Check out this jousting cheque for a contest in 1520 at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, who are you placing your bets on?! The cheque gives the names of challengers & defenders & is accompanied by the arms of Francis I of France I & Henry VIII.

Thank you Jonathan Willis (@drjpw.bsky.social) for a very interesting seminar on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Elizabethan State Papers today. Certainly gave a lot of food for thought on how we discuss early modern distress and mental illness. #Reformation #Elizabeth #EarlyModern

These medieval stave churches remind me of the #Minangkabau roofs of #Indonesia, built that way to withstand heavy rainfall during rainy season.

Our usual image of a Crusader often obscures the fact that countless medieval women also travelled to the Holy Land. Dr. Eleanor Janega talks to Dr. Natasha Hodgson about the women we have overlooked in history: eu1.hubs.ly/H08Tc8l0 Dr Eleanor Janega Dr. Natasha R. Hodgson

We are delighted to introduce a new OA journal: Early Medieval England and its Neighbours! As a relaunch of Anglo-Saxon England, EMEN features: 📂A broader approach 📰 Interdisciplinary scope ✔️Same high quality as ASE Find out more 👉cup.org/3Wm9mde

Exciting news! Cambridge University Press - Academic is launching a new all-OA journal, 'Early Medieval England and its Neighbours', which offers a venue for top scholarship in history, literature, language, archaeology and other disciplines. First articles coming later in 2024. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

How can I tell that it’s almost time to call it a day research-wise you ask? Reading “grumpets” for trumpets and not noticing the first five folios is a good indicator it’s about time to throw in the towel -or manuscript. I do like grumpets better though. #history #PhD #Tudors

How #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis shrinks your world... Illustration by Kornelia Paulsen #pwME #MillionsMissing #WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessDay

When your bestie Alexandra Wingate and you decipher a message #AnneBoleyn left behind 500 years ago but you can’t tell anyone else about it because it isn’t published yet. #Tudor #History #Herstory

This has been a passion project for ages and it means so much to see it realized. I read Anne Dowriche's 1589 text during my PhD and was determined to bring her work to a wider audience. It's taken a long time, but it's finally here! pubs.crrs.ca/products/anne-…

For those interested in seeing the math, the full research article is here - euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

Just remember if you’re having a bad day, it could always be worse: you could be on #Microsoft helpdesk right now. 😂

Point of fact which this report gets wrong; the tragedy of these deaths did not take place in the 'north of Israel', but in the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights are Syrian, and universally recognised as occupied territory since Israel invaded and occupied the area in 1967.

Very excited to have my article on the binding of Anne Boleyn's Psalter move along in its pre-production journey 🥳 More news to follow as soon as I have it!

Quite rich for #Trump to state #KamalaHarris “happened to turn black” seeing as though he himself turned orange.🍊 #TrumpIsWeird

Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrück used female forced labor for textile and clothing manufacturing, including sock-knitting for the Wehrmacht. Some women knitted mistakes into the heels, making them uncomfortable or painful to wear. Such a great example of textile as resistance

Just a reminder you can view 500+ images of Medieval Manuscripts manuscripts at: digipal.eu/digipal/search… #medievaltwitter

Don’t forget to smell the flowers 🌷 #summer #flowers #garden

I'm finally writing about the accusations that Elizabeth slept with Henry VIII for my biography. Pictured is a claim from Elizabeth Amadas that "the king hath kept both the mother and the daughter". (BL Cotton Cleopatra E/IV f. 99v)

Apocalypse Now! Welcome to Hell! Cotton MS Nero C IV, f. 39r