A reminder that I do freelance work. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
I'm talking at the IHR Life-Cycles seminar later this month (23 June) about girls at the margins of Florentine society c.1350-1550. Online and in person (London): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Black post box to mark home of UK's first black school teacher, in Hawick, Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Alex Sobel @alexsobel sticking up for women here.
There's only a few days left to get your abstracts together and emailed to @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I for an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"! See the CFP in the post below! Deadline 15 June! #earlymodern #bookhistory #premodernhistory #medievalsky
Tom Jenkins arrived in the Scottish Borders as a child aboard a slave ship in 1803.
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Refugee Festival Scotland 2026 is here! This beautiful front cover was created by Nii Sackey Vanderpuye and Anupa Joshy, who also designed this year's Refugee Festival Scotland Poster.
At times like this, standing in solidarity with refugees is more important than ever. This festival does just that
Teachinge young people how to deeplye engage wyth literature and poetrye and playes and novels ys teachinge them how to access an olde and goode and powerful system for sharinge messages yn tymes of emergencye. Readinge literature ys key to the ongoing struggle for a bettir and more just worlde.
So many thanks to @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social for hosting the launch of New York: A Literary Anthology last night & to my brilliant colleague @mbpearl.bsky.social for a delightful conversation about this book & the city that inspired it.
