Chloë R McKenzie
Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie🧵 about #alevels, #results and exams in the UK. My mum was working class, went to the type of secondary school where girls were encouraged to leave at 16 to train as secretaries. They saw her as the 'wrong sort', and made her do CSEs and barred her from O Levels. She fought and lost. 1/
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieCFP: “Women, Lordship, and the Culture of War” A Haskins-sponsored session at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo, MI (14–16 May) Apply by 15 Sept. 2025 at icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr... @kzooicms.bsky.social #MedievalSky
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieExactly 7 years ago I was at Hereford Cathedral with @chloermckenzie.bsky.social, launching the St Thomas Way: a new #heritage route from #Swansea to #Hereford, inspired by a real #medieval #pilgrimage. 13 locations, 13 circular walks, + free multimedia resources & activities. www.thomasway.ac.uk
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieMany people have compared what is happening in America to what happened in 1930s Germany - and rightly so. But I want to remind everyone that the current situation is not a fait accompli, and I worry that these comparisons sometimes imply otherwise. The situation is dire, but not without hope.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie25 time machines into moments in England's past... I'm so excited to share the cover for A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 25 POEMS (and thanks to Waterstones for doing the cover reveal on their channels this morning). I hope you love it as much as I do!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieWe’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
- A great day at the UK National Archives, Kew, for the Pipe Roll Society AGM and Council. It’s such an honour to serve on this society, which does so much to facilitate medieval research and accessibility to original documents. Check out PRS work and consider becoming a member! piperollsociety.co.uk
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieMAMO is this week! I’m so excited for so many amazing papers and workshops reflecting on how medieval research interacts with the modern world.
- Continuing with our MAMO thread of reflecting on practices of medievalism, we look forward to our Thursday panel on 'Pedagogy and Practice'! With Kirsty Bolton (@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social, Oxford), Karen A. Winstead (Ohio), and Brendan O'Connell (Trinity Dublin). #MAMOmonth
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieToday on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the one and only and utterly fabulous prof Vanessa McCarthy about her research into sex work in #renaissance Italy. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieBALH is hosting a talk this evening about Jane Austen’s Social Networks and the Wider World which will explore the remarkable women in Austen’s Southampton circle, lives shaped by empire, scandal, and global connections. All welcome Find out more: balh.org.uk/NTM209 @balhnews.bsky.social
- Poppies pouring in through Traitors’ Gate, beneath St Thomas’s Tower, at sunset 🌅 We also met Poppy, one of the Tower’s resident ravens, named for the original 2014 installation. I had met Poppy once before, in February during a visit with students, but it was nice to be formally introduced 🐦⬛
- An evening with lovely people at the Tower of London. Endless thanks to @ravenology.bsky.social for hosting, showing us round and telling the best tales, and to @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social for bringing us all together. @euanroger.bsky.social @tealcartoons.bsky.social @katewilliamsme.bsky.social
- An incredible night at the Tower of London, hosted by the wonderful @ravenology.bsky.social 🐦⬛ I’ve never seen the Tower like this: peaceful, dusky light. We saw the ancient Key Ceremony, then spent the night at Yeoman Warder’s pub, The Keys. Thanks @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social for organising! 🏰 🍻
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieWhat an evening hanging at the Yeoman Warder's Club w/ @ravenology.bsky.social at the Tower of London! No ghosts (this time), but lots of laughs! Grateful to have such good people in my life @katewilliamsme.bsky.social, @chloermckenzie.bsky.social, @tealcartoons.bsky.social, @euanroger.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie📢 #jobopportunity #medievalsky 📜 Lecturer in Old English ⏳5 years, full-time (anticipated duration to 30 June 2030) 🏫 University College Cork ⏰12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Tuesday, 8th July 2025 📲 Details of the post, selection criteria and application process: www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieI did all my degrees at Cardiff University This news is heartbreaking
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieVery excited about our #EstuaryAnthology workshop 'Routes to Protest' on 22 June at Gravesend Town Pier. There will be 1381 sound sculptures, a banner workshop and punk legend Gina Birch's choice of protest songs. Come and join the fun - its free!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenziewww.facebook.com/share/1DwtdX... Come and see me this weekend at the Highland Folk Museum, Newtownmore.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieNews | @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social begins process to repatriate human remains – delegation of Naga representatives visit museum to discuss return and care of ancestral remains
- Excellent history content incoming!!! Can’t wait to listen to this new episode in @alexvont.bsky.social HISTORY’S HEROES, featuring the incomparable @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social on one of greats of medical history, Harold Gillies.
- When losing a limb made you a hero but losing a face made you a monster, Harold Gillies restored dignity to WWI's disfigured soldiers. In HISTORY'S HEROES, I speak to @alexvont.bsky.social about what courage & imagination can accomplish in the face of relentless horror. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieWhen losing a limb made you a hero but losing a face made you a monster, Harold Gillies restored dignity to WWI's disfigured soldiers. In HISTORY'S HEROES, I speak to @alexvont.bsky.social about what courage & imagination can accomplish in the face of relentless horror. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieIt was great to hear @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social’s talk last night for our @mappingthemarch.bsky.social seminar series. Really interesting discussion afterwards on if it is possible to compare the different Marches (particularly the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh) in the late Middle Ages. #medievalsky
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieA historian who doesn't do any actual research is like a neurosurgeon who doesn't operate on brains. It's so fundamental to what we do that you can hardly claim the title "historian" without it.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieIf anyone is interested in working at CSMC and has any questions, I’m happy to try and answer them
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieWhere it all began for me. A third-year special subject, 1980-81, involving historical computing, a brilliantly innovative course by my mentor, John Palmer. The rest has been history. #DigitalHumanties before the term had been invented. Weeding old box files, this course booklet from my UG years…
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In case anyone is free next Monday and would like to join- please do email the project. Would love to see people there in person and online! - Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieTo whet your appetite ahead of our CPD Day next Monday, one of our speakers, Steve Illingworth, has written a blog post for TMW: teachingmedievalwomen.org/on-teaching-...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie📢 #medievalsky Help inform our #TOEBI roundtable for #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social 📜Topic: Fostering Learning Exchange and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Early Medieval English Studies 📲 Questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ‼️Closing date: 30 June 2025
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie#IMC2025 may be 4 weeks away, but the #IMC2026 Call for Papers is officially open!!! 🎉 This year our Special Thematic Strand is 'Temporalities'! Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to find out how to submit papers and sessions, and also to learn more about our Padlet page.😊 #MedievalSky
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie🎶 Thou needest not have wealthe To be my love Thou needest not be coole To rule above Ther nys no especial signe Ich have affinitee wyth Ich nede naught but thyne extra tyme and thy [lute riffe] kysse 🎶 #Prince
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieChild casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter
- Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieFree this time next week? Join us live at 6:30pm on Thursday 12 June as we announce the winners of the 2025 Women's Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction. Watch over on our website: womensprize.com/
- Such a fabulous evening celebrating #SceptredIsle. A true labour of love by @helencarr.bsky.social 🙌🏻
- Really enjoyed @helencarr.bsky.social’s book launch this evening at @hatchards.bsky.social. So great to hear from Helen and be part of a great crowd of #Medievalists 🥳 Cant wait to delve into Helen’s book and learn so much more about the 14th century!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieReally enjoyed @helencarr.bsky.social’s book launch this evening at @hatchards.bsky.social. So great to hear from Helen and be part of a great crowd of #Medievalists 🥳 Cant wait to delve into Helen’s book and learn so much more about the 14th century!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieFunded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieA little video from @tealcartoons.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming kids' book DEAD ENDS: FLUKES, FLOPS, AND FAILURES THAT SPARKED MEDICAL MARVELS! And yes, my office is just as weird as you might imagine it to be, complete with Houdini's Water Torture Cell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvl5...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieHave you seen this #Saxon #rainbow? #OldEnglish inscription in the #Saxon church at #Breamore: “HER SWUTELAÐ SEO GECWYDRÆDNES ÐE” (Here the covenant is revealed to you). The stone arch becomes a #rainbow - like the sign of God's covenant in the biblical story of the Flood. 🌈 Happy #PrideMonth all 🌈
- Shout out to the amazing Dr Stephen Spencer, fellow medievalist @northeasternu.bsky.social London, for leading this fantastic research at Lambeth Palace Library. The historians explored a range of docs, from the 12th-20th centuries, demonstrating the variety & scale of the library’s collection
- Watch the ever-engaging @helencarr.bsky.social explore the reign of Edward II, addressing the question: was he England’s worst king? From @history-hit.bsky.social, featuring Paul Dryburgh, Kathryn Warner and yours truly, at some fav medieval locations. www.historyhit.com/edward-ii-en...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieAnd it’s out today! Helen Carr’s brand new history of the 14th century is a must read!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieBIG NEWS, BIG REVEAL! One of the Sunday Times top 40 books of 2025, out May 29 but you can pre-order now! I cannot wait to share this book with you all
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieRegicide! War! Bubonic plague! SCEPTRED ISLE has it all. A thrilling new history of the 14th century by the incomparable @helencarr.bsky.social is OUT today! You aren't gonna wanna miss this one 👇 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/scep...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieFrom Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology. These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.
- I suspect this is something @cathamclarke.bsky.social would like!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieToday is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieReally excited to be giving the John Grove Memorial Lecture for 2025 online on 2nd July on Edmund Mortimer, fifth earl of March, and his lieutenacy of Ireland during 1423-25 as part of the Mortimer History Society Spring Conference. #skyhistorians #skymedievalists
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieFrom sessions on Denmark, wine, the living dead and more, the #IMC2025 Late Call for Papers will close Wednesday 04 June 2025!🎉 You still have time to speak at #IMC2025! Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/lat... and see if your research could enhance a session!😊 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieA queenly couple of days in London this week! Had a lovely CPD session talking about queen’s lands with my @teachmedwomen.bsky.social colleagues for the GDST on Friday followed by 1536 on stage today—a play where Anne Boleyn became an interesting plot device! 👸
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenziePleased to share that the first books of the new 'Courts and Courtiers' series from Brepols will soon emerge! Oskar Rojewski's monograph about Sittow, court painter to Isabella of Castile; and a collection of essays about Habsburg royal brothers, wives and bastards! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieHere's something lovely for your Saturday morning (well, the text isn't lovely, it's about domestic violence, adultery, and imprisonment). It's the model for the extremely weird 3vv mass in the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, Antoine de Févin's Je le lerray puisqu'il me bat. #earlymodern #nuntastic 1/
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieDelighted that #Shipwrecks made it to BBC History Magazine's '25 things we've learnt over the past 25 years' article celebrating quarter-centenary of the mag! With shout-out to #gloucesterwreck
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieThe untold story of a gruesome 18th century triple murder in Sussex is examined for the first time. In a new book by Professor Tony Kushner, ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ tells the story of Jacob Harris. Launching June 4, find out more 👉 octoberbooks.lemonbooking.com/events/93/details
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieMy next book SLEUTH-HOUND will be about Joseph Bell, the Scottish doctor who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes, and the milieu of medicine, mystery, and crime that surrounded him. I'm in the process of finishing the manuscript. It will be released in 2026!
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieCathedral launches two summer pilgrimages www.eadt.co.uk/news/2517356...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieThe Norman font of St Mary’s Church at Burnham Deepdale in Norfolk. The font depicts various rural occupations throughout the farming year. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Norman #Norfolk
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieLecturer in Medieval History of Art University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND415/l...
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzie#MedievalSky #EpiSky #histmed Online seminar on 11 June on "Mortality crises in the Medieval Mediterranean: sources and approaches." Papers by Smail (Harvard), da Silva (São Paolo), and da Silva (Évora). www.academia.edu/129482452/14...
- Another fantastic day with the #ProjectingMajesty team. This time at the National Archives, examining fourteenth century Great Wardrobe Accounts. I’d meant to take lots of photos of the team and the documents, but I was too engrossed in the accounts and discussions about Richard II’s clothes!
- This post seems to have really resonated with people, in academia and out (writers, arts, heritage, business, law…). People have shared stories and thoughts about survivorship bias and privilege. I’ve been moved by those sharing their “luck” stories (good and bad), and stories of kind mentors.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieWhen mentoring someone, your strokes of luck cannot be replicated but the support and niceness you received from some can. Let's act accordingly.
- Reposted by Chloë R McKenzieShout-out to everyone in UKHEI trying to do their day job ... while simultaneously wondering if that day job will exist come the next academic year
