We Are Better Than This @better-than-this.bsky.social The government are protecting Big Tech instead of the people. That's why we must take action. When we come together we can safeguard our creativity and shape a better future.
www.wearebetterthanthis.co.uk
Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social International Nordic Master’s programme, offering an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.
oldnorse.is
Sarah Miles @sarahmiles.bsky.social #Archaeologist Director, Community Archaeology North CIC www.cancic.com @cancic.bsky.social Prehistory, Neolithic, Bronze Age, fieldwork, landscape, community. Former publisher.
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social "Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
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.
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
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
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social recovering urbanist and twitter abandonee
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
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/
Marie Jaros @mariejaros.bsky.social Medievalist, PostDoc, curiously looking towards the early modern period, currently working on historical whales, but also Kingdom of Sicily, Italy and charters
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social Oxford medievalist, pilgrimage enthusiast and researcher.
Member of Oxford's Faculty of History and Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
Posting about saints, relics, shrines, & pilgrims!
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/
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert
Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social 🏴 PhD student @irishinstitute.bsky.social vikings, women & textiles
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Dr. Timothy Liam Waters @liamh2os.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles University || Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures & Medieval Studies || Literary Materialist approaches in Old Norse || Professional Kolbítr.
Alariko @alariko.bsky.social a failed art account 24 A dude. I do sell prints, please DO NOT contact me about nft stuff thanks. alariko771@gmail.com
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
British and Irish Branch of the ICLS @iclsbritishirish.bsky.social Welcome to the British and Irish Branch of the International Courtly Literature Society, which promotes the study and criticism of the literature of courts and court-oriented cultures.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/icls/
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
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
⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social promoting all that is wild, dark & enchanting 🌲 supporting animal rescue, rights & welfare 🐾 antifascist ⚔️, vegan Ⓥ, female-run ✨ http://fiadh.bandcamp.com
http://instagram.com/fiadhproductions
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler
https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/
https://linktr.ee/WoolamalooGazette
Wirral Vikings @wirralvikings.bsky.social The largest Viking and Anglo-Saxon living history group in the North West
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social Hier lees je verhalen van historici over hun onderzoek. Dit is een wisselaccount. Dus steeds een nieuwe historicus en nieuw onderwerp.
Deze week: Laura Brinkhorst
Ook posten? Stuur een berichtje naar: @annepetterson.bsky.social
Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist. Historic graffiti specialist. London history nerd. Church crawler. Theatre. Crochet.
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
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.
@kyrokyu.bsky.social @kyrokyu.bsky.social 
Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social 📚 Independent Publisher of creative non-fiction and thrilling crime fiction
📖 Beautiful, insightful and informative books
📕 Catalogue: https://bit.ly/3SuJhcC
Pedal on Parliament #pop26 @pedalonparliament.org We’re back! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads. Find your nearest feeder ride on our Website
#ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26
Avi Rappoport @avirr.bsky.social Trying to be more curious.
It’s hard to post anything but politics as our nation implodes. But the Medievalsky community is delightful.
FYI: I rarely follow additional accounts that post really often. It’s not you, it’s me.
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care 🌸
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴
https://linktr.ee/QManivannan
Janna Willems @jannawillems.bsky.social Historicus, acquirerend redacteur Uitgeverij Omniboek, raadslid gemeente Noordoostpolder.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social Diagrams, etc. Author, cycling cartoonist.
Best work is in my free newsletter: https://diagramclub.substack.com/
False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social Prints available here: https://store.falseknees.com/
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)
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social The UHI Archaeology Institute, a hub for world-class research, teaching, and professional consultancy. Part of the UHI
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/ | https://archaeologyorkney.com
Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.
Robbie Ainsworth @robbieainsworth.bsky.social A civil engineer in Edinburgh. Cycle path closures and a bit of history.
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.
Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Old Norse at Balliol College, University of Oxford | Arthuriana | romance | translations
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social 
Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social tebūna mūs polėkiai kilnūs.
he/him
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
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.)
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com
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.
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Jiayu Dang @jydang.bsky.social Carolingian，Capitularia（条令），law-books （法律书），China, Jinan University， PostDoc
Holland Historisch Tijdschrift @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social Historisch Tijdschrift over Hollandse geschiedenis en erfgoed. Bestaat al sinds 1969. Word ook abonnee of bestel een nummer in onze webwinkel: https://tijdschriftholland.nl/winkel/
MASSOLIT @massolit.bsky.social Short video lectures from university professors for secondary schools |
“The best new resource we have used with students in the last 5 years.”
Modernités médiévales @modernmedieval.bsky.social Association des chercheurs et chercheuses francophones (littéraires, historiens...) sur le médiévalisme, fondée en 2004.
Notre site : https://modmed.hypotheses.org/
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social Medieval historian: religion, cities, heresy, intolerance, inquisition, environment, medievalism. Associate Professor (Career-Track), Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Views my own. he/him. https://eugene-smelyansky.com/
Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social Medieval historian | postdoc @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Early medieval manuscripts and religious education
Personal website: libripendis.eu- Z Thomas Kohl @zezzo796.bsky.social Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
Ludohistory @ludohistory.bsky.social Historian, librarian, creator, ally. Exploring how modern media adapts the past. Website: https://ludohistory.com Livestreams: https://twitch.tv/ludohistory
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 🏳️🌈
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social History prof at LMU in LA, CA: author of Transformative Beauty, working on museums, anthropology, art, & empire. I teach about these & global environmental history. Activist for reality + democracy—& against climate change + single-use plastics + GenAI
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
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
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist.
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social LRS Nigel Burn Fellow at Divinity Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Medieval Loyalty Research Network co-organiser (https://medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk). Charters, property, environment, and regional society. Occasional archaeologist
Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social ⚔️ Medievalist and bookseller. Sometimes poet. 30.
📍 PhD student in UCC's School of English and Digital Humanities working on genre & masculinities in Old English Literature.
📖 Editor in Chief for Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
Alexia Elise Kerkhof @treasuresofdutch.bsky.social Historian, etymologist, philologist, historical linguist - Historicus, etymoloog, filoloog, historisch-taalkundige
UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) @ukrio.bsky.social An independent charity supporting the research community to uphold the highest standards of integrity. Our work promotes research that is rigorous, trustworthy, and of benefit to society.
🔗 https://ukrio.org/
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk