Gwenffrewi Morgan

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

The autumn term 2025 card for the NEHN Seminar 1: 28th October 2025, 1500 GMT ; Thomas Banbury (University of Cambridge): 'Against Miasma: New Models of Historical Environmental Medicine' Seminar 2: 18th November 2025. 1500 GMT ; Islay Shelbourne (University of St Andrews) : "'In California the Prognosis is Good': Californian Health Myths and Understanding of Contagion 1850-1920" Seminar 3: 2nd of December 2025, 1500 GMT; Richard Warren (University of Bern, Switzerland): 'Volcanoes and Climatic Instability in Early Ninteenth-Century India' Note: to sign up to the mailing list, please email Alex Hibberts on alexander.hibberts@durham.ac.uk

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

The #Anthropocene is a street in the Netherlands. Clearly a multi-generational philosophical corner with Rene Descartes and Hippias

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
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I'm teaching on this (but don't let that put you off, etc)

Book cover with title “Rights of Trains”

Text “transport and the environment.” Illustration of rainbow colored road.

I'm pining for chocolate hob-nobs.

I, personally, in presuming higher degrees have obviously never been 'driven' or imbued with 'vigour', the pursuit of knowledge obviously is just something that just *happens* if you ask nicely (sarcastic tone to whole thing)

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University Explore a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

New PhD app with Ghent University.
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities.
co-supervised by Professors Marco Caracciolo, Stef Craps, and Elly McCausland - combining theoretical exploration with textual analysis.
#AcademicSky

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Schedule for the Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars at Maynooth University. 23 October, Dr Nia Wyn Jones, "The Welsh Legendary Triads: Trioedd Ynys Prydein"; 27 November, Dr Riona Doolan, "Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments"; 4 December, Dr Sparky Booker, "Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-century Petitions to the Irish Parliament". All seminars at 5pm in Room 2.31, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University.

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome.

@ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

A final reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is the end of next week #medievalsky

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A detail from the 25" Ordnance Survey Map of Cerne Abbas, published in 1888.

Is it just me or have they missed out an important detail...?

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

On Sydney's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. An institution when I was young.

nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human – animal relationships? Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches offers innovative insights…

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland

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Uni Bern: Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 Februa...

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 February, 2027.

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Image: Approaching Medieval Sources Call for Proposals. Approaching Medieval Sources provides in-depth companions to the rich array of sources available for those researching the medieval period. The books in the series are dedicated to specific sources and records spanning the full range of the medieval period, c. 500-c. 1500, without geographical limits. Each volume introduces readers to the record itself, its historical and historiographical context, and includes case studies illustrating how the source can be analysed and interpreted. If you are interested in writing for the series please contact the series editors: Charlotte Pickard - pickardc@cardiff.ac.uk and Rebecca Searby.

Becca Searby and I are accepting proposals for ‘Approaching Medieval Sources’, a series which provides in-depth companions to medieval sources @routledgehistory.bsky.social We’d love to hear from you if you would like to discuss a potential volume! See the attached CfP for more information.

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰

@ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.

To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific

Cover of the August 2025 issue of the history journal Past & Present. Cover has bands of red and grey with the journal's name, bibliographical details and the titles of the articles in the issue and the names of the authors picked out in white text

Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published
All articles in the issue can be accessed here:

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via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Or by scrolling down the thread👇

Public toilet at viewpoint outside Oban. Where you would normally see 'ladies' and 'gents' on each corner of the cottage it says 'east' and 'west'

In Oban there are apparently only two genders, East and West

We welcome enquiries about applications to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Interested? Contact a potential mentor in the School, then send a 1 or 2-page proposal and academic CV to classicsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk by 17 September 2025

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All periods sucked to some extent. But if you think life was better in rural Pannonia during the Crisis of the Third Century than in Merovingian Gaul just because there were some Pretty Statues around then really, no-one can help you.

Forgot about the famous author for 10 seconds and just thought people were just being weirdly mean about the objectively lovely Celticist ...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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