Repairs on a page of JJ175 from the Trésor des Chartes

Liverpool's Spellow Lane library torched last night. What could be more 'patriotic' than destroying a centre which serves the local community?

📢Call For Papers: Please RT! Plunder, Pillage and Spoils of War in History and Law - New research and exhibitions. 📅28-28 April, 2025 ⚔️Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK 🪙 Bursaries available Submit proposals by 11 October. Links to proposal forms in thread. 🧵

Bigots who’ve built entire careers inciting precisely the evil we’re witnessing did not ‘warn’ of it. The only honest ‘warnings’ came from people who explained what would happen if we kept giving racist liars newspaper columns, TV & radio slots & season tickets for Question Time.

Thousands upon thousands of antifascists out tonight across the country to smash the far right. This is what a mass movement looks like ✊🏾 #StandUptoRacism

Let's have some more allegiance and oaths at IMC!!

Delighted to say that I defended my PhD thesis today. Thanks to my examiners, Daniel Power and Peter Crooks, for their engagement and encouragement, and my supervisor Seán Duffy for all of his help! Excited for the next chapter. TCD Histories @HistoryTcd Institute of Historical Research Royal Historical Society

CfP #IMC2025 – “Digital and Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Mobility” This session explores innovative digital and/or quantitative methodologies for studying medieval mobility. Please submit your application to [email protected] by 24th September 2024.

Chappell Roan of Arc at the VMAs promoting the British Library’s Medieval Women exhibition, opening 25 October

My favourite medieval doodle in the library collection is this weary- looking man who looks like he would really appreciate some coffee. (WCL F116 f.27v William of Heytesbury's Sophismata 14thC ms).

Baz Luhrmann is set to direct a Joan of Arc movie for Warner Bros titled ‘JEHANNE D’ARC’ Described as “the ultimate teenage girl coming of age story, set in the Hundred Years’ War” (Source: Deadline)

Colloque – Loyautés politiques partagées de 1350 à 1490 (France, Angleterre, péninsule Ibérique) rmblf.be/2024/09/18/col…

archiving with microfilms in Paris today! :)

The tomb of Richard III, looking all shiny and nice, in Leicester.

Joan of Arc could not write. And yet, here's her signature. Her ACTUAL signature, seen for the first time outside France 🤯 See it in the British Library's brand new exhibition for yourself.

Thank you to everyone who could make it for an amazing first session!! Please do feel free to approach any of us with ideas for future readings :)

The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network is calling for proposals for #IMC2026 in Leeds! We welcome papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! #CFP #callforpapers.

Yes, it's called "historiography", and it's been going on for about three millennia or so