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Medievalist (bishops, charters, authority) lurking in university administration @polisatleeds.bsky.social PhD from @leedsims.bsky.social, Alumna of @monashcmrs.bsky.social Thesis can be found @ https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/34082/
Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity.
Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv
We are delighted to announce that Frances O’Grady is to deliver the 2026 Alice Bacon Lecture!
📆12th March 2026
🕒18:30 - 19:30
📍Great Hall, University of Leeds
This free public lecture is hosted by @cdpleeds.bsky.social
Get your ticket here: shorturl.at/IV1Kl
Find out more ⬇️
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We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Delighted to be bringing ROYS back to its traditional Friday/Saturday two day format this year, which we hope means even more of you will be able to attend!
Please do check out our Call for Papers below, and submit a paper proposal if you're working on any part of Yorkshire's past!
#MedievalSky
Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies Research Seminars, Semester 2 Tuesday 10 February, 5.30 pm, Laidlaw Library (hybrid seminar) Elaine Treharne (Stanford): Small Details, Big Data: Male and Female Scribal Communities in a Thirteenth-Century Mortuary Roll Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm (online only) Nuria Silleras-Fernandez (University of Colorado, Boulder) (jointly run with the Leeds Centre for the History of Ibero-America): When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal Thursday 26 March, 5.30 pm Parkinson 1.08 (hybrid lecture): Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University), annual IMS/Classics lecture: Sex and the City: The Eunuchs of Constantinople Tuesday 5 May, 2 pm: Mark Chambers (Durham University) (joint seminar with the Health Histories research group): title and location tbc (hybrid)
Delighted to announce this semester's public seminars and lectures. To come to the first one by Elaine Treharne register forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk (hybrid) All welcome
It me! Online attendance also available; book on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
🚨 We’re hiring!
Join the ERC-funded Global Methane Politics!
✅ 3 Research Fellowships (3 yrs) ➡️ shorturl.at/xPzz7
✅ 2 fully-funded PhDs ➡️ shorturl.at/afj0t
📅 Apply by 15 Feb 2026. Start Oct 2026
#MethanePolitics #PostdocJobs #PhDPositions #ResearchCareers #UniversityOfLeeds #ERCfunded
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
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Just a friendly reminder that we have 2 funded Fellowship opportunities. If you're a PGR student or historian interested in this post, see below!
Full details: historyofeducation.org.uk/hesfellows2026/
Deadline: 9th of January 2026
Start Date: 1st of February 2026
#histed #fellowship
There are only three weeks left to apply for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The object of this fund is to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1
Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026!
🎓 Celebrating More PhD Success! 🎓
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr Patricia Tshomba, Dr Charles Gray, and Dr Laura Rose Brown on passing their PhD vivas this week!
👏Join us in celebrating these incredible achievements!
⬇️see thread below for more details of their projects
#PhDSuccess
Do I know anyone working at TNA over the next couple of weeks, who'd be willing to call up and take a snap or two of this document for me?
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5...
There is only 1 day left before the #IMC2026 Bursary application portal closes! 😱 The deadline is Friday, 17 October 2025 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1). 👀
Click here to apply for an IMC Bursary and get the chance to attend #IMC2026:
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/
#MedievalSky
🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
We are delighted to announce our research seminars for this semester in Leeds. All will be hybrid. Keep an eye out for links to register for zoom nearer the time or come in person. All welcome! #medievalsky #medievalresearch
Can anyone help me with a PDF of: Kicklighter, Joseph A. "An Unknown Brother of Pope Clement V." Mediaeval Studies 38 (1976): 492–95. doi.org/10.1484/J.MS...? #ICanHazPDF #MedievalSky TIA!!
This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.
While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!
JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/
CFP #IMC2026 'Flashpoints and Factions: Internal Temporalities of Crisis in the Crusader States' @imc-leeds.bsky.social Deadline 15 September 2025.
For the first in a series of interviews with Leeds IMS alumni on how medieval studies fitted into their career, go to ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/new.... Interviews by Emily Caffery, community-building student assistant (currently doing an MA in Medieval Studies) #medievalsky #whatisamastersfor
Members of the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies visiting Whitby Abbey in June 2025. Group of people looking at a gothic ruin. Beautiful view of hills and blue sky behind. Green grass in foreground.
Come and do an MA or PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. To see what we are like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Do... ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval #medievalsky #medievalstudies
An exciting day of papers for those interested in early medieval charters (on 9 September). If you’d like to attend, do send me a message!
Come along tomorrow night to learn more about swordplay in medieval and early modern England!
Call for papaers poster. Medieval image of Hildegard of Bingen as header. Neurodivergent infinity loop behind text. Text reads: Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026 Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities Over the past decade, critical neurodiversity studies and neuroqueer theory have come to prominence. These new paradigms seek to explore differences in mind through an understanding that there are naturally diverse ways of being rather than through pathologisation. While the paradigms are beginning to be used in other academic disciplines, they are yet to be implemented in a significant way in medieval studies. This panel seeks to change this by encouraging medievalists to see the potentials in neuroqueer and neurodivergent scholarship and prompting discussion in these areas. This panel is requesting proposals for papers which examine aspects of medieval temporalities through a neurodivergent or neuroqueer lens. This includes, but is not limited to: • Application of contemporary neuroqueer or neurodivergent theory to medieval temporal concerns. • Examination of non-normative experiences of time, e.g. in mystical ecstasy. • Exploration of neuroqueer attitudes to normative lifecycles. • Examination of the effects of time and age on the mind in medieval texts. • Neurodivergent readings of medieval material relating to temporalities. Paper proposals should be under 200 words and accompanied by a short bio. Proposals should be sent to A.T.Paley1@leeds.ac.uk for the attention of Ash Paley and Daniel Coultas by 9am on Monday 15th September 2025.
Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2026
Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities
Deadline: Monday 15th September 9am
#CFP #IMC2026 #Medievalsky #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer
The #IMC2026 Padlet Page is filling up with so many amazing sessions which want your papers! 🎉
If you have a CfP for the IMC you would like advertising then email imc@leeds.ac.uk ☺️
Does anybody happen to have access to:
Weiss, Robert. 1949. "Cinque lettere inedite del Cardinale Benedetto Gaetani (Bonifacio VIII)." Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia, 3:162–168.
TIA!
#MedievalSky #ICanHazPDF
A table full of sensory toys. Twp Liquid motion timers, a unicorn rainbow pop-it. A Clear Northern Lights projector with the box next to it. A pair of noise defending headphones, two multi-coloured fidget toys, a fidget spinner.
A table with 5 black rolled up blankets, 4 grey sleep masks, and a little bag of ear plugs.
#IMC2025 can be a full on experience and to some that can be quite overwhelming.
If any of our delegates need a break from their busy schedule, our Quiet Rooms and new Sensory Room are still open for you to visit 😊
Visit www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/del... for more infromation.
#MedievalSky
I hope all the medievalists in Leeds enjoy #IMC2025. For various reasons I'm not attending this year. It's a rather strange feeling: the last time I didn't attend was 2018. But since I work at UoL, I will get to enjoy the craft fair and Making Leeds Medieval when I'm on campus later in the week.