Three days of intensive discussions at GBOFFL 2026 - the annual meeting of medieval Germanists from Geneva, Bern, Oxford, Freiburg, Fribourg, and Lausanne medieval.ox.ac.uk/gboffl-2026/

beakhead

drawing of beakheads

Same species as the beakheads at St-Peter-in-the-East, the library church of @stedmundhall.bsky.social Drawing by Anja Peters who worked as intern on the monsters exhibition @tayoxford.bsky.social historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/early-modern... (check out for more beakheads!)

Image of a promotional poster for "NEW: The Bodleian Whispering Service." It humorously details a service where users can "Request a title, Sit quietly, and Receive knowledge." Tiers include "Journal articles," "19th Century Novels," and "War and Peace (extended session)." Launching on April 1st. The poster features icons of two figures, one appearing to whisper to the other, against a background of a historic building.

NEW: Introducing the Bodleian Whispering Service.

Too busy to read? Our expert librarians can now quietly narrate books, articles, and selected manuscripts directly to you in our reading rooms.

Please note: whispering remains subject to standard library noise regulations.

Living with Kafka’s Asbestos Factory: Sights, Sounds and
Textures with Arthur Rose

Tuesday 10 March, 5pm - Oxford / Online

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Modern Languages @ox.ac.uk ranked no. 1!
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Brilliant blogpost by Péter Tóth on some of the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's papyri: how to hire a wetnurse, why gravedigger families are fascinating, and much more blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/...

Call for Papers for @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Study Day in Cambridge on Saturday 25 April 2026.

**New Directions in the History of Liturgy II**

Modern Languages @ox.ac.uk ranked no. 1! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
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Job alert: 3 3-year Lektor positions @ox.ac.uk www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ge...

Ursulorum parvulorum convivium (Teddy Bears Picnic) in the crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Had lots of fun recording this with the St Edmund Hall (nickname: Teddy Hall) Director of Music Carlos Rodríguez Otero in the crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East. Lyrics in the info box! youtu.be/JeHQP-Avdhs

Conversations - YouTube Every year, The Centre for Dutch and Flemish Studies receives authors, artistes and academics. In these interviews we'll explore the history, heritage, polit...

Watch Henk de Berg in conversation with Koen Vossen on the history of political populism in the Netherlands and the lessons for today:
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This is certainly what @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and I have been doing with Taylor Editions! @tayoxford.bsky.social The model is appreciated by reviewers, e.g. muse.jhu.edu/article/965571

Very excited for today's lecture by one of our doctoral students, Timothy Powell, for the English Goethe Society, at Senate House 5.45pm. Still time to register to attend in person or online via ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Screenshot of a review, with buttons for downloads in different form

screenshot of a review

Really pleased with this review of Katarzyna Kapitan's edition of the Hrómundur Saga in the @tayoxford.bsky.social Editions series run by @emmahuber.bsky.social & myself as a not-for-profit open access initiative muse.jhu.edu/article/965571 #TEI #xml @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social

Screenshot of a fellowship offer, featuring as banner the kiss of Judas in a woodcut!

New: offer for a 2-week scholarship to research Lincoln College Senior Library oxbibsoc.org.uk/grantsandfel... (don't be put off by the kiss of Judas as banner for the grants page...)

MSt in Creative Translation | University of Oxford About the courseThe MSt in Creative Translation is designed to enable you to work in Translation Studies, both as an academic subject and a creative practice.

For the next generation of human translators! Very excited abt new Masters in Creative Translation starting at Oxford, on which I (very happily!) will be teaching History of Translation & Digital Editions 📯
Deadline 3rd March 2026 @ox.ac.uk @tayoxford.bsky.social
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New discoveries in Oxford's Chinese collections (Mamtimyn Sunuodula) YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Learn about some significant new finds in Bodleian Libraries’ Chinese collection including an important missing page from the world’s earliest text of Cantonese opera safely hidden inside a 40-volume imperial dictionary, two leaves of a rare copper plate print album commissioned by Kangxi Emperor.

End Fossil Fuels Forever Time is running out. Our planet is hitting record temperatures, while coal, oil and gas giants rake in billions, and our energy bills skyrocket. But we finally have a chance to break the cycle. Over 8...

I support this petition to end fossil fuels act.350.org/sign/end-fos...

The Nuns' Language. Latin-German Code-mixing in the Lüne Letters YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Now online available: youtu.be/cbomiVgrlos - it was real fun to speak to a hardcore linguistics audience!

New discoveries in Oxford's Chinese collections (Mamtimyn Sunuodula) YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Hugely exciting coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk with the Curator of Chinese Collections presenting new discoveries hidden in plain sight (or at least among the pages of well-known printed volumes) youtu.be/zVVrjp5PunQ

Speaking tmrw Mon 9 Feb 2026, 5.15pm for the General Linguistics Seminar about the nuns' code-switching language - all welcome! @oxhumanities.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social Sneak preview of some examples in medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/20...

Came across @hlaehnemann.bsky.social's team's fabulous blogpost only this just now -- should have checked before trying to piece together what's confusing myself... historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/wts-yt-the-a...

Thanks for that excellent piece with neat illustrations!

GHIL Fellow for Medieval History Thomas Kaal and host Kim König talk with Henrike Lähnemann (@HLaehnemann), Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk), about her recent GHIL Lecture.
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Religious Transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia in the Bodleian (Jarrah Sastrawan) YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Brilliant presentation at the coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today on religious manuscripts from Southeast Asia: youtu.be/PSQAWeweyOs

New Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Rahel Fronda / César Merchán-Hamann) YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Now online: presentation of new acquisitions of Hebrew manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. NB: The @oxmedstud.bsky.social coffee mornings in the Weston Library start again this Friday! youtu.be/HjRoPmJ1Dxg?...

A monk and a robot reading a manuscript together as part of a screenshot

Starting now! medieval.ox.ac.uk/arsinquirendi/ Anthony Harris (Cambridge). Using Generative AI for Medieval Studies Research (II) - a hands-on workshop

4 December 2025. Are we seeing the end of languages at Russell Group universities? - The Languages Gateway

www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-... Protest against the proposed closure of Modern Languages at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social from the students' perspective #languagesmatter

Star

@fromtga.bsky.social Star is up! #Herrnhut

How multilingualism can protect against brain ageing A study of 86,000 older adults across Europe shows people who speak multiple languages tend to age more slowly than monolinguals.

We always knew this but it is nice to see it confirmed! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-multilin...

An excellent opportunity to do e.g. intensive archival research for anybody with historic interests - calling on @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social