Ellen Gallimore
Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social
- I'm especially excited for #IMC2026 because this year I'm part of the @imc-leeds.bsky.social team! I look forward to seeing everyone in July!
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- As far as I know there's not been a concentrated study on 19th-C. medievalist clergymen (but if there is I'd love to read it!). A few good starting resources are Rosemary Sweet (2004), Dustin Frazier Wood (2020), Nigel Yates (1999), G.R. Evans (2021), and Clare A. Simmons (1990).
- I am pleased to say that on 18 December I passed my viva with @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social. Thank you to my examiners, Prof Jim Watt and Prof Joanne Parker, for a lively and engaging discussion! Thank you also to my supervisors Dr Emma Major and Prof Matt Townend for their support and guidance.
- 'Best Medieval Recipe' goes to Ellen Gallimore (English PhD) for their Anglo-Saxon hearth cakes.
- Here they are several hours before cooking in my "hearth".
- Make sure you book a late train home on Thursday to be able to see all three panels on Old English in the 19th Century at #IMC2026!
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- Thank you! This looks fascinating!
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- Ooh, I am not! I know Kemble and Grimm were regular pen pals. This sounds like something that would be of interest to @rafletcher.bsky.social, who has co-organised our panels and studies European correspondence networks!
- Doing a presentation on my thesis for the @yorkmedieval.bsky.social postgraduate research forum and one of my historians doesn't have a known image, so he's now Mr Collins.
- I picked up my bound thesis from the printers today. After taking a few weeks to not think about it, it's time to dive back in before the viva. I'd appreciate any advice on how to productively and proactively engage with my thesis! What have other people found useful or wish they had done?
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- This is very helpful. Thank you! I'm lucky to have a few friends who have kindly offered.
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- Thanks, Rachel! That's good advice. I imagine I'll be allowed to bring a pen into the viva to write things down?
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- That's a great suggestion. Thanks, Hannah!
- While I love bringing extra materials to class for my students to engage with, I think my back would love it if I hadn't chosen to walk four kilometres to campus carrying the biggest book I own.
- My icebreaker for my class is ready to go.
- The best kind of writing feedback is excitement from your friends! Thanks to @mckeagns.bsky.social for reading my thesis' tithes chapter.
- Can anyone tell me if the Institutio Canonicorum (Rule of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)) of 816 is definitely not the same thing as the Statuta (First Capitulary) of Gerbald of Liège? I'm two-ish weeks out from my thesis submission and do not have the time to go on a deep-dive for a footnote.
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- Thank you both! I had thought they were separate texts but a stray footnote in a secondary source made me doubt and panic. It's very reassuring to know that they're definitely distinct texts!
- Admittedly it is a footnote explaining that it is beyond the scope of my thesis to figure out how either text influenced the writing of Wulfstan and Ælfric, but I just want to be absolutely certain that they are, in fact, two texts and not one by two names.
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- Dreadful to read and impossible to cite. The dream team.
- I have in the past chosen not to use a source because I only had access to an ebook with no page numbers. I don't get why any publisher would do that. It makes no sense to me.
- Deadline for abstracts is tomorrow! Join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social for #IMC2026, bringing the nineteenth century to Europe's largest conference for medieval studies.
- CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
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- Use Y1 to find your study habits, because studying at uni will be different to 6th form. Are you a morning person? Do you need quiet? Do handwritten notes help you remember better? If you can establish what works best in Y1 then you can hit the ground running for Y2 when your results count for more.
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- Good luck!
- Just over one week left to submit your abstracts! Come join @rafletcher.bsky.social, Dr Thijs Porck, and me at #IMC2026 talking about "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century".
- CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
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- I applied for my UK passport using one online form the day after my citizenship ceremony and had the thing in my hands within 10 days. My US passport renewal required two printed forms, a self-addressed prepaid envelope, and took 6 weeks.
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- Peter and the Wolf (2006). It's an Oscar-nominated stop-motion short. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%...
- I don't care that it was a foundational work in manuscript studies, I hate using Humfrey Wanley's catalogue with the fire of a thousand suns.
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- Sims music plays in the distance
- CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
- So it looks like the University of York's own hideous website redesign is part of a sector-wide competition for the ugliest, most useless, and most meaningless 'branded' websites.
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- Not me but @marisapmichaud.bsky.social did recently and I don't recall her reporting any issues
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- We've got options for getting them flat
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- + inspire envy in everyone else NOT working with rolls in said reading room
- I had such a wonderful time at #IMC2025! If anyone is starting to formulate medievalism CFPs, let me know! I promise I won't use "antidisestablishmentarianism" on a slide again, unless that's the session theme you're going for.
- This is tomorrow! Get a good night's rest after the #IMC2025 disco so you can join us bright and early for nineteenth-century medievalism.
- Be sure to keep your Thursday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all three panels of Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century! #IMC2025
- Be sure to keep your Thursday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all three panels of Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century! #IMC2025
- Not listed in the paper programme is Kirsten Ogilby's paper "Beauty is Truth (and Correct Grammar): The Aesthetics of Learning and Translating Old English in the Early-19th Century" on session 1534 (9:00-10:30).
- I had the pleasure of presenting at the Ælfric’s Afterlives conference at Leiden University last week. The conference was superbly run and I met so many lovely people who are also passionate about the best writer of the 10th/11th centuries (sorry Wulfstan fans).
- This conference was an absolute joy!
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- It was lovely to meet you too! Enjoy ISSEME and I hope to see you at Leeds!
- Saddened by the sudden closure of the CLL. The PgDip in Parish Church Studies I completed through the CLL is directly responsible for me now doing a PhD (also at York). I have loved its short courses and had the pleasure of teaching one in 2023.
- Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
- I had hoped to teach again in the future, because opportunities for ECRs to design courses are so rare. Odd how the university's objective to become a "university of opportunity" forgets what opportunity can look like aside from traditional-age students starting UG courses.
- "Mo" from the Old English "ma" was used as late as the 17th c. as another word for "more" (itself from the Old English "mara"). So with Mo Money Mo Problems, the Notorious B.I.G. was hearkening back to an earlier linguistic tradition. In this essay I will
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- to be fair, the spelling in in the 1570 text I'm looking at is "moe" so your instincts are correct
- I just noticed that the (free!) registration for the (watchable online!) conference on the legacy of Ælfric of Eynsham at which I am presenting later this month closes on 15 June. The programme looks incredible and I'm so excited to hear the other papers! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Visited the York Minster Library this morning to take photos of their 1570 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Didn't take a single picture of the gruesome woodcuts of people being burnt alive because I'm only here for *cool* stuff like Foxe's use of Old English in railing against transubstantiation.
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- I have always resented the idea that the priority of education is to prepare for a vague "workplace". I fear it'll get worse as employers dictate shunt responsibility for on-the-job training onto schools an unis. Why train your own staff when you can move goalposts? www.forbes.com/sites/dianeh...
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- I'm so proud of you! It was wonderful to be able to celebrate both of these achievements with you!
- Chicago referencing help! I'm citing a footnote from a text that stretches across multiple pages. The Manual of Style says I should cite the page & note number on which the footnote falls (52n66) but my quote is actually from the following page. Do I do 52-53n66 or just leave it as 52n66?
- Run don't walk! I've just been and there's some wonderful books for a wonderful cause.
- 📢 Announcing the Great CECS Book Sale 📚 Friday 16 May & Saturday 17 May, 11am to 4pm, in the CECS foyer at King’s Manor. spsr.me/6Gxx
