John Marshall

Books on medieval and modern France for rehoming. Cost of postage and packing only (please comment on post if interested, DMs do not work) #medievalsky #history

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow.

This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne.

Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about this MS and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.

Seal of Mary Whitshead. RIA GSA/25/1, Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723) - By 1723, the heavy wax seals hanging from the bottom of the parchment have been done away with in favor of an image impressed into several drops of wax poured directly on the document itself. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA-25-1

Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past.
For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️
Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury
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Very nice to be back in the old stomping ground today at the tail end of a brief but enjoyable and productive research trip @ihr.bsky.social

The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Very much looking forward to this tomorrow. I’ll be speaking about eight letters, and for a flavour, here is the salutatio of the earliest of these, sent by Cathal Crobderg Ó Conchobair to King John, which shows the practice of the Latin cursus alive and well in Gaelic Connacht.

Thanks Caitlin, hopefully it’ll be up online soon.

Next Friday, I will be speaking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar on my forthcoming article in the Proceedings of the RIA, which analyses surviving letters sent by Irish kings and provides a full edition and translation of them. All are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social

A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.

Call for papers, Irish Conference of Medievalists!
Trinity College Dublin, 28-29 May (in person)
Registration €40 (students €20). 1/4

#WarSHum12 This is a video recording of a lecture "Deep Mapping in Practice: ‘Layers of London’ and Participatory Experiential Mapping" delivered by Justing…

Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658

Our special bonus episode just dropped and I'm very happy to have been part of this recording with @davidstifter.bsky.social and @niamhwycherley.bsky.social.

If you ever wanted to listen to some early Irish poetry and prose being read out loud in their original, here's your chance!

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Selling academic books #skystorians #scottish mainly £10hb/£5pb plus postage with a few exceptions for rare books. Email claredownham360@hotmail.com if interested in any of the titles which you can view here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tkgc6...

Great belated Christmas present in the post today. Delighted to have a chapter in this, particularly as it’s dedicated to the late Björn Weiler, who I had the privilege of speaking alongside the conference and who had always been incredibly generous to me over the years @historytcd.bsky.social

Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading* Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept

My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Old English and proficiency in Medieval Latin?  If yes, then you may be interested in this fixed term full time post...

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

A privilege to be involved in this project working closely with Paul Dryburgh. Lots of valuable material here, make sure to check it out! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Medieval Literature and Society: A Tutorial for Historians By the end of this tutorial, which examines the vernacular literatures of medieval Ireland and Wales (circa 1000–1500), you will have the tools to read medieval Irish and Welsh texts critically and si...

My latest magazine article in @epoch-history.bsky.social in which I look at medieval Irish and Welsh literature is out now! #medievalsky #skystorians

www.epoch-magazine.com/post/medieva...

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

@littlemuseumdub.bsky.social @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social

Last week I had the pleasure of attending two wonderful book launches. My friend Daryl, Deputy Curator of the Little Museum of Dublin, has written a brilliant Little History of Nearys, while Keith Busby’s fine edition of the Statutes (published by the IMC) is a much welcome addition to the field

Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.

'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'

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Applications are invited for two positions of Lexicographer in the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy.

Find out more:
www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-two-lexicographer-posts-with-focloir-stairiuil-na-gaeilge/

#DublinJobs #JobFairy #IrishJobs

Very much looking forward to Leeds next summer! @historytcd.bsky.social

The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…

New blog from IHR Director @clairelanghamer@bsky.social reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

A poster advertising the O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh for 2025. It will be delivered by Professor Brendan Kane at 4.15 on 10 December, in 50 George Square

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

Having spent a wonderful academic year there, I cannot recommend these fellowships enough and I’m happy to answer any questions

Very much looking forward to attending this next Tuesday - all are welcome!

Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden

Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...