A reminder that the closing date for the 2024 IMC Student Prize is 31 July. A prize of €1,000 will be awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document. Read more about the prize here irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-pr…

In today's chaos translations relating to the Templars in Ireland, "doleum vacuum" is sadly not a sad vacuum cleaner which time-travelled to 1308, but instead simply an empty cask.

I really can't wrap my head around how a management could be so silly to remove their institution from the urgent & critical work being done about Black British History. What an own goal. Save Goldsmiths from its management: chng.it/xjV6tZxnY6

The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when Sutton House NT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)

Very pleased to have contributed to this w/ Paul Dryburgh and Lucía Pereira Pardo. Heritage science makes it possible to read damaged medieval documents, including some gnarly ones The National Archives @VirtualTreasury (free via the link below until September) authors.elsevier.com/c/1jRPu4ckJF41…

Seven years of my publishing on St Stephen’s Westminster with the biggest of thanks to Caroline Palmer and the Boydell & Brewer team! All of them are very much a memorial for the best of supervisors, Mark Ormrod.

Very pleased to have an essay in this collection, in the amazing cluster on medieval forgery/ forging the medieval, where I think about how Ireland's medieval history has been shaped by archival losses (and it's open-access too!). Thanks so much to the editors!

In conservation PRONI work is underway on Archbishop Milo Sweteman’s register with @VirtualTreasury. Acidic early 20th century repairs are removed with agarose gel and replaced with kozo paper + wsp infills

Exciting new Stories Unboxed display The National Archives for October. Find out how heritage scientists and historians collaborated to experiment in reading 'under' gall to recover lost medieval text: A medieval Irish roll with hidden grievances – The National Archives

One of my favourite documents The National Archives document of the month for October! It was such fun to work on the collaborations with heritage scientists that meant we were able to read even more of the text than ever before.

Thought-provoking podcast here with Robert Bartlett and a special reference to @VirtualTreasury and the destruction of Irish medieval records: open.spotify.com/episode/3645k3… History Hit💥

Jessica Baldwin of ⁦National Archives, Ireland⁩ showing a MS from 1309 — one of the oldest records to survive the fire of 1922 ⁦Dublin Festival of History⁩ ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ ⁦IMC⁩

Born in 1911, Margaret Griffith was the first female Deputy Keeper at the Public Record Office of Ireland, serving from 1956-1971. Find out more about her pioneering work in the new Dictionary of Irish Biography entry by @CWallaceDublin at bit.ly/3NjXZww. #WomenInHistory #IrishArchives

Very much looking forward to seeing the Guild of St Anne deeds join the medieval collections available through @VirtualTreasury. Deeds are such telling and important records for finding out more about people's ordinary lives.

The before and after of Juno going to be groomed. Thorough attitude in both.

A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! hdl.handle.net/10481/10736

I’m super pleased that we’re getting closer to having translations of all the receipt rolls The National Archives, alongside Connolly’s translation of the issue rolls and full digitisations of the originals. There’s so many wonderful details in them!

27 Oct 1526: Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall of #London burns Tyndale's New Testament at St Pauls cathedral #otd declaring that he had found 2,000 errors in it (DurhamU/BL)

Have you seen the digitised register of Archbishop John Swayne on the @VirtualTreasury? 📚 Read about the project to conserve and digitise it in the blog and image gallery on the VTRI website with the full digital version+ D.A Chart’s summary here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/PRONI-DIO…

Reposting for UK budget day and because I've just been finding more medieval women active in the Dublin exchequer.