Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Eadgyth 📚🫖 @eadgyth.bsky.social Medievalist studying at MA at University of York; sci-fi and Tolkien fan; knitter. Old English reader, reciter, teacher, and enthusiast.
@toc13.bsky.social @toc13.bsky.social 
Heidi Sulander @heidisulander.bsky.social Loving art, books, museums, history, nature, long walks and train travels. Civil servant in Brussels. 
Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social Ferðamaðr studying Old Norse language, Scandi myth, runes, and reconstructing dýrð gýgja from reconstructed sources. ᚢᛁᛋ ᛁᚴᛁ ᛁᛚᛦ gygratru.neocities.org
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
Skaldic Project @skaldic.org A feed for the Skaldic Project - automatic stanza of the day posts, updates on progress and service interruption information.
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk Dictionary of Old Norse Prose - Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog.
A random word of the day with a defined citation, the previous day’s Wordle solution, plus occasional updates from the editors.
https://onp.ku.dk/
Tarrin Wills @tarrin.bsky.social Old Norse lexicographer, saga and skaldic poetry enthusiast, manuscript nerd
Astri Bryde @bryderiet.bsky.social Textile historian, textile artist, educator and reader. And yes, I have a cat.
UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@biarvecc.bsky.social @biarvecc.bsky.social Medieval Archaeologist + Early Modern Historian x post war immigration specialist 🤸🍝⚽️🏺📚Vikings, Pre-Conquest eras and Plantagenets⚔️
Ann Williams @anwl.bsky.social Professional historian (tenth- and eleventh-century England), also a witch, with interests both in ancient rituals and modern practice. Lifelong socialist passionate about ecology and local resilience, member of the Transition community. 
@emerp.bsky.social @emerp.bsky.social 
Kristin Bornholdt Collins @bornholdtcollins.bsky.social Numismatist ⁘ Vikings in the Irish Sea ⁘ Hiberno-Scandinavian and Hiberno-Manx coinage ⁘ intersection and overlap of bullion and coin, etc. ⁘ author of SCBI 73: Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man.
Hélio Pires @heliuspirus.bsky.social Viking Studies Historian (MA, PhD), author, polytheist, Buddhophile, Pratchett & Python fan, biker, hiker, road & trail runner, ecophile and linguaphile. Astronomy & dinosaur curious. Occasional boomerang thrower and origami maker.
Posts in 🇵🇹 & 🇬🇧
Dr Jasmin Higgs @jaztherunologist.bsky.social Runologist for hire! I’m interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems. Currently working on: early medieval inscribed rings.
Bren MacNeil 🏴🏴🏳️🌈 @brenmacneil.bsky.social ½ Welsh, ½ Scottish,
Tour Guide,
Film & TV nut, Cinema fan, Trekkie,
History nerd, Map nerd
Architecture nut, Graveyard fan,
Gay, Goth, Pagan
Record Collector (70s/80s)
Model Railways
...
Sigurd Towrie @orkneyjar.bsky.social Orkney. North of Scotland. Ran Orkneyjar website until 2024, when costs and time became too much. Now divide my time between nessofbrodgar.bsky.social and uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Mr Darkins @darkinshistory.bsky.social History & Classics teacher living in Argyll. Ancient and early medieval history. Romans, Picts, Scots, Britons, Vikings, with some Classical Greeks thrown in.
https://youtube.com/@cowalhistory7598?si=N5zx4E8ToNVRRwg1
Ragna's Islands @ragnasislands.bsky.social A project researching the place-names of Orkney & Fair Isle built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social
Find us at https://nott.ac/placenames
Steven Young @stevey86.bsky.social Recovering Academic (political theory); currently trying to fill in my vast gaps in knowledge in things historical and scientific; fan of jazz and literature in translation.
Helen Melville @hemelville.bsky.social History & Heritage, Architecture & Landscapes. Inspired by nature. Photos my own.
Dr Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite FRGS @asgtypes.bsky.social Digital Editor, RUSI. Journalist. Photographer. Documentarian. Writer. Designer. Statistician. Past: FT, Condè Nast, GlobalData. Views are my own.
Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.- O @oldnegrounder.bsky.social @oldnegrounder.bsky.social
TT Dee @ttdee.bsky.social Full-time information privacy pro, part-time digger of trenches, Grandma, biker, keeper of rabbits, chief dog walker & Roller Derby fangirl.
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Science journalist covering all fields. Formerly an editor at New Scientist and Nature. 🧪🐸 🍄
New Scientist: https://tinyurl.com/2tvwfa2b
Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/4mbyh7a9
Sci Am: https://tinyurl.com/bdza74ta
Nature: https://tinyurl.com/yc265esp
Ultrasfcdk @ultrasfcdk.bsky.social 
TyneSIDEwomen @tynesidewomen.bsky.social Want your squad on all our socials? 📲
Northumberland Football League women’s teams: submit updates at tynesidewomen.co.uk to get featured across our networks! Let’s give the league the spotlight it deserves. ⚽️🔥
#NFLWomen #LocalFootball #Grassroots
Richard Coles @richardcoles.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, musician, priest.
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social Welcome to Willerby, a village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories about the weird things that happen in our village on our website and substack.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social human, etc.
Wirral Archaeology CiC @warchaeologycic.bsky.social Our mission is to Investigate, explore and unearth Wirral’s hidden history
Chilterns Heritage & Archaeology Partnership CIC @chapcic.bsky.social Archaeological consultancy services, educational outreach, and training. Not-for-profit. Every pound made goes back into heritage work in the community.
Protecting and celebrating the heritage that tells the stories of all of us.
www.heritageCHAP.co.uk
Stuart Ellis-Gorman @drcrossbows.bsky.social Medieval historian, crossbows and the Hundred Years War. Author of The Medieval Crossbow (2022) and Castillon (2025).
Freelance writer/editor/proofreader, occasional game designer. Reviewer of books and games.
Website: www.stuartellisgorman.com
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Northumberland @uknorthumberland.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Northumberland, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
King Slim @kingslim.bsky.social Archaeologist, Cycle Tourist, Open minded democracy defender.
Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
Steve C @sncarr.bsky.social IT (retired). Classics. Standing in the rain on hills. For some reason, an interest in the history, archaeology, art, cultures of the Himalaya and Central Asia. The intersection between unintended consequences and undiscovered requirements. Or some cheese.
Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social Adjunct prof in Medieval Icelandic Studies | Project manager at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social | Researcher @antidote-network.bsky.social |📍 🇮🇸 & 🇨🇿 | Historical Linguist | Víglundur 🐈
Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen
Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present
Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
Archaeoptics @archaeoptics.bsky.social Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Marcel Booiman @mbooiman.bsky.social 
Jennifer Stewart Miller @jstewartmiller.bsky.social Poet, late bloomer, author of Thief, Grayson poetry prize 2021, and The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens 2020), recent pubs in Salamander, Tar River, Radar, SWWIM . Multiple Pushcart and BOTN nominations—2025 Guest Poetry Editor for Cutleaf
ApocalypseHere @apocalypsehere.bsky.social Into archaeology, geology, architecture, cats, dogs, science, music, other stuff.
Not into fascism, airborne pathogens, mass breaks from reality, cruelty, war.
Probably autistic with ADHD.
Pro independence for Scotland.
Anne @anne231a.bsky.social 
Stratmates @stratmates.bsky.social Epic chats and questionable hats
Join Meg and Jon for accessible archaeology and best practice
Est. 2024
https://linktr.ee/stratmates
Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire @frameworkknitters.bsky.social We are a unique surviving example of a 19th century framework knitters’ yard, and still demonstrating this endangered craft.
Plus exhibitions, craft workshops, group visits, performances and more.
www.frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk
Rhian Williams @rhianwilliams.bsky.social Cymraes. Gogledd Orllewin Cymru
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
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FarageWatch @faragewatch.bsky.social Britain's community reality-check newsletter. Independent. Fact-reporting. Fully sourced. Print copies crowdfunded and delivered door-to-door by volunteers.
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
Half Zen Quaker panda, half angry honey badger
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1
Cricket | Natural history 
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social Historical Archaeologist working on the #Caribbean & #Chile | #Archaeology #Indigeneity #Colonialism #Slavery| Mamá • Feminista • Made in Madrí-La Mancha
Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social Bretwalda of the Angli.
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
TLDR News @tldrnews.bsky.social The Official Home of TLDR News
DeSmog @desmog.com Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science.
North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism from North West England. Regulated by IMPRESS
contact us on editor@northwestbylines.co.uk
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
The Vikingology Podcast @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social Viking History podcast with cohosts @cjadrien.bsky.social and @shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social where we discuss the art and science of the Viking Age. #vikingsky #medievalsky #history
@shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social @shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social History. Vikings. Iceland. Running. Wine. Seahawks. Christmas tree farming. Smart people. Love. That's it. Oh wait, and I do PhD research at UHI.
Doc McCullough @marginalviking.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Museum Director. Musings on public history, Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic. Opinions my own, etc.
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Megan Formanek @meganformanek.bsky.social Author of the Viking Trading Lands series.
Dramatic historical adventure!
www.meganformanek.com
Bite-sized Viking history videos on YouTube Shorts @Megan.Formanek
Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social Archaeologist | PhD Candidate | Vikings, Boats, Burials!
Flinders University
Doesn't use AI. I write in my own, special, clunky way and you'd all miss it if I didn't
Arne Abel Stamnes @drstamnes.bsky.social Archaeologist dabbling with geophysical methods, heritage management, GIS modelling and various forms of remote sensing. Hobby jazz trombone player. Norwegian living in Denmark. Sometimes books flight tickets as Dr. Stamnes
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Fraser McNair @ralphtorta.bsky.social Medievalist, blogger, charter enthusiast. Currently working as a research fellow on the Music In The Shadows project at the University of Nottingham. Read my blog at:
https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '25
Mercian Migrant @mercianmigrant.bsky.social Enthusiast of early medieval insular stone sculpture and natural history. Former teacher of biology. Born in Mercia; lives in Sussex.
Orla Craig @orlacraig.bsky.social Struggles with Galloway on a daily basis, muppets fan account, certified mayo Hater
C.J. Adrien @cjadrien.bsky.social Award-winning & bestselling author at Vinci Books | Co-host of the Vikingology Podcast | Lecturer at Medievalists(dot)net | Learn more at cjadrien.com
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Emma Richard-Trémeau @brokensherds.bsky.social PhD student Archaeology (Durham) |🏺⚱️| Pottery and technology
She/Her
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Dr Christian Mazet @cmazet.bsky.social Curator for the Cultures of Italy and Western Mediterranean at the British Museum
Caturday @fatcatwantsfood.bsky.social 
Sarah Semple @sarahsemple.bsky.social Archaeologist, early medievalist, gardener, aspiring artist.
The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social Dedicated to the preservation and investigation of a nationally-significant early medieval royal palace site at Yeavering, Northumberland. *Order our new monograph here: https://adgefrin.co.uk/shop/Ad-Gefrin-Brian-Hope-Taylor-and-his-Quest-p811658455