Robert Gallagher
@hwaetspur.bsky.social
Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
Three-year postdoc on the TGL-ReACH project emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral Researcher — TGL-ReACH (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Three-year postdoc on the TGL-ReACH project emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
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My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
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Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future
Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
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"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."
RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians
RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."
RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians
RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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With the support of a Research Project Grant, @hwaetspur.bsky.social and his team @kent.ac.uk undertake the first-ever thorough analysis of Britain’s much understudied early medieval letters, opening unique windows into the past. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
September 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
With the support of a Research Project Grant, @hwaetspur.bsky.social and his team @kent.ac.uk undertake the first-ever thorough analysis of Britain’s much understudied early medieval letters, opening unique windows into the past. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂
Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – September 2025
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September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂
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Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
Conference: New Directions in Old English Prose
roep.web.ox.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
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Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100)
Are you an experienced Lecturer who can teach British and European Early Medieval History? Do you have a passion for Medieval History and are you available for a fixed term contract to start in Septe...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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CFP "Historical Aspects of Engla Land: Beyond Beowulf"
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
CFP "Historical Aspects of Engla Land: Beyond Beowulf"
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!
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Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?
Pour des doctorants / docteurs en histoire médiévale ne préparant pas leur thèse en France, vous pouvez candidater à une bourse Robert de Sorbon du
@labo-lamop.bsky.social
À faire circuler ! Cc @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
@labo-lamop.bsky.social
À faire circuler ! Cc @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?
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The deadline for this job is this coming Monday!
There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de
July 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The deadline for this job is this coming Monday!
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There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de
June 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography
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Interested in early medieval letters? Then the latest EME article, by Robert Flierman and Hope Williard, is for you! Now on Early View, open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Interested in early medieval letters? Then the latest EME article, by Robert Flierman and Hope Williard, is for you! Now on Early View, open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social
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I'm delighted to share the programme for the first workshop of the Loyalty Research Network, taking place this Friday 6th June from 1pm UK time. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in loyalty across the medieval world, so please message me if you'd like the link! #medieval
June 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I'm delighted to share the programme for the first workshop of the Loyalty Research Network, taking place this Friday 6th June from 1pm UK time. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in loyalty across the medieval world, so please message me if you'd like the link! #medieval
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Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
www.cambridge.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
Fantastic opportunity: 4-yr fully funded PhD at Galway on textual obscurity in the early medieval insular world
New, fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Classics at the University of Galway is now available
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fantastic opportunity: 4-yr fully funded PhD at Galway on textual obscurity in the early medieval insular world
Deadline for applications is this Friday - still time! 🙂
Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres
May 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Deadline for applications is this Friday - still time! 🙂
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Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres
May 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres
Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres
May 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres
Really excellent piece on the UK HE crisis
UK universities are in crisis.
Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop....
Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop....
A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Really excellent piece on the UK HE crisis
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Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open!
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org
The Middle Ages in the Modern World
A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages
themamo.org
March 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open!
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org
Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany: www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/890776...
Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany
A piece of the Bayeux Tapestry, the medieval masterpiece depicting the landing of Normans from France in England...
www.southernhighlandnews.com.au
March 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany: www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/890776...