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Pet squirrel in its hutch for #SquirrelAppreciationDay in Princeton University Library Ms Garrett 57 f. 103r (Book of Hours, Netherlands, 1495-1505)

There is still a way to get your research heard at this years congress! The Late Call for Proposals is on our website!🥳 Visit imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/late-… to see if your research fits the sessions which require more speakers, or to propose a new session in the vacant time slots!🥳

OH LOOK! The program is live! I cannot wait to be a part of this panel this year. I will be online this year, but I cannot wait for Leeds! @IMC_Leeds

Now that the #IMC2025 programme has been announced, here's a reminder of past delights. Check out the online programme at imc.leeds.ac.uk. Really looking forward to this summer for Worlds of Learning

To brighten up everyone's 'Blue Monday' the #IMC2025 PDF Programme and January Newsletter is on the IMC Website!🎉🎉 Check out your involvements in #IMC2025 and see when registration opens alongside all of the exciting exhibitors, events, excursions, and keynote lectures! 🐴⚔

#IMC2025 will be here before we know it, but that does not stop the IMC team from looking ahead to 2026! 🎉😲🥳 Here is a sneak peak of our IMC 2026 Call for Papers. Can you guess what the Special Thematic Strand will be? 👀👀

St Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar BnF MS Français 412, Collection of texts, Lives of Saints; 1285; f.103r @GallicaBnF

I’m really looking forward to this online workshop on queenship and natural resources. I will be speaking on the use of forests and parks by the Tudor queen consorts. The workshop is on 23 January 2025 and it’s free to register. See queensresources.org/post/workshop-… for more details @royalstudies #royalstudies #royalstudiesworkshop #queensresources

High mountains and deep valleys detract no more from the roundness of the earth than the wrinkles on a walnut or the pennons on a lance. - L’Image du monde (The Mirror of the World) (c.1245).

Medieval African Fashion to be Showcased at Berlin’s Bode-Museum medievalists.net/2025/01/mediev… #AfricanHistory #MedievalFashion #BodeMuseum

As Bradford starts its year as UK City of Culture, here's a short podcast w/ Dr Fozia Bora exploring one of its hidden histories: the story of 57 Somalis who came to Bradford in 1904, the city's earliest Muslim community, a story of both darkness and light bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

Before the Christmas break the IMC team decorated gingerbread cookies. The overall winner is Rose with her Mappa Mundi Cookie! It is truly a work of art! 🥳 We are also giving a shout out to our Instagram winner Fiona with her festive creation!❄❄

The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) is indicated by this initial-word panel with exquisite penwork decoration and two entwined dragons. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 36; Bible. A.T. (hébreu); 1300 CE; Poligny (France); f.71v @GallicaBnF

Mid-14th century corbel or bracket from St. Mary’s Church at Higham in Suffolk depicting a monk reading a book. Now part of the collections at Colchester Castle. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Suffolk

Miscellany Monday is back! Here's Anna Boeles Rowland and Chanelle Delameillieure, "What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries," (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/02/14/wha…

Eastern Polynesia was colonised between c. AD 700–1100. Radiocarbon dating of Tonga's oldest known earth mound places it around AD 500, suggesting that political complexity developed in the west before colonisation of the east. 🔗 from 2024 (£) buff.ly/3A9aQyu

We’re thrilled to announce that the Royal Armouries Museum has received a £100,000 grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund delivered by the Museums Association. This will help us enhance inclusive practices and engage with local communities. Thank you @MuseumsAssoc and @EsmeeFairbairn for your support! More info: museumsassociation.org/funding/efccf/ #Leeds #funding