Dr Sarah McKeagney

Can't believe Oxford Academic is down at 1:00am on a Sunday morning 🥲🥲

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Our lives are dictated by space and critically engaging in that is a joy

Architecture 😍

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

My pleasure - it looks marvellous! :)

Where are my Masculinities scholars at??

The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/

How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

DL 1 catalogue descriptions before the latest update.

Catalogue descriptions for DL 1 after the update.

New catalogue descriptions for DL 1/4

Lancastic news, everyone. Over 800 items for the Lancaster Court of Duchy Chamber pleadings [DL 1/3-15] are now searchable in Discovery. The project, when complete, will describe the c.12,000 items for the court up to the end of Elizabeth I's reign. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

7. Many histories of the poor reproduce them as objects rather than as subjects, because that is what much of the archives about them do. Far more claims of reading against the grain than realities of doing so (cause it's hard).

This whole thread goes SO hard, and raises so many salient points about medieval poverty- especially when thinking and writing about poor people as objects rather than subjects.

Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Jurisdiction over Infangthief in England: The Case of John Milksop This paper uses a dispute over the franchise of infangthief between the abbot of Tewkesbury and the earl of Gloucester to shed light on jurisdictional claims over the right to try and hang hand-hav...

Interested in medieval law & order, the gallows, the right to hang hand-having thieves (i.e. infangthief), outlaws, and/or jurisdictional disputes over rights to justice? Then check out my recent-ish article on the dispute over John Milksop’s trial & execution.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Congratulations on the honorary doctorate 🎓🥳

Anyways, yesterday was insane. Thank you @gregjenner.bsky.social for the wonderful, inspiring speech and my colleagues at @yorkmedieval.bsky.social for the glorious friendship over the last 5 years. Officially officially officially #phdone

Tomorrow is the deadline for registering for this year’s Harlaxton, on the theme of ‘The Medieval City’. Join us!!! Register here: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org
📚 #medievalsky #skystorians

She's a legend 😭

Short thread that perfectly encapsulates the power of good feminist history

Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.

The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

Live footage of me reading the best article I've come across in months

Please don’t ignore this the next time you’re told “it’s either these guys or Reform” coz this is also what Reform would do and you should rail against it no matter what colour the tie is.

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Portrait of stylised head and shoulders with complex distorted, unclear face, wavey hair against white backdrop

Self-Portrait xxx, 2017, Maggi Hambling British painter and sculptor #womensart

The word is "massacres"

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.

A mini medieval story time!

For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I’m part of what promises to be two great sessions on oaths, trust, and allegiance this afternoon, both in Esther Simpson LG.08. Looking forward to discussing all things allegiance!

Book cover text: Studies in Regional and Local History Volume 23. Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England - Essays Presented to Rosamond Faith. Edited by Richard Purkiss and Hannah Boston. Book cover image: three figures moving with scythes, two working and one resting, from BL Cotton MS Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f. 6v.

Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press.
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...