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Teachers of Old English in Britain & Ireland. We aim to promote and support teaching of OE in British & Irish Universities, & to raise the public profile of OE.

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 10h
📢 Registration is open‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📅 Saturday, 24th October 2026 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📲 Registration: bit.ly/4z3g3Bf #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts ✍️Elaine Treharne 📲 ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270086...
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Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250 - Arc Humanities Press
This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodiz...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📢 Registration is open‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📅 Saturday, 24th October 2026 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📲 Registration: bit.ly/4z3g3Bf #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Narrative Art and Design in Old English Literature 📆 8–9 Apr 2027 📌 University of Oxford 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Dr Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia) ‘Patterns of fragility: Emotive Designs and Old English Wisdom Poetry’ ⏰ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition: Sources, Transmission, and Reception, ca. 650-1100 ✍️Editor: Colleen M. Curran 📲ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270062...
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The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition - Arc Humanities Press
This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650–1100. In the wake of recent seminal studie...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The Page ✍️Rachel A. Burns 📲ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270116...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📣 #CallforContributions #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline ✍️ Editors: Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & Thijs Porck ⏰ Abstracts due: 1 Sept 2026 📆 Drafts due: end of Sept 2027
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero ✍️Heather O'Donoghue 📲 Bloomsbury Press: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beowulf-9...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📣 #jobalert #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Lecturer in Medieval Literature 🏛️ Newcastle University ⏳ Full Time, Fixed Term, 10 months Sept 2026 - June 2027. 💷 Salary: £36,636 - £38,784 per annum ⏰ Deadline: 9 July 2026 📲 Application details: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Lecturer in Medieval Literature
Lecturer in Medieval Literature
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖Runes: A Concise History ✍️Tom Birkett 📲 Oxford University Press: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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Runes: A Concise History
Abstract. This book recounts the fascinating story of the runic script, using runic inscriptions to trace some of the major events to shape the medieval No
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📢 Save the Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📲 www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/ #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📣 #jobalert #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Curator for Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts 🏛️ British Library, St Pancras ⏳ Full Time, Permanent 💷 Salary: £35,993 per annum ⏰ Deadline: 12 July 2026 📲 Application details: tinyurl.com/25fs9kun
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Job alert! British Library seeks a Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts DL 12 July tinyurl.com/25fs9kun #medievalMSS
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨Job alert!🚨 Salary's terrible, but you do get to hang out with Beowulf and Lindesfarne...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖Teaching Beowulf: Practical Approaches. ✍️Larry Swain and Ophelia Eryn Hostetter 📲De Gruyter Brill: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖Positive Emotions in Old English Language and Thought: An Emotion Family Approach. ✍️Javier E. Díaz-Vera (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain) 📲De Gruyter Mouton: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
📢 Save the Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📣 #CfP #Workshop #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages 📆 3rd-4th September 2026 📌 Düsseldorf, Germany (In-person workshop) 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Dr Claire Weeda ⏰ Deadline: June 1st
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📚Recent Publications ✍️If you’re interested in reviewing one of these books for the next TOEBI newsletter, please get in touch with our newsletter editors. 📲For more information, see: www.toebi.org.uk/toebi-newsle...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 #SavetheDate #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference 📆 Tuesday 22nd - Thursday 24th June, 2027 📌 Lincoln College, Oxford, UK: lincoln.ox.ac.uk 📨 Contact: themamoconference@gmail.com
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Home | Lincoln College Oxford
Welcome to the website for Lincoln College, Oxford.
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📣 #CfP #Workshop #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages 📆 3rd-4th September 2026 📌 Düsseldorf, Germany (In-person workshop) 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Dr Claire Weeda ⏰ Deadline: June 1st
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📢 Save the Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026‼️ 📜 #TOEBI Conference 2026: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Grateful to Hannah Bailey for this thoughtful review of my book:
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📝The TOEBI Newsletter ✍️Our editors are inviting members to promote their work and experiences in these newly created sections in the #TOEBI newsletter: 💡PhD spotlight 📄Project reports ✏️Creative work
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TOEBI Newsletter | TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📣 #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜Joseph Bosworth & Old English Studies: Then, Now, and the Future 📆 21 May 2026 ⏰16:00-19:00 CEST / 10:00-13:00 EDT 💻Online event 📲Registration and programme: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... ‼️Conference registration closes 20 May 2026, 16:00 CEST
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📣 #CfP #Workshop #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages 📆 3rd-4th September 2026 📌 Düsseldorf, Germany (In-person workshop) 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Dr Claire Weeda ⏰ Deadline: June 1st
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📣 #OldEnglish #medievalsky 📜A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v. ✍️ Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner 💻 doi:10.1017/ean.2025.10012 📲 Journal article: shorturl.at/PcfNP 📸 ©️ The Guardian: shorturl.at/vj9rB
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome." #MedievalSky #speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library
Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📚 Book review by Ann Pascoe-van Zyl 📘 The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England ✍️ Erica Weaver 📝TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Now with a convenient event page and titles of papers! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
📣 #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜Joseph Bosworth & Old English Studies: Then, Now, and the Future 📆 21 May 2026 ⏰16:00-19:00 CEST / 10:00-13:00 EDT 💻Online event 📲Free registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ‼️Conference registration closes 20 May 2026, 16:00 CEST
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📣 #CfP #Workshop #medievalsky 📜 Contested Ground: Ownership and Belonging in the Middle Ages 📆 3rd-4th September 2026 📌 Düsseldorf, Germany (In-person workshop) 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Dr Claire Weeda ⏰ Deadline: June 1st
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish ‼️Abstract deadline extended until 22 April 2026‼️ 📚 36th International Conference of SELIM (SELIM 36) 🏫 University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo 📅23rd-25th September 2026 💻Further details: eventos.uclm.es/go/SELIM36
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📚 Book review by Hannah M. Bailey 📘Literary Form in Early Medieval England ✍️ Jennifer A. Lorden 📝TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
‼️Today is the deadline for the #TOEBI Conference Grants. ⏰ 5pm, Friday 10th April 2026. 💻 All #TOEBI members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post are encouraged to apply. 📲 Application forms are available from our website: ➡️ www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
‼️The #TOEBI Conference Grants deadline is tomorrow. ⏰ 5pm, Friday 10th April 2026. 💻 We're encouraging all #TOEBI members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to apply. 📲 Application forms are available from our website: ➡️ www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Like Old English, dictionaries, and/or nineteenth century scholarship? Save the date for an online event celebrating Joseph Bosworth and his Old English dictionary. Register (free!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Joseph Bosworth & Old English Studies:
Then, Now and the Future
(21 May 2026, 16:00-19:00 CEST / 10:00-13:00 EDT)
An online academic memorial event reflecting on the continuing impact of Joseph
Bosworth († 27 May 1876) and his Old English dictionary on the field of Old English
Studies. The programme will consist of a series of 20-minute papers and a roundtable.
Confirmed speakers include:
• Dabney Bankert (James Madison University)
• Rachel A. Fletcher (Leiden University)
• Thijs Porck (Leiden University)
• Christine Rauer (University of St Andrews)
• Ondřej Tichý (Charles University, Prague)
• Madeleine Thompson (Anthropic, author of the Bosworth-Toller smartphone app)
For more information (or joining the roundtable) you can contact the organisers by
sending an e-mail to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl ).
Attendance is free, but please let us know you are coming by filling out this registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj3hMvrYe6vVzQlTWsFyNmgQ44jWkTUyL8ZDlxnF6E6btZJg/viewform
Organisers: Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck, Christine Rauer and Ondřej Tichý
This event is is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe
research and innovation program (EMERGENCE, Grant agreement No.101115867, https://doi.org/10.3030/101115867 ). Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
‼️Reminder: #TOEBI Grants Deadline Approaching ⏰ 5pm, 10th April 2026. 💻 We're accepting applications from #TOEBI members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences. 📲 Application forms ➡️ www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📚 Book review by S. C. Thomson 📘The Cædmon Manuscript: The Beginnings of English Poetry, I. ✍️ Bernard J. Muir 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
⏰ Reminder: #TOEBI Grants Deadline Approaching ‼️5pm, 10th April 2026. 💻 We're inviting applications from #TOEBI members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences. 📲 Application forms ➡️ www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE APPROACHING ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm, 10th April 2026. 💻 We have updated the deadline to allow successful applicants sufficient time to register for upcoming conferences. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 An overview of Playing with Old English: A Playful Pedagogy Resource ✍️ Megan Cavell and Renée R. Trilling 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE: UPDATE ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm, 10th April 2026. 💻 We have updated the deadline to allow successful applicants sufficient time to register for upcoming conferences. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 An overview of ROEP: Resources for Old English Prose ✍️ Francis Leneghan and Niamh Kehoe 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📚 36th International Conference of SELIM (SELIM 36) 🏫 University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo 📅23rd-25th September 2026 ‼️Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026 💻Further details: eventos.uclm.es/go/SELIM36
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE EXTENSION ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm on the 30th April 2026. 💻 Members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post are encouraged to apply. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 Unravelling Old English Riddles with Year 7s at the Bodleian’s Weston Library ✍️ Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️ 📜 Theme: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026 #️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
📢 DEADLINE EXTENSION #medievalsky‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm on the 30th April 2026. 💻 We are accepting applications from #TOEBI members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences. 📲 Application form available here: www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g...
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
📢 The 2025 #TOEBI Newsletter is here‼️ 💻 Available to download now from our website 🔗 www.toebi.org.uk/toebi-newsle... ✍️ Edited by Francisco J. Rozano-García and Claire Poynton-Smith 📝Featuring reports on the latest #OldEnglish pedagogical resources, the Kemble Lecture & book reviews. #️⃣ #medievalsky
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