Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/
@kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social Philosophy PhD student at the University of Leeds working on asexuality & aromanticism and organiser of the Aro/Ace Research Network 📚🎓🏳️🌈
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. Views mine, he/him.
Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
@juliangiglio.bsky.social @juliangiglio.bsky.social
Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social Food & Medieval Dogs
Public Humanities Fellow at Notre Dame
Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social Medievalist :) I work with Old Norse-Icelandic literature with a focus on female anger, emotion and monster studies, reception/Medievalism, and narrative networks @ University of Tübingen
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social
Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Matt Lampitt @mattlampitt.bsky.social SRA @mappingthemarch.bsky.social (blog.mowlit.ac.uk) | Medieval literary cultures | Britain, France, Occitania | borders, networks, ecologies, fungi, mud (he/him)
Rosalind Phillips-Solomon @rphillips-solomon.bsky.social 🪦 medievalist & whale fan 🐋
Currently working on late medieval death ritual 🪽
Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉
PhD candidate at the Courtauld
🌸🪻🦋 (they/she)
Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social Historian of Medieval & Women's History. FRHistS. Mum. Yorkshire lass.
New book Jan 2025: Scotland's Medieval Queens
Blog: Historytheinterestingbits.com
Podcast: A Slice of Medieval
https://viewauthor.at/SharonBennettConnolly
Pembroke College. Cambridge @pembroke1347.bsky.social The official account of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. We are a welcoming, inclusive and modern academic community.
Founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke.
Marie Tranchant @marie-trcht.bsky.social History PhD student @KCL • working on 13th-century documentary culture in England
Palaeography nerd • coffee fan • feminist • she/her 🏳️🌈
Olivia Dunderdale @omdunderdale.bsky.social SGSAH-funded PhD Student at University of St Andrews, researching gender & popular politics in 16th century northern Scottish burghs 🏴 https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/olivia-mary-dunderdale
Yaza Games 📖 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW! 🎉 @yazagames.com Creators of Inkulinati and Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts!
⬇️ Scriptorium is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎮
https://s.team/a/3119540/
⬇️ Buy Official Medieval Merch! 🛍️
https://yazagames.com/merch
Lucy Moloney @lucyelm.bsky.social medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, political relationship navigation, historical narratives and legends in later medieval British Isles • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her- K Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
MATER @maternetwork.bsky.social Medievalists Against The Extreme Right, a network set up by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social.
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social Shakespearean (derogatory) 💀
Lecturing in Auckland, hanging out everywhere else
Late romances defender. Currently into ecocrit things, charismatic megafauna, and hellmouths.
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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. Early English Queens, 850-1000 (https://t.ly/Q395d); Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders (https://t.ly/So2-E); & Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) all out now.
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social Morris dancer by day, PhD student by night | They/Them
PhD Studentship in 'Gender and the Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'
Ask me about early modern sailmakers
Can't receive bsky DMs so please pop me an email: kb878@exeter.ac.uk
Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social She/her, fledgling postdoctoral historian & Collections Development Assistant at Lincolnshire Archives
Co-organiser for 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' research group
MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027.
themamo.org
Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social NDHums is a safe and generative research network and space that accomodates the diverse, individual needs of scholars working in the humanities | https://ndhumanities.com | Funded by the Wellcome Discovery Platform https://medhumsplatform.org |
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Dr Michele Seah @mlcseah.bsky.social I’ve researched fifteenth-century English queens and their landholdings and affinities. Also interested in women’s histories, royal studies, and way too many other things to list here. Passionate about lifelong learning, by the way. Oh, and Buffy rules!
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social
Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History 1100-1450 and HRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. Researching loyalty, lordship, and governance in the late Middle Ages, esp. Gascony/Aquitaine. She/her
Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Nick Munn @medievalmunn.bsky.social PhD candidate @ QMUL. Working on masculinity and the doges in fifteenth-century Venice. Fond of cats. Charlton Athletic fan, for my sins.
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • deputy chair of board @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation.
For more info: https://linktr.ee/mfp_lestine
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only.
EM animals & their writers @ayyveebee.bsky.social 🌟fan account🌟
In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in #EarlyModern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
Centre for Medieval Studies @yorkmedieval.bsky.social
English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
Bristol PGR Medieval Conference 2026 @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social The Bristol University Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social) annual PGR conference, 'Power and Performance’ 2026. Questions to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk.
CFP: https://medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conference-2026/
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Dr. Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski @transliterature.bsky.social Neurospicy Trans Woman Feminist. Scholar of Trans & Medieval Lit., Disability & Critical Race Theory
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social Researcher-led working group at European University Institute, based in Florence, Italy. Email contact: queerwg@eui.eu
London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social Join us for regular seminars at the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social
Organised by postgraduate & early career researchers since 1970 📚
bit.ly/londonmedieval
Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social Historian of medieval gender and sexuality
Currently writing about pleasure and protests
Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History, Pembroke College Cambridge
Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on an intertextual analysis of monster encounters with dragons, dwarfs, and the undead in Old Norse fantastical sagas at the University of Leeds
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Want to join the Guild? Take a look at our website: https://www.guildmedmak.com/
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch The Swiss National Science Foundation funds excellent research at universities and other institutions – from chemistry to medicine to sociology.
We invest in researchers and their ideas 🔬🌱📚 — www.snf.ch/en
© Images: Impressum
Devani Singh @devani.bsky.social Old words and old books: medieval, early modern, digital. she/her
devanisingh.com
Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social Post doc on ‘The Seven Sages of Rome’ at St Andrews University | Genre, gender and magic in medieval romance | she/her
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social On a mission to seek out women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures. Interested in under-told stories of all women 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check out our blog: http://thewildgees.com/
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present.
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Dr Gabby Storey @gabbystorey.bsky.social Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist, bi (she/her) trans ally always 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria.
Book 1: Berengaria of Navarre (Routledge, 2024). Book 2 underway! Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Gabriella Williams @gabbymedieval.bsky.social Historian. Doing a PhD on late medieval English political rumours.
Early Career Researcher Podcast @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social Regular (free!) podcast episodes on a range of issues relating to the life and work of early career researchers working in the Humanities curated by @rozierhistorian.bsky.social
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vbaa4na9v6R4LN4p9a4ZF?si=b14
Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social Formerly Humanities Commons. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in KCWorks.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Dr. Lucia Akard @luciaakard.bsky.social Medievalist working on sexual violence, victim/survivor studies and sex work. British Academy Postdoc at University of York.
PhD Voice @phdvoice.bsky.social Amplifying the voices of PhD Students. Tag us with @phdvoice.bsky.social
James Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
Barbara Braid @dr-braid.bsky.social Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
@ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social
Florian Busch @flexionsmorphem.bsky.social Linguist @unibern & FU Berlin | interested in social interaction, digital communication, time & rhythm, spelling & typography, and media & language ideologies | PI of TEXTiT
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social postdoc @uniBern
#bookhistory author of A Colonial Book Market (CUP 2024) bit.ly/3NEXFbA
#migrationhistory: return migration from the Americas
Nathalie Herren (former Hofstetter) @nathalieherren.bsky.social Political Scientist @ the University of Bern, Switzerland
Political Psychology | Political Sociology | Intergroup-Attitudes | Public Opinion | Mental Health
#viewsmyown
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Felix Lempp @lempp.bsky.social Literatur- und/als Kulturwissenschaft
Postdoc @germanistikunibe.bsky.social
https://felixlempp.de
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Literatur & Ökologie
Literarisierte Pflanzen (19./20. Jahrhundert)
Theater im Anthropozän (20./21. Jahrhundert)
Weibliche Dramatik (19. Jahrhundert)
Anna de Quervain @annadequervain.bsky.social Historikerin | Grossrätin GRÜNE Kanton Bern | Büro Albatros GmbH
Journal B @journal-b.bsky.social «Journal B» sagt, was Bern bewegt – Online-Magazin für die Stadt Bern.
www.journal-b.ch
Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social What it says on the label. Interested in late 15th C with a focus on the Wars of the Roses but promotes anything medieval of interest. All photos are our own unless otherwise listed.
David Grummitt @davidgrummitt.bsky.social Historian of the late Middle Ages (and of the history of warfare more generally), academic and magazine editor. Very good with children and cats, not too shabby in the kitchen.
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Thomas H Bak @thbaketal.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Science of Language & Multilingualism at the University of Edinburgh, passionate polyglot with incurable curiosity, Scottish Tourist Guide Association tourist guide for Scotland (English, Deutsch, Español, Polski, Português).
Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)