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Maia Blumberg
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medievalist | postgraduate research student | @qmul.bsky.social | @ihr.bsky.social | @londonmedieval.bsky.social

writing about museums & medievalism
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Our next seminar on 11 Nov (5.30pm) Joanna Tucker @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on multi-scribe cartularies and chronicles from medieval Scotland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✍️📖

Hybrid session - join us online or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social

Book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval

#medievalsky #skystorians
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October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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@londonmedieval.bsky.social have the excellent Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, medievalist by training, presenting her research on the 20C trade in &nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts📖 25 Nov!

AS EVER free & open to all, book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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London local history and heritage organisations starter pack, now updated to welcome @londontopsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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***tomorrow‘s @londonmedieval.bsky.social seminar postponed***
londonmedieval.bsky.social London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · Oct 13
Tomorrow’s seminar has been postponed due to the speaker’s illness. We apologise for the change and will share a new date as soon as possible. We send our best wishes to the speaker for a swift recovery!
londonmedieval.bsky.social London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · Oct 5
On 14 October we welcome Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, a medievalist by training, presenting her research on 20C London trade in & nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts📖

#medievalsky #skystorians

As ever - free & open to all, book here ➡️
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October 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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70,000 HE academic staff.

Almost half of teaching only staff.

Two-thirds of research-only academic staff.

ALL on fixed term contracts.

This isn’t flexibility, it’s exploitation.

Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ…
Insecurity of fixed term posts
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰

Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖

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September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Next week join us for the first LSMS seminar of the term with @annamolnar.bsky.social speaking on late medieval women’s financial literacy!

🗣️Online & in-person @ihr.bsky.social
🗓️ Tues 30 September
⏰ 17.30 GMT
✍️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Institute of Historical Research
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history
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September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians 🗃️
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 19
I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style.

So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️
September 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Pleased to share the LSMS programme for this fast-approaching term 👇 featuring academics & practitioners working across times, geographies, methods—

as ever, *all are welcome* but booking required: bit.ly/londonmedieval

@londonmedieval.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂
If you have any questions, please do reach out!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians
July 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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naominar.bsky.social
I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: • Legal jurisdictions • The natural and the supernatural worlds • Socio-economic strata • Ritual and religion • Space, time, and the environment • Gender and sexuality • Disability • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by

🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social

🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social

🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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There will be two panels at MAMO dedicated to Landscapes and Medievalisms!
Our first panel (Thursday, 1-2:30pm) includes papers by Emma Nuding (@eknuding.bsky.social, York), Maia Blumberg (@maiablumberg.bsky.social, Queen Mary), and Linsey Hunter (@linseyhunter.bsky.social, UHI). #MAMOmonth
Session 2A: Landscapes and Medievalisms (I) [Room K016] Chair: Simon Trafford Emma Nuding (University of York): More Foreign than ‘Fellow’: Finding the Early Medieval with Charles Kingsley and St Guthlac of Crowland Maia Blumberg (Queen Mary University of London): Local Medievalisms and ‘Nostalgia for the Ordinary’: The Case of Malmesbury Linsey Hunter (UHI): Why here? Why now? An analysis of Identity and Place in retellings of the legend of Finella, Lady of the Mearns, c. 1900-c.1960
June 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Friendly reminder to send in your app to the London Soc for Medieval Studies by 21 June!

the LSMS has been PG/EC researcher-led since 1970, showcasing the latest research on the Middle Ages by global scholars, committed to the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning 🗣️
maiablumberg.bsky.social Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · Jun 16
The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led.

If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch!

@ihr.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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TONIGHT join us for the final @ihr.bsky.social LSMS seminar of the year:

Rewriting the Middle Ages: Medieval Tropes and Postmodern Aesthetics in Iberian Fiction with Ana Rita G. Soares

💻 Online
📆 Tues 17 June
⏰ 17.30 - 19
✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/rewri...

Join us!
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June 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
maiablumberg.bsky.social
The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led.

If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch!

@ihr.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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qmucu.bsky.social
QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance.

Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot
front of the leaflet: stop job cuts Protect jobs now. VOTE to ask management to commit to: • NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS • INCREASED VOLUNTARY PAYOUT AVAILABLE TO ALL • STOP OUTSOURCING IN-HOUSE ROLES • CAP SENIOR SALARIES AT £100,000 back fo the leaflet: Our job security and the university's future are at stake Departments have been asked to deliver cuts to improve financial targets. These cuts are being rushed through, without assessing the risks to the university and the workers, despite management declaring that Queen Mary is currently financially stable. There are already existing proposals for compulsory redundancies in some departments, while a voluntary severance scheme targets others. The joint campus unions have been alerted to more formal consultations being underway. What can we do? 1.JOIN a campus UNION 2. VOTE ONLINE BY 28TH APRIL (This is a necessary step before moving to the postal ballot. Check your mailbox) 3. POSTAL BALLOT will follow (Ensure your Union has your correct home address)
April 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.

Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM