Now that our next Newsletter is almost ready, we've uploaded our last issue for everyone to see! Find AMARC Newsletter, issue 82 here: amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-81… 📜🗞️📰📚

We at the London Palaeography Seminar have a special treat for you on Tuesday 12th Nov at 5:30pm - Tessa Webber speaking on 'Punctuation and the aural dimension of Latin texts in the Middle Ages'. In person in Senate House and hybrid: do sign up: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/punctua…

A reminder to postgraduates and those who have recently graduated with a higher degree that submissions for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2025 close in three weeks. Time to open that draft, finish those paragraphs, and fine-tune those sign-posting sentences!

Over the next few weeks, we will be posting the tantalising abstracts to the articles released in the latest issue of Medium Ævum (93.1). Our first abstract spotlight is on Bernard Mees' article, 'Syntax and gender in the Nordendorf I inscription' (abstract in English & German)

Next event! Artist Abigail Reynolds will be presenting LOST LIBRARIES, a film meditating on her solitary journey to 15 sites of former libraries along the Silk Road. Thu 28 Nov 6pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College — all welcome! abigailreynolds.com 📚📽️

This is very exciting - Westminster's archives are a treasure trove. If you want to be the newest recruit to fragment studies, do drop me a line. (And thank the gods of CHASE DTP for making it possible).

Bad news, good news for all manuscript scholars. That wonderful resource for provenance research, MLGB3, is still down but Bodleian Libraries has updated the text. There is now a statement of 'firm intention to rebuild the resource' and to develop MLGB4. Thank you, @richove

To mark International Mountain Day 2024, we have assembled a number of the contributors to the new volume '@OtherEverests: One mountain, many worlds', to discuss the past, present and future of the world’s highest peak. Join us online on 11th December: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/other-e…

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025 on the theme 'Rituals and Ceremonies' is this Friday (6th of December, 2024). We strongly encourage graduate students to submit to this supportive and welcoming conference!

Staffing a historic library happens in a variety of ways - here's one journey to us with our current Sub-Librarian and Special Collections Librarian Tuija Ainonen

Didn't get a book about the Middle Ages for Christmas? Don't get too upset, as you can download and read one of these open access books! medievalists.net/2024/12/open-a… #openaccessbooks #freebooks #medievalbooks #MerryChristmas

For those in the Lakes, there are 2 more opportunities to catch our film 'Everest Revisited' on the big screen. The film, which examines the last 100 years of #Everest history, and the legacy of the 1924 expedition, will screen at Rheged on 16 & 18 Jan ➡️ tinyurl.com/5n8xcjbp

Our current exhibition 'What Would Lucy Say?' has just one month left in its run. The exhibition marks the merger of the Alpine Club and the Ladies' Alpine Club by looking at the history of women's climbing both within and outwith the AC. Book a visit ➡️ tinyurl.com/5ebnzfzj

Calling on legal historians to help me identify who is “N.L.R” who provided helpful references for Canon and Civil law research, back in 1993? #canonlaw #legalhistory

Our final 'abstract spotlight' from Medium Ævum’s 93.1 issue is on Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD 🇨🇦 and Adrienne Williams Boyarin's '‘Et dixit anglice’: unpublished vernacular verses in British Library, Harley MS 912'. Members can log into medium.aevum/space to read the full article today.

Registration for OMGC 2025, ‘Rituals and Ceremonies,’ April 24-25 at the Maison Française d'Oxford, is now live on our website! Follow the link to register for free in-person or online participation. oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc/event-det…

One of Oxford’s stranger monuments—Lord Nuffield surveys the street near the Oxford Crown Court. Must be a story behind this ⁦William Whyte⁩ ?

Briefly returning to X to share our CfP for the CELL Built with Books Symposium. Come and geek out with us over #EarlyModern libraries and the books that filled them! Abstracts due May 16th, full details here: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome! bibsoc.org.uk/introduction-t…