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📢AHRC PHD funding alert📢 Applications now open for an AHRC CDA scholarship LancasterUniHistory for a project on emotional objects in the British regimental museum. See below for details and & how to apply. DM me if you have any questions. Spread the word! lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-socia…

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

Congratulations Thomas Brosset on a fascinating and important doctoral thesis, which changes our understanding of siege warfare in 12th-century Syria and the Jazīra!

Excellent opportunity!

Fabulous new article by Sarah White History of Law and Governance Centre Nottingham Law Selden's Sister, 'Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c.1180–1300' Law and History Rev. Out now OPEN ACCESS: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sad news about a kind and remarkable medievalist whose new biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, published for the Fontevraud conference, was a triumph…

Latrigg, over Keswick to Derwentwater; River Greta.

This looks fascinating!

This Friday, 14th February, Katy Bennett Katy Bennett joins us IHRLateMedSeminar to share her research on 'Loyalty, Disloyalty and Changing Allegiance in Late-Medieval Gascony'. Join us in-person Institute of Historical Research or via Zoom - seminars are free and open to all! history.ac.uk/events/loyalty…

Today- the feast of St Valentine -760 years ago, during the first parliament to which town representatives were called, Simon de Montfort's party humiliated King Henry III in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey. The parliament was the zenith of England's First Revolution.

When is it right to take up arms against your government? A medieval perspective:

If you're listening to the latest podcast with charlie higson on Willy Willy Harry Stee Podcast on Simon de Montfort father & son- from the Fourth Crusade to the Albigensian Crusade & England's First Revolution -and wondering why Henry III of England wanted to conquer Sicily and what happened next:

Join us IHRLateMedSeminar Institute of Historical Research this Friday, 28th February, when Ruth Salter Uni of Reading will be sharing research on 'Holy and Homely Healthcare in Medieval England'. All welcome, in person at the IHR & via Zoom: history.ac.uk/events/holy-an…

My review of 'Saint Simon de Montfort: The Miracles, Laments, Prayers, and Hymns', edited by David Cox w/ Boydell & Brewer, free to read in Midland History. In short, superb sources + expertly edited & discussed! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My review Current Archaeology of Ian Atherton's book 'Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the 14th century' (OUP): 'essential reading … thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and stuffed with important findings': the-past.com/review/books/b…

Cumbria:

Applications for the MHS Bursary 2025 are open! Two Research Bursaries (£1,000 each) are available, supporting new research into any aspect of the medieval Welsh March (i.e. 1066-1536), the Marcher lordships or the Mortimer family. For more info, visit: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/bursar…

It's the summer 2025 season & #LowtherMedievalCastle is on! Phase 3 is our biggest dig yet, excavating the ringwork castle & two areas of the medieval village -potential house platforms & lots of medieval pottery. Lowther Castle & Gardens LancasterUniHistory UCLan Arch & Anth Allen Archaeology 💙 .