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Grace Owen

@graceowen.bsky.social
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PhD in History, postdoctoral researcher @durhamhistory.bsky.social on 'Modelling the Black Death' project. Former Postan @EcHistSoc fellow and researcher for @womensworkexe.

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Gedds is live on Twitch! 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸 @gedds.bsky.social · 3h
I'm live! No selfie today so here's what I'd look like as roughly 750 tins of baked beans. Repost to grant 8 minutes of good luck x twitch.tv/geddstation
big stack of multi pack tins of branston's baked beans in a Tesco supermarket
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0
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The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#ICYMI #Skystorians - we have a job available to work on the history of #Hampshire. Details in the link below, please share widely.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW JOB! We are pleased to share news from our friends at VCH Hampshire who are advertising for a contributing editor to edit, research, and write work towards the county's first #BigRedBook for over a century. Applications close 1 October. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
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Contributing Editor at Victoria County History Hampshire
Recruiting now: Contributing Editor on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Normans at #IMC2027! Call for papers sponsored by the Battle Conference. Full details in the alt text and pasted in successive posts. Deadline for abstracts 15 Sept. #medievalsky #archaeology #skystorians @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Communities, Change and Collaboration in Norman History
Organised by Dr Mark Hagger (Lincoln) and Prof. Leonie Hicks (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Sponsored by the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies

2027 marks two significant anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and the millennial anniversary of William the Conqueror’s birth in 2027. It also marks the European Year of the Normans. We hope to organise sessions reflecting communities, change and collaboration in Norman history and welcome proposals that draw on historical, literary, archaeological, and art-historical approaches and sources. Potential contributors might like to think about the following themes although these are not exclusive:

-	communities of practice: writing, researching and teaching the Norman past in the middle ages and now
-	comparative approaches across different areas conquered and settled by the Normans to communities and change
-	communities of different sorts, e.g. financial, administrative, religious, ecological, social and cultural etc.
-	landscapes 
-	tools and theories for understanding change, communities and collaboration as applied to the Normans e.g. digital humanities, knowledge exchange, mapping, etc.
-	modelling collaborative approaches to Norman history
-	how Norman historiography has change/is changing the way we understand the Normans

Please send abstracts for 20 minute papers (in person or virtual) to Prof. Leonie Hicks (leonie.hicks@canterbury.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2026. 

Proposals should include
•	Title
•	Abstract (max 200 words)
•	Your name, institution, and role
•	Full contact details (these will be used by Leeds IMC to contact you)
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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Heads up charities, community groups and small businesses in Gloucestershire looking for event posters. The lovely folks at Good News Gloucestershire will design one for £7.50 if you can’t afford to pay a graphic designer. Get in touch with them via their socials or goodnewsgloucestershire@gmail.com
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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#medievalsky job 🎺. Glasgow lecturer in medieval history (c.800 CE to 1500CE) wanted - with either/or-and comparative transnational perspective / interdisciplinary approach. Open-ended. 👇
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Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...
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Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!
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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Did you know proposals are open for IMC 2027? Whether a chat at #IMC2026 has turned into a full-blown session proposal or you've been experiencing FOMO from this year's excitement, you can get your submissions in early by visiting our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Do you want to shape the future of archive services in Buckinghamshire? We're recruiting for a County and Diocesan Archivist to lead our service! For more information and to apply, head to the link below. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...
An image of leatherbound Records of Buckinghamshire on a shelf with the following text overlaid: 'We're Hiring! County and Diocesan Archivist'.
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨Announcement!🚨 I'm now offering freelance services (archival photography, transcription, bespoke research...) 📜✒️ Please get in touch if you or someone you know has #history research needs in the UK (esp Scotland & northern England) #Medievalsky #Earlymodern #c18th drtayloraucoin.com/freelance-hi...
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Freelance Historical Research
As a professional historian based in the UK I offer a number of research services: Archival Photography Travel to archives and record offices to photograph documents and transfer them securely. Geo…
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Still time to book for the 49th Palaeography Summer School in Birmingham this July! #Skystorians #SkillsForHistory
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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Bursary Scheme for PhD Students: One-year bursaries of up to £5,000 are available to assist doctoral students (PhD) in UK colleges and universities Deadline for Applications: 31 July 2026. The Bursary is primarily aimed at supporting students without full external funding to continue their studies
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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The EHS offers 12 part-funded places on an annual, intensive residential course designed to raise the quality and analytical rigour of doctoral dissertations. To be held this year 2–5 December 2026, at the University of Warwick. Application Deadline: 16:00 (UK time) Friday, 11 September 2026.
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My university is hiring a senior lecturer in history (FT and open ended contract). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO169/s...
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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Link to the original article by Alex Brown, Grace Owen ( @graceowen.bsky.social), and Barney Sloane here: doi.org/10.1093/hisr...
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Surviving the Black Death in medieval England: recovering from illness at Warboys, Huntingdonshire*
Abstract. The Black Death swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing perhaps half of the population. Yet there is remarkably little information ab
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13/05/2026
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New article alert (again) 📢 📢 !! This time a piece, written with Alex Brown, in @uk.theconversation.com about recovery from the Black Death. Check it out here: theconversation.com/what-a-list-... #medievalsky #History
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New article 📢 written by Jane Whittle and me - about work and the problems of identifying workers in Medieval England. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0304... #history #medievalsky
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Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts
Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...
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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Society celebrated its centenary with a major international conference, unveiling new research that reshapes our understanding of the economic past. #EHS100
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UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)
A woman wearing a red dress sits in a reading room consulting an open book laid out on a cushion and writes down notes with a pencil.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Job: Modern British History and Public History at York. Great opportunity to work with amazing people and live in a beautiful city!
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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... Examples!
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Medieval mobility aids
There are clues in the margins of medieval manuscripts to suggest that disabled people in the past made long pilgrimages, and were helped on their journeys by mobility aids remarkably similar to those...
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 25/02/2026
What can medieval England teach us about modern work-life balance? From sick leave allowances to negotiated time off, Alex Brown & @graceowen.bsky.social from @durhamhistory.bsky.social have found that medieval working life was more structured than many assume. Find out more:👉 bit.ly/3ZC7i1c
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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust @worcswt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Are you passionate about wildlife and keen to engage local communities and young people in heathlands as part of our Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands project? Apply to be our next Project Officer! 🔗 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/jobs/project... #NationalLottery #HeritageFund
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
For those interested in pursuing a PhD PhD Studentship: Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for Hispanic Studies University of Birmingham - University of Birmingham, College of Arts and Law www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG221/p...
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PhD Studentship: Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for Postgraduate Hispanic Studies at University of Birmingham
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social. The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire. All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
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Gloucestershire vol. XVI - Cirencester and District
The research for the accounts of the prehistory of the area, the Abbey of Cirencester, the town and parish of Cirencester, Bagendon, Baunton, Daglingworth and Stratton.
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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Very useful online resource: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, which clears up a lot of confusion when trying to parse personal and familial names, particularly from Latin sources dmnes.org #medievalsky #earlymodern
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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Job klaxon: Trainee Archivist at Gloucestershire Archives, from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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Gedds is live on Twitch! 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸 @gedds.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I'm live twitch.tv/geddstation
screenshot from My Winter Car of a sceptic truck half perched on the roof of a Finnish barn
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Medieval bestiary, image showing a panther, deer, camel, goat, snake, lion
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Medieval bears! And medieval bees! Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky #bees #bears
Bears attacking beehives for the honey, surrounded by large angry bees
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
St Dunstan pinching the devil Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
St Dunstan pinching the nose of the devil (represented as wolfish creature with an additional growling face on its stomach
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Bristol PGR Medieval Conference 2026 @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance! All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January. #medievalsky #skystorians
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 26/11/2025
From sick leave to bereavement leave, Drs Alex Brown and @graceowen.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social have been exploring the surprising workplace benefits available in Medieval times. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Just sharing this again - a piece in @uk.theconversation.com that Alex Brown and I wrote about peasants and the surprising amount of 'sick leave' they were given in the middle ages #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
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Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits
Some peasants were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave if they were sick.
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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Writing History c. 1000-1250: An Introduction to the Manuscript Sources – a short course taught by Charlie Rozier, Manuel Muñoz García and Laura Cleaver
The course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The past was a popular subject for writers in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, partic…
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Alex Brown and I have a new piece in @uk.theconversation.com - check it out! #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...
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Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits
Some peasants were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave if they were sick.
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 18/11/2025
You are building a guild hall in 1357. What materials are you going to need? 60 trees from Bolton Percy for 27s. 6d., 100 oaks from Thorpe Underwood for £21, 14 tons of stone from Tadcaster and 20,000 bricks for £6 from the Carmelite Friars of York. That should keep you going!
We are looking at a large room with several oak posts down the centre of the room. The floor is stone flagged with a row of deep set windows in a stone wall - light from those casts light on the floor. In the distance is a screen to a chapel.
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween from Leeds IMS - and from the friendly bats on this cloister window from Lisbon cathdral #medievalsky #gothicarchitecture #sedelisboa #bat #Halloween
Close up of a stone bat sculpture. Both wings outstretched and a big grin on its face. Dark in colourStone walls and tiled Portuguese houses photographed from below. In centre there is a large gothic arched window with two lights. The bat sculptures are on the capital on the column dividing the two lights. There's no glass as it opens onto the cathdral cloister. Probably dates from the renovations of the early 20th century, although the cloister is originally 14th century. Bright blue sky above and to rightClose up of same window with a bat in the centre capital.
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
New article alert 📢! Alex Brown, Tudor Skinner and I have written about the sick leave rights of unfree peasants in Medieval England. You may be surprised by the long length of absences that were granted! Read through open access here: doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... #History #Medieval
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Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England - Volume 64
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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)
The chronological and geographical survival of manorial accounts, which include allowances for infirmity on the Ramsey Abbey estate.
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...
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Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢 #medievalsky: The #CfP for #TOEBI2025 📅Date: Saturday, 25th October 2025 📜Theme: "Education and Early Medieval England" 🏫The #TOEBI conference and annual meeting for 2025 will be held at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social ⏳Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 2nd May
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Had a great time with @pampowell.bsky.social at Lincoln cathedral and castle, topped off with seeing the magna carta (meaning I have now seen all four!) #history #medievalsky
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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📢Academic Job Klaxon📢 Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies. Could you be one of our new colleagues? Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe
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Inventing Futures Job Opportunities - Durham University
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