Medievalists Against the Extreme Right: Online Workshop
Date 4 February 2026
4.02.2026Details of the first MATER workshop of 2026 on how we approach teaching medieval antisemitism in the modern classroom, which will be held on Tuesday 24 February
The first MATER workshop of 2026 is on how we approach teaching medieval antisemitism in the modern classroom, and will be provided by Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
We meet online at 4pm on Tuesday 24 February; contact Dr Rachel Moss (Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk) for joining instructions.
MATER is a group set up for people working in medieval studies and medievalism to to interrogate what role medievalism plays in radicalising people into extreme right spaces, and what role we – as educators and experts in the Middle Ages – can play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism.
Rachel Moss is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Northampton. A medievalist by training, she is a specialist in gender and family in late medieval England and is developing a new research strand on the role of medievalism in the extreme right. She has recently been awarded a British Academy and Leverhulme Small Grant for her project ‘Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982’.