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Dr Mary Bateman

@mareganlefay.bsky.social
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Medievalist. Pre modern lit & culture across borders, especially all things Arthurian. FRHistS, FHEA. Folkie. 🎵 Mareganlefay.bsky.social

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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My publisher is having a 60% off sale on hardbacks at the moment with the code bf60. This includes my book, bringing it down to £38 from the fat less affordable £95. boydellandbrewer.com/book/local-p... It's also coming out in paperback soon at a much lower cover price.
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Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700
The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Ooh I will have to have a look. The Arthurian corpus is so utterly massive that I still find new things I didn't know about all the time
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
That's such a relief to hear! I hope you enjoy the book, I think it's out in paperback soon....
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Hope you enjoyed the episode!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thanks so much Janet! I was so worried about how I would sound because I have a new baby and am deep in the sleep deprivation trenches at the moment 🤣 but it was so much fun to have free rein to get really detailed!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I had a great time recording the episode on King Arthur for the Gone Medieval podcast with Matt Lewis, and the episode is out today! open.spotify.com/episode/3akZ...
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King Arthur
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
he was great!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
ahh thats fine! Super excited to meet Matt too!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Looking forward to a recording sesh later for another podcast! This time, it's Gone Medieval with the lovely @goingmedieval.bsky.social and Matt Lewis. I remember meeting Eleanor YEARS ago when I was a fledgling PhD student at a workshop at Bochum. Eleanor was hilarious and made us feel so welcome
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Calling all archaeologists/historians/scholars of place! The Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust are recruiting a documentary researcher for a fascinating short-term research project (Sep/Oct/Nov) uncovering the history of the castle. Download the brief here www.snodhillcastle.org/documentary-...
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Documentary Research Opportunity | SNODHILL CASTLE
Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust now seeks a qualified person to help uncover its history.
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Dr Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024) @hattiesoper.bsky.social
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Dr Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature 1793-1845 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) @eeforbes.bsky.social
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Dr Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @mareganlefay.bsky.social
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Brilliant opportunity for folks working in neurodiversity studies in the arts and humanities!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Modern or medieval?
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I don't think this is right? BBC sounds is free and it's also out free now on all podcast apps (releasing a month after BBC sounds)
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's a good read but long!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Amid the new baby bliss (newest family member Amos Patrick joined us recently), there are a few interesting new articles out-- including this one on how the technology of paper spurred innovations in intellectual culture, using England as a case study. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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How paper caused the renaissance: The English experience☆
A technological revolution that began in Europe during the second half of the thirteenth century caused an intellectual revolution that continues to this day. The manufacture of good quality paper be....
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Massively looking forward to getting stuck into Hannah Weaver's book this week now I'm on leave! I've been thinking a lot this year about interpolation (being a convenor of an Arthurian Literature unit it's hard not to!).
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Sean Dillon @seanmdillon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Latest read. Much like Circe but Arthurian. Just after Arthur’s death, a boy seeks to join the Round Table but discovers Camelot is crumbling. A fun read, great updated backstories of lesser knights, and finally wistful about the transition from legend to history, literalized as the end of magic.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
David Lowry's Green Knight.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
@fuzzybydesign.bsky.social thanks for the follow, looking forward very much to reading your comic strip!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Oh wow! I hope you enjoy it, always great to hear people are reading it!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It's an amazing spot! If you have time, Looe Pool is also beautiful and was the inspiration behind Tennyson's The Passing of Arthur from his Idylls of the King.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
He was amazing!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
One of the best things (I think!) about YDTM is that it’s a formalised bridge between academia, comedy, and the public. Not only do we platform fantastically skilled expert academics as guests, we also benefit hugely from a pool of academics in training. The AHRC doctoral training scheme is ace 👍
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My episode of #youredeadtome on the Arthurian legends goes live on all major podcast apps today, so you can catch it if you're outside the UK or not on BBC Sounds! Had a lovely time recording with @gregjenner.bsky.social and the lovely Mike Wozniak.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Extremely busy but rewarding week of students presentations (Arthurian Literature) and a poster fair (Chaucer and Chaucerians). Highlight: a poster in which students had produced manicules that were literally photos of their own hands
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Absolutely thrilled today to hear that two very bright students I have had the pleasure of teaching at Bristol have secured places on masters courses at Oxford (including a spot on the medieval studies MPhil for a superb medievalist in the making). 🎉
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Need this
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Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you were interested in the birthing pool history piece, Jenny, Maria and I also wrote this companion article that just came out in a SI on experience: 'The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93' www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
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The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93 | Cultural History
A new concept of childbirth ‘experience’ emerged in late twentieth-century Britain, crafted by an erratic yet powerful mesh of interest groups. Experience is a powerful and malleable concept, that has...
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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📻 Dr Mary Bateman (@bristolcms.bsky.social) joins BBC #YoureDeadToMe to discuss the legend of King Arthur, from his early medieval origins to modern myths and retellings Listen to the full programme 👉 bit.ly/41m4kzm @mareganlefay.bsky.social @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Wonderful and well deserved Greg, well done you!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...
Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
There is stuff about Arthur pre Geoffrey but it doesn't really constitute much in the way of evidence of his existence, only of his stories!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Yeah white is amazing And Tennyson's Idylls too!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I like Richard Barber's Legends of Arthur, supplemented with Lupack and Lupack's awesome anthology of Arthurian Literature by Women!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As in dearth generally these days meaning a serious lack of something. "Take some eggs home with you love! We have an absolute dearth of eggs at the moment" 🫠
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My mum did this the other day with "dearth" and it genuinely confused me for a good few minutes while we were trying to work out what each other meant
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Sorry about the cat but glad you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed featuring!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ah thanks Tim, had a wonderful time doing it. There's a lot, lot more is included in the longer version on BBC Sounds (all the post Malory stuff).
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Yep all the post Malory bits. I don't envy the people who have to cut an already crammed 57 minutes down to 27!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Mike is brilliant. A total diamond.
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Thanks!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Episodes go up on BBC Sounds first, then the radio edit (next day), then get released on other podcast outlets a month later I think 😁
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Hi! At 10am this morning on BBC Radio 4 - You’re Dead To Me tackles the legend of King Arthur, with Arthurian scholar @mareganlefay.bsky.social & comedian Mike Wozniak This is the 30 minute edit, the full 57 minute podcast is on BBC Sounds
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Was brilliant working with Jon, a fabulous researcher and lovely to work with someone who so appreciates the Welsh Arthurian material!
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
But if you're after a study that thinks about legendary folk heroes and the societies that produce them Hobsbawm's quite old but still quite interesting scholarship on social banditry is worth a look
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