Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Tasha Alden @tashaalden.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
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
@lizzyloufr.bsky.social @lizzyloufr.bsky.social 
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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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social Wobbly wanderings through worlds of wisdom. Chaplain✝️.
TSSF, disabled ♿, ND, #spoonie, printmaker disability advocate,🌈 asexual biromantic, she/her
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Esther Asprey @estherinwolves.bsky.social Dialectologist and historical sociolinguist in the Black Country. Learner of Celtic languages.
David Carrillo-Rangel @queerunicorn.bsky.social Post in ES / CAT / ENG / NO. Punk scholarship: Old Books, Queer theory and Birgitta of Sweden, the Madonna of Medieval Mystics. E/Em/Eir
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
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 🏳️🌈
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
Clare @sonicshoegazer.bsky.social A teller of tales and a writer of stories. Politically outraged. Genealogist. Book lover. Mudlarking. History nerd. Mother, wife. Shoegazer.
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Dayn @minis-story-design.bsky.social Modelling and painting miniatures in the Midlands, UK
Donna Champion @planetchampion.bsky.social Aprendiendo español. Este trimestre seré leer y escribir sobre el misticismo español.
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social Medievalist & philologist. Poetry and manuscripts. Wm Beauchamp fanboy.
Articles on final -e, the Pearl-poet, and monkish burps. Cursed by Artemis. (he/him/his)
bswbarootes.com
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Retired lexicographer and academic, most recently at the University of Portsmouth. Committed trade unionist. I mostly post about things I know about or am good at. If I stray into other areas, it's usually because there's a language angle.
Prof(for now) Liz Laycock @lizlongrat.bsky.social Curious about heritage building geomaterials, various crafts and spurious facts. Geobakeoff veteran. Likes ferrets.
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
sharonmcculloch.bsky.social @sharonmcculloch.bsky.social Linguist, senior lecturer, based in Vienna
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
Lawrence Davies @andrenascotica.bsky.social Music, trees, birds, bees, bicycles. Working on ecological histories of sound amplification. Born at 353ppm.
Green Party councillor for Ouseburn Ward, Newcastle upon Tyne. Promoted by The Green Party at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/ 
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
JoJaSciPo @strangetruther.bsky.social Science needs more than mutual back-slapping!
Scientific puzzles & chronic bullshitters sorted :-)
Won't vote Labour again
@strangetruther@masto.ai
strangetruther@twitter.com (dormant)
sciencepolice2010.wordpress.com
Antifa agent.
Zélia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-368X
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.
Rory @baronwr.bsky.social Developer, Scientist(occasionally Mad), Games addict, Pub Connoisseur
Angela @adminanemone.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian hobbit and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing.
Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.- D Digby Brown @digbyrbrown.bsky.social
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
EM animals & their writers @ayyveebee.bsky.social 🌟fan account🌟
In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in #EarlyModern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
@lazers74.bsky.social @lazers74.bsky.social 
Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social Professional historian FRHistS | Social, cultural and legal histories of medieval Europe and modern Aotearoa New Zealand | Writing a book on colonial ghosts #UncannyCountry https://phanza.org.nz/historian/amanda-mcvitty/
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
poscas @poscas.bsky.social mum, wife & messer about online. refugee from the bird place. rebuilding my aviary. 
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
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
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Liz Leemann @lizleemann.bsky.social Writer/PhD graduate @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Thesis: Spiritual motherhood in early modern literature
Interests: comparative literature, texts in translation, multilingualism, dreams, witchcraft, gender, history of science, medical humanities
Sueño Sereno @suenosereno.bsky.social 🌙 Sueño Sereno | Naturaleza, lluvia y música para dormir profundamente. #España https://www.youtube.com/@SuenoSereno.youtube
Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winner
Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social Interested in History; particularly the Weimar Republic, Churchill post 1945, Theatre, Shakespeare, reading, writing, napping.
Completer finishe 
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/
Professor Kieran Fenby-Hulse @kieranfenbyhulse.bsky.social 📖 Writer | Performer | Prof of Civic Imagination
✨ Helping renegades re-imagine their future
🌄 Retreats & Workshops
🏳️🌈 Husband | Dad
🌊 Teesside
Midlands Fringe @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Midlands Fringe AYIT!
📍 Wolverhampton
🗓️ 17-26 July 2026
💡 Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists
💷 Arts Council England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/midlandsfringe
lexipediatales.bsky.social @lexipediatales.bsky.social 
Alastair Forbes @areforbes.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in monasticism, knighthood and social order in the 11th and 12th centuries. Dedicated Orderic Vitalis apologist.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social Medievalist / writer / editor
(she/her. KingsManorGhost on the bird app)
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Maria Tapie @mariazuri.bsky.social an ’80s trans person
zuirimaria75.blogspot.com
Dr Ashley Firth .bsky.social @drashleyfirth.bsky.social Medieval Historian and author. My research interests include the history of women, the Crusades and medieval kingship. My forthcoming book 'Trailblazing Medieval Women' is now available to preorder.
Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social Likes: medieval literature, sea swimming, plants, embroidery.
Dislikes: transphobes, bigots, jelly.
Leverhulme ECF at Oxford, researching identity and the sea in medieval romance.
Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social PhD student at IMS - University of Leeds. Neuroqueering medieval mystics.
Mostly trans stuff.
Trans masc. Autistic 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/they
Vantage Point with Eli Amdur @vpeli.bsky.social The podcast for critical thinkers, hosted by veteran journalist Eli Amdur. New episodes weekly. Keep questioning, keep learning, keep thinking critically. Listen: eliamdur.com?utm_source=bsky
Amilia Gillies @amiliagillies.bsky.social CHASE-funded Ph.D researcher @memsunikent.bsky.social | Court scandal and corruption, c.1614-21 | Branch Secretary @canterburyha.bsky.social | Administrator @memslibukc.bsky.social
Hereward the Woke @pairofmagpies.bsky.social A pair of corvids in a man costume.
Alexander Brown @acfbrown1.bsky.social
www.ishcsf.com
@maryszybist.bsky.social @maryszybist.bsky.social 
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Simon Trafford @simonjptrafford.bsky.social Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
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
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Hayley Bassett @bass2961.bsky.social Medieval historian of marriage diplomacy & peacemaking, 10th to 12th century. She/her. Carer. Dog & cat parent. National Trust advocate.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
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
Dan @salvodanholland.bsky.social Christian ✝️ • Dad • Yorkshireman
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
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 Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social Poet. Former English Literature academic who has retrained as a gardener.
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Maura @mkarchivist.bsky.social Archivist (women religious archives), historian, librarian. PhD (CUNY). Early modern history of archives ~ family record keeping and archives. she/her. Views my own, etc. Somewhere on the Hudson.
James Rees @prof-stig.bsky.social 
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