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
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'Translating Chaucer is a strange and humbling act. It’s like listening through centuries of static to a voice that is both foreign and familiar, comic and solemn, earnest and ironic.'
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Jonathan Fruoco — 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...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
'Translating Chaucer is a strange and humbling act. It’s like listening through centuries of static to a voice that is both foreign and familiar, comic and solemn, earnest and ironic.'
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Better lit photos of the hare mask, which is now complete! Next up is the stag...
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Better lit photos of the hare mask, which is now complete! Next up is the stag...
@leahveronese.bsky.social and I have been teaching at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social this term, and so we have been invited to their Yule Feast! As our 'medieval accessory' I will be making us hare and stag masks inspired by the mummer illustrations from Bodley MS. 264, fol. 21v.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@leahveronese.bsky.social and I have been teaching at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social this term, and so we have been invited to their Yule Feast! As our 'medieval accessory' I will be making us hare and stag masks inspired by the mummer illustrations from Bodley MS. 264, fol. 21v.
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We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
In their own words: medical writings in Middle English – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
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St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, France, Troyes, ca. 1500-1530
(V&A Museum, London)
(V&A Museum, London)
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, France, Troyes, ca. 1500-1530
(V&A Museum, London)
(V&A Museum, London)
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Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
Second Call for Articles: The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past Special Collection explores how the medieval past is ‘curated’, that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated, across both professional and popular soci...
olh.openlibhums.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
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Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.
Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU
Deadline 16 Jan.
Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU
Deadline 16 Jan.
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.
Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU
Deadline 16 Jan.
Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU
Deadline 16 Jan.
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Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.
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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🍻
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🍻
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Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
Halloween party ready with @robertculshaw.bsky.social (I'm a moth, he's a lamp).
November 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Halloween party ready with @robertculshaw.bsky.social (I'm a moth, he's a lamp).
@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social has been, ever since I was a graduate student, a voice of creativity, rigor, wisdom, and warmth. I am sure her editorial, consultative, and coaching slots will full up quickly, so head over to her substack for how to get a booking with her!
I’m thrilled to announce that, as of this very moment, I am now shifting into full-time work as an editor, dissertation/book coach, and grant consultant for hire!!! Details are in this post (including how to get 10% off all client services!)
open.substack.com/pub/maryflan...
open.substack.com/pub/maryflan...
Exciting news!
Page by Page is now part of something bigger!
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November 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social has been, ever since I was a graduate student, a voice of creativity, rigor, wisdom, and warmth. I am sure her editorial, consultative, and coaching slots will full up quickly, so head over to her substack for how to get a booking with her!
In fantastic news for medievalists, 'Perfume and Milk' from Florence + the Machine's new album Everybody Scream contains references to Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, and allusions to the General Prology of the Canterbury Tales (as well as, I think, the opening of Fitt II of SGGK)
Florence + The Machine - Perfume and Milk (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by florencemachine
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October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In fantastic news for medievalists, 'Perfume and Milk' from Florence + the Machine's new album Everybody Scream contains references to Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, and allusions to the General Prology of the Canterbury Tales (as well as, I think, the opening of Fitt II of SGGK)
If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.
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Not one but two Guild members are speaking at Oxford's @blackwells.bsky.social! Join poets Susie Campbell (Wastelands, Guillemot Press, 2025) and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, Primers 7, 2024) for 'Reweaving the Poem' on Sunday 16th November.
Susie Campbell with Laura Varnam REWEAVING THE POEM
Professor Kate McLoughlin introduces an afternoon of poetry performance and conversation with Susie Campbell and Laura Varnam
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October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not one but two Guild members are speaking at Oxford's @blackwells.bsky.social! Join poets Susie Campbell (Wastelands, Guillemot Press, 2025) and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, Primers 7, 2024) for 'Reweaving the Poem' on Sunday 16th November.
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Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻
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Delighted to hop aboard the ghost ship Backlisted again for some spooky shenanigans for Hallowe’en! Tune in for our supernatural take on Wuthering Heights, discussion of our favourite Brontë, and just the odd reference to another favourite author of mine 😉👻🎃 Thanks for having me, gang!
Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Delighted to hop aboard the ghost ship Backlisted again for some spooky shenanigans for Hallowe’en! Tune in for our supernatural take on Wuthering Heights, discussion of our favourite Brontë, and just the odd reference to another favourite author of mine 😉👻🎃 Thanks for having me, gang!
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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.
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👇
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
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.
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When you're shopping in Paris and you spot your friend @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social's book in a famous bookshop! I was so excited 🥳
October 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
When you're shopping in Paris and you spot your friend @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social's book in a famous bookshop! I was so excited 🥳
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So the free scholarship spot is now taken, but there are still 4 spaces available in my 4-week online course on ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’, starting 13 November!
More info can be found on the sign-up sheet link below (please share widely!):
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info can be found on the sign-up sheet link below (please share widely!):
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing: 4-week workshop starting Thursday 13 November 2025
DATES/SCHEDULE:
Thursday 13 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 20 November 2025 4-6pm CET / 3-5pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST / 7-9am PST
Thursday 4 December 2025 4-6...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So the free scholarship spot is now taken, but there are still 4 spaces available in my 4-week online course on ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’, starting 13 November!
More info can be found on the sign-up sheet link below (please share widely!):
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info can be found on the sign-up sheet link below (please share widely!):
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Me and my book 📖 "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother" is out in the UK on 30 October and the US on 6 March 2026!
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Me and my book 📖 "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother" is out in the UK on 30 October and the US on 6 March 2026!
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At @britishlibrary.bsky.social today to record some videos explaining why my latest book When Books Go Bad published by @blpublishing.bsky.social is the ideal present for anybody who likes books, or indeed just things that are quite red.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
At @britishlibrary.bsky.social today to record some videos explaining why my latest book When Books Go Bad published by @blpublishing.bsky.social is the ideal present for anybody who likes books, or indeed just things that are quite red.