Reposted by William PurkisHallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The people of the past are not ‘us then’. They are aliens. Lean into that. 1323
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Looking forward to my trip to Edinburgh tomorrow! 020
Reposted by William PurkisKate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k... 118834
Reposted by William PurkisJay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...jobs.chronicle.comAssistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500). 10239119
Reposted by William PurkisJames Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025One-Year Teaching Fellowship in Medieval English Literature at the Univ of Birmingham: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG641/t...jobs.ac.ukTeaching Fellow in Medieval English Literature at University of BirminghamApply for the Teaching Fellow in Medieval English Literature role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now. 0714
Reposted by William PurkisArc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage edited by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis - Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean www.arc-humanities.org/978164189179... 062
Reposted by William PurkisProf. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...jobs.ac.ukAssistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World at Trinity College Dublin, The University of DublinDiscover Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board. 04249
Reposted by William PurkisGawain's Mum @gawainsmum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Coming up next month from the Hospitaller Research Forum online (www.um.edu.mt/.../proje......): Jochen Burgtorf speaking on 'Editing Hospitaller Material'. 042
Reposted by William PurkisProf. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History- UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB509/a...jobs.ac.ukAssociate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History at UCLAn academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities. 01214
Reposted by William PurkisDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“Middle order batting collapse”. 1124640
Reposted by William PurkisRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/02/2025We've created a new Starter Pack of #History institutes and research centres in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3F3Eo2M Please do share. There will be gaps and recommendations are welcome. We hope this pack helps you keep in touch with work by and for historians in the UK & Ireland #Skystorians.bit.lyUK institutes and research centres for historiansJoin the conversation 11224131
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 15 #booksky 130
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 14 #booksky 040
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The programme for this term’s @ihr.bsky.social #Crusades and the #LatinEast seminar is now available here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/cru... #medievalsky #skystorianshistory.ac.ukCrusades and the Latin East 0161
Reposted by William PurkisMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/01/2025ICYMI (I did), @nytimes.com says that the Middle Ages will be hot in 2025. a coincidence that this year is the centennary of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social??? #medievalsky link --> www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s... 109117
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 13 #booksky 170
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 12 #booksky 030
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11 #booksky 140
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 10 #booksky 230
Reposted by William PurkisMidland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access! Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)tandfonline.comMidland HistoryHaunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History 12715
Reposted by William PurkisJonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The best arguments for learning Latin are not the practical ones (it helps us understand legal terms, what the Pope is saying, or how to learn German) but those which remember how engaging with cultures, literature and people very different from ourselves enriches those who do it and so all of us 2242
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 9 #booksky 130
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 8 #booksky 040
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 7 #booksky 030
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 6 #booksky 120
Reposted by William PurkisRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 19/12/2024Our #medieval lecture for 2025 will be given by Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) on the lives and travels of medieval women. Join us in person (London) or online on Friday 7 February at 6:30pm GMT. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1112882945... 410436
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 5 #booksky 150
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Today I have been in my happy place. #medievalsky #skystorians 1261
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 4 #booksky 160
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 3 #booksky 050
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 2 #booksky 1100
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 1 #booksky 0130
Reposted by William PurkisJustine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 14/12/2024This week, after joining University of Birmingham as a part-time MA student in 2015, I had my #PhD graduation ceremony in the Great Hall (built 1900) - thank you to all who supported me along the way! 1191
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Absolutely thrilled to see one of the volumes in the #CrusadingInContext series that I edit for @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social on this list. Massive congratulations to Tom Smith! #medievalsky #skystorians 0315
Reposted by William PurkisMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2timeshighereducation.comThe academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-DameFive years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers 101100379
Reposted by William Purkismargaret beaufort fan @tudorhistetc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024this looks so interesting 141
Reposted by William PurkisDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024My friend Marci Freedman died a week or two ago. She was great. It was nice to see her name in this contents list. 4171
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Pilgrimage contents (by request) #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage 1397
Reposted by William PurkisAmanda Mecke @readtosurvive.bsky.social · 30/11/2024When there was so little you could control about illness and feeding your family, pilgrimages provided hope and safety. Perhaps we need to remind ourselves that everyone deserves hope. 051
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage – now in 3D! #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage 2527
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Neil Young David Crosby The Beatles David Bowie Sex Pistols Suede Radiohead Low John Coltrane Red House Painters 010
Reposted by William PurkisJay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Marc Bloch revolutionized the way we study history, not just the Middle Ages, though that was his specialty. In WWII he joined the resistance & was eventually captured, tortured & executed by the Gestapo. Entry into the Pantheon means that he will deservedly rest among the greatest heroes of France 5297116
Reposted by William PurkisPaul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social · 18/11/2024And this one: a pilgrim souvenir depicting geese, a symbol of St Werburg of Chester, again from the excellent display at Salisbury Museum. 0102
Reposted by William PurkisPaul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Pilgrim souvenirs on display at Salisbury Museum, depicting symbols associated with several medieval saints. 2528
Reposted by William PurkisJay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The most fundamental medieval impression I took from my vacation in Cairo was how thoroughly Saladin transformed the city, above all through the construction of this massive citadel looming on a ridge and dominating the space. Saladin the builder is underrated. 2374
Reposted by William PurkisLisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire. Founded 1135. “Buildwas is one of the most picturesque of ruins….This Abbey had a very respectable library. I have encountered a considerable number of books from it, at Cambridge, Lambeth and elsewhere.” MR James writing in 1925. #medievalmonday #medievalsky 0244
Reposted by William PurkisMary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hello Bluesky. I work on medieval pilgrimage and on medievalism. My book on English and German medieval pilgrimage writing & my edited volume on international medievalism are here: boydellandbrewer.com/author/mary-... I’ve nearly finished my next book on Anglo-German medievalism in the long C19. 2271
William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024It’s been an appropriately long journey to arrive at this destination, but I’m very pleased to announce this morning the publication of the Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage that I’ve co-edited with Andrew Jotischky for @archumanities.bsky.social. #medievalsky #skystorians #newbooks #pilgrimagearc-humanities.orgA Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage - Arc Humanities PressPilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranea... 18519