*scholarship programs*
For doctoral researchers, the Herzog August Library—together with private foundations—offers a range of funding opportunities to support scholarly work with its collections.
Annual application deadlines: 1 April and 1 October
www.hab.de/doktoranden-...
Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...
Hotel staff told us not to open the windows during the ceremony; the security is very heavy and one doesn’t want them to get the wrong idea
03.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
6th century Byzantine church St Sofia, with 4th c crypt beneath
St Alexander Nevsky cathedral
Liberation Day ceremony
Spending the night in Sofia almost unintentionally (flight home is at 6 am) Had opportunity to see cathedral, and St Sofia church with amazing crypt & mosaics going back to 4th C. Now drinking kvass (really sweet!) and watching President’s Liberation Day speech on the plaza outside our hotel.
03.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0By attempting too much all at once?
01.03.2026 14:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A selection of books form the Fagel Collection
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
27.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 56 🔁 54 💬 0 📌 8
PhD scholarships available at DCU's School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music! Contact myself with any queries! Deadline 23 March.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ746/p...
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
a shout to the #bookhistory community
16.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Roses are red,
Gender’s performative.
Valentines Day
Is heteronormative
(Sorry, read this some years ago and don’t know whom to credit)
There’s got to be something in the library you want to look at!
24.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0With thanks to @hekabeohnename.bsky.social for her kind help & @rmkarras.bsky.social for encouraging me to write this article in the first place!
21.01.2026 21:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Medieval Studies
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB312/l...
Visiting Professorship!
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford - John G Winant Visiting Professor (2027-28, 2028-29 and 2029-30)
An opportunity for highly distinguished researchers working in the field of American government (broadly defined).
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International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Fellowship Opportunity!
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies.
Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Thematically and within that by author. Themes are very broad, some take up a whole bookcase. I paid a student to come in and alphabetise within each theme. I have the chance to entirely reorganize in a year when I vacate my office; expect I’ll give away books I use only for teaching
06.01.2026 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
A sheet of cookies ready to go in the oven, including gingerbread people, Christmas trees, ornaments, menorahs, dreidels, shofars etc
My eclectic family, in holiday cookies
27.12.2025 15:27 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
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Job: 1 Post-Doc Akademische:r Rät:in auf Zeit (w/m/d) "Mittelalterliche Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Früh- und Hochmittelalter" (Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159406
Freiburg, 15.04.2026-14.04.2029, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, …
The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history.
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I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑💻👩💻👨🏽💻👩🏻💻🧑🏿💻🧑💻 📚
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Norse in the North 2026: Mind and Body
Deadline for Abstracts: 2nd February 2026
We welcome postgraduate students from any level with research on any aspect of Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian, and Viking studies that fits the theme.
#NitN2026 #medievalsky #callforpapers #oldnorse
Also who knew the Poles make a great Pinot noir? A lot of people apparently now me too
13.12.2025 06:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Towers of Krakow Cathedral against a bright blue sky
Did not expect this weather in December
13.12.2025 06:13 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
11.12.2025 10:49 — 👍 44 🔁 71 💬 2 📌 4Not this class. It’s a small group and they’ve talked to me about their essays. In my large 1st year class I declined to go back to in person exams when most of my colleagues did. Still going with take home, open book. Will see next week if that was a bad idea.
10.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a really good special subject class this term. Every one in the class got both their essays in on time (no extensions) and almost everyone improved from the first essay to the second. It’s a yearlong class so I get them next term too.
10.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
