Elaine Treharne

@etreharne.bsky.social

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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

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Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction

A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 1d

A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...

Wikipedia is the Anchor of ChatGPT’s Knowledge

A new study from SEO experts at Ahrefs has quantified what many have long suspected: Wikipedia is the single most-cited source in ChatGPT’s answers by a wide margin. “ChatGPT’s citations aren’t confin...

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 4d

Self-portraits of the manuscript's illuminator, William de Brailes:

"w. de brail' qui me depeint"

BL Add 49999; 'The De Brailes Hours'; Oxford; c.1240; ff.43r, 47r, 88v

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Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 4d

new British Library digital preservation policy
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

"The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability."

via Maureen Pennock

#DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25

Launching our new Digital Preservation Policy

On World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we’re pleased to announce the release of our new Digital Preservation Policy.

www.bl.uk

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Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 4d

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'

Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

Whoa Rebecca Lawrence has resigned as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Sorry that this might mean more turmoil at an institution that is a critical part of UK research infrastructure
www.bl.uk/about/press/...

British Library Board statement

The British Library Board has announced that Rebecca Lawrence has stepped down as Chief Executive.

www.bl.uk

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 7d

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book

The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.

www.sciencenorway.no

Reposted by Elaine Treharne, Andrew Jacobs, Kathleen Kennedy

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 7d

My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 9d

Hope to get back there. Nowhere more beautiful on this earth. *Actually true.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 9d

The glory that is my hometown—Aberystwyth. Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature. Y peth gorau!

unesco.org.uk/news/wales-f...

Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature: Aberystwyth Ceredigion joins global network of Creative Cities | UNESCO in the UK

Today, 31 October 2025, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, has become Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature…

unesco.org.uk

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 9d

Baylands Preserve, Palo Alto. Pelican squadrons, waterbirds galore.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 9d

JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400

Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note

www.cam.ac.uk

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 13d

Ninth-century Easter music! Cool.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some of the earliest written notes in western musical history discovered in Pennsylvania

Ninth-century manuscript for Easter services remained ‘out of sight’ for years in hands of private collector

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 13d

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 14d

In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu

Stanford Text Technologies

texttechnologies.stanford.edu

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 14d

There's still time to apply for one of several full-time positions in computational humanities at Carnegie Mellon University

* Assistant Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanitiesapply.interfolio.com/173622
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 14d

Job announcement -

Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English
Loyola University Maryland
joblist.mla.org/job/2000570/...

Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English job with Loyola University Maryland | 2000570

Loyola University Maryland Main Campus Full time R-0000000661 Position Title Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English Employee Type Regular Office...

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 14d

Assistant Professor of British Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Univ. of Scranton):

#medievalsky #earlymodern

memorients.com/news/assista...

Assistant Professor of British Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Univ. of Scranton) | MEMOs

British Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Univ. of Scranton)

memorients.com

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 15d

“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.”

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

TheʿAjamī script of Africa and the Sorabé manuscripts of Madagascar.

The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Elaine Treharne, Torin Monahan

Safiya Umoja Noble @safiyanoble.bsky.social · 17d

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

defector.com

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 18d

We’ve done work computationally using the Schoenberg database. I’ll check on its status.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 19d

Got these today. I reckon they should be on all reading lists!

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 20d

Harvard: "slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots ... for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.... The History department will be admitting five students each year for the next two years, down from 13 admitted students last year" bit.ly/4hnMxhU

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 20d

Come and work with our wonderful team!
Applications open for a Full-Time Archivist post

Closing date: 11th November.

#Jobs #Archives #Heritage

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

jobs.exeter.ac.uk

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 21d

The recording of the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture (not a lecture) 2025 is now available online. Me in conversation with brilliant poet Hannah Lowe, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, on 'Doing #History with #Poetry'.
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Doing History With Poetry event title card

Catherine Clarke, Hannah Lowe and Claire Langhamer on stage in a screenshot from the recording

Catherine Clarke, Hannah Lowe and Claire Langhamer on stage

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 24d

Type Design Lunch for our students in @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social at CESTA, Stanford!

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 24d

Out now in Modernism/Modernity, Alice Staveley’s brilliant collaborative DH work on the circulation of Woolf!

modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...

Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling and Digital Praxis | Modernism / Modernity Print+

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse famously opens with six-year old James Ramsay, “sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army & Navy Stores.” With the awkward dexterity of a young child, James carefully guides his scissors around “a picture of a refrigerator,” endowing the image “with heavenly bliss” under the loving but watchful gaze

modernismmodernity.org

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 26d

Old and Middle English can set you up for life. Fund the Humanities!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 27d

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.

Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory

www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Facsimile – Penn Press

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...

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