The Guild of Medievalist Makers

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Susie Campbell — The Guild of Medievalist Makers “ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

'I am interested in how spaces are processual, constantly changing, and in the challenge of how to stage in poetry the co-existence of different and varying pasts of a site.'

Meet poet @susiecampbell.bsky.social in our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost👇

Our Guild members might be interested in these two grant schemes👇

A copy of The Translations of Seamus Heaney on a wooden surface.

New post!

I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.

This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.

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Looking forward to this! 🌿 🔥

A medieval style painting of a young woman dressed in a red robe and a purple mantle, carrying a cross and a bell.

Current state of the painting I started at the @guildmedmak.bsky.social call yesterday:

Our next Making Space session is taking place this Thursday, 5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT) on Zoom!

Join us to work on your own creative-critical project, or let your imagination soar with our optional theme: birds 🦚🦢🦅

For those who enjoy their medievalism audible, 'A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing' by @jolloyds.bsky.social offers a creative reinterpretation of the Welsh romance 'Culhwch and Olwen'.

You can listen now on BBC Sounds here:

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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From Parchment to Binding - 29/05/2026 19:00:00 The Practical Processes of Making a Medieval Manuscript with Dr Sara Charles

I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p...
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@bibliojenni.bsky.social

It’s me! Talking about Stitching Cromwell with friends @guildmedmak.bsky.social!

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Lucie Bea Dutton — The Guild of Medievalist Makers “ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

'I’m obsessed with Cromwell’s correspondence – there was just so much of it, and it is incredibly wide ranging.'

We're a broad church here at the Guild and enjoy showcasing creative-critical work from the fringes of the medieval period! Read about textile artist @drelvey.bsky.social's work here:

More Names, book by Stacie Vos

Microfiction by Stacie Vos

Microfiction by Stacie Vos

A pleasure to chair Stacie Vos’s paper at the Medieval English Research Seminar yday and to catch up with her at the Creative Medievalisms symposium last week, where Stacie read from her microfiction book MORE NAMES (The Keys to the Buttery here is inspired by Margery Kempe!)

Thank you very much!

Me and my creative-critical bestie Kristen Haas Curtis

My PowerPoint for my talk on my Beowulf and Margery Kempe poetry

Representing the Guild of Medievalist Makers

Kristen Haas Curtis’ amazing presentation

The Creative Medievalisms symposium organised by @realmandeville.bsky.social was an absolute BLAST ✨ @hellomizk.bsky.social & I had an amazing time, repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social and presenting on our creative-critical work 🎊 Thank you for inviting us, Anthony!

A term card advertising the Guild of Medievalist Makers upcoming events, January-April 2026. The card reads: Join The Guild of Medievalist Makers, a newly formed organisation for academic & academic-adjacent creatives and makers dedicated to furthering creative-critical practice in the humanities, and making space for creative play! Our online Making Space Sessions offer you the chance to set aside time for your creative-critical project. We are regularly joined by a lively and generous company of zine makers, textile artists, cartoonists, novelists, poets, translators, illustrators, flax spinners, print makers and more! Please note that you must become a member of the Guild to join our Making Space Sessions (this is so we can avoid being overrun by bots). Read more about us and join today for free at www.guildmedmak.com. The card advertises the following events: 1. Thurs 5th Feb, 5:30pm-7:00pm Making Space Session, optional theme: birds 2. Thurs 5th March, 5:30pm-7:00pm Making Space Session, optional theme: regrowth 3. Thurs 2nd April, 5:30pm-7:00pm, The Guild's 2st Birthday Show and Tell

Our upcoming spring term events are now live on our website and detailed below on our term card!

Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇

Thank you to everyone who came along this evening! It was really inspiring & encouraging! And a huge thank you to Kristen for facilitating 🙏🏻💖

Thanks to all the @guildmedmak.bsky.social members who joined us tonight for plotting, planning, and puzzling through the year ahead! It was so inspiring to hear all of your developing ideas and I cannot wait to see what comes next!

Later today we'll be running our New Year's Intention Setting session. @hellomizk.bsky.social will guide us through thinking about our creative intentions for the year and how we might go about achieving them.

Come for support, encouragement, and inspiration!

Really excited to be a part of this with my @guildmedmak.bsky.social buddy & superstar cartoonist @hellomizk.bsky.social ✨💖 and many other Guild members!

Thank you! You have to be a Guild Member, but you can submit the membership form here: www.guildmedmak.com/join-the-guild

Many are returning to their laptops today, but we have a candle to hold up in the dark and cold! Join us this Thursday for our special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026. 🕯️

Bring yourself, any creative materials you fancy, and your favourite mug of something warm.

Making Space Session (Creative Intention Setting for 2026) — The Guild of Medievalist Makers The first Making Space session for 2026: with a difference! Join us to set your creative intentions for the year!

New beginnings can be exciting, but also a little daunting. To help ease into your creative-critical mindset of 2026, we warmly welcome you to join us for a special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026!

⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT
📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026
📍Zoom

An exciting symposium featuring many of our Guild members is taking place early next year!👇

🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow'
📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026

We have the same attitude!

Year in Review: 2025 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers On the 27th of April 2024, Eleanor Baker and I (Kristen) met at Oxford’s Vaults & Garden cafe to start scheming (image above taken from my comic diary). Laura Varnam joined in the scheming not lon...

As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.

Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉

Researchers invited to express their interest for the Community Connections Grant The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities (CPEP) is piloting a new community-focused grant between January and May 2026.

The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting academic researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences to collaborate with community groups as part of a new community-led grant. The pilot will run from January to May 2026. Info here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Creative Practitioner in Residence The Institute of Historical Research hosts a Creative Practitioner in Residence who is interested in working collaboratively with historians.

Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Thank you for the tag, Justine!