Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
Dr Charlotte Pickard @drcharlottepickard.bsky.social Medievalist researching noblewomen and marriage in 12th/13thc France | AL in FASS @ The Open University | Tutor on Exploring the Past Pathway, Cardiff University | Co-convenor Noblewomen Network | Co-editor of Approaching Medieval Sources Series | she/her
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.
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Cat Gower @catherinegower.bsky.social PhD student at Nottingham Trent University. Genealogical chronicles under Henry VI. 15thC history, cats, crochet and now roller derby. (she/they)
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social 'The People of 1381' is a major AHRC-funded project investigating participants in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England. It has compiled a comprehensive database of rebels, victims and places affected by the revolt: www.1381.online.
Fred Drogula @freddrogula.bsky.social Roman historian. Professor of Classics and Humanities at Ohio University.
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
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
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
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A.W. Boardman @historymondays.bsky.social Author & Historian | Exploring #Towton1461, the Wars of the Roses & medieval military history. For deeper insights join me at: historymondays.substack.com
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Kate Stevens @kateisabelle24.bsky.social Kidneys | Assoc editor @ckj-era.bsky.social | Medical History | Trustee/SoMe poster @friendsofgri.bsky.social | Fitness instructor | emojis | 🐶 🐶| 🐝 🐝 | 👛 | 🇮🇹
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
Annelies Cazemier @cazemiera.bsky.social Ancient historian. Greek and Hellenistic world, religion, Macedonia, Aegean sea, islands, and coasts, cultural interaction. Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Co-director of the Antigonid Network. Based in Newbury, UK.
Phillip Webster @pdwebster.bsky.social Director of Theatre at Thomas More University. Artistic Director of Southbank Shakespeare. PhD Student at the Institute of Historical Research, researching 19th c. forms of reenactment and reconstruction and Cincinnati's Pike's Opera House.
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.
Teaching Medieval Women @teachmedwomen.bsky.social TMW is a collaborative project between teachers and academics looking to encourage and support the teaching of medieval women in school History lessons.
https://teachingmedievalwomen.org/
Melissa Shiels, PhD @melissashiels.bsky.social Early Modern Irish Historian, Dress/Fashion Historian, Dress Recreation, Living History.
Recreating historic dress since 2002 from 10th century Viking, Normal, Medieval, 1530s-1570s, late 18th-century, Regency, and mid-Victorian.
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
Dr Nicola Tallis @nicolatallis.bsky.social Historian. Author. Contributor.
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Chris Doyle @gollygee2004.bsky.social Dad at Home, Surfer at Ocean, Classicist originally, now a Medieval History Lecturer, & other interesting things surely, posts in a personal capacity, from London to Mayo...West of Ireland
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/history/
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Alice Hunt @alicehunt.bsky.social Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade (Faber, 2024). Co-I on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates. Reviews for the LRB and The Times.
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 🧑💻
Susie Batchelor @susiebeebuzz.bsky.social Heritage wrangler, cat slave, tea guzzler, quilter.
Bethan Bide @bethanbide.bsky.social Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.
iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social iTEXTILIS – Part of The IK Foundation @ikws.eurosky.social
– Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net
Sarah Hinds @sarahhinds.bsky.social Doctoral researcher in history at the University of York working on late medieval inventories. VL at the University of Chester. Lover of lists. All views my own, most jokes awful. She/Her
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social History Student | He/Him | Ῥωμανία i.e. Byzantium | Chivalric Culture XIVth-XVth Centuries | Napoleonic Wars | Radical Socialist | SHODAN's Most Loyal Insect 🕷
Подкрепи и мен ръката,
та кога въстане робът,
в редовете на борбата
да си найда и аз гробът
@pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences in Britain; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton @archsoton50.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
Christopher R Davis @christopherdavis67.bsky.social PhD Historian. Modern America, History of Sport, Desegregation of College Football
Dr Patrick McDonagh @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social Historian of Late Medieval Ireland, Wales, and England | Irish Traveller | https://shorturl.at/u4JSw
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Maddy Gray @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social Historian, heritage adviser, pilgrim. Also posting on @churchmonuments.bsky.social
Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities @cccuartshumsed Heritage, medieval buildings (castles), food, sensory pasts. Dog person.
Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on 'Conserving Global Health' at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🌿 || #plants, #empire, #nathist, #envhist, #collections, 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 || she/her || views my own ✨
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Dr Christopher Monk @medievalmonk.bsky.social Medieval manuscripts, languages & cultures. I write about & cook medieval food @ modernmedievalcuisine.com; create public history content for heritage professionals & collaborate with creatives: https://www.themedievalmonk.com/projects--publications.html
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
Dr Lauren Mackay @regina-saba.bsky.social Historian & Author with Bloomsbury Academic, Consultant, FRHistS
📺The Boleyns, Blood,Sex & Royalty
Tour Leader & podcast host with Academy Travel | Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat
Pasadena CA & Washington DC
Marlen von Reith @marlenvr.bsky.social History PhD @UniofExeter, working on child soldiering | European, intersectional feminist, tea enthusiast | she/her
Jacqueline Murray @jacquelinemurray.bsky.social UProfEmerita, History, UGuelph; medievalist sex, gender & sexuality, esp masculinities & embodiment; learner of Scottish Gaelic, recapturing joy of writing & various needle work, co-habits with Eugene the cat
Elizabeth EH Corbus @eehc92.bsky.social Literacy advocate. SF and Maine. I’m searching for my glasses in all the wrong places.
Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
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/
Beth McMahon @nedlnthred.bsky.social She/her. Material culture scholar, textile artist, tailor, bon vivante, and good friend. Makes a gorgeous dress, decent cocktail, and a pretty good cookie.
Dr Romany Reagan @msromany.bsky.social Arts Council England funded research fellow, audio artist & storyteller weaving hidden histories into pieces of creative public engagement at museums & heritage sites. Dark heritage, feminist history, layers of memory in place, folklore 📜🕯️
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
David Green @dgreen1356.bsky.social Medievalist | Anxious dog owner | Works on The Hundred Years War amongst other things | Inexpert campervan converter | Not all those who wander are lost, but some of us are.
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff
Lydia Prosser @lydiaprosser.bsky.social Medieval finds specialist. Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University. My PhD is on late medieval Scottish dress accessories.
Cecilia Barnard @ceciliajb.bsky.social There is a nonzero chance I am thinking about nuns right now. Digital Historian. PhD student. Cursed by woho and the city of Philadelphia. Bama Alum.
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Want to join the Guild? Take a look at our website: https://www.guildmedmak.com/
Journey Through Time Pod @throughtimepod.bsky.social History from the ground up. Ordinary people, extraordinary impact.
📜 Hosted by David Olusoga & Sarah Churchwell.
https://linktr.ee/journeythroughtime
Charlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social Times and Sunday Times best-selling author
Medieval Historian
Mother of Doggos
SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Margreet Brandsma @brandsmargreet.bsky.social Historian of the medieval Low Countries I countesses and duchesses I peasants and lords I power relations in medieval villages I nobility I rural institutions I gender I Burgundy I Noble literary patronage in urban space
Jon Fitzgibbons @jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Dr. Lledó Ruiz Domingo @lledoruiz.bsky.social Adjunct Lecturer at the University Jaume I. PhD in Medieval History, University of València. Queenship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon is my passion. “El tresor de la Reina”, CSIC 2022.
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social Historian: medieval warfare and literature. PhD. FSA. FRHS. Rejoin EU.
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Emily C. Bruce @amocantare.bsky.social Modern European historian; Associate Prof. at the University of Minnesota Morris; author of Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class (UMass, 2021); SMC of twins; she/her. Views expressed here are my own.
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social Historian of reproduction, sexuality & medicine | she/they | Based on Wurundjeri country, in Naarm | Postdoc Fellow, University of Melbourne | views my own 🌻🏳️🌈🍉
paigedonaghy.com
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
The Northern Tapestry @northerntapestry.bsky.social Exploring the sagas and stories that link medieval Iceland, Scandinavia & the northern British isles https://northerntapestry.com/
De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the History department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
Dr Ruby Rutter @rubyrutter.bsky.social Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’.
Views are my own 🫧
European Review of History @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social The European Review of History - Revue européenne d’histoire is an international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas across Europe and to assist exchanges between young historians.
Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social European | Edinburgh-born | Historian of the Middle Ages | Northern Renaissance | Romanesque sculpture | Peasants’ Revolt | victory to Ukraine
Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social Substack Writer (see pinned post), Author, Writing Coach, and Kitten Herder. As the card on my desk says, I'll be post-feminist in post-patriarchy. She/Her.
https://substack.com/@jjonesewc