Kirsty Bolton

Has anyone gotten the Eurostar from St Pancras recently? I do *really* need to arrive 90 minutes before, or will an hour suffice?

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Very proud of these workshops that are part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship.

Nothing like creating an index to make you question the spelling of every word important to your research.

In our latest blog post, Kirsty Bolton reflects on her experience of claiming a space of her own and the ways mothers occupied and used space within #medieval romances. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/ZGItAjv
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Very excited for the Medieval Insular Romance conference at Oxford in April. Look at the gorgeous programme! So many papers that I’m excited to hear and friends that I’m looking forward to catching up with 🥰

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So very tempted to go to the New Chaucer Society’s ‘Reading Chaucer Outside the Anglophone World’ conference in Taiwan next year while I still have a research budget… anyone else considering? I don’t have much to contribute but it would be so interesting.

I don’t think there will be any reviews yet, as it only published yesterday.

Cover image for Motherhood and its Spaces in Medieval Romance by Kirsty Bolton. Illustration shows a group of women helping a post-partum woman in bed.

My book published yesterday! If it looks like your thing, maybe suggest your library buys a copy, or offer to review it for a journal, or you can get 35% off with code BB135

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Thank you so much! I hope you feel better soon xx

Very good point!

Me and Kirsty, holding her book

Look who popped over! The wonderful @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social (a former PhD student of mine, now doing great things as a Leverhulme ECF in Oxford), with a copy of her book #Motherhood and its Spaces in #Medieval #Romance! A must read! Thank you, Kirsty, and big congratulations! 🎉❤️

Thank you for such lovely words!

Look what arrived! Actual physical copies of my book! It’s so pretty 💕
As with any academic book, this has been quite a while in the making and wouldn’t have been possible without the support and expertise of so many amazing people. Thank you!

News! The submission deadline for www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... has been extended to 15th Jan! It would be amazing to see you there and hear about the brilliant watery research that you're doing. My sessions are 134, 162, and 174 - please join me!

Meet my new (& newly landed in my postbox) friend, Medieval Twitter in PAPERBACK!!!

Get your own fine flippable friend from @archumanities.bsky.social for the low(ish) price of £29.95

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Another call for abstracts for our sessions at the UArctic Congress in May. It's on the Faroe Islands and I'm really excited!
Deadline for abstracts 15/12/25
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If you’re interested in Environmental Humanities, the Arctic, medieval lit/hist, or indigenous populations, submit an abstract for my sessions at the UArctic Congress in Torshavn in May! Sessions 134, 162, and 174

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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.

For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Copyeditors are wonderful!

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

Thank you, Rachel and the amazing GMS community. This was an brilliant experience, as was the whole wonderful conference.

I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz

My proposal has been accepted for the New Chaucer Society congress in Freiburg next July! Who all else is going, #MedievalSky?

MAMO is this week! I’m so excited for so many amazing papers and workshops reflecting on how medieval research interacts with the modern world.

I’ve started my PowerPoint for my ECR plenary at GMS in a few weeks 😂 🧜🏽‍♀️
Disclaimer: there are no actual mermaids in the paper. Yet.
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I read a lovely book and wrote about it in the fantastic Medieval Feminist Forum: scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol60/is...

Perhaps naively, I believe that most people think they are doing the right thing within their value system. But bloody hell, Starmer, give your head a wobble. You’re sorely testing this belief right now.

I think we have been in some of the same panels today. Can I be in your fun junior faculty gang?