This Wednesday (5/11/25) 17.30 UTC, we're delighted to welcome Dr Peter Jones (Plymouth), who will be speaking on William Morris's travel in Iceland. Free to attend in person in the IHR or online, but please register in advance. Details, abstract and registration:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are back and in our first seminar of the new year bringing you not one but two excellent papers! Lucinda Menaul (KCL), "The Knight-In-Shining-Armour and the Ghost of Pegasus in William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise" and Yasmin Ibrahim (KCL) "Eleanor Hammond (1866-1933): Scholar, and scribe".

For our next seminar, Maggie Pavleszek (York)
will be speaking on '"Resolved into ashes": Norse Medievalism and Cremation in C19th Britain'. Weds 30/04, 17.30 GMT (online only). Free but please register to attend. Further details, abstract and registration at: www.history.ac.uk/events/resol...

We are in for a treat at our next seminar when Dr Michael Eden (University of the Arts) will speak on 'Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain'. Wed 12/2/25 17.30 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Info, abstract and registration at:
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...

For our next seminar @mareganlefay.bsky.social (Bristol) will speak on 'Experiencing Arthur on site in medieval and early modern England'. Free in-person at
@ihr.bsky.social
and online, 17.30 UTC, Thurs 16/01/25. All welcome, but please register in advance. Info: www.history.ac.uk/events/exper...

Hwæt! For our next seminar Ian Felce (independent researcher) will speak on 'What? Beowulf and William Morris’s New Old English'. In-person at @ihr.bsky.social and online, 17.30 UTC, Weds 11/12/24. Free to attend and all welcome, but please register in advance at: www.history.ac.uk/events/what-...

We're extremely pleased to bring you our next seminar: @lawrencewarner.bsky.social will be presenting on 'Popular Gawain, 1955-70, from Maureen Duffy to Pentangle' at 17.30 GMT Weds 13/11/24 in-person at @ihr.bsky.social and online. Details and sign-up at: www.history.ac.uk/events/popul...

For our first seminar of 24-5, Dr Tonicha Upham (SAS, U of London) will speak on '"This awful and distressing circumstance": A Sudden Death, The Danish Literati, and the First English Translation of Ibn Fadlan', exploring the C19th fame of Ibn Fadlan's account of a Rus funeral. Weds 16/10, 17.30 BST

Back for the 24-25 academic year, we're very pleased to unveil our schedule of seminars on post-medieval usage and appropriation of the Middle Ages! All seminars are either hybrid or fully online and free of charge. Registration in advance required at: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/int...

For our next seminar, we are delighted to welcome Mirabelle Dominé-Walley and Luke Walker, who will be speaking on 'Filming The Book of Margery Kempe', in person at KCL Bush House (S)2.03, 17.30, Weds 12/06/24. Info and registration: www.history.ac.uk/events/filmi...

For our next seminar, we are delighted to welcome Prof Patrick J Murphy (Miami) who will be speaking on 'Drawing Medievalism: Dialogue with the Past through Comics'. ONLINE ONLY, 17.30-19.00 GMT 20 March. Free but please register in advance. Abstract and link at: www.history.ac.uk/events/drawi...

Tonight (28/02/24)! Dr Laura Varnam (Oxford) will be giving our next seminar, on '"Paramodern" Margery: Poetic Medievalisms and The Book of Margery Kempe' in-person at @ihr.bsky.social, 17.30. Abstract and further details at: www.history.ac.uk/events/param...

For our next seminar we're delighted to welcome Dr Lillian Céspedes González who will be speaking on 'The Women of Beowulf in Popular Culture'. In-person at @ihr.bsky.social, 17.30 TOMORROW Weds 31 Jan. Full details at: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

For our next seminar we're delighted to welcome Dr Matt Clancy (SAS, U. of London), who will be speaking on 'The Sword out of the Stone: Echoes of Arthurian Material Culture in the 21st Century'. 17.30-18.45, 13/12/23 in person at Senate House. Details: www.history.ac.uk/events/sword...

The 2023-4 seminar programme. The seminar is free to attend and open to all, but please register in advance for any individual session at: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/int....