Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
(I can't read private messages here.)
Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century | Research Fellow, Books and Borrowing (2020-2023) | www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit-baston-36998540
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Rich @richbamford.bsky.social Software Engineer
Amateur Astronomer
All things Discworld & Pratchett
Human
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
iansdonnelly.bsky.social @iansdonnelly.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute. Researching classical tragedy and early modern English drama, particularly Senecan influences on Elizabethan Inns of Court dramas.
Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social B.A., M.Phil (Merton), D.Phil (Oriel), University of Oxford. Medieval Scholar. #Tolkien Scholar. Oxford Tolkien Network. Author of Oxford University's first ever doctoral thesis on Tolkien.
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/
Thomas Phillips @thomasphillips.bsky.social Medievalist • Musicologist • Anglo-Norman chant traditions • Postdoctoral researcher @ University of Cambridge • 🏴
Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Atsushi Uchida @atsushi-uchida.bsky.social Ancient Japan, read with data.
Historian at Kyushu University | Text mining & Buddhist ritual
Developing Quantitative Historical Source Studies.
Substack👉🏻 https://substack.com/@atsushiuchida
Julianna Bratt @bjulianna.bsky.social Paleographer & family historian interested in early modern England, book binding & book history, and nice people fleeing twitter. MA student in archives & records management, distance learning through Aberystwyth University. 
Ben Rogers @brogers1721.bsky.social Research Fellow at The History Of Parliament Trust | House of Lords (1660-1832)
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in East Neuk & Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest book (pbk. ed.):
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Christ's College Cambridge @christscollegecam.bsky.social One of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge
www.christs.cam.ac.uk
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking. 
@alice-johnson.bsky.social @alice-johnson.bsky.social Journalist at the International Bar Association writing and making occasional podcasts about business, the rule of law and human rights. https://www.ibanet.org/
Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a road trip novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com
Making music as APOPHRA https://apophra.bandcamp.com/
Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow in English 2025-29 at St John's College, Cambridge. Book history, reading, writing.
/When the Music Fades/ 2026 @canterburypress.bsky.social
https://lucysixsmith.wordpress.com/
The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social A blog about art exhibitions around Britain and Europe written by Eddie Buckle and Lydia Lancaster. Read it at https://art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/
Matthew Cock @ihereyounowthis.bsky.social freelance fundraiser FundYourCause.co.uk / DisabilityRightsUK.org / #museums. Live in #Exeter, Devon, UK
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Mika Paananen @painmike1.bsky.social Author of 'Harmsleave'. History Fan and Old Aircraft Enthusiast. Belligerent Bookshelf. Typing Curmudgeon CorrectBird Style. Slightly Anglophile. NO unsolicited CHAT.
Dim comments is just bad English...🇫🇮
painmike.com harmsleave.com
Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social PhD student working on early medieval Lombard Italy at Padua, Venice and Salamanca.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social FBA, Professor of Medieval History, University of Oslo. Interested in cultural, intellectual, religious, and legal history, vikings, early Rus/Ukraine, manuscripts, medieval world history. President of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law. #medievalcanonlaw
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social The world’s first major initiative to address the gap between slavery and war - a partnership between King's College London & Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to tackle a 5,000-year-old problem to transform its future.
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
James Ryan @yasharyan.bsky.social Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern European History,
Cardiff University.
Currently writing an intellectual history of inter-war Soviet state violence.
Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
Richard Bellis @richardtbellis.bsky.social Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.
Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social Music historian at UMass Amherst | bit.ly/evanmaccarthy
St Anne's College Library @stanneslibrary.bsky.social News, information and updates from St Anne's College Library, Oxford.
https://linktr.ee/stanneslibrary
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association @nitga.bsky.social The Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association (NITGA) is the professional membership body for accredited tourist guides in Northern Ireland. Founded in 1992, we represent, support and promote guides who meet recognised national standards.
Tamara Köstenbach @bachtasaar.bsky.social Library Associate at Saarland University 🦉 | Information Science & German Literature.
#ResearchIntegrity | #ArtificialIntelligence | #Gegenwartsliteratur | #SaarLorLux 🇪🇺🌻
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
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.
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Jon Martin, Ph.D. @songsthatsaved.bsky.social PhD-haver in Digital Humanities. (Previously Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge) Security dork. Fan of hacking, ethnography, and the history of computing.
Doing digital preservation at a place much older than Chaucer. Also: @jon@cyberdeck.social
Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social Sometimes pirate, othertimes historian.
Records Specialist (Early Modern Parliament) at The National Archives UK. Views own &c
Curator of REVOLUTION 250 exhibition - now OPEN at The National Archives!
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
Dr. Kate Falardeau @katefalardeau.bsky.social PhD Medieval History, University of Cambridge • liturgy as history • medieval manuscript enjoyer • they/them
Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social Medieval historian and Latinist, specialised on the Irish and Carolingian scholar Dicuil, now editing and translating early medieval formularies of letters and charters @formlitchart.bsky.social
Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social Byzantium, Renaissance humanism, battery materials, apiculture...or any combination of the above.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social Student at @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social|History of Medieval Studies|Medieval Science and Education|Medieval Mediterranean|Latin-Arabic entanglements esp. translation movements
German and History Tutor
Kevin Kiernan @ktsk45.bsky.social Editor of Electronic Beowulf (https://ebeowulf.uky.edu/eBeowulf), interests in Old English language and literature, Anglo-Saxon and coastal Georgia history and archaeology, digital humanities....
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Amy Taggart @amytaggart.eurosky.social PhD Researcher in Food Ethics at Trinity College Dublin’s Environmental Ethics Initiative
https://www.tcd.ie/environmental-ethics/people/
@aicbrn.bsky.social Executive Committee
https://aicbrn.net/network-structure/#aeg
She/Her
Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social Historian working on colonialism, post-colonial North-South relations, genocide and economic crises. Lecturer for international economic history at University College Cork.
Flavia De Nicola, PhD @flaviadenicola.substack.com 🔎 Early Modern art historian from Rome, PhD, and professor working on Provenance Research in dialogue with Art History and Museology.
📝 https://flaviadenicola.substack.com/
🗃️ flaviadenicola.com/provenance-research
✉️ provenance[at]flaviadenicola[dot]com
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Rachel Healy @rachelhealyleckey.bsky.social Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin working on portraits of the Cornaro family in sixteenth-century Venice.
Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Simon Pulleyn @simonpulleyn.bsky.social Read LitHum at Balliol, Oxford. Sometime Lecturer in Classics at Merton, Oxford. Honorary Research Fellow at Dept of Greek and Latin, UCL. Retired solicitor, non-practising. Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. 🏳️🌈
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Guardian: visiting journalism lecturer at City St George’s University. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbatty
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Thomas Hughes @thomashughes.bsky.social Assistant Prof Mount Allison Uni and Dep Director Centre for Defence and Security Studies Uni of Manitoba. Arctic and N. Am Defence, NATO and European Security. And fly fishing with a dose of NUFC.
Elisabeth Ansel @elisabethansel.bsky.social Art Historian at @uni-jena.de | Art & Politics, Irish & British Art, Transcultural Romanticism, Art & Blindness, Postcolonial & Gender Studies, Epistemic Images | Berlin, Jena
Danie Burton @princessburton.bsky.social Historian, history blogger, heritage worker. Anthony Woodville: Sophisticate or Schemer, biography of Anthony Woodville out now. Article Yorkists under Henry VII in September 2017 Ricardian Bulletin.
Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social Retired rare books librarian, formerly Institute of Naval Medicine civvy, thwarted medievalist, enthusiast of history, cooking, words and singing, writer, occasional poet, permanently on wheels; married to retired PO (Comms) RNR, signal engineer, bass.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Hannah Goeselt @hgoeselt.bsky.social Boston/Cambridge based. MLIS. Lurking in the depths of the Mass Historical Society. Here to post about manuscripts.
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
AHA Library - Cambridge University @ahalib.bsky.social Architecture and History of Art Faculty Library
Bruce Boucher @bruceboucher.bsky.social Flâneur and former Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27)
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
views my own
Martin Devereux @martydev.bsky.social ◣ ◢ Consulting Archivist, based in the UK, specialising in digitisation in the cultural heritage sector and beyond. 3D, digitisation workflows, metadata…
Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social Calligraphy hobby group in Glasgow, Scotland, with interests in medieval manuscripts, broad pen & pointed pen scripts, design techniques, and all things lettering-related.
https://glasgowscribes.blogspot.com
(run by @ergative-abs.bsky.social)
Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Gary Brannan @gbrannanarchive.bsky.social Acting Director of Library, Learning Services and Research Collections @uniofyork.
'Makes archives sexy.'
'International Man of History'
'A weird bird, in a good way'
All views my own.
Jill Lawless @jilllawless.bsky.social London-based journalist covering U.K. politics, culture and more for The Associated Press. Author of Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia.
Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC