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Thousands of Irish Medieval Documents now available online
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsTrinity College Dublin historians have reconstructed invaluable medieval documents destroyed during the bombardment of the Four Courts in 1922. -
Tweeting History: Social Media meets Mummies and Moats
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsLast week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Viking re-enactors fight it out on stage and playing trivia, the group got ready for the main event of the evening - watching a tv show about the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, Germany, and tweeting history. -
Bodleian Libraries Cairo Genizah collection now available online
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the store room to the web: Bodleian launches website featuring its 25,000 Cairo Genizah fragments -
‘Battle Castle’ lays siege on-air and online
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe show is an interactive, trans-medieval journey into castle engineering, bloody siegecraft, and epic clashes that transform mortals into legends. Hosted by UK celebrity Dan Snow, the show takes its viewers over six one-hour timeslots to Syria, France, Spain, Wales, Poland and England delving into the stories of six fascinating castles. -
The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 Billion Pixels
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsIt is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art from the medieval world, thanks to a newly completed website focused on the Ghent Altarpiece. -
Mapping the Medieval Countryside project receives £528,000 in funding
Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsA new project from King’s College London and the University of Winchester will allow researchers to explore the lands of medieval England as never before has received over half a million pounds in funding. -
New Website Showcases Suffolk’s Medieval Masterpieces
Posted on February 7, 2012 | No CommentsThis month sees the launch of a new website designed to showcase one of the most important sets of medieval wall paintings to be found in East Anglia -
Gruesome murders to mythical beasts: Britain’s historic church wallpaintings now can be seen online
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsEarlier this month, the Churches Conservation Trust – the national charity protecting historic churches at risk – launched a brand new online resource providing an interactive guide to just some of the fine wallpaintings in its care -
New project to examine immigration to medieval England
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe study will create a huge database of around 80,000 immigrants who lived in England between 1330 and 1550. -
Discover Medieval Chester project gets funding
Posted on November 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe 'Discover Medieval Chester’ project, which intends to promote the rich history of medieval Chester as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual frontier city, has has received an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to the value of £172 000. -
New App features Bodleian Treasures
Posted on November 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Bodleian Libraries have launched a mobile app featuring a selection of the rarest, most important and most evocative objects from the Bodleian collections. -
Profiling English Landed Society in 1066
Posted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsProfessor Lewis details the project, Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066 project, which involves completing a prosopography of landowners from England in 1066 -
“A Song of Ice & Fire – A Game of Thrones”
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No Comments“A Song of Ice & Fire – A Game of Thrones” The new series is set to release April 17th, 2011 on HBO in the US and HBO Canada for... -
Medieval Scotland database launched
Posted on December 27, 2010 | No CommentsA database identifying over 15000 people in medieval Scotland has been officially launched. Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286 draws on over 6000 charters to construct a unique data-base that provides... -
Medievalists on Twitter
Posted on August 14, 2010 | No CommentsAlthough it only started in 2006, Twitter has become one of the most important forms of social media that exist online. With over 100 million users worldwide, this microblogging site...
