We are very sorry to learn of the death of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024). As well as being a superb historian of the early medieval world, Jinty was the first female President of Royal Historical Society (2001-05), having been elected a Fellow in 1979. Her portrait hangs in our office 1/2

Jinty Nelson is one of the three of an academic triumvirate that I have always looked to not just for her ability as a scholar, but her kindness and generosity to others. This is a great loss to academia and humanity. May her memory be a blessing.

Twenty-six students talked about premodern indigenous historigraphies with me for hours today. I love teaching Cahokia. Go visit if you're close enough. cahokiamounds.org

Incredible. Just Incredible. Well done Hoosier Nation.

Singing Johnny Cougar in the kitchen along with 50,000+ folks in Bloomington, Indiana, right now. You can take the gal out of Indiana, but... (Photo courtesy: my sister Emily Weikert Bryant)

Buried in the article: there may be QR cuts as well. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

I'm off to visit this bad boy tomorrow, and I'm embarrassingly excited about it.

OMG I forgot I preordered my catalogue British Library British Library Publishing #medievalwomen!!!!! The last carriage on this train probably heard my squee.

It's Graduation Day! The best day of the year!

Happy graduation from this colourful lot of historians and Classical Studies@University of Winchester lecturers University of Winchester! We've enjoyed teaching with you and learning from you. Stay in touch and congratulations!

Being a premodernist means feeling excited that you've only got 500 more years to cover in the lecture you're writing for Tuesday (especially because you've already written about the first 800 years you need to cover.)

'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society' - a new briefing from Royal Historical Society bit.ly/4fl6lQD Published today, the Society's briefing assesses the value of #history and the damage being done by cuts and closures to UK departments #twitterstorians

I’m delighted to say my article ‘The Ghost of Hampshire’s Christmas Past and the Charitable for the Poor’ has been published with @TYHistorians 🥳 I just want to say thank you to Dr Katherine Weikert for her encouragement to try my luck with submitting this! theyounghistorians.com/blog/the-ghost…

This made me laugh. Not in a good way, but in a 'oh yes, there I am' kind of way. Not the most important part of this report...but there I am. New report from Royal Historical Society today: royalhistsoc.org/the-value-of-h…

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REMINDER! The deadline to apply for our Lindsay Young Visiting Regional Faculty Fellowship is MONDAY! If you're in Tennessee, Appalachia, or surrounding regions, apply to come join us on a short research trip here at UT Knoxville in the Spring/Summer! #medievaltwitter #premodern

Thank you, Inga.

We are pleased to share the #CfP for our 2025 conference at the Parkes Institute University of Southampton on May 19th, 2025. This year's conference focuses on 'Archives, Heritage and Memory'. Deadline: Jan 15th, 2025

Yo, The Guardian Guardian news, I grant you AP News will call us two minutes later, but whether we're on play or not, Indiana closes a 6pm Eastern. Details matter.