The Midland History Essay Prize 2024 is now live! Submit an article not exceeding 10,000 words on any aspect of Midlands history by 31st October 2024 for a chance to win £400 and have your article published in the journal. See below for submission instructions:

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Our Open Library is live! Over 500 experts 230+ sites 40 years of research 1 Anarchy Period Castle and zero paywalls. Our free online library ensures our archaeological research is available to as many people as possible. 😘 Run, don't walk! 🔗wessexarchaeologylibrary.org

ANNOUNCEMENT: I am seeking 1-3 people to help join the podcast team. New members would handle their own episodes start to finish—identify an interviewee, research for the episode, record, and edit. If you are a lawyer or legal historian interested in joining, DM or email me.

Super excited to launch the 'Lincoln Documentary Culture(s) and Practice' CFP that Jess Holt and I have organised from IMC_Leeds next year. Do share and, if it touches your research area, do think about popping in a paper. Lincoln Record Soc Medieval Studies at Lincoln

Tickets are now on sale for our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (25 October 2024 to 2 March 2025) Check out today's blogpost for a sneak preview of some of the incredible items going on display! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

#Twitterstorians: a plug for our Michaelmas Term #CfP! 👇 We invite papers from any graduate student or #ECR studying #legalhistory and #socialhistory, each broadly defined and within any place or period! Deadline 1 September. See below for more details.

Join us on Saturday 21st September for a conference relating to new research on the city, county and historic diocese of Lincoln in collaboration with the SLHA and the Lincoln Record Soc! Find out more: ow.ly/4xFK50SE2K3 #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

I'm pleased to be able to share that my article 'Changing Queenships in Tenth-Century England' has been jointly awarded both Early Medieval Europe's First Publication Prize and Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/em…

Still just time for PhD students on women's history to sign up to give a lightning talk in London at IHR Women's History Seminar seminar ehs.org.uk/ihr-womens-his…. (Closing date 31 July). Be good to have some work on medieval topics presented.

GCMS Director: This is going to be excellent. All welcome!

Finding connections between religious houses in earlier thirteenth-century Britain is proving quite exciting. Our research project on women’s mortuary rolls (with Mateusz Fafinski) is mapped out here: medievalnetworks.github.io/mnm/

Very excited to receive proofs this morning from Boydell & Brewer for my forthcoming book on the Magdalen College Aynho Cartulary with Ben Pohl at University of Bristol. Pre-order details coming soon!

This is a terrific book— it’s great to see it out in paperback

📢Call For Papers: Please RT! Plunder, Pillage and Spoils of War in History and Law - New research and exhibitions. 📅28-28 April, 2025 ⚔️Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK 🪙 Bursaries available Submit proposals by 11 October. Links to proposal forms in thread. 🧵

Just a quick message to say that I am currently looking for reviewers for next year's Scottish Society for Northern Studies journal! Please get in touch if you would like to be a reviewer (ECRs encouraged!) or if you are a publisher and you would like your books reviewed!

I was lucky enough to hear some about some of this at Battle in July. Some cracking new research, and open access!