Robert Gallagher

Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…

My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...

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Image of badges with logo 'I know the value of history' and text 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it's time for a political response.'

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."

RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Old English text, densely written on light brown parchment.

With the support of a Research Project Grant, @hwaetspur.bsky.social and his team @kent.ac.uk undertake the first-ever thorough analysis of Britain’s much understudied early medieval letters, opening unique windows into the past. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – September 2025 Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

Conference: New Directions in Old English Prose

Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100) Are you an experienced Lecturer who can teach British and European Early Medieval History?  Do you have a passion for Medieval History and are you available for a fixed term contract to start in Septe...

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

CFP "Historical Aspects of Engla Land: Beyond Beowulf"
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!

Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?

The deadline for this job is this coming Monday!

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

Interested in early medieval letters? Then the latest EME article, by Robert Flierman and Hope Williard, is for you! Now on Early View, open access.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

I'm delighted to share the programme for the first workshop of the Loyalty Research Network, taking place this Friday 6th June from 1pm UK time. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in loyalty across the medieval world, so please message me if you'd like the link! #medieval

Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England

Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!

#medievalsky

Fantastic opportunity: 4-yr fully funded PhD at Galway on textual obscurity in the early medieval insular world

Ok, no problem. And thanks for the thought-provoking article!

Congrats on the article! Really interesting. Do you happen to know what the final page range is going to be? I’d love to add a citation to my book before I send it back to the publishers (next week… so this is timely!). Thanks!

Deadline for applications is this Friday - still time! 🙂

Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres

Interested in the performance and performativity of medieval texts? Here’s a cfp for a workshop this November in Ghent. We’re particularly keen to think across languages and genres

Great news! Congrats!

Really excellent piece on the UK HE crisis

The Middle Ages in the Modern World A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open!
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org

Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany A piece of the Bayeux Tapestry, the medieval masterpiece depicting the landing of Normans from France in England...

Fragment of Bayeux Tapestry discovered in Germany: www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/890776...

Motion to HEC: Focus on Defending Jobs and Reforming UK HE Two UCU Commons HEC members are bringing the following motion to the special HEC meeting on Wednesday 19th February. We are looking for UCU members in HE to add their names in support of the motion…

Final push on this from me before the weekend. Please sign if you agree and you haven't already! We will keep it open as long as we can, but don't delay!

ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...

Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.

From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.

Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solved A runic inscription on one of the Galloway hoard’s elaborately decorated arm rings has been deciphered

This is a cool discovery! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...