Sara Charles

Elizabeth Savage - American Printing History Association Dr. Savage is 2014 recipient of the Mark Samuels Lasner fellowship, 2020 winner of the Schulman and Bullard Article Prize from the Association of Print…

A really great - and urgent - discussion of the conditions of possibility for doing printing history today - and why we should keep going - given by Elizabeth Savage for @printinghistory.bsky.social.

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Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based) This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created. It offers a mixture of talks and practical sessions that give…

The “messy” course returns to London’s palaeography summer school, 8-12 June. A chance to make your own medieval manuscript. Places are limited so book now (tell your friends)! #medievalsky taught by the amazing @saracharles.bsky.social @stevelawesarts.bsky.social 👇🎨🫟
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Senate house in the sunshine

Everyone is London is absolutely giddy with the sunshine and I am totally here for it

Only if it’s the finest lapis lazuli 🤭

TEAM WELD forever

Thank you ☺️

Oh thank you ☺️

Public Lecture: Food for Thought – The Bayeux Tapestry Revisited A public lecture by Professor Benjamin Pohl (Medieval History, University of Bristol) followed by a free drinks reception.

I’ll be talking about my recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry in a public lecture here in Bristol on Thursday 30 April. Attendance is FREE and includes a drinks reception 🍷 Everybody welcome! Please join us if you can and help spread the word! #medievalsky #skystorians

I'll be talking about the messy and difficult (but fun!) processes for making medieval manuscripts on Wednesday. There will also be guest appearances from cats in my presentation 😺 #bookhistory #medievalsky @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89

Same image showing all the medieval pigments applied

Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory

Thanks 🥰

Medieval Women and the Book This course reviews some of the evidence for the role of women – as scribes, illuminators, patrons and authors – in the creation of medieval manuscripts in the western world.

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory

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Looking forward to March 10th @ies-sas.bsky.social I’ll be talking further about 19th-century book collector, John Bellingham Inglis: his books, his activities, his personal life, his networks, his interests and why we should be interested in his place in #bookhistory

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The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it
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Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this @hsnatsci.bsky.social short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @mbaldwin.bsky.social for the invitation!

That is gorgeous! ❤️

My amazing colleague @saracharles.bsky.social is giving this seminar on her fantastic experiments in medieval manuscript production on Wednesday 25 February at the IHR. Will be an absolute treat for anyone interested in the history of the book or in getting their hands dirty making things!

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I am the extremely proud owner of number four 😍

St Peter’s church, Preston park

Medieval wall painting of the murder of Thomas Becket

Medieval wall painting of the nativity

Medieval wall painting of the weighing of souls

A lovely visit to the 13th century St Peter’s at Preston Park, with surviving wall paintings #medievalsky

Great - see you soon!

Oh - I would have come and said hello if I’d known you were in SH! Hope you enjoyed the course

I'd been wanting to try this for ages, so thank you for giving me the excuse to do it! Congrats on the article 🙌

Excerpt from article: I found him, for instance, one week-end, in his toolshed-scullery, boiling a brew of slimy barks which were, if mixed with oak-galls, vitriol and wine, to become an ink-powder. We boiled it till the Monday, and it turned into an adhesive stronger than birdlime, and entangled us both. (p. 509) Compare with Castorley describing the results of his test on the manuscript: ‘I took a wash, for analysis, from a blot in one corner … and I got the actual ink of the period! It’s a practically eternal stuff compounded on – I’ve forgotten his name for the minute – the scribe at Bury St Edmunds, of course! – hawthorn bark and wine. Anyhow, on his formula.’ (p. 511)

I went down lots of rabbit holes on this one, but none so fun as chatting with @saracharles.bsky.social about hawthorn ink - which she then went and made/tested!

‘I’d been Chaucer for a week!’: Forging the Medieval in Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ ABSTRACT. Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ describes the creation of a Chaucerian forgery in immense detail. The short story, first published in 19

‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
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And bursaries are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

We made ink, quills, paintbrushes, and pigments. We did scribing and illuminating while Hildegard von Bingen played in the background. We did early medieval interlacing and bookbinding. It was such FUN!!! And we’re doing it all again this summer ⬇️

Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based) This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created

Returning to the London International Palaeography Summer School due to popular demand is our hands-on course that explores the materials and processes of manuscript production through experimentation 👇 #MedievalSky

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Introduction to Palaeography and Manuscript Studies This course introduces students to key skills for the study of medieval manuscripts, from the making of parchment to reading text and imagery

I’ll be reviving my irrepressible double act with Katherine Hindley for London International Palaeography Summer School 2026. We provide an introduction to manuscript studies ideal for anyone starting graduate study. It’s a lot of fun. #MedievalSky 👇

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How wonderful!