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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck. Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP. Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025) Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025) She/her

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20h
Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a two-time alumnus of Edinburgh Uni, it's hard not to despair at the short-sighted plans by management to decimate degree programmes across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Solidarity to all affected by this act of utter vandalism.
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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With all of the emphasis on the Bayeux Tapestry this week, and with Rosh Hashanah about to start, it's reflecting that the world of William the Conqueror wasn't just a Christian one. The centuries before prior to 1066 had seen Jewish communities gradually expand North through Germany and France. 1/
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Enjoying conversations, coffee and trees at Birkbeck 💜
A street in Bloomsbury with university buildings and a tree in the sun.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our autumn newsletter is out now, featuring an introduction to the new cohort of IASH Fellows, an invitation to become our next playwright-in-residence, some exciting upcoming events with @royalsoced.bsky.social and @ntsonline.bsky.social and much more! mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-23ZL6-4...
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'Ideas Grow' Quarterly eNewsletter
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Society Funds New Archaeology Project Investigating Medieval Carved Stones Led by @celticist.bsky.social, the fieldwork will help to record, analyse and preserve “one of Scotland’s most under-exploited, at-risk historical resources”: www.socantscot.org/news/society...
Photo of the interior of a medieval abbey with the remains of stone 
window frames and a tower visible
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures Vol. 52, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57438 @psupress.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social @seatofwisdom.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Looking back on a fantastic few days at the New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg, Germany. Great conversations, inspiring scholarship, and a busy MUP stand. If you missed us, you can still shop our NCS Reading List with 30% off until 31 August: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My article 'Synagoga as Mother in Ekbert of Schönau's Stimulus amoris' is out now in JMRC 52.2, on a striking and influential medieval text that has gone understudied. Cn medieval antisemitism intersecting with misogynistic ideas of fertility/infertility and birth (abstract in picture) 1/
Edinburgh CRC MS 113, open at ff. 241v-242r.'Synagoga as Mother in Ekbert of Schönau’s Stimulus amoris', abstract (and first page of PDF version): This article proposes that the (understudied) twelfth-century Stimulus amoris text, which notably describes Christ’s body as aborted matter from the womb of his mother Synagoga, was a key influence on later medieval devotional culture and its gendered anti-Judaism, and accordingly the article provides a close analysis of this striking passage. The article discusses the text’s usage of material from Isaiah, Job, and the Gospel of John, exploring the implications of each according to Christian typology and the supersession, and argues that Christ and Synagoga should in this way be recognized as an alternate, but equally important, form of the “Jesus as Mother” trope usually applied to Christ and Mary.
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sad to miss #NCS2026 but thank you to @siobhanmup.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social for bringing my book & sending pictures! So many brilliant publications here to go on my to-read list too. MUP also have a medieval NCS list + 30% discount! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...
Book table in front of Universität Freiburg sign/backdrop, including monographs by Wan-Chuan Kao, Laura Ashe, Laurie Atkinson, and Hope Doherty-Harrison. Close-up of Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance. More books on the 'Nominated Publications' table, including issues of The Chaucer Review, Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Viator, & Florilegium; monographs by Thomas C Sawyer, Patrick Outhwaite, Marcel Elias, Mary Raschko, Lee Manion, an edition by Conan M. Griffin, and edited volumes The Horizon of Medieval French and Occitan, and The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department | H-Net
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Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
***job klaxon!*** Postdoctoral Research Associate on ERC-funded project TextDiveGlobal at QMUL 12 month post from 1 September 2026 Apply by 28 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - 'TextDiveGlobal' at Queen Mary University of London
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate - 'TextDiveGlobal' role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/07/2026
A new resource from @britishacademy.bsky.social, out today, maps changes in UK academic staff numbers and contract types between 2012/13 & 2024/25 for the arts, humanities & social sciences bit.ly/4w47SmP You can search by subject (incl history), provider, region & forms of employment #Skystorians
Main page of new British Academy resource on Mapping SHAPE academic staff in UK HE.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One in four academic history positions in post-92s are gone since 2019 alone. One in four. We don't have data for 2025-6 and I doubt it magically got better.
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Alicia Smith @timekeptcity.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My work at the moment is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoc fellowship, and I've posted some updates in this thread on the project's own bsky @thaisisproject.bsky.social - will probably cross-post some here, but do follow if you're interested in all things 'harlot saints'!
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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast has released an episode focused on the MIP title "Towards an Accessible Academy"! This episode, presented by Alexandra R. A. Lee and Hope Doherty-Harrison (both editors of the volume), features interviews with another volume editor and several volume 1/2
Graphic featuring the disability pride flag as a background. Text at the top reads: "The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, Disability and Medieval Studies: Then and Now. Featuring readings from and contributors to" followed by the cover of the book "Towards an Accessible Academy."
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We had a blast at day one of #IMC2026 and we're ready to do it all again today! Pictured: Sam Ottewill-Soulsby with 'The Carolingian South', Hope Doherty-Harrison with 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', Graham A. Loud with 'Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy'.
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This was powerful and brilliant and I can't wait to listen to the recording #IMC2026 (and to see the published version in due course ofc)
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thinking about potential publication venues for the #IMC2026 keynote. Any hot tips or eager journal editors, lmk? #MedievalSky 🗃️
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Don't forget these ones!! @charleskuper.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social #IMC2026
Towards an Accessible Academy edited by Alexandra R A Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison and E. R. P. Champion Menologion of Basil II edited and translated by Charles Kuper
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thank you @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social for sending me proof that Anselm Adornes made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social Delighted to see him there!
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!
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Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...
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Alicia Smith @timekeptcity.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And we're now calling for participants in our 2nd series starting autumn 2026 - if you have a source relating to saints and sanctity outside the classic hagiography form, which you'd like to discuss in an informal workshop format, see the CFP here drive.google.com/file/d/1O_qF... and get in touch 👑
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We’re on the road for conference season 📚 We kicked things off yesterday at the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with more events to come across the UK and Europe. If you’re attending, come and chat to the team, we’d love to say hi! #SSHM2026 #SHS2026 #IMC2026 #NCS2026
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Looking forward to attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! I will be a part of sessions 623 and 1720 - very grateful to the panel organisers & especially to return to DisMed post-publication of Towards An Accessible Academy!
Session 1720 from the IMC Leeds Programme, p. 393, 'Future Insight and its Discontents'.Session 623 from the IMC Leeds Programme, p. 166, 'DisMed 8: A Round Table Discussion'.Front cover of Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists.
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just dropped 👇👇👇 "Disability and Medieval Studies: Then and Now" ep of @medievalacademy.bsky.social's Multicultural Middle Ages pod Check out the first 12mins or so for my cameo :) www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/listen/episo... #DisabilitySky #MedievalSky 🗃️
Disability and Medieval Studies: Then and Now

Presented by Alexandra R. A. Lee and Hope Doherty-Harrison
Featuring Alicia Spencer-Hall, Matthew McCall, Edward Mills
Amy Louise Morgan, E. R. P. Champion, and Jude Seal

Released June 2026Medievalists with Disabilities was founded in 2017. Since then, the organization has organized annual panels at the largest UK medieval conference, Leeds International Medieval Conference (Leeds IMC), and has just published an edited collection of essays from the first five roundtables: Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists. Contributors to Towards an Accessible Academy describe their lived experience of disability and how this intersects with the discipline of medieval studies, embracing both the challenges and the joy this can bring. This volume provides a unique perspective on the state of accessibility within the field and in the university environment more broadly. While offering real-life testimonies of disability in the academy, many chapters also include practical advice on best practices in supporting disabled scholars and students, as well as how the authors feel connected to the medieval sources they study.


In this podcast episode, Dr. Alex R. A. Lee and Dr. Hope Doherty-Harrison chat with contributors to the volume, reflecting on individual experiences to which listeners may relate, sounding a call to action for all medievalists to actively practice allyship, and providing clear examples of how we might implement the advice given by contributors to improve the academy’s accessibility.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Folks it's time for the election of two new RHS Councillors! I was very proud to be elected Sept 2025; it's a privilege to work with/for the Society but also to represent UK historians and historians globally to the best of my ability. If you're a Fellow, consider putting yourself forward?
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RHS Council elections, 2026: invitation to Fellows to stand for election - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks nominations for two Councillor positions to replace serving Council members in November 2026. Closing date for nominations: Friday 7 August 2026. Nominations to be s...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me
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Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life
New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Last night the brilliant student group Mearcstapan launched their amazing zine The Wordhoard. It’s INCREDIBLE ✨😍👏 So proud of them! Creative medievalism for the win! And I’m delighted that Ella & Issi who founded the group will be writing about the project for @guildmedmak.bsky.social in July!
The Wordhoard Zine made by the mearcstapan student society at Oxford
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The student-led group Mearcstapan (united by their desire for inclusive, progressive medievalism) have published their first zine: The Wordhoard! It's beautifully produced and chocked full of creative-critical responses, articles, and even a 'which Old English poetry codex are you?' quiz.
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Delighted to be joining Birkbeck, University of London in September as Lecturer in Medieval Studies. On this beautiful sunny day I have been in Bloomsbury meeting new colleagues!
Photograph of one of Birkbeck's buildings in Bloomsbury with a curving road in front of it, with blue sky and leaves above.
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Join us @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Very excited for this session with the brilliant @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social, @realmandeville.bsky.social and @saracharles.bsky.social on writing trade non-fiction - from finding an agent to working with trade publishers, the media and beyond. #medieval #imc2026
Session 1440 Taking Medieval Studies to a Wider Audience: Writing Trade Non-Fiction - A Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 8 July, 7-8pm

Medieval history, literature, and culture have played a starring role in many books for general readers in recent years, capturing the public imagination. In this round table discussion, four medievalists who have published successful 'trade' books for wider audiences will discuss their experiences of bringing their academic research to a new readership. Working in varied contexts and at different career stages, the speakers cover a range of specialisms: Eleanor Baker (Book Curses), Anthony Bale (A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes), Sara Charles (The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages), and Catherine Clarke (A History of England in 25 Poems). They will reflect on the processes of shaping a topic, writing in different formats and registers, and engaging a non-specialist audience, as well as the journey to publication - from finding an agent to working with trade publishers, the media, and beyond.
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Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📣 This Thursday the Women Writing Violence Network is hosting an online best-practice conversation on: 💥 Teaching Violent Texts and Images 💥 📆 18th June – 3pm BST / 4pm CET (90 mins) with speakers including @drclaireocall.bsky.social and @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social – join us – all welcome!
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dear all, I'm proud to present the programme for NOSTALGIA AND RADICAL POLITICS, which is being held in person 15-16 June and online 26 June. We have 26 amazing speakers lined up!! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
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Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present: June 2026 | UON
In-person and online event at UON The Extreme Right Research Network at the University of Northampton presents three days of workshops on the theme...
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Medieval Art Research @medartres.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This workshop is for anyone from pre-doctoral to senior level in any discipline who is contemplating applying for external funding for premodern research from the major bodies or who has been successful with one of these funders & is looking for further opportunities with the same or other funders.
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Workshop: ‘Gaining External Funding for Research in Medieval and Early Modern Studies’, 23 June 2026, London, 2-5pm (BST)
This workshop is for anyone from pre-doctoral to senior level in any discipline who is contemplating applying for external funding for premodern research from the major bodies or who has been successful with one of these funders and is looking for further opportunities with the same or other funders.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
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Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How will UK HE recover from this? Disastrously shortsighted decision-making that is dismantling the very infrastructure of the humanities, and threatening the livelihoods of scholars and teachers who deserve so much better. Senior managers, what are you doing?
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Completely delighted to find out I have been awarded a 2026 David Berry Fellowship with the @royalhistsoc.org for a project I will be undertaking with Dr Sam Legett. 'Painted Skin: Biocodicological Approaches to Scottish Manuscripts.' So excited to get started! 🐑🐐🐂📖
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Terrible news - even aside from being a vital research resource, I have no idea how I would teach Middle English without the MED.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thanks to everyone who came to tonight’s book launch for “ The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report” by Rosa Campbell! @rosavcampbell.bsky.social @hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Three people holding books up to the camera: Molly Smith (L); Rosa Campbell (C); Hannah Boast (R)
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
IMPORTANT UPDATE - there was an administrative error that resulted in the closing date for this post being listed as 19 May. It is, in fact, 19TH JUNE. This has now been corrected, so please do alert anyone you know who might be interested in applying.
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Just received *the nicest* e-mail from one of our fabulous contributors to the Adornes book saying 'The volume is a testament to the seriousness, sensitivity, & intellectual generosity with which the project was conceived & brought to completion'.🥹and I think that I might have something in my eye...
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Graduate students! The Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize 2026 is now open for entries! Closes July 31st. Well worth entering! Full details here medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa...
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Prizes & Bursaries – Gender and Medieval Studies
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sign please folks c.org/pcXwsDxRM4
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History
The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700). This is a 1.0 FTE indefinite appointment to start on 1 August...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/05/2026
We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is Higher Education now. It's a very dark time, and enormously toxic, so look out for both others and yourself. All solidarity to colleagues.
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
UK HE, everyone. Will Labour ever acknowledge this crisis?
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