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Kirsty Bolton

@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social

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Likes: medieval literature, sea swimming, plants, embroidery. Dislikes: transphobes, bigots, jelly. Leverhulme ECF at Oxford, researching identity and the sea in medieval romance.

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Aug 18

Copyeditors are wonderful!

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you, Rachel and the amazing GMS community. This was an brilliant experience, as was the whole wonderful conference.

Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Listening to @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social giving the ECR Plenary at @medievalgender.bsky.social - great stuff. I’m proud that I established this plenary & that it’s become an annual part of GMS: so important to centre our early career scholars.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 26

I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 25

My proposal has been accepted for the New Chaucer Society congress in Freiburg next July! Who all else is going, #MedievalSky?

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 23

MAMO is this week! I’m so excited for so many amazing papers and workshops reflecting on how medieval research interacts with the modern world.

MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Jun 23

Continuing with our MAMO thread of reflecting on practices of medievalism, we look forward to our Thursday panel on 'Pedagogy and Practice'!
With Kirsty Bolton (@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social, Oxford), Karen A. Winstead (Ohio), and Brendan O'Connell (Trinity Dublin). #MAMOmonth

Session 3C: Pedagogy and Practice [Room K020]
Chair: Laura Varnam
Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford): Medieval and Modern Experiences of Migration
Karen A. Winstead (The Ohio State University): Medievalism as Pedagogy: Creating “Wicked Students”
Brendan O’Connell (Trinity College Dublin): Teaching Medieval Complaint through Sara Ahmed

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 17

I’ve started my PowerPoint for my ECR plenary at GMS in a few weeks 😂 🧜🏽‍♀️
Disclaimer: there are no actual mermaids in the paper. Yet.
@medievalgender.bsky.social

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 22

I read a lovely book and wrote about it in the fantastic Medieval Feminist Forum: scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol60/is...

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400–1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood, by Alexandra Verini

By Kirsty Bolton, Published on 01/01/25

scholarworks.wmich.edu

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 12

Perhaps naively, I believe that most people think they are doing the right thing within their value system. But bloody hell, Starmer, give your head a wobble. You’re sorely testing this belief right now.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 9

I think we have been in some of the same panels today. Can I be in your fun junior faculty gang?

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 9

Feeling the love for my Catholic homies atm.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 9

I’ve braved the @socmedfem.bsky.social gathering and there is not a single person I recognise. Going to drink my pint quickly and go find pizza. Social anxiety core.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 8

Mini Mac will be a good stand in 💕 I’ll miss our Leeds shenanigans, for sure 😢

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 8

It’s not the same without you, my dear x

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 8

Would be fab to catch up 😊

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 7

On the train to @kzooicms.bsky.social and I think I’ve sat on the wrong side to see the lake. Actual woe.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 7

@kzooicms.bsky.social Quick Q: how often are the shuttles from downtown to campus? Thanks 😊

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · May 4

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝

Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!

🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland

womenshistoryscotland.org

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · May 1

Sorry to jump on your thread, but could I just ask what romance conference in Oxford? Is it Medieval Insular Romance?

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Apr 16

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds.

Trans women are women.

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Apr 3

Congratulations! 🥂

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yeah, I’m not really a historian either, but I couldn’t resist.

Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Mar 25

#TypicalHistorian

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Mar 20

Today’s mission: trying to find out if Chaucer ever went to Northumberland.

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · Mar 18

Happy birthday in the sunshine ☀️