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Ellen Gallimore
@emgallimore.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at University of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk
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While I love bringing extra materials to class for my students to engage with, I think my back would love it if I hadn't chosen to walk four kilometres to campus carrying the biggest book I own.
A copy of the facsimile York Gospels bound in red boards standing upright on a desk, being enormous next to a standard-sized mug.
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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My icebreaker for my class is ready to go.
A presentation slide asking students to introduce themselves in small groups. One prompt is to share what they call a single small, round bread unit.
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The best kind of writing feedback is excitement from your friends! Thanks to @mckeagns.bsky.social for reading my thesis' tithes chapter.
A screenshot of text discussing William Lyndwood's Constitutiones prouinciales ecclesie highlighted with an editorial note reading in all caps "my boy mentioned".
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I don't care that it was a foundational work in manuscript studies, I hate using Humfrey Wanley's catalogue with the fire of a thousand suns.
Disappointed guy meme format: top image of man looking exited reads "nineteenth-century historian says he used a medieval manuscript as a source". Bottom image of man looking disappointed reads "Reference is to Wanley's 1705 Catalogue".
August 2, 2025 at 1:21 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
Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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We've got options for getting them flat
July 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Be sure to keep your Thursday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all three panels of Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century! #IMC2025
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I had the pleasure of presenting at the Ælfric’s Afterlives conference at Leiden University last week. The conference was superbly run and I met so many lovely people who are also passionate about the best writer of the 10th/11th centuries (sorry Wulfstan fans).
A view of a wide canal in Leiden, Netherlands, on an overcast day. A view of a narrow brick lane of Dutch houses.
June 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Photos of birds who wanted my Greggs.
A brown pigeon on a park bench looking longingly at a takeaway cup of Greggs coffee. A female duck on the pavement in front of a seated person, making eyes at their Greggs coffee.
May 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Gorgeous spring day at King's Manor.
A red brick Tudor building in the sunshine at King's Manor in York
April 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Me every time one of the antiquaries I study doesn't specify where he got the medieval material he's using:
A screenshot of Frodo Baggins from the Fellowship of the Ring Film. The caption is a line from the film: All right, then. Keep your secrets.
April 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I always love York's daffodils.
Yellow daffodils on a hill up to York's medieval walls. Yellow daffodils on the shore of the University of York's campus lake, on the other side of the lake is the university's UFO-shaped Central Hall.
March 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Me every time I spend an hour hunting down what 18th C. edition of an 8th C. text a 19th C. antiquarian means in his garbage cryptic Latin footnotes.
Miyazaki Hayao looking exhausted, with his eyes closed, his arms resting on his head, and an unlit cigarette in his mouth.
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I learned yesterday that the typical UK design for big supermarkets in the 1980s and 1990s was modelled on tithe barns. I have no idea what to do with this information but I really like it.
Exterior of a tithe barn with a red-tiled pitched roof. Credit Wikimedia Commons. Exterior of a Tesco Extra supermarket, with red-tiled pitched roof. Credit Google Maps.
February 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Be sure to join us on at @imc-leeds.bsky.social all day on 10 July for back-to-back sessions on "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century"!
Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1534 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, I: Early Medieval History and Culture". Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1634 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, II: Language and Literature". Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1534 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, III: Old English in Europe".
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Looking for inspiration on what to set for my Beginners Old English exam is enough excuse to break out the book pillow. I'm going to assign my students a charter, but which one?
Home desk set-up with shelving containing books above it. An open book sits on a book pillow next to a stack of other matching volumes.
January 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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When the local knows your whole crew. Out for drinks last night to celebrate @marisapmichaud.bsky.social submitting her thesis! With @mckeagns.bsky.social @hjparmstrong.bsky.social and not on bsky Dr Alicia Maddalena, Simon Bardon, and Gillian Galloway.
A group of six smiling friends at a long table at a cafe. A table at a cafe with stacked glasses and a reservation sign which reads "Medievalists 17:00"
December 31, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Today I became a British citizen. Nobody told me the dress code.
A woman in an unremarkable grey dress holding a certificate standing next to a woman in an extravagant red robe with gold chain, another woman in an even more extravagant black robe with gold trim and lace collar and long gold chain and a black tri-corn hat with feathered edges, a man in a grey chequered suit with gold chain, and a final man (her husband) in a simple black coat.
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Thrilled that the three panels I have co-organised with Dr Thijs Porck and Prof Matthew Townend have been accepted to #IMC2025! Join us on 10 July for our sessions on Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century.
November 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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I love titles like this. Like, yes, Dorothy Whitelock, please spill the tea on these so-called laws. Go off, sis.
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Going through some old documents and found my coursework from my German lessons from a few years back. We had an assignment to write about our favourite restaurant in Manchester. Naturally I wrote about the Greggs on Oxford Road.
A printed German homework assignment. The top in bold asks the student to write about their favourite club, pub, bar or restaurant in Manchester. The student has responded in low-level German about a branch of Greggs on Oxford Road, espousing the quality of their bacon sandwiches and the friendliness of the staff.
November 21, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Would anyone happen to know what the thingamabob is on the cover of each issue of Cobbett's Weekly Political Register?
The top portion of the front page of Cobbett's Weekly Political Register of 25 October 1828 showing an instrument, tool, or machine, which resembles a bedframe with mismatched legs and a long, curved handle coming from the middle at right angle.
November 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM