Nightdive Studios @nightdivestudios.bsky.social Nightdive Studios’ mission is to bring lost and forgotten gaming treasures back from the depths.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/nightdivestudios
Time Extension @timeextension.com Breathing new life into old games. Retro gaming news, reviews and features from the lovely people behind @nintendolife.com
@pushsquare.com and @purexbox.com
www.timeextension.com
Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social Poet and artist in triumphant distress • Reliquary archives a specialty • World's worst Catholic ❤️🔥 Problems merchant - international shipping
God stuff: allthehoursgodsends.wordpress.com
Strange essays & peculiar fiction:
natashakindred.co.uk
2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social 3d artist, 🇧🇷 Gamedev and a Witch.
Making NECHROMIA, a high contrast survival horror!
WISHLIST NOW: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4720620/NECHROMIA/
https://2dchaos.carrd.co/
2dchaos@gmail.com
#pixelart | #lowpoly | #gamedev | #nechromia
Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social Journalist. Sunderland Uni visiting prof. England's North East Riviera.
The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social I use alternate history and fake maps to talk about real history. Hosted by Matt Mitrovich (he/him). Proud Chicagoan.
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thealternatehistorian
Email: ahwupdate at gmail dot com
Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social Actor, collectible, Planetary Society Board Member and AI since the 90s .
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
Joe Lynch @thejoelynch.bsky.social Working-class storyteller.
SUITABLE FLESH,CREEPSHOW,POINT BLANK,MAYHEM,EVERLY,CHILLERAMA,KoB(Dir cut),HOLLISTON,WRONG TURN 2,MOVIE CRYPT, A COUPLE OF OLD FASHIONEDS
Soon:BUZZKILL, DEATH EFFORTS
Letterboxd: @TheJoeLynch
IG: @TheJoeLynch
Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social I study dark matter, cosmology, and particle physics for a living at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. On the weekends I write explainers about surprising places physics shows up in the natural world.
caragiovanetti.com
Alex West @ajw87.bsky.social Cosmopolitan in Portugal. PhD. Middle Ages in Afro-Eurasia; Columbian exchange; manuscripts, Malay, Tupi...
Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/
New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him/ele
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs Strange stringed instruments, posted (hopefully!) every day.
Check the alt text for more info on the pictures!
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Griffith Institute @griffithinstitute.bsky.social Founded in 1939, the Griffith Institute is the heart of Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/griffith.html).
Jerome Ros @jerome-ros.bsky.social 🔍CNRS researcher
🫒Archaeobotanist at @isemevol.bsky.social
🔬Medievalist, working on agriculture and forests in medieval France, Spain and Morocco (@Isemaproject)
https://cv.hal.science/jerome-ros
Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
James Morton @jamesmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Researches law, religion, and manuscripts in the medieval Byzantine Empire. Author, Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (http://bit.ly/3h3Huph) #ByzantineLaw
🏴🇭🇰🇬🇷🇮🇹
Vincent Debiais @vincentdebiais.bsky.social Medievalist at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.
Visual culture of the Middle Ages, anthropology of images, medieval art history, epigraphy, silence.
Writes at https://devisu.hypotheses.org/
Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Catrin Haberfield @catrinh.bsky.social Medievalist and B2B copywriter | PhD candidate @Stanford | Old English, manuscript studies, DH, and UX approaches to textual cultures of the Insular world (they/she)
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only.
Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social Medievalist. First Gen. Associate Professor of English, LSU. Disability advocacy, medieval stuff, and food/drinks. And cats. Opinions my own. he/him
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/
Dr Andrew D. Buck @andrewdbuck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Beer enthusiast. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
orsi 🕯️ @aylosro.bsky.social phd in medieval history | political culture, social dynamics in 10th—11th-c. france & provence | they/them
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Mary Witchman 🧙🏻♀️ @maryhitchman.bsky.social PhD-ing on late antique women’s writing • she/her
Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ Kutztown, Art History | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖
https://linktr.ee/jennlynnjordan
💙💜💖
Lauren Cole @medievallauren.bsky.social Medievalist: Hildegard of Bingen, medicine, religious lit, medievalism, public scholarship. PhD History student at Northwestern, visiting @unimainz.bsky.social 24-25.
Anne Payne @anne-payne.bsky.social Administrator, medievalist, crafter, mum. Not necessarily in that order.
Dr Lily Hawker-Yates @gwenofmonmouth.bsky.social archaeology & heritage outreach/public engagement ⚬ embroidery inspired by archaeology & medieval manuscripts
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
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.
Mad Maenad @madmaenad.bsky.social Medievalist and Photographer, livin' the dream.
Che vive sperando, muore cantando.
Visit my blog site: www.pilgrimtothepast.com
My photography site: https://www.madmaenad.com/
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Kathleen Walker-Meikle @medievalbadger.bsky.social Historian. Writes on medieval and early modern animals & medicine. Books: Medieval Pets, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts & many more!
rowan @whittypear.bsky.social medievalist and union man for a free palestine / cemetery frequenter / blot on the landscape / they/he
John Cotts @johncotts.bsky.social Medieval historian, humanist. Working on the crusades, violence, and the twelfth century. Pursuing new interests in environmental and climate history.
Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
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 | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories.
Craig M Nakashian @themedievalprof.bsky.social A Baystate medievalist in the Lone Star State.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social Medieval manuscripts, SFF, cats, quilts.
Trying my best in Kalamazoo.
Black lives still matter.
Trans rights are still human rights.
Derrick Pitard @synderlic.bsky.social Medievalist who writes on Chaucer and religion in later medieval Britain; teaches Latin, Lit, and the History of English; family historian; dad; husband; once and future rower; union member. https://gladlywoldehe.net/
Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.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/
Robert Kurelic, PhD @raesene.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Assistant Professor of Medieval History (University of Pula)
Co-editor "History in Flux" (https://ffpu.unipu.hr/history-in-Flux) Research interests: Rituals, Nobility, Frontiers. RPG enthusiast. Personal account (All opinions my own)
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
enchantedpodcast.net
Dr Micah Mackay @micahmackay.bsky.social Writer and Historian ✍️
Dr of Carols (yes, really) 🎓
Arts Development & Cultural Advocate🎭
Currently writing about how we can transform arts funding ✨
Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social Medievalist / writer / editor
(she/her. KingsManorGhost on the bird app)
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Tobias Niedenthal @klostermedizin.de History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
-> klostermedizin.de
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Melissa Ryckman @missoularedhead.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, geek, feminist, mom, crocheter, potter. Order changes depending on day. Associate professor. All my own thoughts (most of which lately are 'wtf'). Desperately trying to do research.
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social Writing about old things at W&M, PhD UC Berkeley. Author FORMS OF DEVOTION IN EARLY ENGLISH POETRY (Cambridge UP 2023) and LITERARY FORM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (Cambridge UP 2025) she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own.
www.jenniferlorden.com
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social researcher @dhiroma.bsky.social | early medieval southern Italy | Christian-Muslim relations | Mediterranean
Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social Medieval Historian interested in the relationships between the Church and chivalric culture c.1100-1250.
'Parfois au loin se laissait voir / Un feu qui se balance'
Pursue happiness with diligence.
Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
Scott Manning @scottmanning.com Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024).
Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him
https://linktr.ee/scottmanning
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dr Carly McNamara @medievalcarly.bsky.social PhD in Celtic, focusing on early medieval Irish and Scottish history. Saints, monasteries, monastic networks, and water-based travel. Founder and Managing Director of My Academic Family, a non-profit supporting student success in university.
Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ England ❧ Scandinavia ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @hist4dem.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
Cullen Chandler @chandlerprof.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, trying to talk about things like normal people talk about normal things.
Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-c. maritime connections in the North Sea world
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social History professor & author.🇲🇫🇬🇷🇮🇹🇨🇦. Julian of Norwich is my role model (profile pic). Cats are the meaning of life. Fan of (esp European) mysteries, football (both kinds), Pope Leo, and most things medieval.
Dr. Brittany Orton @bhoneybadger.bsky.social PhD in early medieval elite women and pre-Conquest England from the University of York. Assistant Teaching Professor at CU Colorado Springs. Outdoors and gym enthusiast.
Ian D. Morris @iandavidmorris.bsky.social Historian of Early Islam
Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social Archaeologist I global late antiquity and beyond I writing a book about the Danube I also like to ride my bike a long way
Ekaterina Nechaeva @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social Historian, global late antiquity, prosopographies
Stephan Bruhn @stebruhn.bsky.social Medievalist; Early Middle Ages; Frankish World; Early Medieval England; Lecturer at University of Freiburg (@landgesch.bsky.social); views my own
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher on Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period at @uc3m.
Working with AI, or better said discovering AI @baddoproject.bsky.social
https://baddo-cm.uc3m.es/
E-mail: nerferna@hum.uc3m.es
Dr Rowan English @rowane.bsky.social Archaeologist, PhD on the ivory trade in late antiquity. Also interested in early medieval northwest Europe, circular economies, funerary archaeology, and long-distance interactions of all kinds.
Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
Tim Lubin @timlubin.bsky.social Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. President of the American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology from outer space - Amorium and Messene excavation - Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation
Mark Masterson @markjmasterson.bsky.social Byzantinist. Flutist. Author of Between Byzantine Men (Routledge 2022) and Man to Man (Ohio 2014) Former Associate Professor of Classics, Victoria University, New Zealand (now retired).
Orcid: 0000-0001-9964-8672
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
Dan Schwartz @bergdenker.bsky.social Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Digital Humanities. I promise I'll write something clever after one more cup of coffee. (he, him)
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social Latinist, late Roman historian
Catherine Keane @ckeane.bsky.social Late antique archaeologist & Byzantine art historian at the University of Glasgow
| Previously: Tübingen / Koç University / Philipps-Uni. Marburg / LMU Munich
| Out now: https://brill.com/display/title/70278
Sean Hannan @seanhannan.bsky.social Associate Professor at MacEwan University
PhD in History of Christianity from UChicago
Author of this book: http://tinyurl.com/yakq2y4y
And also this book: https://tinyurl.com/42a22cek
More stuff here:
https://seanhannan.hcommons.org/