Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social Historian of medieval Europe, currently researching trouvères through their representation in documentary culture @ MUSLIVE, KCL. Wolves fan 🐺🐺🐺 embroidery enthusiast. She/they 🏳️🌈
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Nicole Volmering @medievalireland.bsky.social Medievalist | Celticist | Research Asst Prof @TCDHistory. PI of Early Irish Hands @Research Ireland, CLÓSCAPE @TLRH, and Wandering Books. Passionate about all things medieval Irish, manuscripts, palaeography, and early Christianity in the insular world.
Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social He/Him
Freelance Illustrator
Fantasy🌿 and History🏰, occasional HEMA🗡️
No AI
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Nantes - France
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Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Richard Dubourg @richarddubourg.bsky.social Economist. Academic, then consultant, then UK government, then EU regulator, now consultant again. Environment, health, crime. Mostly chemicals these days.
Woke. Remain. Proportional representation.
André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social Historien (guerres, histoire publique), prof (CPGE, ScPo, ENS), auteur (Nathan, Monde des Livres), podcasteur (Paroles d’histoire, Le fil de l’épée)
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social Historian of Modern History, mainly researching and teaching things ~ transnational, colonial, animal ~ also coffee coffee coffee and biking
University of Tübingen, Germany
she/her
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
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/
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social Economist and economic historian. Directeur de Recherche, CNRS and Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris.
Website: kevinhorourke.com
Juliette Desportes @juliettedesportes.bsky.social Historian of 18th century Scotland. Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands. PhD from University of Glasgow.
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
École des chartes | PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social L'École, grand établissement d'enseignement supérieur, forme des conservateurs des #archives, #bibliothèques, #musées et #patrimoine. Composante de l’Université PSL.
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social Books & texts in the digital age (www.kakapitan.com)
#JuniorProfInParis in #digitalhumanities at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social, @psl-univ.bsky.social. Past @ox.ac.uk, @haskoliislands.bsky.social, @ucph.bsky.social
Repost≠endorsement
my opinions≠employer's
Highland Historic Environment Record @highlandhet.bsky.social An online, publicly accessible record of the Highland's Historic Environment. Visit the Highland HER website here: http://her.highland.gov.uk
Banner Photo: Patrick Robertson
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow.
Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute
Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He.
Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
Views own
she/her
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social
Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages
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
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
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.
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Gabriele Passabì @gabpassabi.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscripts enthusiast. Film addict.
Research Associate at @ghilondon.bsky.social
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
PhD | University of Cambridge
Murder Of A Famous... @murderbastard.bsky.social A weekly murder mystery podcast, written and narrated by Mark Watson and featuring many guest stars. SECOND SERIES COMING SORT OF FAIRLY SOON.
Join the investigation: https://discord.gg/2eD3ZJ5UGN
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
The Disappearing Text Project @disappearingtext.bsky.social Producing editions of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. Based in @ucc.ie. Funded by @researchireland.ie. 🔗 https://www.ucc.ie/en/disappearing-text/
Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social He/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social Exclusive stories and insight from Westminster via PoliticsHome and The House magazine. Read our reporting at https://www.politicshome.com and subscribe to The Rundown podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
Oswald's Raven @oswaldsraven.bsky.social Account of the AHRC-funded project "Liturgical and literary landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world" run by Johanna Dale & Sarah Bowden (KCL).
www.oswaldusrex.co.uk
Wednesday Warehouse @wedwarehouse1.bsky.social A Collector of the Famous Owl
Come & see our collection at Kelham Island - Sheffield
Instagram, BSKy, X, YouTube & TikTok
Follow us, Like & Share🦉💙
www.wednesdaywarehouse.com
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/
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
Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy This is the official status and updates account of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. It is operated by the Pleiades Managing Editor […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@pleiades_gazetteer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social She/her, fledgling postdoctoral historian & Collections Development Assistant at Lincolnshire Archives
Co-organiser for 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' research group
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Humanities & History, University of Sheffield
Research: translation of Enlightenment rights discourses; colonial history/ legacies of early modern European collections.
Approaches: book history; DH; critical digital heritage studies.
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!
Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social Medievalist formerly @kieluni, now @uni_tue | Byzantium and trauma studies | maps and visions | gender equality | she/her | views my own | and I like dachshunds.
Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social Shrooms, plants, place-names, illicit whisky stills... currently working on the #PlaceNames of Eday, Rousay & Stronsay #Orkney
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/research/place-names-of-northern-scotland.aspx
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
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
Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social 'The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time'. Onomaphile and award-losing historian: 'Enough of all this academic chatter, Back again to devilry!'
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .(all views my own)
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
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
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.
Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk Medieval archaeologist at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Often found excavating monasteries and thinking about material culture; currently directing work at #CerneAbbey. Cats may make occasional appearances 🐈⬛
https://www.hugh-willmott.co.uk/
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/
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
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.
Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social Digital Humanities @ University of Stuttgart, Themen: Computational Literary Studies, Public Humanities, Erzählforschung, Digital Gender Studies.
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Caroline Goodson @cjg70.bsky.social Early Medievalist working on Italy, Europe, Maghrib, Mediterranean and economies; at Uni Cambridge; currently at American Academy in Rome. In to: urban gardening; city cycling; swimming in the sea.
Most recent book: https://tinyurl.com/mr75n
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. Based in Pittsburgh these days.
Helena Heald @helenaheald.bsky.social Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd 🎮🎲📚 ~ views my own etc.
Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
Leonardo Costantini @lcostantini89.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Interested in manuscripts, literature, movies and (good) TV-series. Opinions are my own.
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Barddoniaeth Myrddin @prosiectmyrddin.bsky.social Golygiad digidol o’r cerddi Cymraeg a briodolir i Myrddin. 🧙♂️ Digital edition of the Welsh-language poetry attributed to Merlin.
myrddin.cymru
AHRC | Ysgol y Gymraeg (Caerdydd) | CAWCS | Prifysgol Abertawe
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW00071
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
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.
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.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social Research fellow at Swansea working on fiefs of medieval & early modern Jersey; women in the Plantagenet world, first book on the Palace of Westminster; formerly @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, UWE, York and Durham; was once called Irene Adler; dogs; she/her.
Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social Actor & Comedian | he/him | http://patreon.com/wsebag
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
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.
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Cat Spencer @catjarman.bsky.social
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
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.
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba @ainmean-aite.bsky.social Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-names of Scotland is the national advisory partnership for Gaelic place-names in Scotland with support from Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
For more information, please visit our bilingual website: https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/
John T. Koch @jtkoch.bsky.social astudiaethau Celtaidd | ieithyddiaeth hanesyddol | archaeoleg
Celtic studies | historical linguistics | archaeology
llawer yn well gen i gyfathrebiadau gyda phobl a sefydliadau go iawn
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick