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Dr Eleanor Baker

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4 years

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The best peacock ever commited to manuscript. (Ox, Bod, MS Ashmole 1504, c.1520-30).

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10 months

No, sorry, I don't care how hot it is, I've transitioned into autumn. The spooky reads are chosen, I've made a blackberry custard tart. If you see me in a roll-neck jumper dead from heat exhaustion, just toe me into the dead leaves at the side of the pavement.

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2 years

Well, I passed my viva! Full disclosure that I definitely do not have my own office, that is a door in my house.

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3 years

My college has a coffee machine that plays a video montage of Ainsley Harriot when you select your drink.

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4 years

Dinky little red hearts from The Book of Margery Kempe, London, British Library, Additional MS 61823 (c.1440). ♥️

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3 years

Today I submitted my DPhil thesis, 'References to the Material Text in Late Medieval Religious Literature'! Whatever the future holds I have had a truly wonderful time with excellent people.

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4 months

I would have thought the stone carving of a screaming man eternally crushed by the weight of an Oxford college turret a little *too* on the nose if anything, but what do I know.

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1 year

With the contract signed, I am cursed, excrated and maledicted to say that I am writing 'Bookish Maledictions', a short anthology of book curses, for @BodPublishing ⚔📖 #medievaltwitter #bookhistory

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6 years

The eerie skeletons of stretching frames with their parchment skins cut away #medievaltwitter

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5 years

Lord, grant me the confidence of a 1940's footnote.

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3 years

I stuck my neck out and sent in my 'Hares on the Mountain' linocut for a college art prize. Whilst I didn't win, I did get 'Highly Commended', which I am very happy with!

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4 years

I need to stop confusing 'eschatological' with 'scatological'. Not the same thing. At all.

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@EleanorMayBaker

2 years

Doctor Baker and Dogtor Mouse 🎓🐭

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4 years

E K P H R A S I S I dragged my sister in to doing the #gettymuseumchallenge . This was her expression the whole time. (Unknown artist from Giovanni Boccaccio, “De Mulieribus Claris", French translation, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France, c 1440, @britishlibrary )

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5 years

This year's pumpkin is inspired by the @BLMedieval MS Additional 37049's 'smiling' skeletons (there was a great thread on their teeth-baring recently - I'm sorry I've forgotten the poster!) 💀🍂

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3 years

Spent a peaceful couple of hours carving this energetic boar, inspired by the one in The Gorleston Psalter (BL, Add MS 49622, f.151r). Happy new year from the boar. 🐗

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4 years

After 14 weeks apart whilst Rob nursed patients, today we are moving in together! We met on Twitter about 2 years ago when I slid in to his dms for a bread recipe.

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5 years

Yesterday, I ordered up a book on the history of horn books without too much thought as to what it was. It turned out to be *THAT* book on horn books: Andrew W. Tuer's 'The History of Horn-Book'. Here's a short thread on the weird and wonderful features within and without

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3 years

I am going to talk about it, because if it damages my academic career then it is not an academia that I want any part of. The behaviour disclosed in the Al Jazeera interviews is disgusting. I use the work of some of the women speaking, and I believe them.

Oxford professors abused position with sexist and drunken conduct

Al Jazeera investigation reveals how some of Britain’s top universities fail to protect students from sexual misconduct.

www.aljazeera.com

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3 years

My first article, 'Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons' (snappy, I know) is now available on Project Muse! A big thank you to Studies in Philology for a lovely first experience. Available here:

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4 years

@VonKarn Thanks ❤

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3 years

I stopped this cat from getting in to the Rad Cam and got some stern looks and meows of remonstrance. (A college cat?)

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4 years

The Green Knight will say 'y knowe a place' but its the green chapel and you lose all sense of self

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I have started a new linocut based on the briny, slippery, Beowulf-inspired poetry of the brilliant @lauravarnam . Currently cutting woman-like mass in an oyster shell (and reading about oysters, which are fascinatingly odd). 🦪🗡

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4 years

I have nearly completed the wreath and thank GOD because my knowledge of british spring/ summer wildflowers is running a bit thin

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3 months

Pushing my baking skills with a rhubarb and custard tart, feat. rhubarb curd, crème pâtissière, and shortcrust pastry. Full disclosure I did blend two (2) raspberries into the curd to get that colour 💕

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2 months

I have received the proofs for Book Curses 📚🕯💀 I feel like this is a critical juncture for me. If I let errors creep in I will surely be cursed by my own output.

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3 years

I'm about 2 weeks away from submitting my DPhil and I realised today that I've made myself a kind of stress-warding pumpkin periphery on the table.

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3 years

So yes, the painted rood screen at St Helen's in Ranworth was fantastic, but it's this cantor's desk which has really stuck with me. #materialtext

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4 years

Pressing flowers from the garden because within this husk of a 24 year old woman lives the ghost of a Victorian child

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 years

@RTGoodman The #crapmiracle where a woman called Beatrice can't remember where she put her cheese, so prays to St Thomas Becket, who then reveals in a dream where she put her cheese.

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4 years

A single mother of 4 does her best to raise her children after the death of her husband, who was murdered during a botched burglary. Her rebel son breaks & enters into the same property but becomes trapped. Will he escape his father's murderer? This is: PETER RABBIT (2020)

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2 years

I have just signed the contract so it is safe to say...I am now working full-time and permanently in HE access as the St John's Pre-GCSE Inspire Programme Coordinator! Here's to facilitating university access for pupils from non-selective state schools!

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@EleanorMayBaker

5 years

Hey @OxText - congratulations on your new website, but please remove this from your website's ticker-tape banner. It is extremely inappropriate.

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 years

Fabulous giant ruler at @MuchAdoBooks showing the heights of various authors (look how tiny Charlotte Bronte was!). I am a solid Jane Austen/ Harper Lee.

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3 years

In exciting news, J. R. Mattison and I are organising an online conference, and we would love to receive your abstracts. 'ENGLISH PERCEPTIONS OF THE MATERIAL TEXT, 1300-1600', abstracts due by 30th August. Retweets and circulation much appreciated!

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3 years

The colourful doors of Oxford

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5 years

I tried to describe a full english breakfast but called it a middle english breakfast. Too slyces of towst wyth my sonny syde eyron pleese.

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1 year

I've made it to *the* age!

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2 years

Every creature in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 939 looks like its been caught doing something it shouldn't be. What are you all up to

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

Thank you to ME, MYSELF & I for finishing the chapter that has HAUNTED me for the last 4 months. Nobody cared about book metaphors in sermons before, & now I hate them too. See you in hell (or revisions, which ever comes first), you absolute swamp-dwelling crane-fly of a chapter

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6 years

I think I shall go as Object Oriented Ontology for Halloween because: 1) I simultaneously fear and desire it 2) OOO is a spooky ghost sound

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3 years

Goo lytyl artycule! My first article, 'Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons' has come out in Studies in Philology (in hard copy, if not in digital copy yet...I am sure I will post about that in due course too).

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4 months

I don't dress for women. I don't dress for men. Lately I've been dressing for the Thames (path).

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 years

I am considering applying for funding to start a podcast called 'Living Libraries', which would interview librarians/curators/custodians on the history of their collections/space (initially in Ox). Would this be something people want to listen to (or take part in?)

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3 years

When people ask what I'm going to do with a doctorate in medieval literature

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@EleanorMayBaker

8 months

Today was a big deadline for me! I am celebrating the meeting of it with a coffee and a snoop around (uncursed) books. 🕯📚💀

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6 years

I like the 'telling of the bees' tradition. You have to tell bees of significant life events, like births, marriages and deaths, or they punish you by not making honey or dying en masse. This guy shouted at the bees and they are exacting revenge. Museum Meermanno, 10 B 25, f.37r

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4 years

London, British Library, Harley MS 3828 (ff.27v-28r) - a primer text for girls which includes an illustration of a woman teaching a group of female students (complete with a wooden paddle for whacking them) and a facing ABC.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

False. There is only one library, but its vast mass is hidden under the streets of Oxford. The various library buildings you see are but the tips of one large iceberg.

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@EleanorMayBaker

5 years

Cotton Library fire.

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4 years

Possibly one of the worst book covers I have ever seen, but I also love it. The joker-esque font? The pun in the tag line? The low res image of a strawberry? Yes.

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4 years

There are lots of these signs about on church doors at the moment, but I think this is the most...biblical...in tone. I sort of expected a rhyme at the end.

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3 years

A first printing of the spring pilgrim! #linocut

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 months

Merry Christmas from the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire, where I am having a mulled wine and listening to @Magpie_Lane 's Wassail album (a banger both festive and local)

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4 years

I'm reading the Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis of Bridget of Sweden & in one revelation Christ tells her that she must 'be as a chese (cheese), and [th]i body as a chesefat (a cheese-making vat)', which is one of the more unusual metaphors I've come across.

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@EleanorMayBaker

5 years

Recently found out that not everyone pronounces the acronym for Early English Text Society (EETS) as 'eats', they just say the letters. Allow me to inform you that this is wrong and no fun at all.

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3 years

Hell yes I'm

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2 years

Spent yesterday evening making an autumn crown for my sister's halloween costume. And, really, why should we not ALL have autumn crowns?

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

Work break to print the owl and forget-me-not cards. One more design left to 'cut and print (which will be a hare and strawberry plant) and I can put packs together. 🦉

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3 years

Happy May Day all! I left the house at 5.10am with my hot lemon squash, and frog-marched myself over to the nearest nature reserve to watch the sunrise. Did not see another human soul, but saw plenty of animal ones.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

If you miss being in an Oxford library, an Etsy seller has created an 'Oxford Library Candle' which smells of sandalwood, oak, and leather. Inhale the Bodleian from only £5.60.

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

Inking up St Cecilia to check the details before I add text. I'm pleased with the roses! #linocut

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@EleanorMayBaker

5 years

Apparently the period between AD 850 & 1050 there was an increase in sea-fishing in England and this is known as THE FISH EVENT HORIZON, which better have been some apocalyptic beach war between man and fish otherwise it's really not deserving of such a sensational name

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

I always think 'Editor at Large' means that the editor is still on the run after commmitting a murder

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

As much as I don't want to add to twitter negativity, I am disappointed to see that the man who was foul to me at last year's IMC is back as a moderator. In front of an audience he said I should talk to my supervisor about the validity of my research, made some really

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

If I receive one more email about 'resilience in academia' I will test how resilient my laptop screen is to my fist.

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1 year

I finally got to cuddle the @StJohnsOx kittens! This one is Laud ❤

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@EleanorMayBaker

11 months

Do I think some manuscripts are haunted? Yes. Yes I do. This is @britishmuseum , Add MS 62925 (also called The Rutland Psalter). Fully digitised here

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 years

I genuinely thought the em dash was so-called because of Emily Dickinson's prolific dash use. I'll see myself out.

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

I'm only 50 pages in but absolutely loving @herdyshepherd1 's 'The Shepherd's Life'. Lots of great points about belonging and ambition and self-worth, as well as, like, good sheep and border collie (the best dog) content.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

Finished! One floral Pendle Witch for @MxComan #embroidery

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 months

The dog violets have come out on our lawn which is the special signal for me to make vanilla and earl grey tea cake.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

As part of this morning's codicology work I was googling about singletons being added to the start of quires & now I'm getting adverts for 'sexy mature singles in my area'. I am only interested if those singles are so mature they're from the c15th. And they live in books.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan Under someone's bed You put me on and said I was your favourite

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3 years

In good news, I passed my Confirmation of Status! That means that if you see me in person, you are legally required to give me biscuits to fuel ending of the DPhil.

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2 years

I baked an earl grey and vanilla cake and made it fancy, because its Saturday.

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3 years

Made a little stamp inspired by my header image (Newberry Library, VAULT oversize box Case MS Fragment 65). I stabbed myself with the tool, but what is ART if not PAIN? 😇🌷😇

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2 years

With my contract hot off the email, I am excited to start working three days a week at St John's as the new Post-GCSE Inspire Programme Officer! I'll still be teaching at St Peter's and Balliol on the other two days, so generally bobbing around Oxford in a tutor-y, access-y way.

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2 years

Thoughts and prayers as I have to open my DPhil document to begin viva prep today. May my reading be glaring error free, and my typos limited.

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@EleanorMayBaker

11 months

'A clash of good and evil in the savage kingdom of moles'. Say no more.

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

Took my breakfast tea out to a frosty field. Heard lots of birds, made eye contact with every driver that passed to assert my dominance.

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@EleanorMayBaker

6 years

*Stunning* botanical illustrations in @britishlibrary Egerton MS 2020, which contains a translation of the 'Carrara Herbal'. This is a Mugwort plant, commonly used as a anathelmintic i.e. great for killing body-dwelling parasitic worms🐛 (f.12v).

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4 years

MIP. Mouse in progress.

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5 years

In the final stages of completing the hand-sewn 'book reading blanket', under which I shall read when it's chilly.

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

For anyone in #Oxford avoiding crossing picket lines, please consider using these local cafes to work (they're wifi & work friendly!) Please do add... - Common Ground - Green's Cafe - Jericho Cafe - Branca - G&D's Remember to buy a hot drink/snack to keep them afloat!

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@EleanorMayBaker

3 years

If you can, please sign this open letter to try and stop the axing of medieval literature at the University of Leicester. Medieval literature should not only be taught by a few ''''elite'''' universities, and it offers students so much.

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@EleanorMayBaker

8 months

Twitter can be full of the most bizarre and terrible things, but it is also how I met @RobertCulshaw (who is bizarre, but far from terrible), and today we've been together for 5 years! This is the nicest recent picture I have of us, which is pretty representative.

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5 years

To answer a question that nobody asked, my favourite breed of sheep is the Border Leicester Sheep, which look like they're bred with rabbits. (I spend a lot of time looking at sheep, academically and ~recreationally~)

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@EleanorMayBaker

4 years

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the @MedEngOxon seminar today to hear @DanielWakelin1 and I talk materiality. It now seems appropriate to post that my first article 'Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons' has been accepted for publication! 🥳

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2 years

I'm making a linocut print of @durhamcathedral 's rose window for some pals. Did some testing to see how it's coming along because I'm IMPATIENT

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6 months

Had a fantastic evening celebrating Professor Marion Turner's 'Chaucer: Here and Now' exhibition at @bodleianlibs (which I devised the schools engagement materials for!) A testament to Prof Turner's impact that so many students and staff were there to support her.

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3 years

Today, @RobertCulshaw and I have been together 3 years, and he also found out that he's been accepted on a postgraduate course in adult critical care (after only a year...and in a pandemic). AND he looks great in a bonnet! Three cheers for three years!

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5 months

I have made an effort to concisely represent myself on my new English Faculty page. If you are interested in collaborating (or need some late medieval teaching or supervision), please do let me know - I would love to hear from you!

Dr Eleanor Baker

www.english.ox.ac.uk

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@EleanorMayBaker

11 months

God bless the EETS editors who transcribed the marginal scribbles. yyyyyyy hhhhhhh

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4 years

When you constantly tweet rubbish about your research but those tweets gain the most traction

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3 years

I now have a fancy professional page on the @SPC_Oxford website! I will be teaching FHS Paper II (Literature in English 1350-1550) at St Peter's this year, and am super duper excited to get to explore late medieval literature with my students.

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3 years

I just heard someone refer to the escalator in the central Oxford Tesco as the 'tescalator'.

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Medieval woman rakes scythed reeds as part of fen management, colourised.

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