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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very much looking forward to this next Saturday. Chaired by Dr Audrey Whitty (NLI), I’ll be speaking alongside Dr Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives, UK) on all things Norman, charters and IMC editions - all are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In-person research seminars @ceilteachomn.bsky.social in Maynooth this semester! All welcome.

Maynooth University Early Irish and Celtic Studies Research Seminars. 15 October, Dr Hannah Mac Auliffe (MU), The Good, the Bad and the Saintly: Clonard in Medieval Irish Hagiography. 5 November, Dr Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth), Peis Dinogat from the Book of Aneirin and Rewilding. 10 December, Dr Liam Ó hAisibéil (Galway), Snub-nosed, Scabby and Toothless: Descriptive Bynames in the Irish Personal Naming System. All seminars are at 5pm in Room 1.33, Iontas Building, North Campus.

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Friends of Medieval Dublin @fmdmedievaldublin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UPCOMING EVENT Dear Friends, Join us on Saturday 3 October in the JM Synge Theatre (Room 2039), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, for our 27th Medieval Dublin symposium, organised with the support of @historytcd.bsky.social as part of the Dublin Festival of History [1/2]

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Delighted to see my article in Analecta Hibernica in print, which provides a full edition and translation of the 1247 partition of the transnational Marshall estate @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Delighted to see my latest article in PRIA in the wild. It analyses eight fascinating letters sent by Irish kings to the kings of England in the 13thC, while also providing a full transcription and translation of them in the appendix. Even better is that its open access: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Heartbroken to hear that the great Italian (micro)historian Carlo Ginzburg died a few days ago in Bologna. He was one of the most masterful storytellers and historians I have ever read. May we all reread his magnum opus this week and consider that there is no history too small to be remembered. 🧀 🪱

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The Cheese and the Worms : Carlo Ginzburg : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Only 10 (or so) years after I first started drafting it, I’m very excited that I have a new article out in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social! ‘He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago’ is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Very enjoyable weekend in Cartmel at the Lake District Book Festival. Always a pleasure speaking alongside Sophie Ambler, discussing the foundation of Cartmel priory by William Marshal, the priory’s lands in Ireland, the Crusades, Magna Carta and everything in between! @historytcd.bsky.social

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A long interview with the early medieval historian Rosamond McKitterick, reflecting on her life and work, ably conducted by Richard Pollard youtu.be/pvBdJyUAwyY?...

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Interview with Rosamond McKitterick (Dec. 2025)

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars! Our 2026 Research Showcase "Building Collections, Deepening Connections" is approaching on Tuesday 30 June at 10am in the TCD Arts Building.

Promotional graphic for Virtual Treasury 104, the VRTI's 2026 Research Showcase. A four-panel collage combines archival and digital imagery: a library storage aisle and search interface in the upper left, a handwritten historical document with a red wax seal in the upper right, a medieval manuscript illustration in the lower left, and an early map of the Irish coastline in the lower right. A translucent blue-green circular overlay spans the centre, with the title “Virtual Treasury 104” displayed in large white serif text across a semi-transparent green banner.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sunday listening! Catch me here on the @uniwinchester.bsky.social Podcast On Campus With, talking medieval, my medieval stuff, and why medieval matters. open.spotify.com/episode/54je...

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3. Medieval History with Dr Katherine Weikert

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Why were there two cathedrals in medieval Dublin? Where was called a 'fortress against God'? What was the impact of colonisation on the new religious orders? Story with the church reforms? The learned (& FUN!) Conor McDonough answers all of your burning questions 1/2 open.spotify.com/episode/1bJv...

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Church Reforms and Religious Orders with Conor McDonough

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This week I had the immense privilege of being part of a delegation from the Irish Manuscripts Commission as well as the Irish and British ambassadors to the Holy See to meet his holiness, Pope Leo XIV - a once in a lifetime experience. @historytcd.bsky.social

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

...Vedic ájma- as [aima], as if it were German. Social media algorithms are really made to nourish idiots. Therefore just to repeat: you can find the only video about ogham based on proper academic research at www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3sE..., made by my colleagues in the OG(H)AM project and me. /3

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OG(H)AM - The script, the texts, the project (2024)

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A change to looking at 13thC handwriting, but very nice to find my grandad Jack Crotty in the 1926 census when he was just 7 years old.

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Easter bunny baking hot cross buns BL Lansdowne 451; 15th century; England; f.6r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 09/03/2026

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne. Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about this MS and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past. For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️ Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

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RIA GSA/25/1, Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723) - By 1723, the heavy wax seals hanging from the bottom of the parchment have been done away with in favor of an image impressed into several drops of wax poured directly on the document itself. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA-25-1

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Very nice to be back in the old stomping ground today at the tail end of a brief but enjoyable and productive research trip @ihr.bsky.social

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

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The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026

The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Very much looking forward to this tomorrow. I’ll be speaking about eight letters, and for a flavour, here is the salutatio of the earliest of these, sent by Cathal Crobderg Ó Conchobair to King John, which shows the practice of the Latin cursus alive and well in Gaelic Connacht.

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Next Friday, I will be speaking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar on my forthcoming article in the Proceedings of the RIA, which analyses surviving letters sent by Irish kings and provides a full edition and translation of them. All are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Call for papers, Irish Conference of Medievalists! Trinity College Dublin, 28-29 May (in person) Registration €40 (students €20). 1/4

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658

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#WarSHum12

This is a video recording of a lecture "Deep Mapping in Practice: ‘Layers of London’ and Participatory Experiential Mapping" delivered by Justing…

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Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our special bonus episode just dropped and I'm very happy to have been part of this recording with @davidstifter.bsky.social and @niamhwycherley.bsky.social. If you ever wanted to listen to some early Irish poetry and prose being read out loud in their original, here's your chance!

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Selling academic books #skystorians #scottish mainly £10hb/£5pb plus postage with a few exceptions for rare books. Email claredownham360@hotmail.com if interested in any of the titles which you can view here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tkgc6...

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Great belated Christmas present in the post today. Delighted to have a chapter in this, particularly as it’s dedicated to the late Björn Weiler, who I had the privilege of speaking alongside the conference and who had always been incredibly generous to me over the years @historytcd.bsky.social

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading*

Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Old English and proficiency in Medieval Latin? If yes, then you may be interested in this fixed term full time post...

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

A privilege to be involved in this project working closely with Paul Dryburgh. Lots of valuable material here, make sure to check it out! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Last week I had the pleasure of attending two wonderful book launches. My friend Daryl, Deputy Curator of the Little Museum of Dublin, has written a brilliant Little History of Nearys, while Keith Busby’s fine edition of the Statutes (published by the IMC) is a much welcome addition to the field

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning. 'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 03/07/2025

Applications are invited for two positions of Lexicographer in the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy. Find out more: www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-two-lexicographer-posts-with-focloir-stairiuil-na-gaeilge/ #DublinJobs #JobFairy #IrishJobs

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

New blog from IHR Director @clairelanghamer@bsky.social reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

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Advocating for History by Doing History - On History

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…

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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

A poster advertising the O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh for 2025. It will be delivered by Professor Brendan Kane at 4.15 on 10 December, in 50 George Square

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Having spent a wonderful academic year there, I cannot recommend these fellowships enough and I’m happy to answer any questions

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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Very much looking forward to attending this next Tuesday - all are welcome!

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...

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Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

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Ireland and the American Revolution - YouTube

A two-day conference organised by The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

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