Dr Ellen Gallimore

@emgallimore

Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes. p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· 27d

Last week I graduated from my PhD programme @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who helped make this long-time dream a reality, particularly the wonderful communities of @yorkmedieval.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social, my supervisors Emma Major and Matt Townend, and my husband.❤️

A woman in a grey graduation gown and red hood holding a diploma in front of a red-brick building.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jul 15

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2027 on Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.). Posted on behalf of Dr Robyn Stewart (University of York) who is not on Bsky. Deadline 1 Sept 2026 for 250-word abstracts.

A call for papers for Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.), with an invitation to contact robyn.stewart@york.ac.uk with submissions.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jul 4

I hope you've kept your Thursday of @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all 3 sessions of Old English in the Long 19th Century! Join us in Laidlaw Library Teaching Room 1 for nine papers on the impact of Old English language, literature, and law in the 19th century. #IMC2026 #medievalsky

Schedule for three Leeds IMC sessions on Thursday 9 July from 9:00-10:30, 11:15-12:45, and 14:15-15:45.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jun 30

Very excited for a different experience of #IMC2026 next week! If you see me at the Information & Payments Desk or out and about in the session rooms, please say hi!

Two badges for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, one as a participant and another as a member of staff.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Mar 26

For the lovers of women's sports out there, I'll be playing in an exhibition game for the British University Ice Hockey Association's International All Star team against Team GB University. Puck-drop at 16:40 at Ice Sheffield, but it should also be streamed on the BUIHA Youtube channel.

A roster for the British University Ice Hockey Association's women's International All Star team advertising an exhibition gain against the Great Britain University squad on 4 April at Ice Sheffield (UK) beginning at 16:40.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Feb 19

As everyone starts thinking ahead to #IMC2026, make sure your plans include attending our three sessions on Old English in the Long 19th Century!

A poster of the scheduling of three sessions on Old English in the Long 19th Century taking place on Thursday 09 July at the Leeds International Medieval Congress

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jan 29

I'm especially excited for #IMC2026 because this year I'm part of the @imc-leeds.bsky.social team! I look forward to seeing everyone in July!

The staff list for the International Medieval Congress 2026

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Dec 21

I am pleased to say that on 18 December I passed my viva with @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social. Thank you to my examiners, Prof Jim Watt and Prof Joanne Parker, for a lively and engaging discussion! Thank you also to my supervisors Dr Emma Major and Prof Matt Townend for their support and guidance.

A smiling woman holding a bound thesis next to a Christmas tree

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Dec 14

Here they are several hours before cooking in my "hearth".

A tin-foil parcel on a bed of white coals in a small barbeque with some larger coals stacked on top of the parcel.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Nov 30

Make sure you book a late train home on Thursday to be able to see all three panels on Old English in the 19th Century at #IMC2026!

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Nov 14

Doing a presentation on my thesis for the @yorkmedieval.bsky.social postgraduate research forum and one of my historians doesn't have a known image, so he's now Mr Collins.

A slide showing images of historians Sharon Turner, John Lingard, and John Mitchell Kemble. For historian Henry Soames the image is actor Tom Hollander as Mr Collins in the 2006 film Pride and Prejudice.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Nov 6

While I love bringing extra materials to class for my students to engage with, I think my back would love it if I hadn't chosen to walk four kilometres to campus carrying the biggest book I own.

A copy of the facsimile York Gospels bound in red boards standing upright on a desk, being enormous next to a standard-sized mug.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Sep 23

My icebreaker for my class is ready to go.

A presentation slide asking students to introduce themselves in small groups. One prompt is to share what they call a single small, round bread unit.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Sep 9

The best kind of writing feedback is excitement from your friends! Thanks to @mckeagns.bsky.social for reading my thesis' tithes chapter.

A screenshot of text discussing William Lyndwood's Constitutiones prouinciales ecclesie highlighted with an editorial note reading in all caps "my boy mentioned".

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Aug 2

I don't care that it was a foundational work in manuscript studies, I hate using Humfrey Wanley's catalogue with the fire of a thousand suns.

Disappointed guy meme format: top image of man looking exited reads "nineteenth-century historian says he used a medieval manuscript as a source". Bottom image of man looking disappointed reads "Reference is to Wanley's 1705 Catalogue".

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jul 30

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads:
Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Discoveries of OE texts
- Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE
- Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies
- Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE
- Biographical contributions about scholars of OE
- Scholarly correspondence on OE matters
- Editing and printing of OE texts
- Teaching of OE
Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jul 17

We've got options for getting them flat

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jun 30

Be sure to keep your Thursday at @imc-leeds.bsky.social clear to attend all three panels of Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century! #IMC2025

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jun 30

I had the pleasure of presenting at the Ælfric’s Afterlives conference at Leiden University last week. The conference was superbly run and I met so many lovely people who are also passionate about the best writer of the 10th/11th centuries (sorry Wulfstan fans).

A view of a wide canal in Leiden, Netherlands, on an overcast day.

A view of a narrow brick lane of Dutch houses.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· May 1

Photos of birds who wanted my Greggs.

A brown pigeon on a park bench looking longingly at a takeaway cup of Greggs coffee.

A female duck on the pavement in front of a seated person, making eyes at their Greggs coffee.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Apr 11

Gorgeous spring day at King's Manor.

A red brick Tudor building in the sunshine at King's Manor in York

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Apr 4

Me every time one of the antiquaries I study doesn't specify where he got the medieval material he's using:

A screenshot of Frodo Baggins from the Fellowship of the Ring Film. The caption is a line from the film: All right, then. Keep your secrets.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Mar 26

I always love York's daffodils.

Yellow daffodils on a hill up to York's medieval walls.

Yellow daffodils on the shore of the University of York's campus lake, on the other side of the lake is the university's UFO-shaped Central Hall.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Mar 4

Me every time I spend an hour hunting down what 18th C. edition of an 8th C. text a 19th C. antiquarian means in his garbage cryptic Latin footnotes.

Miyazaki Hayao looking exhausted, with his eyes closed, his arms resting on his head, and an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Feb 16

I learned yesterday that the typical UK design for big supermarkets in the 1980s and 1990s was modelled on tithe barns. I have no idea what to do with this information but I really like it.

Exterior of a tithe barn with a red-tiled pitched roof. Credit Wikimedia Commons.

Exterior of a Tesco Extra supermarket, with red-tiled pitched roof. Credit Google Maps.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jan 22

Be sure to join us on at @imc-leeds.bsky.social all day on 10 July for back-to-back sessions on "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century"!

Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1534 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, I: Early Medieval History and Culture".

Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1634 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, II: Language and Literature".

Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1534 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, III: Old English in Europe".

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Jan 1

Looking for inspiration on what to set for my Beginners Old English exam is enough excuse to break out the book pillow. I'm going to assign my students a charter, but which one?

Home desk set-up with shelving containing books above it. An open book sits on a book pillow next to a stack of other matching volumes.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Dec 31

When the local knows your whole crew. Out for drinks last night to celebrate @marisapmichaud.bsky.social submitting her thesis! With @mckeagns.bsky.social @hjparmstrong.bsky.social and not on bsky Dr Alicia Maddalena, Simon Bardon, and Gillian Galloway.

A group of six smiling friends at a long table at a cafe.

A table at a cafe with stacked glasses and a reservation sign which reads "Medievalists 17:00"

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Dec 10

Today I became a British citizen. Nobody told me the dress code.

A woman in an unremarkable grey dress holding a certificate standing next to a woman in an extravagant red robe with gold chain, another woman in an even more extravagant black robe with gold trim and lace collar and long gold chain and a black tri-corn hat with feathered edges, a man in a grey chequered suit with gold chain, and a final man (her husband) in a simple black coat.

Dr Ellen Gallimore@emgallimore· Nov 29

Thrilled that the three panels I have co-organised with Dr Thijs Porck and Prof Matthew Townend have been accepted to #IMC2025! Join us on 10 July for our sessions on Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century.