It's #Halloween and our fabulous new exhibition on #MedievalWomen has just opened! So of course we had to do a blogpost on MEDIEVAL WITCHES 🧙‍♀️😈🔥 Read it here🔗blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Details below: #OMGC2025 #cfp #medieval #medhist

Our bursary scheme is now open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

The latest issue of Medium Ævum (93.1) is now available! Over the next few weeks, we will be posting the abstracts from our 93.1 articles to offer an insight into their cutting-edge research.

Would love to see this done in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey

The 25th annual Irish Texts Society Seminar UCC Ireland is coming up this Saturday, 9th November, and will consider Sgéalta Thomáis Uí Chathasaigh: Mayo Stories Told By Thomas Casey. You can register online at uccshop.ie/shop/the-twent…

The call is open! Submissions for the REFORC Book Award 2025 are welcome before March 1, 2025. reforc.com/news/reforc-bo…

In today's blogpost, we're exploring the margins of a truly monumental manuscript, a copy of the works of Birgitta of Sweden made for Syon Abbey and currently on display in our #MedievalWomen exhibition! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

There's been such a lot of buzz around the British Library's wonderful new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, which runs until 2 March. Have you been already, or are you planning on going? Make sure to book your ticket here: tinyurl.com/yck27773

🥳 I'm organising a conference! 🚨 #CfP (Re)Creating Stories, a conference on rewritings & adaptations of Old/Middle Irish narratives in Early Modern/ Modern Irish/Gaelic, up to & including 18th cy. More details 🔗dias.ie/2024/11/05/cal… Feel free to email me with any questions!

'The Material Culture of Wills' - Call for volunteer transcribers! This University of Exeter and National Archive research project is looking for a large number of volunteers to check early modern handwritten documents. Check it out! - zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi…

This week's Ó Cléirigh seminar in University College Dublin at 4pm on 8 Nov is: Courtney Selvage (UCD), ‘Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and the Composition of Betha Farannáin’ Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome.

We're extending the deadline for this comp to Monday! Do RT and give us a follow to enter!

Congratulations to Sharon Greene @shazarch.bsky.social, winner of this fantastic book! We'll DM you, Sharon! Thanks to everyone who entered the competition!

My book on Julian of Norwich and well-being is now available to preorder with a discount from Columbia University Press! Code: CUP20 I'm hugely grateful for very generous endorsements from Rowan Williams, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Julie Orlemanski, and Nicholas Watson. cup.columbia.edu/book/impossibl…

Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp

Women held a number of different medical roles in the medieval period, serving as healers and caregivers, wet nurses, hospital staff, midwives and paid professionals. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

We're hiring! Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus… The deadline for applications is 9 February