IMEMS Durham

Calling all students, academics, researchers, librarians, archivists and curators: come and take an IMEMS short course! 🖋️📜 - Fully online - Flexible to your schedule - £100 per course - Optional live Q&As with your tutor Explore and book here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/ourcourses/

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Congratulations to IMEMS' @Tom_Hamilton_ , who has been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Mid-Career Fellowship to work on 'The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris'!🎉 Read Tom's recent article in French Historical Studies here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histori…

📢 Call for Abstracts! We’re inviting submissions from students at @durham_uni for the Intercollegiate Summer Conference 2026 (22.06). Open to PGT, PGR & 4th years Master's 🎤15-min talks | 🖼️ 5-min posters Submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rM0w87vtqR Deadline: 30.04 #CallforPapers

Two weeks today, on 10 April @Durham_Theology's James Kelly will be talking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar in UCD Belfield on 'Fighting for the Future: the survival and revival of English religious orders in 17thC Europe'. #twitterstorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism #nuntastic

The project investigates the vibrant production of French romance in England just when the impact of Francophone culture is thought to diminish, emphasising late-medieval English literary identities defined by multilingual and international perspectives.

Congratulations to Dr Venetia Bridges, our Co-Director for ECRs, who been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for next year to work on 'The Triumph of Englishness? French Romance in Later Medieval England’.👏 @LeverhulmeTrust @DurhamArtsHums @DurhamMEMSA @durham_uni

Learn to read the scripts of Medieval Iberia with our newest short course, Reading Medieval Spanish Manuscripts. 📖 Book now: imemsdurhamlearn.com/reading-mediev… 💻8 weeks of online access ⏱️Entirely flexible to your schedule 💬Optional Q&A sessions with your tutor

Come and take the MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at one of the @QS World University Rankings Top 100 universities for 2026! 🎓 Apply: durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

Carolingian bling ✨ Just one more week to apply to our 2 week online short course, Latin European Medieval Palaeography, running 13-24 April! 💻 Learn more and apply here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/latin-medieval… Manuscript: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbliothek, Cod. 1861, f.53.

We're thrilled to announce our outstanding performance in the @worlduniranking 2026🏆🎓🥳 3 subjects in the top 10 10 subjects in the top 50 22 subjects in the top 100 in their field Read more👉 brnw.ch/21x12aL #QSWUR #BestUniversities #UniLife

Haste, haste, haste! ⏰ Just a week left to apply for our 2-week online #palaeography course, Reading English Handwriting 1500-1700, running 13-24 April! Learn more and apply: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern-e…

Haste, haste, haste! ⏰ Just a week left to apply for our 2-week online #palaeography course, Reading English Handwriting 1500-1700, running 13-24 April! Learn more and apply: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern-e…

This looks like a great event, put on by the Scena Mundi theatre company and @durham_uni , directed by Durham PhD student Cecilia Istria-Dorland. All welcome! 📅28/3/26 🕐4-4.30pm 📍St Oswalds Church 🎟️FREE

A medieval wall painting hidden for centuries is giving new clues to the grand past of #DurhamCastle. The painting of a masonry pattern with a central flower and stem motif was revealed during renovation work. 👉Discover more: brnw.ch/21x0PRd #DUresearch

Medieval manuscripts are shaped by countless decisions made by scribes, illustrators, binders, and other hands. Thomas C. Sawyer explores how these choices, both material and textual, reveal the rich and complex world behind the making of a #medieval book. buff.ly/cuNwgQs

‼️@IMEMSDurham abre el plazo de solicitudes hasta el 2 de abril para los cursos #Paleografía Latina #Medieval y Paleografía Inglesa en la #EdadModerna. Se celebrarán entre el 13 y el 24 de abril. Además, se ofrecen cursos cortos en #Codicología y más. imemsdurhamlearn.com/latin-medieval…

We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for the fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference - details and a draft programme can be found here: durham.ac.uk/research/insti… #twitterstorians #EMHistory #nuntastic #recusantsbaby #history #Catholicism

This looks like an exciting initiative from @IMEMSDurham. Spend a week immersing yourself in medieval and early modern history, examining manuscripts, letters, and printed books, and studying works that have shaped religious culture, politics, and society.

Practical online courses for those interested in / working with medieval and early modern manuscripts

Fully funded AHRC CDP Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanitie…