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Dr. Brittany Orton
@bhoneybadger.bsky.social
PhD in early medieval elite women and pre-Conquest England from the University of York. Assistant Teaching Professor at CU Colorado Springs. Outdoors and gym enthusiast.
This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
‘The Northland of Old’: The Use and ‘Misuse’ of (Medieval) Iceland (Chapter 6) - International Medievalisms
International Medievalisms - February 2023
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September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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”

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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...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Officially got my silly little hat!
July 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Went to York Minster today and spent quite a bit of time in the chapter house.
July 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm back in York for my graduation, and it feels like coming home.
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.

🖊️ Apply by 14 July
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?

Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.

Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Join us at York Festival of Ideas for A Day Out With the Vikings on Saturday 7th June. We’ll discuss viking festivals past and present, and have a live stream from a Viking ship on the Mediterranean! #vikingsky #publicvikings

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Buy The 2025 Richard Hall Symposium: A Day Out with the Vikings Tickets online - York Archaeology
View The 2025 Richard Hall Symposium: A Day Out with the Vikings from York Archaeology.
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May 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump.

Watch live here:
🚨HAPPENING NOW: CORY BOOKER SPEAKING AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TO PROTEST TRUMP
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
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April 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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In case anyone in Edinburgh is free on Tuesday and wants to come listen to me chat about ways of tackling multilingual narratives, the impact of adaptation, and the (surprisingly contemporary) dynamics of medieval gender politics in very strange texts, here's your chance!
📜 In our next session we welcome back former @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @janebonsall.bsky.social, as she discusses her ongoing work within a collaborative research project exploring perhaps the most famous pre-modern text that you’ve never heard of!

#History #Edinburgh #HCA #Seminars
March 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This was an amazing rally to be at! It definitely renewed my hope that the people are ready to stand against what is happening.
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists.

They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies.

So they want to kill all that.
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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🚨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
December 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!

Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺

#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Trans people have always existed and that there are people who are actively working on recovering and interpreting those histories.

I've just added a couple of folks newer to Bluesky, so check out the starter pack again in case there's anyone you're missing. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈💾 🏳️‍🌈🎓
I've made a starter pack for academics who work in Premodern Trans Studies: go.bsky.app/RihBQMi

There used to be more of us on the old site, but if I'm missing anyone, at any career stage, please let me know and I'll add them. Thanks!

We have always been here.
February 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31

Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...

#MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP
January 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Interested in women, religion and networks? Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded people!! The CfP for the #H-WRBI annual conference is out. Deadline: 31 January
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM