapters celebrate the import of Catherine
McKenna’s wide-ranging scholarly interests on the

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · Aug 12

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · Aug 12

We're excited about this - in 126 years, @vchlondon.bsky.social has produced 250 of these big red books.

These lay the foundations for the work of historians of all kinds, and the 250th takes in Westmorland for the first time.

Learn more about the book and the project. Join us! #Skystorians

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Aug 12

2025 is a big year for us with a first and a big milestone.

The first: Westmorland I, Lonsdale Ward is our first ever #BigRedBook on that county, and is out *soon* from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social.

The milestone: Westmorland I is our 250th #BigRedBook

Learn more and join our celebrations! 🗃️

Celebrating Local and Place-Based History: Westmorland and the 250th VCH ‘Big Red Book’

www.history.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Aug 12

2025 is a big year for us with a first and a big milestone.

The first: Westmorland I, Lonsdale Ward is our first ever #BigRedBook on that county, and is out *soon* from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social.

The milestone: Westmorland I is our 250th #BigRedBook

Learn more and join our celebrations! 🗃️

Celebrating Local and Place-Based History: Westmorland and the 250th VCH ‘Big Red Book’

www.history.ac.uk

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Aug 11

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern

If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

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