Dr Eleanor Baker
@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
📖Writing and teaching on Middle English literature in Oxford
💀Wrote BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing
✏️Being creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.social
🍂Liker of university access and outreach, folk horror, and print making
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💀Wrote BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing
✏️Being creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.social
🍂Liker of university access and outreach, folk horror, and print making
She/her
Early January stuff.
January 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Early January stuff.
A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂
Six cranberry and orange shortbread geese a-laying for each of my neighbours.
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Six cranberry and orange shortbread geese a-laying for each of my neighbours.
I have decided that I want to dress exclusively like popular white male tv presenters from 2000s/2010s middle class programming. I want the chore jacket, natural fibre look. I want to look like I could make you a good homemade chutney and know what a cantilever is.
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I have decided that I want to dress exclusively like popular white male tv presenters from 2000s/2010s middle class programming. I want the chore jacket, natural fibre look. I want to look like I could make you a good homemade chutney and know what a cantilever is.
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New post, in which I talk about the Old English poem “The Wanderer” and the place of empathy in interpretation.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
The Wanderer
The role of empathy in reading pre-modern literature If you’d prefer, you can listen to this article below The Wanderer was the first piece of Old English literature that really grabbed …
nikolasgunn.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New post, in which I talk about the Old English poem “The Wanderer” and the place of empathy in interpretation.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
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Inscription 6 on cuts/tears ft. academic articles + art by Dave Beech, Stephen Emmerson, Lucio Fontana, Jo Hamill, Simon Morris, Buzz Spector, Carolyn Thompson, Patrick Wildgust, Steven Zultanski.
Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s
Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s
Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
December 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Inscription 6 on cuts/tears ft. academic articles + art by Dave Beech, Stephen Emmerson, Lucio Fontana, Jo Hamill, Simon Morris, Buzz Spector, Carolyn Thompson, Patrick Wildgust, Steven Zultanski.
Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s
Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s
Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
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New beginnings can be exciting, but also a little daunting. To help ease into your creative-critical mindset of 2026, we warmly welcome you to join us for a special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026!
⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT
📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026
📍Zoom
⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT
📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026
📍Zoom
Making Space Session (Creative Intention Setting for 2026) — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
The first Making Space session for 2026: with a difference! Join us to set your creative intentions for the year!
www.guildmedmak.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New beginnings can be exciting, but also a little daunting. To help ease into your creative-critical mindset of 2026, we warmly welcome you to join us for a special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026!
⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT
📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026
📍Zoom
⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT
📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026
📍Zoom
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An exciting symposium featuring many of our Guild members is taking place early next year!👇
🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow'
📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026
🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow'
📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026
'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow
A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
An exciting symposium featuring many of our Guild members is taking place early next year!👇
🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow'
📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026
🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow'
📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026
I enjoy the William of Newburgh's accounts of the Green Children of Woolpit and revenants as much as the next person, but I my attention is always caught by his entry describing the finding of a beautiful double-stone in a quarry, which is struck open to reveal a toad wearing a golden chain.
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I enjoy the William of Newburgh's accounts of the Green Children of Woolpit and revenants as much as the next person, but I my attention is always caught by his entry describing the finding of a beautiful double-stone in a quarry, which is struck open to reveal a toad wearing a golden chain.
In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).
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The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting academic researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences to collaborate with community groups as part of a new community-led grant. The pilot will run from January to May 2026. Info here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researchers invited to express their interest for the Community Connections Grant
The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities (CPEP) is piloting a new community-focused grant between January and May 2026.
www.sas.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting academic researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences to collaborate with community groups as part of a new community-led grant. The pilot will run from January to May 2026. Info here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Printing little Christmas cards of the Green Knight's 'holyn bobbe' 🌲
December 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Printing little Christmas cards of the Green Knight's 'holyn bobbe' 🌲
Finally went to see the legendary @magpielane-oxford.bsky.social for their Christmas concert, and they were predictably amazing! An obligatory merch purchase was made, of course.
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Finally went to see the legendary @magpielane-oxford.bsky.social for their Christmas concert, and they were predictably amazing! An obligatory merch purchase was made, of course.
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Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Creative Practitioner in Residence
The Institute of Historical Research hosts a Creative Practitioner in Residence who is interested in working collaboratively with historians.
www.history.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
L'imposteur - ça avance cette thèse ?
Une BD sur l'expérience doctorale
fr.ulule.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
Happy birthday to the best cow scratcher and piglet botherer this side of Oxford, @robertculshaw.bsky.social 🐖
December 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Happy birthday to the best cow scratcher and piglet botherer this side of Oxford, @robertculshaw.bsky.social 🐖
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Write an essay to win £500 📝
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Write an essay to win £500 📝
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
Every rainy spring day:
'The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough'
'The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough'
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Every rainy spring day:
'The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough'
'The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough'
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'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?'
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Fredman — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...
www.guildmedmak.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?'
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Reposted by Dr Eleanor Baker
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'No, we should not curse the winter - and December least of all.'
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
'No, we should not curse the winter - and December least of all.'
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Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)
This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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1776: White frost, grey, frost all day, grey, frost.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: White frost, grey, frost all day, grey, frost.
I confessed to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and everyone should watch. Particularly Part 3, which is my favourite.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I confessed to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and everyone should watch. Particularly Part 3, which is my favourite.
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After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨!
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨!
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻