From ancient Alexandria to Britain during WW2, the Bodleian hosts lots of ... rubbish! Listen to today's talk by Péter Tóth and Andrew Honey about dumped papyri form the 3rd century, a recycled map from the 1940s and other kinds of rubbish held at the Bodleian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10T...
Learn about the first western discovery of the star tables of fifteenth-century Timurid astronomer-ruler Ulugh Beg and watch last Friday's presentation by Daniel Fried, doctoral student at New College. 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEL...
A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce
Let James Freemantle of the St James Park Press, the current Printer in Residence, introduce you to Artists' Books from the Bodleian and from his from his private Collection. Watch the full presentation from last Friday's Coffee Morning at the Weston Library here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafb...
Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to artist and art historian Ashkan Sepahvand presenting the 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran, including an unpublished epic romance manuscript by a an Iranian peasant. 📖 Watch the latest Coffee Morning presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWye...
Take a look at the Conservative Party Archive in the Bodleian Library, presented by Fran Allen and Hannah Bithel-Vaughan at last week's Medievalists Coffee Morning in the Weston Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAv...
A trip back to the ... 1980s at yesterday's Medievalists Coffee Morning, with Jack Orchard's fascinating talk on the history of technology and personal computing culture in 1980s Britain. #chuckiegg 👾💾 Watch the full presentation on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WF...
Last friday's Medievalists' Coffee Morning sparked excitement for Hilary Term, with Visiting Fellow Jarrah Sastrawan presenting on religious transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia. 📜☕️ Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQA...
Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the three historic collections of Durham — those held by Durham University, Durham Cathedral and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, all of which have internationally significant collections of books and other materials that deserve to be brought to a wider scholarly and public audience. In addition to libraries this includes archives, collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets.
OPPORTUNITY 📯
Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!
Deadline: 3 September 2025
More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
🖊️ Apply by 14 July
📅 Join the public lecture by prof Henrike Lähnemann @ox.ac.uk, titled "Early modern code-switching between Latin & the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated." 10 July, 4:30-5:30 PM, Van der Leeuw hall, Academy Building. @rug.nl @oxmedstud.bsky.social More info 👉 lnkd.in/eQDev2ih
Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
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
Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
It's Week 7! Just two more weeks to go, which means two more weeks of fantastic medieval lectures, seminars, reading groups, and more, all viewable now in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m...
📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
Join us for drinks (including the famous Tiddly Pommes apple juice) and nibbles, and help shape our vision for the next Mystery Cycle.
And here's a little preview to get you excited...
youtu.be/q49mwvkfYIE
📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
It's Week 6! Just 3 more weeks until the end of the academic year but we're nowhere near done yet - find out what's in store this week in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/02/medieval-matters-tt25-week-6
Poster for Fragments of Lives. Friday 30 May. Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room. No registration is required. For all enquiries, please email laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️
Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
Somehow, it's already Week 5 and we're half way through the term 🙀! See how our medieval community is marking this midpoint with this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/26/m...
It's Week 4! Take your mind of exams and essays with one of our many fantastic medieval events, all in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/19/m...
Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
It's Week 3! Check out the latest events in the world of medieval studies in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/12/m...
And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!
It's Week 2 of Trinity! From French palaeography to the science of the stars, check out what's going on in Oxford this week in the latest instalment of Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/05/m...
Exhibition in the Old Library. The Old Library will be open today (29 April) and Thursday (1 May) from 10am-4pm. The exhibition is inspired by the theme of this year’s St Edmund Hall Community & Giving Week: #GiveItYourHALL and the 1317 Challenge. In the exhibition case will be items marking significant moments in the history of the Hall since our first mention in the rent rolls of Osney Abbey in 1317, including evidence of a bitter academic dispute about the name and origins of the College, the original Library rules and a relic of our patron St Edmund. Also on display will be record-breaking and significant works from the collection including the Library’s oldest book, the most recent addition to the Library and the best-selling work by an Aularian author. All welcome! If you can’t come on either day please contact Library@seh.ox.ac.uk and arrange an appointment.
@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome!
📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
