Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Slade School of Fine Art @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Official account for the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Posting news about our events, open days, job opportunities and research.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade
Decolonising the Discipline @decolthediscipline.bsky.social https://www.decolonisingthediscipline.org/
Sharing good practice & innovation in English Studies. A collaborative initiative by the English Association, the Institute of English Studies, UEA, the Postcolonial Studies Association, & University English. 
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social PhD at EHU, Precarity and Anxiety in Political Culture in Plantagenet Britain and Ireland, co-convener North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network, Medieval Editor EPOCH PGR History Magazine, Newsletter Officer History Lab, sometimes Celticist.
Katie Vernon @katievernon.bsky.social Medievalist PhD researching arms and armour in Middle English romance.
Interested in medievalism of arms and armour in modern pop culture, esp. video games.
https://katievernon.weebly.com/
Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
Lisa Weston @anhaga9.bsky.social Queer philologist. Medievalist. Photographer. Academic labo(u)r activist. Arctic/Antarctic exploration enthusiast. Also sometime fangirl, but respectful with it. (Current obsessions OFMD, Black Sails, The Terror, Rogue Heroes, Slow Horses)
Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social PhD-doer, Uni of York, working on distributed cognition and nature in Old Norse and Old English poetry (mostly).
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
Stephanie Trigg @stephanietrigg.bsky.social Medievalist trying to live a good life on Wurundjeri land and sometimes on Gulidjan/Gadubanud land.
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!
Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge.bsky.social Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
Sarah Rees Jones @sarahrj.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of York. Trustee, UK Historic Towns Trust. #medievalsky
Dr. Savannah Pine @savannahpine.bsky.social Fellowships Advisor at the University of Denver | PhD in Medieval History from University of Cambridge | Researches ritual brotherhood, masculinity, queer studies, and chivalry in Medieval Europe
Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social Literary, historical, and material analyses that employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. https://linktr.ee/mip_medpub
Harriet Evans Tang @iamharrietjean.bsky.social Project Support Officer at University of York. Researcher working on bears and Animal-Human relations in the medieval north: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/bears-in-the-north/. Associated with Universities of York and Durham. Mum of 1
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
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
Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social Medievalist who loves reading, especially science fiction & fantasy. I don't speak for my employer or anyone else.
she/her
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. Early English Queens, 850-1000 (https://t.ly/Q395d); Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders (https://t.ly/So2-E); & Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) all out now.
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
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/
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB- S SCMedievalist @scmedievalist.bsky.social Medieval History, especially England. Author of Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England (2025). Loves include pets, mysteries, and mountain hikes. Views are my own.
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg @menalibahs.bsky.social Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social she/her •medievalist • monastic landscapes • experiential heritage • neurodiversity & archaeology • medieval women religious • creator #muntastic #nunscapes • SFF nerd #AuDHD Ally 🏳️⚧️🌈
🔗https://hcommons.org/members/kimmcurran
Alexandra Forsyth @amforsyth.bsky.social PhD student, History @aucklanduni
researching fertility, maternity, and childlessness of Valois dauphines. Research interests include medicine, health, French history, Franco-Scottish relations, monarchy, and medieval/ renaissance women & gender
Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social I just really like History | DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social Historian of medieval women, especially the nuntastic kind; lover of tea; associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo. yvonneseale.org
Prof. Louise J. Wilkinson @medievalfemina.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Studies, Lincoln, formerly at Canterbury. Passionate about medieval women, queenship, the thirteenth century, English medieval government, medieval aristocratic life styles, medieval records, and Magna Carta. Views my own.
Beth Allison Barr, PhD @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social James Vardaman Professor @Baylor_History; USAToday and NYTimes bestselling author @brazospress;
Medieval &Women’s historian
co-host @alltheburiedwomen
Tmadams @tmadams.bsky.social Historian of late medieval and early modern French women, author of books on royal mistresses, enthusiastic but terrible pianist, cat lover….
Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social IHSS fellow @QMHistory | PhD Medieval Cultures| Heresies, women & social networks| Former Research Associate @HarvardDivinity & Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow #firstgen
Jennifer Thibodeaux @jeannecorviere.bsky.social Medieval historian, author of "J'accuse" coming soon Godine, 2026. Jenniferwriteshistory.com
Dawn Hadley @danelawdawn.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Archaeology. President of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage
Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange FRHistS @drlizlestrange.bsky.social Medieval/Early Modern MSS and books, art history, material culture, gender studies, SL at Birmingham Uni, nomad, good wine, views mine
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
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.
Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac.bsky.social Medievalist. Teaching writing, medieval literature, and gender. she/her
Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social Post doc on ‘The Seven Sages of Rome’ at St Andrews University | Genre, gender and magic in medieval romance | she/her
Melissa Ridley Elmes @mridleyelmes.bsky.social Pushcart, Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star-nominated writer of "charming insanity." Scholar of medieval violence, gender, women's literacies, Arthurian studies. Sporty geek, Mother of Corgis. "Irrepressible badass." Unrepentant nerd; chaotic good. She/her.
Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com Historian of Buddhism, political thought, and gender in medieval Sri Lanka. Kiwi in Heidelberg. Big fan of nice maps.
He/Er/ඔහු/அவர்
Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social Lecturer in English literatures at the University of Wollongong. Victorianism, medievalism, women, empire, and the occult.
Currently writing a book on the post-medieval ‘Joans of Arc’ for Arc Humanities Press, 2025.
On unceded Dharawal land
Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social Writer, academic, medievalist, queer
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
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 :) ♾️
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
@alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social Reader | Writer | Researcher | Translator | Watercolorer | Opera💕 | Medieval & Early Modern Literature. A mussitator, I am always in nudiustertian mode…writing angry poems and crying to/at/for/about/alongside/in spite of my cat
Editorial team @postmedieval
Anna Wainwright @annawainwright.bsky.social associate professor of Italian studies at UNH. any and all views posted are my own, not those of my employer.
New book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/widow-city/9781644533598/
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social History professor & author.🇲🇫🇬🇷🇮🇹🇨🇦. Julian of Norwich is my role model (profile pic). Cats are the meaning of life. Fan of (esp European) mysteries, football (both kinds), Pope Leo, and most things medieval.
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social Art historian (Late Medieval and Renaissance). Mary Magdalen(e) stan. Lover of ballet, cats, and Tottenham Hotspur. Fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and cozy murder mysteries. Also a new and avid crocheter. Don't let me buy more yarn!
Dr Gabby Storey @gabbystorey.bsky.social Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist, bi (she/her) trans ally always 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria.
Book 1: Berengaria of Navarre (Routledge, 2024). Book 2 underway! Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
Yasmine Hachimi @yasminehachimi.bsky.social PhD in Early Modern Literature & Culture | Popular Representations of Premodern Queens | Period Dramas | Pop Culture | Romance Reader | Fangirl
Probably talking about the Tudors. 👑
https://linktr.ee/yasminehachimi
Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social Civil servant by trade, based in Ealing, west London. Medieval historian, #EMCC coach and mentor, lecturer, francophile, cricket fan, high and low-brow culture vulture, epicurean.
Author Amy Licence @amylicence.bsky.social Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her
Dr. Lucia Akard @luciaakard.bsky.social Medievalist working on sexual violence, victim/survivor studies and sex work. British Academy Postdoc at University of York.
Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.
Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
For more info, see my website alpennia.com
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
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
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
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
linktr.ee/cejacobson
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
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
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.
Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
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