Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.

The on-ramp to academic monograph publishing is very long, and I used to delay my gratification until the moment a publication was alive, but I'm a new me, and I will celebrate every milestone now. Friends, I give you a webpage for my forthcoming book. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/impr...

Old English alert - new images of MS. Junius 11 are on Digital Bodleian and are much higher quality than the previous set from the 1990s. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c534...

Can anyone recommend me some good stuff to read on the Book of Job? Medieval-era appreciated #medievalsky but any/all periods of interpretation also welcome, I would like to understand it more in general.

while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money.

This year's Black History Month Lecture: @josephfinlay.bsky.social on the Jewish Council for Racial Equality and British Jewish anti-racist campaigning, drawing on his new book Not Only for Ourselves. 🗓 Tue 27 Oct, 6pm 📍 October Books Register below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-only-f...

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Yay my book Disabled Storytellers in the #GlobalMiddleAges (Cambridge UP) is now available for purchase! Pre-order a hardcopy or get digital access (US $40), plus 20% discount code HSY2026 (apply code upon checkout): doi.org/10.1017/9781... #DisabilitySky #DisHist #CripTheory #DisabilityJustice

Join us for a new term of fascinating seminars! And all free 🎉

As a two-time alumnus of Edinburgh Uni, it's hard not to despair at the short-sighted plans by management to decimate degree programmes across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Solidarity to all affected by this act of utter vandalism.

With all of the emphasis on the Bayeux Tapestry this week, and with Rosh Hashanah about to start, it's reflecting that the world of William the Conqueror wasn't just a Christian one. The centuries before prior to 1066 had seen Jewish communities gradually expand North through Germany and France. 1/

Enjoying conversations, coffee and trees at Birkbeck 💜

Our autumn newsletter is out now, featuring an introduction to the new cohort of IASH Fellows, an invitation to become our next playwright-in-residence, some exciting upcoming events with @royalsoced.bsky.social and @ntsonline.bsky.social and much more! mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-23ZL6-4...

GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Society Funds New Archaeology Project Investigating Medieval Carved Stones Led by @celticist.bsky.social, the fieldwork will help to record, analyse and preserve “one of Scotland’s most under-exploited, at-risk historical resources”: www.socantscot.org/news/society...

The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures Vol. 52, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57438 @psupress.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social @seatofwisdom.bsky.social

Looking back on a fantastic few days at the New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg, Germany. Great conversations, inspiring scholarship, and a busy MUP stand. If you missed us, you can still shop our NCS Reading List with 30% off until 31 August: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...

Sad to miss #NCS2026 but thank you to @siobhanmup.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social for bringing my book & sending pictures! So many brilliant publications here to go on my to-read list too. MUP also have a medieval NCS list + 30% discount! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...

Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...

***job klaxon!*** Postdoctoral Research Associate on ERC-funded project TextDiveGlobal at QMUL 12 month post from 1 September 2026 Apply by 28 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p...

A new resource from @britishacademy.bsky.social, out today, maps changes in UK academic staff numbers and contract types between 2012/13 & 2024/25 for the arts, humanities & social sciences bit.ly/4w47SmP You can search by subject (incl history), provider, region & forms of employment #Skystorians

One in four academic history positions in post-92s are gone since 2019 alone. One in four. We don't have data for 2025-6 and I doubt it magically got better.

My work at the moment is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoc fellowship, and I've posted some updates in this thread on the project's own bsky @thaisisproject.bsky.social - will probably cross-post some here, but do follow if you're interested in all things 'harlot saints'!

The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast has released an episode focused on the MIP title "Towards an Accessible Academy"! This episode, presented by Alexandra R. A. Lee and Hope Doherty-Harrison (both editors of the volume), features interviews with another volume editor and several volume 1/2

We had a blast at day one of #IMC2026 and we're ready to do it all again today! Pictured: Sam Ottewill-Soulsby with 'The Carolingian South', Hope Doherty-Harrison with 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', Graham A. Loud with 'Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy'.

This was powerful and brilliant and I can't wait to listen to the recording #IMC2026 (and to see the published version in due course ofc)

Thinking about potential publication venues for the #IMC2026 keynote. Any hot tips or eager journal editors, lmk? #MedievalSky 🗃️

Don't forget these ones!! @charleskuper.bsky.social @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social #IMC2026

Thank you @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social for sending me proof that Anselm Adornes made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social Delighted to see him there!

If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!

And we're now calling for participants in our 2nd series starting autumn 2026 - if you have a source relating to saints and sanctity outside the classic hagiography form, which you'd like to discuss in an informal workshop format, see the CFP here drive.google.com/file/d/1O_qF... and get in touch 👑

We’re on the road for conference season 📚 We kicked things off yesterday at the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with more events to come across the UK and Europe. If you’re attending, come and chat to the team, we’d love to say hi! #SSHM2026 #SHS2026 #IMC2026 #NCS2026

Looking forward to attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! I will be a part of sessions 623 and 1720 - very grateful to the panel organisers & especially to return to DisMed post-publication of Towards An Accessible Academy!

Just dropped 👇👇👇 "Disability and Medieval Studies: Then and Now" ep of @medievalacademy.bsky.social's Multicultural Middle Ages pod Check out the first 12mins or so for my cameo :) www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/listen/episo... #DisabilitySky #MedievalSky 🗃️

Folks it's time for the election of two new RHS Councillors! I was very proud to be elected Sept 2025; it's a privilege to work with/for the Society but also to represent UK historians and historians globally to the best of my ability. If you're a Fellow, consider putting yourself forward?

He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me/

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Last night the brilliant student group Mearcstapan launched their amazing zine The Wordhoard. It’s INCREDIBLE ✨😍👏 So proud of them! Creative medievalism for the win! And I’m delighted that Ella & Issi who founded the group will be writing about the project for @guildmedmak.bsky.social in July!

The student-led group Mearcstapan (united by their desire for inclusive, progressive medievalism) have published their first zine: The Wordhoard! It's beautifully produced and chocked full of creative-critical responses, articles, and even a 'which Old English poetry codex are you?' quiz.

Delighted to be joining Birkbeck, University of London in September as Lecturer in Medieval Studies. On this beautiful sunny day I have been in Bloomsbury meeting new colleagues!

Join us @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Very excited for this session with the brilliant @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social, @realmandeville.bsky.social and @saracharles.bsky.social on writing trade non-fiction - from finding an agent to working with trade publishers, the media and beyond. #medieval #imc2026

📣 This Thursday the Women Writing Violence Network is hosting an online best-practice conversation on: 💥 Teaching Violent Texts and Images 💥 📆 18th June – 3pm BST / 4pm CET (90 mins) with speakers including @drclaireocall.bsky.social and @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social – join us – all welcome!

Dear all, I'm proud to present the programme for NOSTALGIA AND RADICAL POLITICS, which is being held in person 15-16 June and online 26 June. We have 26 amazing speakers lined up!! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️

This workshop is for anyone from pre-doctoral to senior level in any discipline who is contemplating applying for external funding for premodern research from the major bodies or who has been successful with one of these funders & is looking for further opportunities with the same or other funders.

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...