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Daisy Black
@daisyeblack.bsky.social
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Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
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jamespaz.bsky.social
It was great to write this blog post for the @guildmedmak.bsky.social and to give readers a little glimpse into my creative-critical practice, as my 'ecocreative' translations turn from storms 🌧 and ice ❄ to heat and fire 🔥 via the OE poem on The Phoenix #medievalsky.
guildmedmak.bsky.social The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 15d
As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥

Read more by following the link below👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: James Paz — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
A wild week beckons, with 'Yde and Olive' in Leamington Spa on Tues and Edinburgh on Fri.
I'm teaching it on my Queer Medieval module too, so my students will likely give me new ideas for the performances!
Leamington: daisyblack.uk/event/storyt...
Edinburgh: daisyblack.uk/event/yde-an...
Yde and Olive at Leamington Literary Society – Daisy Black
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October 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.
September 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
An honour to talk to my creative friends about storytelling and 'behind the scenes' in Yde and Olive. You can read all about it here, see the next performance in Manchester on the 17th September, or catch one of the last venues on my tour: daisyblack.uk/events/
guildmedmak.bsky.social The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · Sep 9
'I researched medieval birthing chambers, read combat manuals, tried on replica armour, and befriended a horse and a hawk.'

Meet performance storyteller @daisyeblack.bsky.social in our new Meet A Medievalist Maker blogpost! 👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Daisy Black — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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pslewis.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social will be running a webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants on Monday 8 September at 12.00 U.K. time. Register to attend here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Jane Bonsall just came by our stand at #IMC2025 to show off her latest book "Women and Magic in Medieval Romance". Save 50% and get free shipping on your copy with code BB094 here: buff.ly/R42jWOe @janebonsall.bsky.social #MedievalSky
July 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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tedos.bsky.social
Throwing your students under the bus is a bad idea if you are an educational institution.
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jul 1
This is completely disgusting. UPenn was afraid of losing funding, and they've decided humiliating Lia Thomas is a worthy price to pay to save themselves.

Lia Thomas did nothing wrong. She followed the rules and competed fairly and honorably. UPenn's leadership are cowards.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Jul 1
JUST IN: UPenn will strip a trans swimmer, Lia Thomas, of her records and ban trans athletes in women’s sports, caving to Trump admin demands.
July 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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themamoconf.bsky.social
Next up for #MAMOmonth is our Thursday panel, 'Visibility, Connectivity, Creativity: Honouring Medieval Women’s Stories in the Modern World'!
With Laura Varnam (@drlauravarnam.bsky.social, Oxford), Sheila Passey (Wolverhampton), and Daisy Black (@daisyeblack.bsky.social, Wolverhampton).
Session 2C: Visibility, Connectivity, Creativity: Honouring Medieval Women’s Stories in the Modern World [Room K019] Chair: Fran Allfrey Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford): Wealhtheow on the Whale-Road and Beyond: Poems for Heorot’s Queen and Reflections on Writing Her Story / Herstory Sheila Passey (University of Wolverhampton): Reclaiming Aethelflaed: Feminist Storytelling and the Challenges of Adapting Early Medieval Herstories into Modern Historical Fiction Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton): A Many-Woman Show: Yde and Olive, Women’s Work and Storytelling as Medievalist Feminist Praxis
June 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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farleigh.bsky.social
This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”
June 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
Open to everyone! To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daisy-blac...
June 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
I am just writing a paper about adapting this show to present at this conference too!
themamoconf.bsky.social MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Jun 5
And rounding up our #MAMOmonth plenaries and performances, on Wednesday we are delighted to host Daisy Black (@daisyeblack.bsky.social), in her performance of 'Yde and Olive'! Dr Black is a medievalist, theatre director and storyteller.
Wednesday 25th, 6:15-8pm, King's College London Chapel.
Daisy Black. https://themamo.org/keynote-speakers/
June 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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rokewood.bsky.social
@shahidhabari.bsky.social
introduces a powerful episode of BBCRadio4 BBCFreeThinking on a subject of perennial interest (to me especially): *wolves*. She talks to @adamweymouth.bsky.social
Zoe Gilbert, @daisyeblack.bsky.social
Ben Goldsmith, Brian Zimmerman
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Wolves
How wolves shape our world.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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jamespaz.bsky.social
Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish
Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval
This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
Off to London to talk about medieval wolf folklore on BBC Radio 4.

In 950, King Edgar imposed a tax of 300 wolf skins on the Welsh.

Luckily for the wolves, William the Conqueror later imposed a tax of 1 king skin on the English.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Wolves
How wolves shape our world.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Midlands Fringe aims to bring 'Edinburgh magic' to Wolverhampton - BBC News
The festival is being held at three small venues in Wolverhampton from 25 to 27 July.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social
So exciting to see all the details of the MAMO come together - it's going to be good! A timely workshop here from @menysnoweballes.bsky.social
themamoconf.bsky.social MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Mar 25
MAMO update: new details of a workshop organised by Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social:
Resisting Radicalisation: Medievalism and the Extreme Right.
Taking place on Wednesday 25th June at the 5th MAMO conference - see our website for more details.
Description of workshop: Radicalisation: Medievalism and the Extreme Right Dr Rachel Moss, medievalist and Co-Investigator of the University of Northampton’s Extreme Right Research Network (ERRN), will lead an interactive workshop that asks what role medievalism plays in radicalising people into extreme right spaces, and what role we – as educators and experts in the Middle Ages – can play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism. Rachel will introduce the work ERRN has been doing with practitioners in the charitable and law enforcement sectors to identify and address radicalisation, particularly of young people and online spaces, and we will then use the session to collectively brainstorm strategies and resources for developing our activist potential within our fields of interest.
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
After 3 sell out in-person performances, I'm looking forward to 'Yde and Olive' online on 26th March.

Live far away? Avoiding the plague? Want your stories to be less people-y? Want to listen while snuggled in your favourite blanket?

This story is for you!
livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/daisy...
Daisy Black | Online Gig | Live To Your Living Room
Join Daisy Black on 26th March. Watch our online folk gigs from wherever you are in the world.
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March 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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timothycbaker.bsky.social
I find it hard to imagine another sector in which hundreds of job losses being announced each day would be so easily dismissed by so many.
andybrockman.bsky.social Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Mar 12
Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.

At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.
Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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medievalgender.bsky.social
Please encourage your graduate students to submit to this year’s GMS essay prize! Deadline 30th April.
medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa...
Prizes & Bursaries – Gender and Medieval Studies
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March 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social
Other plenaries are @michaeledenart.bsky.social, Angela Weisl and Robert Squillace. MAMO will also feature a special performance of Yde and Olive by @daisyeblack.bsky.social. See more at our Keynotes page, which will be regularly updated: themamo.org/keynote-spea...
March 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
Excited to announce the tour dates for my first ever storytelling tour! Very excited to perform ‘Yde and Olive’ at so many lovely venues and festivals.

You can find out more about the show and find details for all these events on daisyblack.uk/storytelling/

Photo: @plashingvole.bsky.social
Tour poster for Yde and Olive. A person sitting on a chair with feathers in the background and tour dates. Follow the link to read these dates.
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31

Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...

#MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP
Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. Topics might include: • Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna), • Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) • Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. • Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare. • Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales. • Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. • Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University • Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk • AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025 PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU • Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome • ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund. • Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU • Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.
January 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
Looking forward to performing the 13th c. Yde and Olive at Wolverhampton Literature Festival. Yde dresses herself as a knight and cuts her own paths to freedom. She meets her match in Olive: a woman whose spirit is as courageous as her own...
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January 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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rblandford.bsky.social
Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
Copy of The Canterbury Tales.
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
daisyeblack.bsky.social
Joining Bluesky in the hope its owners have better control over their gestures. Only bad actors (in every sense of the term) have so little grasp of gesture and intention.

My colleague told me 'all your friends are here'! Hello. I hope I can find you all again!
January 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM