Bristol CMS PGR Conference 2026 "Power and Performance" keynote speaker Dr Cathy Hume
We are really excited to announce the second of our fantastic keynote speakers: author, literary historian, Middle English and Biblical poetry expert... our very own Dr Cathy Hume (@cathyhume.bluesky.social)! 🎉🎊🎉
[somewhat belatedly] thank you!
Here are 2 films by Camilla Adams from my 'Life of Job' medieval play project that might interest academics/ theatre & heritage people. 1) straight recording youtu.be/wYo4JwsOuP4 and 2) a 'making of': how we staged it at a feast at Winterbourne Barn. youtu.be/IK3My_DqvE8. Please share! #medievalsky
Oh OK, in my mind they are the same size!
What's the Leprechauns diminished from?!
Great new @ippr.org report from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, making very clear the link between the decline of community spaces and the rise of the radical right. Sacha reimagines the 20th century miners' welfare fund as a model for reviving social infrastructure:
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
This is a tiny book of hours, use of Metz. It is bound in modern velvet, and features a miniature of the Virgin Mary nursing the baby Jesus - iconography specific to artwork made in Metz (dated between 1375 and 1399) (Ms. Codex 1566)
🔗: bit.ly/4kJdOex
I kept thinking it was going to turn into something meaningful. But no.
And more decorated/illuminated letters to download and print and print for free, and then colour in. Good for children in the holidays, teachers who want a bit of a quiet time (!!), and adults who want to spend some time thinking only of what colours to use!
www.patricialovett.com/mediaeval-de...
Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social?
Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips!
#medievalsky
A beautiful illustration from MS Ashmole 150; a Tudor pattern book. Well worth a look at on Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/385c...
Custard is the elixir of life
Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
1-year temp. medieval lectureship at KCL, covering Alice Rio's teaching, closing date 20 July: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Thanks Gill! x
I'm so delighted to discover that old employer the Home Office is... a leader in advising on digital accessibility?! Who knew?
@bristolcms.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
An actor with blonde hair and a black filigree mask and black cloak (playing Satan) looks disapprovingly at an actor (playing Job) with a beard, white shirt and furred robe.
Satan: What did you say?
Job: er...
Satan: You haven't got your 'Life of Job' tickets? But there are only 10 DAYS UNTIL FRIDAY 27 JUNE!
Job: ... I haven't quite got round to it...
Satan: There's patience and then there's procrastination. Get on it. www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne...
Now wondering if I can drag the entire family along with me in a minor diversion on our route through northern France this August...
Today is Pentecost. This beautiful image is taken from a 15th century 'Honresfield Book of Hours', depicting the Virgin and Apostles sitting beneath a dove.
[MS5204 f. 90v]
#LambethPalaceLibrary #Manuscript #Pentecost
I spent yesterday morning the NMS collections at Granton, where Helen Wyld showed us the incredible Fetternear Banner. An extraordinary survival of Scottish Pre-Reformation (c. 1520) linen embroidery - stunning to see it up close.
It is glorious!
@bristolcms.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @shaunaroach.bsky.social
Job, bearded man in robe, gestures heavenward while his seated wife in blue dress and medieval headdress holds a baby and looks angry. Photo of workshop performance by Mark Dawson.
The modern première of the ‘Life of Job’ is on 27th June at Winterbourne Medieval Barn. Job suffers torments: property loss, family death, physical disease and a scolding wife. Uniquely in this play, God reprimands Job for how he treats his wife! Tix/ info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne...
Make her stop!
Ooh, pretty!
Any questions, please send them my way - this is something of a passion project for me! (There's also more info on the ticket sales page.)
@bristolcms.bsky.social, @uobartsmatter.bsky.social , @shaunaroach.bsky.social
