Tag: Medieval Archives and archivists‘Visualising the medieval manor’: Extracting data to explore medieval women’s livesTuesday 16 July 2024Karen Sayers shares her Professional Fellowship research project....Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Magic and civil warThursday 19 January 2023Magic (to the medieval mind at least) could be used to produce real-world effects...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Treasonous wordsThursday 12 January 2023The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still...Records and researchThe birth (and the death?) of Edward VMonday 2 November 2020In this blog I take a look at some of those left behind in...Records and researchThe 550th anniversary of Henry VI’s ReadeptionFriday 2 October 2020October 2020 marks the start of the 550th anniversary of what historians know as...Records and research‘The Devil among The Antiquaries’: Archivists and arguments at the Tower of LondonTuesday 23 June 2020We like to think of archivists as not just incredibly knowledgeable, resourceful and hard-working...Records and researchLiving with leprosy in late medieval EnglandThursday 5 December 2019Leprosy – now known as Hansen’s disease in order to remove the stigma with...Records and researchMedieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383Thursday 28 November 2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people...Archives and archivistsFarewell to fellowships: How did the year go?Tuesday 15 October 2019Our year as The National Archives-Research Library UK (RLUK) Professional Fellows 2018-19 has come...Records and researchThe Alchemist’s Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer and alchemyWednesday 9 October 2019Where did Geoffrey Chaucer get the inspiration for his stories? As part of my...Archives and archivistsMedieval Church and State, and the nun who faked her own deathWednesday 20 February 2019In the high summer of 1318, a nun of the priory of St Clement...Records and researchJoin us to discuss seven centuries of Irish historyWednesday 13 February 2019Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 March 2019 Dominus Hibernie/Rex Hiberniae: pre-modern Ireland, 1200-1801 Tickets... 1 2 3 4 »