Miranda Rainbow

he’s got his cool sticks and he’s not afraid to use them

I am missing IMC! Can’t wait to listen to all the papers I couldn’t make it to when recordings go up. I love that the hybrid format allows me to do that!!

Now, if you are wanting to read some good work on #BayeuxTapestry, here's a thread. By the way, the pun wasn't intentional on Wednesday and isn't now. I'm not that funny. First up: Gale Owen-Crocker, textile historian par excellence www.medats.org.uk/officer/gale... #medievalsky 1/

IMC craft fair goodies!

The open access version is available here 🔓🪄:👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
#MedievalSky

Vikings: Warriors of No Nation

The Duchy of Normandy was founded #OnThisDay in 911.

The ‘racially pure’ #Vikings of stereotype were, in fact, cultural chameleons adopting local habits, languages, and religions.

🔓 This archive article is still free to read

www.historytoday.com/miscellanies...

I really bought that for the gorgeous edition (and I couldn’t resist the price), now I’ve got a matching pair!

Yeah I wasn’t too impressed by the prices at the second hand fair 🥲 my most expensive book came from there (the silk one), and I found a cluster of music books I was interested in but they were up to £50 each. I did get lucky with the Eileen power folio for a fiver though.

Three of them were free from the publishers’ fair 😅 VERY pleased about scoring the Medieval Latin anthology! Bloomsbury and De Gruyter were doing freebies and CUP’s card machine broke in my favour 😹

and it really was a haul getting all this back to London….

IMC book haul which I think cost on average £4.60 per book 👌🏻

Crab claw! Wow!

Image of St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2r. A vellum fragment with dark blue historiated initials depicting small dragons and decorations, backed by gold leaf.

St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2v. A vellum fragment with some red text, and the historiated initials on the other side visibly bleeding through the vellum.

Over 60 medieval manuscript fragments from St John's Library's collection have been uploaded to Digital Bodleian 🥳 These medieval fragments were removed from college library books and are now known collectively as MS 235. You can view them here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-... (a 🧵)

‘Momentous occasion’: how Bayeux Museum finally said yes to tapestry loan Said to be too fragile to move in 2018, tests including a dress rehearsal, and a renovation have led to a change of heart

This article explains some of the difficulties of moving the Bayeux Tapestry and how they've been mitigated. I'll still be holding my breath. #medievalsky #BayeuxTapestry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

I loved the fox tooth burnishers!

I learnt how to apply gold to manuscripts from @saracharles.bsky.social !

great moment on the last day of @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Me with my IMC lanyard and an aperol spritz

IMC’s campus bunnies!

happily on my way home from a very successful @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! The lanyard this year matched our well deserved pitcher of aperol spritz!

Unsurprisingly, there is lots of excited chatter at #IMC2025 about the Bayeux Tapestry/Canterbury Embroidery coming to visit next year. Anyway, a quick thread. #medievalsky #BayeuxTapestry 1/

Sitting room only in our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 1244: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Anglo-Normans in Britain and Ireland

There is a bayeux tapestry scholar at IMC running around with a big grin on her face

had fun recreating some Bayeux Tapestry stitches today at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. I’m talking about the real Bayeux Tapestry on Wednesday at 2:15, in Session 1244!

Early medieval dress

Anglo-normal dress

Anglo-normal dress

Late medieval dress

Such a treat for medievalists at #IMC2025 - a fashion show by Tanya Bentham. So wonderful to see these costumes in real life 🥰

The university of Leeds rabbits are really the unsung heroes of IMC

Anyone in Bayeux this weekend? You can go and have a look at the excavations currently happening at the Tapestry museum.

great afternoon at @lampallib.bsky.social today!

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.

We have always been here.

I have lived in England surrounded by English people for a decade and I still have no idea what they’re talking about when they mention schooling

this is English schools, not all British schools. Scotland is extremely normal: Primary (1–7) and Secondary (1–6)