Blogging Manuscripts for the General Public

top of website for manuscripts, showing celtic designs

Speakers: Alison Hudson (University of Central Florida), Alison Ray (Canterbury Cathedral Archive and Library) 

Alison Hudson and Alison Ray distil their wide-ranging expertise from the British Library’s Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition; the Medieval England and France, 700–1200 project; and Canterbury Cathedral’s collaborative ‘Picture This’ series. Participants will challenge one another to engage audiences in 280 characters or less with images from a medieval bestiary, British Library Harley MS 4751, digitized in full as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France, 700-1200 digitization project. 


Submit your tweet or microblog by 24:00 Wednesday, 8 July

To read more about this opportunity, click here. 


Click here to register. If you would prefer to not use Eventbrite, please email torch@humanities.ox.ac.uk