Hannah Armstrong
Post-Doctoral Fellow @ Tübingen | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongWe are delighted to announce the details of our Semester two York Medieval Lecture: The Darker Side of the Middle Ages Speaker: Professor Kathy Lavezzo (The University of Iowa) 📅 Tuesday 17 February 🕛 Lecture 6:30-8:00pm 📍 SLB/118, Spring Lane building 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongHe just called it "Iceland". We've lost track of which Atlantic island we're extorting Europe for.
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- Ok so this is one of those things I guess I knew in theory, but seeing it represented like this 😲 Mexico, I wasn't familiar with your game.
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- It's probably only come to mind because I was teaching on William Morris last week, but I think this gives a new ring to his famous quote: '[...] the past is not dead, but is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make' (Preface to 'Medieval Lore' by Robert Steele)
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongA replica of the Norwegian Alstad stone - a rune-stone and picture stone from the eleventh century - has been unveiled in Vytachiv in Ukraine. The copy was made by the well-known modern rune carver Erik Sandquist. www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new... #runology
- Kopi av Alstadsteinen - en norsk rune- og bildestein fra omtrent 1000-tallet - er nå avduket i Vytatsjiv i Ukraina. Kulturhistorisk museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social, @uio.no arbeidet med oppdraget, og kopi av steinen ble laget av runeristeren Erik Sandquist. www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/u...
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongIf you want to do an MA in London but have 'barriers accessing education or may face greater challenges while undertaking their degree' (specific criteria below), you can apply for a £3,000 tuition grant at Birkbeck. Lots of choices at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
- I do find it interesting that centuries of paleo-Inuit presence in Greenland is often described as ephemeral whilst five hundred years of settlement by the Norse amounts to the "first true ‘ownership’ of Greenland in a formal sense". [Not trying to dunk on this article in particular]
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- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongNorse in the North 2026: Mind and Body Deadline for Abstracts: 2nd February 2026 We welcome postgraduate students from any level with research on any aspect of Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian, and Viking studies that fits the theme. #NitN2026 #medievalsky #callforpapers #oldnorse
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongAttention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Hannah Armstrongsaturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongCFP for "Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present," 15 – 16 June 2026 that forms the latest @menysnoweballes.bsky.social exciting series of events and publications on this theme. Deadline 14 February 2026! Details are included on the link below. 🎉 www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
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- Julian of Norwich spotted on the new Florence and the Machine album:
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- I remember a fairly senior Education policy guy once telling me that this kind of standardisation of universities would be good because people would then respect non-RG degrees (such as the one I have) more. Just gives you a sense of the perspective they're coming from.
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongMy blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
- Reposted by Hannah Armstrong4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
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- Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongSSNS has now reopened its funding schemes, offering grants to eligible students and scholars at any stage in their career. Our grants support fieldwork and publications, events, and travel costs. Deadlines in Dec and Jan. For more details, see www.ssns.org.uk/funding/
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- This betrays their very middle class approach to university studies - that is, that everyone would be willing and able to move to wherever in the country offers the specialism that they want to do. They claim to want more equitable access to HE but are merrily creating education deserts.
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongFirst time I've sobbed at the end of a video essay
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- For those following this story, there has now been some movement with the UK government saying they will assist 40 students to reach a third country for visa processing. A glimmer of hope, but pressure needs to be kept up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Gently giving this a bump #medievalsky
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongPls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
- 📄 Hello! Would anyone happen to have access to Geraldine Barnes's 'Travel and translatio studii in the Icelandic Riddarasögur'? 🙏
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongWhen is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!
- Looking forward to hopefully seeing lots of you there!
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongAn open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongShaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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- So much of what made York wonderful is being lost. Frankly it's shameful that it claims to be a university for public good yet does this. I've only taught one course for the CLL but it was full of a mixture of students - some looking for company, some for a new start, and some just for the joy of it
- 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.
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- As there's no rest for the wicked, I will also be giving a short talk as part of the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social this Saturday! Come one, come all! yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...
- The last two weeks have been rather busy for me... ✨👩🎓👰
- Reposted by Hannah ArmstrongThere is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
- Reposted by Hannah Armstrong2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...
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- I can't believe that this government has got me feeling something like sympathy for uni VCs 😭
