Dr Eleanor Smith
@englynsmith.bsky.social
PhD in "knowing too much about fourteenth-century hagiographical manuscripts"; englynthusiast; general-purpose nerd. She/her.
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This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
June 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
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My book, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain" (or "True Britons and Celtic Empires", if you'd prefer) is now AVAILABLE FOR HARDBACK PREORDER
Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no?
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...
Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no?
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My book, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain" (or "True Britons and Celtic Empires", if you'd prefer) is now AVAILABLE FOR HARDBACK PREORDER
Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no?
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...
Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no?
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...
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The text, from the Welsh Law of Hywel Dda, concerns the rights of the bakeress. 🍰
The eighth additional officer of the court (and second of only three female officers), she was entitled to “a cake from every type of flour which was baked” and to protection for “as far as she may throw her spatula”.
The eighth additional officer of the court (and second of only three female officers), she was entitled to “a cake from every type of flour which was baked” and to protection for “as far as she may throw her spatula”.
The Black Book of Cake, baked on this day 11 years and a lifetime ago for a party at @department-asnc.bsky.social.
Inspired by The Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW Peniarth MS 1), with text from the other Black Book - of Chirk - (NLW Peniarth MS 29), both at the @librarywales.bsky.social. 🎂📖
Inspired by The Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW Peniarth MS 1), with text from the other Black Book - of Chirk - (NLW Peniarth MS 29), both at the @librarywales.bsky.social. 🎂📖
May 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The text, from the Welsh Law of Hywel Dda, concerns the rights of the bakeress. 🍰
The eighth additional officer of the court (and second of only three female officers), she was entitled to “a cake from every type of flour which was baked” and to protection for “as far as she may throw her spatula”.
The eighth additional officer of the court (and second of only three female officers), she was entitled to “a cake from every type of flour which was baked” and to protection for “as far as she may throw her spatula”.
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Just got my copy of the most recent issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, which includes my article on Welsh books in the Huntington Library, L.A.
Available to read (with sub) here
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
Diolch i’r golygyddion a’r darllenwyr am y cyngor a’r cymorth!
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Just got my copy of the most recent issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, which includes my article on Welsh books in the Huntington Library, L.A.
Available to read (with sub) here
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
Diolch i’r golygyddion a’r darllenwyr am y cyngor a’r cymorth!
May 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Just got my copy of the most recent issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, which includes my article on Welsh books in the Huntington Library, L.A.
Available to read (with sub) here
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
Diolch i’r golygyddion a’r darllenwyr am y cyngor a’r cymorth!
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🏴
📜
Just got my copy of the most recent issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, which includes my article on Welsh books in the Huntington Library, L.A.
Available to read (with sub) here
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
Diolch i’r golygyddion a’r darllenwyr am y cyngor a’r cymorth!
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One more bookish set for good measure.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
May 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
One more bookish set for good measure.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On now at the Cambridge University Library!
On now at the Cambridge University Library!
Cambridge University exhibition reveals medieval medical cures
A new exhibition shows the bizarre recipes untrained practitioners concocted to help people.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On now at the Cambridge University Library!
On now at the Cambridge University Library!
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May 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700
May 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700
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Marginal notes from past readers are something I miss in ebooks, for all their convenience.
May 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Marginal notes from past readers are something I miss in ebooks, for all their convenience.
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And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
BHO is having intermittent downtime at the moment.
We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.
We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.
May 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
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More than 1,000 people are already backing efforts to reverse the proposal
History of North Wales at risk of being buried by 'unprecedented' plan
More than 1,000 people are already backing efforts to reverse the proposal
www.dailypost.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
More than 1,000 people are already backing efforts to reverse the proposal
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If M.R. James wrote safety signage
May 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If M.R. James wrote safety signage
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My article on "Old Irish Healing Charms and Protective Spells" is now openly accessible online on the @brepols.net website at:
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
May 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My article on "Old Irish Healing Charms and Protective Spells" is now openly accessible online on the @brepols.net website at:
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
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Bob Berkhofer announcing the winner of the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize: Rory Naismith. Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social !!
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Bob Berkhofer announcing the winner of the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize: Rory Naismith. Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social !!
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Are you attending @kzooicms.bsky.social this week?
Stop by the Waldo Library today for Katharine K. Olson's paper!
Discover more of Katharine’s writing in her upcoming co-edited title 'Memory and Nation': www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...
#MedievalSky #KzooICMS #KZoo2025 #ICMS2025
Stop by the Waldo Library today for Katharine K. Olson's paper!
Discover more of Katharine’s writing in her upcoming co-edited title 'Memory and Nation': www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...
#MedievalSky #KzooICMS #KZoo2025 #ICMS2025
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Are you attending @kzooicms.bsky.social this week?
Stop by the Waldo Library today for Katharine K. Olson's paper!
Discover more of Katharine’s writing in her upcoming co-edited title 'Memory and Nation': www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...
#MedievalSky #KzooICMS #KZoo2025 #ICMS2025
Stop by the Waldo Library today for Katharine K. Olson's paper!
Discover more of Katharine’s writing in her upcoming co-edited title 'Memory and Nation': www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...
#MedievalSky #KzooICMS #KZoo2025 #ICMS2025
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1/5 Delighted to announce a new collaboration with Kilkenny Mile Museum to digitise the Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, Kilkenny’s oldest civic record. 📜 #LiberPrimus #Digitisation @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers #IrishManuscripts
May 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
1/5 Delighted to announce a new collaboration with Kilkenny Mile Museum to digitise the Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, Kilkenny’s oldest civic record. 📜 #LiberPrimus #Digitisation @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers #IrishManuscripts
These posts are getting more and more belated on my part, but tomorrow I'm speaking at the ASNC Research Seminar at 5 pm! If you're in the area, come by to see a lot of examples of medieval handwriting and a lot of speculation about them by me.
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These posts are getting more and more belated on my part, but tomorrow I'm speaking at the ASNC Research Seminar at 5 pm! If you're in the area, come by to see a lot of examples of medieval handwriting and a lot of speculation about them by me.
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New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.
Sagas and Sovereignty in Kalaallit Nunaat, Grænland, and Red, White, and Blueland
by Basil Arnould Price
medium.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.
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Today marks the start of #TransHistoryWeek, a new initiative by @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️🌈
This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals!
Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social
#TransRights #TransHistories
This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals!
Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social
#TransRights #TransHistories
May 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Today marks the start of #TransHistoryWeek, a new initiative by @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️🌈
This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals!
Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social
#TransRights #TransHistories
This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals!
Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social
#TransRights #TransHistories
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I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
May 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…
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"Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is the culmination of a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments ..." #MedievalSky
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine
Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure lice
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is the culmination of a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments ..." #MedievalSky
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Mary Magdalen is so done with your shit.
[Anonymous Flemish-Spanish artist; Museo de Salamanca]
[Anonymous Flemish-Spanish artist; Museo de Salamanca]
March 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Mary Magdalen is so done with your shit.
[Anonymous Flemish-Spanish artist; Museo de Salamanca]
[Anonymous Flemish-Spanish artist; Museo de Salamanca]
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In our new research blog, @rhyskamjones.bsky.social tells the story of how Thomas Pennant brought Horned Gods to Welsh Hillsides
Read on for witchcraft, Reformation martyrdom, and the enlightenment's unintended consequences
curioustravellers.ac.uk/horned-gods-...
Read on for witchcraft, Reformation martyrdom, and the enlightenment's unintended consequences
curioustravellers.ac.uk/horned-gods-...
March 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In our new research blog, @rhyskamjones.bsky.social tells the story of how Thomas Pennant brought Horned Gods to Welsh Hillsides
Read on for witchcraft, Reformation martyrdom, and the enlightenment's unintended consequences
curioustravellers.ac.uk/horned-gods-...
Read on for witchcraft, Reformation martyrdom, and the enlightenment's unintended consequences
curioustravellers.ac.uk/horned-gods-...