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Pet squirrel in its hutch for #SquirrelAppreciationDay in Princeton University Library Ms Garrett 57 f. 103r (Book of Hours, Netherlands, 1495-1505)
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There is still a way to get your research heard at this years congress! The Late Call for Proposals is on our website!🥳
Visit imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/lat… to see if your research fits the sessions which require more speakers, or to propose a new session in the vacant time slots!🥳
ALT An IMC 2024 Programme held in a delegates hand
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OH LOOK! The program is live! I cannot wait to be a part of this panel this year. I will be online this year, but I cannot wait for Leeds! @IMC_Leeds
Now that the #IMC2025 programme has been announced, here's a reminder of past delights. Check out the online programme at imc.leeds.ac.uk/. Really looking forward to this summer for Worlds of Learning
ALT A display of congress programmes in a wooden case dating from mid-2000s to 2024. Covers in blue, green, red and yellow all with the image of St Martin from the Brotherton Library
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To brighten up everyone's 'Blue Monday' the
#IMC2025 PDF Programme and January Newsletter is on the IMC Website!🎉🎉
Check out your involvements in #IMC2025 and see when registration opens alongside all of the exciting exhibitors, events, excursions, and keynote lectures!
🐴⚔
ALT A rabbit looking at a laptop with the IMC Website on
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St Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar
BnF MS Français 412, Collection of texts, Lives of Saints; 1285; f.103r @GallicaBnF
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I’m really looking forward to this online workshop on queenship and natural resources. I will be speaking on the use of forests and parks by the Tudor queen consorts. The workshop is on 23 January 2025 and it’s free to register. See queensresources.org/post/wor… for more details @royalstudies #royalstudies #royalstudiesworkshop #queensresources
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High mountains and deep valleys detract no more from the roundness of the earth than the wrinkles on a walnut or the pennons on a lance.
- L’Image du monde (The Mirror of the World) (c.1245).
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Medieval African Fashion to be Showcased at Berlin’s Bode-Museum medievalists.net/2025/01/med… #AfricanHistory #MedievalFashion #BodeMuseum
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As Bradford starts its year as UK City of Culture, here's a short podcast w/ Dr Fozia Bora exploring one of its hidden histories: the story of 57 Somalis who came to Bradford in 1904, the city's earliest Muslim community, a story of both darkness and light
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kh34z…
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Before the Christmas break the IMC team
decorated gingerbread cookies. The overall winner is Rose with her Mappa Mundi Cookie! It is truly a work of art! 🥳
We are also giving a shout out to our Instagram winner
Fiona with her festive creation!❄❄
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The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) is indicated by this initial-word panel with exquisite penwork decoration and two entwined dragons. #ParashahPictures
BnF Hébreu 36; Bible. A.T. (hébreu); 1300 CE; Poligny (France); f.71v @GallicaBnF
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Mid-14th century corbel or bracket from St. Mary’s Church at Higham in Suffolk depicting a monk reading a book. Now part of the collections at Colchester Castle. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Suffolk
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Miscellany Monday is back! Here's Anna Boeles Rowland and Chanelle Delameillieure, "What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries," (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2…
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Eastern Polynesia was colonised between c. AD 700–1100. Radiocarbon dating of Tonga's oldest known earth mound places it around AD 500, suggesting that political complexity developed in the west before colonisation of the east.
🔗 from 2024 (£) buff.ly/3A9aQyu
ALT Map of the Pacific Ocean showing Triangle Polynesia (dotted line) and colonisation movements (arrows) from West Polynesia (dashed line) to East Polynesia c. AD 700–1100.
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We’re thrilled to announce that the Royal Armouries Museum has received a £100,000 grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund delivered by the Museums Association.
This will help us enhance inclusive practices and engage with local communities.
Thank you @MuseumsAssoc and @EsmeeFairbairn for your support!
More info: museumsassociation.org/fundi…
#Leeds #funding
