Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
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Marika Fox @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social PhD student in Digital Humanities at the University of Antwerp, working with machine learning and auctions of medieval books • Alumna University of Limerick MA Ritual Chant & Song • Amateur book collector & bagpiper
Kyrie E. Bouressa @kyrieb.bsky.social PhD student in Music Technology and Musicology at McGill University.
I study scribal communities and the transmission of chant within Nidaros (especially Iceland and Norway)!
Machine learning, networks, scribal attribution, and script classification!
Lizzie Bowes @lizzieb16.bsky.social PhD student @uni of Bristol thinking about rap music, politics, autofiction, RA @ black music research unit, concerted yapper AND hater
Gloucester Cathedral @gloucestercathedral.org.uk A glorious sacred space located in the heart of Gloucester, where all are welcome!
Miranda Rainbow @mirandarainbow.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the Institute of English Studies and the British Museum.
I work on the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century English embroidery and also its reception in the 19th century.
Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social Researcher at Oxford, lecturer at Exeter…never a dull moment!
Visual&Intellectual culture|Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History |
PDRA Crafting Documents project & William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social Queer, trans, purveyor of werewolfy things // PhD candidate, medieval lit // Muldumarec's number one fan // they/them // 🌈 ∞ 🌈
Kaila @kaiyankele.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of Bristol, funded by the MSCA/UKRI Doctoral Network REBPAF
Late medieval and early modern manuscripts and prints 📚
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Cambridge Medieval @camedieval.bsky.social Official account for the medieval history subject group at the University of Cambridge. Posting about all things medieval
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Holly Smith @hollysmith127.bsky.social Medievalist, Freelance Soprano, Composer and Tuba player, DPhil Music student at University of Oxford ✨
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social i like old music, book history, English nuns, & theories on time, space, and gender 💒🎶💖hawt early modernist specialising in music, AHRC post-doc on the ‘Music Heritage and Place’ project (Royal Holloway/ Newcastle University)📚 they/them
Rose A. McCandless @rosemccandless.bsky.social Bibliographer, rare book enthusiast, and special collections instruction librarian. I post about rare books & manuscripts, fine/small press, book arts, digital humanities, etc. MPhil, MLIS. Leftist. Silly goose. she/her
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Bristol University Library @bristolunilib.bsky.social Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat.
www.bristol.ac.uk/library
Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
European popular music and politics, global music histories, queer/trans studies.
Writing a book on #Eurovision.
🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
https://tinylink.net/GacOA
Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social An initiative to support and enhance humanities research through the use of innovative digital methods.
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/home
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.
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social 
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
We're not age verified (!) so we can't see DMs.
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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Dr Hannah Lucas @hannahalucas.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow @mpiwg.bsky.social / @tuberlin.bsky.social.
Medieval lit, mysticism, medical hums. Sometime yoga teacher. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @columbiaup.bsky.social. She/her.
hannahalucas.com
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social Professional scribe and illuminator. Written 14 books and made a DVD on the subjects. Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford Calligraphy Collection.
London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social The LMS is a forum for cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions about the Middle Ages. The LMS has been hosting colloquia since 1945; it hosts three colloquia each year.
Website: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/
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/
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (UniVie, @andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (UniVie, @danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
Inês Trindade @inesntrindade.bsky.social 🎓 PhD student at Maynooth University 🇮🇪
BROKENSONG project (PI Karen Desmond, ERC).
Interests: early music studies, archivism and baroque violin 🎶
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
Medievalism Seminar @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social We are a seminar group on medievalism based at the Institute for Historical Research, Univ of London. Our sessions address the imaginings, re-imaginings and evocation of the Middle Ages in all reaches of post-medieval culture.
Sig Sønnesyn @sigsonnesyn.bsky.social A sheep farmer in De Wulf's clothing, well-meaning idiot (in spe). Lonergan, Burrell, MacIntyre, McCabe. Waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – Alasdair MacIntyre.
Harvard Medieval Studies @harvardmedieval.bsky.social For in this regioun, certein,
Dwelleth many a citezein,
Of which that speketh dan Plato.
These ben the eyrish bestes, lo!
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social 
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.
Dr Katherine Williams @jazzladyk.bsky.social Musician. Musicologist. Writer. Mum of 2. Life is loud and wordy.
Research Fellow in Popular Music Songwriting, University of Huddersfield. Research Skills Officer, Royal Musical Association. MA/PhD musicology (Nottingham), MA Creative Writing (Bristol).
Tom Edney @tomedney.bsky.social Conductor 🎶
Editor and orchestrator ✍️
PhD student at Royal College of Music, London
Artistic director, Odiham Music Festival
🏳️🌈 🌱
He/Him
Dom McGann @academicmcgann.bsky.social DPhil Candidate in Theology & Religion, Exeter College, Oxford Arthur Peacocke Graduate Scholar in Science and Religion
He/Him
Gecko Dad
Kim M Glassman @kimglassman.bsky.social PhD Researcher at QMUL & Kew Gardens,
Proud gecko mum (she/her).
Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
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/
Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social Community hub, heritage destination, event venue, home to a living faith and musical tradition. One thousand years of wonder in the heart of Devon.
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only. 
Michael Winter @michaelwinter99.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle University. Studying 15th and 16th Century English choral music, reconstruction, and fragmentary music manuscripts.
Josh Harris @jkharris.bsky.social Composer
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol 📚 w/ Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Boydell & Brewer, Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press; now writing ‘The Medieval Library: Using and Abusing Books in the Middle Ages’ for Reaktion Books
Rhiannon Warren @rhnnnwrrn.bsky.social AHRC PhD student in ASNC at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, researching Icelandic Liturgical Manuscript Fragments • Soprano choral scholar • 24, proudly dyslexic ⁊ 🏳🌈 • she/her
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Dr. Kate Falardeau @katefalardeau.bsky.social PhD Medieval History, University of Cambridge • liturgy as history • medieval manuscript enjoyer • they/them
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
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/
INSULAR @insularmss.bsky.social Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne: ERC Advanced Grant research project (2024–2029). Run by Prof. Jo Story, with Dr Anna Dorofeeva and partners in libraries & universities across Europe. Funded by UKRI.
AMARC @amarc.bsky.social The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections - promoting the study, accessibility and preservation of manuscripts and archives
https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/
Thomas Phillips @thomasphillips.bsky.social Medievalist • Musicologist • Anglo-Norman chant traditions • Postdoctoral researcher @ University of Cambridge • 🏴
Faculty of History, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/home
Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms
posts currently by William Duba.- E Eleanor Giraud @eleanorgiraud.bsky.social Musicologist & medievalist, she/her, Course director of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song @IWorldAcademy, @UL - views my own.
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales @rism.bsky.social Documenting musical sources worldwide since 1952.
Search free database at http://opac.rism.info and http://rism.online
BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social ‘Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350’, an ERC Consolidator Grant project @MaynoothUni (PI: Prof. Karen Desmond) https://ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/
Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social Early music group for the discovery and performance of music by and for women. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/musicasecreta Support: http://musicasecreta.org/support-us 💐 Listen: http://spoti.fi/3NHluOe
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
SWWDTP @swwdtp.bsky.social South, West & Wales (Arts & Humanities) Doctoral Training Partnership. We are a partnership of 9 universities and other orgs, providing AHRC funding for PhDs.
Plainsong and Medieval Music Society @pmmsoc.bsky.social 
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
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.)
IRHT-CNRS @irht-cnrs.bsky.social Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) – Le manuscrit médiéval et la transmission des textes de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance.
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs- D DACT Fragments @dact-fragments.bsky.social
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.