IMEMS Durham
@imems.bsky.social
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026!
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Things That Matter
Curate a virtual exhibition, engage in critical debates on Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage and learn the latest technical tools through hands-on...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026!
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'.
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'.
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉
Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
*DEADLINE*⏳
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
*DEADLINE*⏳
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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7 more days 🥳
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
7 more days 🥳
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉
Delighted ( and slightly dazed and confused ) to report that Sir Tristrem is out. All my thanks to IMEMS Durham Press and the editorial team at B&B!
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉
Hot off the IMEMS press...📚
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hot off the IMEMS press...📚
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
Yesterday we met these two! 🤖
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yesterday we met these two! 🤖
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
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📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Preface
As a historian of the religious wars that caused such violence and disorder in sixteenth-century France, I was drawn to work with criminal archives by the
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓
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November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓
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durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...
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So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!
The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Sixth Meeting of Memory Club – When Memories Come Alive
The sixth meeting of Memory Club took place in Durham, with the generous support of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
www.english.cam.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...