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Do you or your students want to work on medieval Spain? We have a palaeography course to help you get started or improve your skills 👇🇪🇸✍️📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

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There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

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Are you working in #bookhistory and #DH and want to learn more about the most relevant digital tools & approaches? Check out the 'Book Historian's Digital Toolkit' module for the London Rare Books School this summer, 23–27 June 2025. More info below: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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Visited the #MedievalWomen exhibition at the #BritshLibrary? Learn more about Mathilda of Flanders in the upcoming book, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083 by Laura L Gathagan. Now available to pre-order. https://buff.ly/4i6x8BE

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It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

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For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 27, @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 1329, a 13th-century copy of Haimo's 9th-century commentary on the Song of Solomon, which presents biblical lemmata in the margins enclosed in decorated circles and triangles. Register here: https://bit.ly/418nkjB

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Great to hear! This was a team effort by @ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social. If you’d like to try pigment making 🎨🖌️ @saracharles.bsky.social is teaching on a summer school course in June. Book now 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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Four more collections have recently joined @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, bringing the number of collections to thirty-nine, with nearly 18,000 discoverable #OA manuscripts! Dig into that delicious data, people! If your collection hasn't joined, why not?! #MedievalSky digital-scriptorium.org

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Cambridge people! On March 3rd I will be talking about Francis Wormald as a collector of medieval manuscripts. It would be lovely to have an audience. Book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...

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Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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And now, @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Coincidence? 🤔

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We are almost fully booked for our Digital Methods in Bibliography Short Course next month in collaboration with @bibsoc.bsky.social ! Book now to avoid disappointment: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...

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New on Caravanserai! Last month, for “Medieval Pigments and Modern Practice”, I gave a brief talk about my experience of foraging in place and how it affected my artistic practice. This is a more developed write-up of that talk… open.substack.com/pub/majnouna...

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Who's got that Friday feeling? This monastery cellarer is just checking the wine is good, honest...🍷 Apply for our online Latin palaeography short course to find out more about this 13th century French manuscript, now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/sphuh5s3

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Great to hear! This was a team effort by @ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social. If you’d like to try pigment making 🎨🖌️ @saracharles.bsky.social is teaching on a summer school course in June. Book now 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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This is digital humanities

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Check out our exciting range of short courses for the London Rare Books School and London International Palaeography School! Find out more and book here: https://buff.ly/3Za70PK #RareBooks #Palaeography

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PhD opportunity with Ryan Perry & @lawrencewarner.bsky.social! Remaking History: Reproducing the Middle English Prose Brut in the late medieval metropolis. It'll investigate the literary production phenomena in medieval England represented by extant manuscripts and fragments of this chronicle #cfa

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Check out our exciting range of short courses for the London Rare Books School and London International Palaeography School! Find out more and book here: https://buff.ly/3Za70PK #RareBooks #Palaeography

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📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

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Manuscript Leaf, from a Book of Hours https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475399

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There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

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Wow, pretty small! But are we talking 'Bryce's Smallest English Dictionary' small?

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🚨 New Short Course Alert! 🚨 Join Dr Gill Partington in Magazines, Art and Experiment on 23 May 2025. Find out more and book here: https://buff.ly/4hHJQag We look forward to hosting you.

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We are delighted to be hosting the reception for the IES's study day Belle da Costa Greene and the European Book Trade on Monday 24 February! https://buff.ly/4i6pHdR

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Free online seminar @dh-researchhub.bsky.social on 5 March (15.00-16.45 GMT): ‘Skulls, skin and names: the ethics of managing heritage collections data online’ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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EXTENDED DEADLINE! You have one more week to apply for this fantastic PhD opportunity! Deadline 26 February

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Don't forget that you have until the 27th of February (noon) to apply to our PhD projects. Check the full list and conditions here www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/ or refer to our older posts. The projects are a collaboration between two institutions (King's College & University of Kent). #phd #cfa

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Tim Stinson speculated that this was possible in 2009 Knowledge of the flesh: using DNA analysis to unlock bibliographical secrets of #medieval #parchment. Papers Bibliographical Soc. of Amer. 103, 435-453 In Europe we were able to advance his ideas, it took Tim 15 years to win funding in the USA.

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There’s still time to apply! Closing date 24 Feb #DigitalHumanities

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Marjorie Chibnall prize #medievalsky #skystorians

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Here’s what I want to see from Universities UK: a massive publicity campaign celebrating the multi-layered contributions higher education makes. We do research that improves medicine, technology, culture and the arts. It’s hard, slow, sometimes expensive, but it makes life better. The benefits 1/?

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Book now for Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art in March! 14 Mar: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection & Off The Shelf–Performing The Collection 15 Mar: Workshop, creative writing and making @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social Free, book via 🔗 bit.ly/sa_soa

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#medievalsky

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It’s a miserable day in February, so why not get your summer school courses in palaeography booked? Give yourself something to look forward to! 📖📝📚 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

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Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I just haven't got time to be driven nuts by the borderline insane pronouncements of Kemi Badenoch on top of everything else, I have things to do

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Visiting ‘Unfolding Time’ at @lampallib.bsky.social and it is an amazing collection of moving manuscript art on time, calendars and pretty pictures! They even made this incredible exhibition guide which ALSO UNFOLDS! Top work: everyone should visit (it’s free!)

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Join us next week in person to explore Belle da Costa Greene's relationship with members of the European book trade and the impact of her activities on the international market for rare books! The workshop is free to attend and open to all BOOK NOW: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/belle...

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#skystorians #medieval There appears to be no Cambridge elements series for early medieval Europe. Anyone fancy starting one?

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BTW: We're a little less than a month away from my short course on Old and Middle French paleography, in case you meant to sign up but haven't yet: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

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