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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have a word with your colleagues, they've gone rogue.

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today I went to the woods to get some interesting leaves and do some primary school style nature printing. Undocumented by photography: me nearly getting cut in half as the step of a wooden stile jolted out from under me.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is a pleasure, nay, an honour, to have been granted Right to Reside in @hookland.bsky.social's capacious boundaries (Hookland Fragments ordered via the excellent @treadwells-books.bsky.social )

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations, Madeline! I can't wait to learn the cute social media pseudonym!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you! And not at all, I can take no credit for that!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Karl (I type this sitting next to How Not to Make a Human)!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Nik! I have been a long-time Eggers fan too, so was relaxed about no element of this.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you so much Mary! I really hope you are well, and will be emailing you soon!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you so much Kristen, I can't wait to see the cartoonist interpretation of watching a medievally horror film (Chaucer ghost will surely attend?)

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So much grist for your medieval werewolf guy mill, Miles!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm layers of coolness and uncoolness all wrapped together. A surprising onion of a person (p.s. thank you, forever).

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hopefully it will be screened in Hookland's cinema, a dilapidated 1920s affair whose public service announcements always seem to come true a few days after screening...

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That means a lot from you, Hookland, I love your work!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is going to be a whole cinematic universe with the wercreatures gradually getting smaller.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you Madeline, I appreciate your faith! ❤

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you, Oxford Clarion! I'm a fan of your work 😘

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You, YOU, are a fantastically talented and lovely friend! Thank you for all of your kindness and support Sara, you are inimitable!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you my lovely fiancé for all of the talking down from ledges that you have done❤️ I'm excited for chicken pie for tea.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you my dearest dearest Dr Menmuir - you have been such a source of level-headedness and cheerleading ❤️

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cuts being made to humanities departments at UK HE institutions are reducing the opportunities that students have to study subjects like medieval literature, and amplifying pre-existing inequalities in the education system and beyond. Stop the cuts. #EnglishCreates #UCU #UKHE

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On a more personal note: this would not have been possible had I not, many moons ago, studied English Literature at Royal Holloway after attending non-selective state schools. It was at RHUL that I was introduced to Middle English by the fantastic medievalists who taught me.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well...the 'wulf' is out of the bag. Professor Daniel Wakelin and I were the Middle English consultants for Robert Eggers' upcoming film Werwulf, in UK theatres on January 1st 2027!

An image of a screenshot from a webpage from IGN that reads 'Eggers did copious amounts of research on England in the 13th century for the screenplay, he co-wrote with his The Northman collaborator, Sjón. The film’s dialogue is in Middle English, although it’s been altered by dialect coach William Conacher to make it more comprehensible for the modern ear. Eggers also worked with two Middle English scholars at Oxford University, Eleanor Baker and Daniel Wakelin, who helped make the dialogue more period accurate.'

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was raised in and near Hejlszem (Hailsham)!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the second essay in CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW is out! Thanks to @realmandeville.bsky.social for ‘The Middle Ages as Creative Topic’, check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Artwork by Kristen Haas Curtis for Creating the Medieval Now, special issue of the journal Public Humanities

The Middle Ages as Creative Topic, essay by Anthony Bale

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cath, I wanted to say how fantastic this looks. What a clever way of presenting the material.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quick update: we've eaten them all.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The humour, the depth, the visuals! Immaculate.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't wait any longer, it's Pottsfield for me from here on out.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aha, great minds - I assign the intro for my AFY students! We also look at other ways of reading (symptomatic etc), and I set an activity where they have to read and annotate the same poem using different methods of reading

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

First you must forge and consume the cinnamon bun. Then you will become the cinnamon bun.

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you miss the recent Gender and Medieval Studies 2027 conference on the theme of Gender and Creativity? Don't worry, @drlauravarnam.bsky.social has written a blog post all about it! It was fantastic to see so many Guild members represented at this fantastic conference. Read below👇

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The Guild at the Gender & Creativity conference in Oxford — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

The Guild of Medievalist Makers at the GMS Conference in Oxford, September 2026.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's a cool display by the Boldiean Bibliographical Press at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston shop. Treated myself to the RESISTANCE IS FERTILE figgy print to add to Taped-up Corner.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our boiler also broke today! Commiserations!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine, IMAGINE, if you had turned around and said 'oh, I need to take a further month and a half to rejig my courses in the face of cataclysmic cuts, which would potentially result in material change'. Why on earth is it okay to do it to you?! The playing field is rotten and salted.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Delighted that the first essay in CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW, a special issue of Public Humanities, ed by me & Eleanor Barraclough, is now available! Check out @thecelticist.bsky.social brilliant essay ‘De Ira’ & bookmark this page for further essays this autumn! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Special issue of Public Humanities journal on Creating the Medieval with artwork by Kristen Haas Curtis

Abstract for Creating the Medieval Now special issue: essays by medievalists who are also creative practitioners on how their practice operates as their mode of scholarship.

Abstract for Elizabeth Boyle’s essay De Ira

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today I saw some teenagers catch a fish (before they dropped it back) and asked them what it was. It was a perch, and they showed me a picture of an enormous pike they'd caught earlier in the summer. May life treat them kindly.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are three things in Oxford that I credit with holding the threads of me together: 1. The displays of the florists in the covered market 2. Seeing the fruit and veg at Gloucester Green market 3. The teenagers who fish in Osney stream, who I would die for

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