Dr Grant Jones

Front cover for Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, illustration from British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2 of Lady Bertilak and Gawain in the bedchamber. Gawain is lying down with eyes closed, wrapped in green blankets, and Lady Bertilak is wearing a spotted dress, seated beside him with her hair up, her arms outstretched in a loose embrace and touching under his chin.

My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

I, for one, am looking forward to the incoming era of AI mass-produced history. I will be offering my bespoke, handmade history at 599 euros a page (plus postage, optional gift wrapping available).

Exploring the fragments of the vast abbey church at Cluny. Much has happened since I was last here in 2018.

double job rejection today. Oof.

Yes! These were so good, glad they're available again.

MEMSA Conference 2025

Final photo of the conference, thank you to everyone who came over the two days - whether for the whole conference or popped in for part of it.

Safe journey home

No-one can make random noises sound as good as Mike Patton tbf 😅

Never heard this, listening now and it's great. Always loved the Faith No More cover, too.

It’s the first day of the MEMSA conference. We have two days of exciting panels on this year's theme: Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic. Delegates are currently at registration before things kick off at 10.15!

Also, did a graduate last week. Probably should have mentioned that earlier...

Yeah, yeah, everyone might all be at IMC and I'm not, but I've got an *empty library* to myself. Bliss.

outsourced rejection! 😅

Almost certainly, but it still seems an odd time to cue that to send emails, given it was for a British uni. I've noticed a lot of universities appear to be using the same online system for applications though, and that might be based in America as the other rejections have come at odd times...

On a Friday night (technically Saturday morning), no less!

Who the hell sends a job rejection email at 1 AM?!

A Call for Papers for a special edition of Quaker Studies Journal, which asks for papers on the subject of liberty, equality, justice and independence, broadly conceived. This special edition is being prepared in light of the upcoming semiquincentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Papers from a range of interdisciplinary subject matters are welcome, including history, theology, and sociology, among others. Please contact Rhiannon Grant or Lily Chadwick for more information.

Call for Papers! Please see image below.

For all enquiries and submissions, please contact @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social at g.rhiannon@bham.ac.uk or Dr Lily Chadwick at lily.chadwick@woodbrooke.org.uk. Article submissions are due 30 January 2026.

Fairly sure I'm just throwing job applications into the void at this point

wow, everyone wasn't lying about the rejections post-PhD. Oof.

Saxons tried to recruit William today at Vinovia/Binchester!

Another Saturday, another northern castle. A cloudy, wet Brough today (I've never seen it in any other weather tbf)!

There's never a bad time to go to a castle!

Making the most of the good weather and not having a PhD hanging over me - bonus when it's free to visit and isn't crowded like Barnard Castle too 🫡

Took the son and heir to Bowes Castle:

To paraphrase Mrs Doyle: "You can't move for the popes! It's wall-to-wall popes!"

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a little kid

Glorious weather today in old Durham town

wools 😂

there's a term I haven't heard much since I left the old country

Was bonkers seeing that news! May be interested depending on the books and where you are 😅

1. First #ttrpg you ever played? - RuneQuest
2. First you ever ran? WFRP 2nd Edition
3. Played the most? Earthdawn 1st Edition
4. Run the most? WFRP 2nd Edition
5. Favorite? WFRP 2nd Edition
6. Most recently played? D&D5E
7. Most recently run? Next week, RuneQuest!

"Black lung" is considered DEI. I think we're going with "merit-based respiratory enhancement" now.