tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Dorothea Preis @doropreis.bsky.social Interested in history, particularly medieval history, and baking bread. Have lived in Germany, the UK, and now in Australia. MA University of Bonn.
Helen @helenbelen1.bsky.social Early medieval history buff, EYFS teacher, paper crafter and mum to two amazing young adults!
Devani Singh @devani.bsky.social Old words and old books: medieval, early modern, digital. she/her
devanisingh.com 
Matteo Mameli @matteomameli.bsky.social Philosopher • King’s College London • matteomameli.com
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
Conor McCarthy @hibernowombat.bsky.social Director of Philanthropy, National Library of Australia. Books include Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages (2022), Outlaws and Spies (2020). Views mine.
Dr. Steven Bruso @stevenbruso.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, medievalist, and slinger of icosahedrons.
Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social Medieval manuscripts, SFF, cats, quilts.
Trying my best in Kalamazoo.
Black lives still matter.
Trans rights are still human rights.
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/
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
@medievalphdemon.bsky.social @medievalphdemon.bsky.social 
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social cognitive medievalist (researching climate in medieval literature) | working remotely at Durham University, UK | lost decade at The SunBreak & Seattlest | outdoor photographer see https://mikevanbaker.myportfolio.com/work
Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675.
Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
Jennifer Young @printlady.bsky.social 17th century book history, Shakespeare, ex-pat, all things early modern print culture 
Dr Janet Gunning @jangunning.bsky.social British-Kiwi. Full-time carer. Used to work with manuscripts and rare books. Learning to write fiction for children in my spare time. Love my garden. She/her.
London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social Join us for regular seminars at the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social
Organised by postgraduate & early career researchers since 1970 📚
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
diana myers @dianahmyers.bsky.social quasi-feminist disdain for salad | medievalist + archivist, now working as a rare books dealer | philadelphian, and you’ll hear about it | she/her | dianahmyers.com
Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social Author of the #PostedInThePast series – revealing the true stories from postcards sent in the early 20th century, and #MemoriesFromTheFuture. Books ~ Talks ~ Freelance Editor (working with indie authors).
https://linktr.ee/helenbaggott
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
@ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social 
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
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
Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Flinders University @flindersmedieval.bsky.social We are Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Flinders, across Literature, Language, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Gender Studies, on Kaurna land.
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Susan Green @boundbyhand.co.uk Artisan #bookbinder. 🏆Country Living's 40 Best Artisans for 2025🏆 Selected member #Crafts Council Directory, member Heritage Crafts. Also works in Comms. Quaker. Simplicity, sustainability, pleasure, beauty, love.
SHOP 👉 https://boundbyhand.co.uk/
Bristol PGR Medieval Conference 2026 @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social The Bristol University Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social) annual PGR conference, 'Power and Performance’ 2026. Questions to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk.
CFP: https://medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conference-2026/
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!
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social Medieval church court document lover | Medieval church court document abbreviation hater | postdoctoral fellow
Clare T @claretorreador.bsky.social Perpetual student. Researcher. Air-conditioned gypsy. Rationally cynical. Commonwealth of VA.
Maria Zygogianni @mariazygogianni.bsky.social Audience Editor at OUP | PhD on enclosed gardens in medieval literature
All Things Tudors @allthingstudors.bsky.social Kerri
Plantagenet • Tudor • Stuart History
People, power & stories behind the portraits
History brought back to life
Fiona Cooper @fionacooper.bsky.social 📚 Retired (Un)Civil Servant
📚 Author of Romcoms - seeking representation
📚 Member of the RNA
📚 Winner of Seasiders' Write Debut Novel Award with "The Project" - coming soon!
📚 Longlisted in Comedy Women in Print Award with "Of Goats and Ghosts"
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Imogen Hermes Gowar @girlhermes.bsky.social Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and more. Currently working on a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot. Here for history and the stories we tell about it. Click for courses, mentoring, and etc: https://linktr.ee/imogenhermes
Ryan Saputo @ryansaputo.bsky.social History Ph.D. student at UCLA studying usurpation, civil wars, political violence, and political legitimacy in the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity
https://history.ucla.edu/person/ryan-saputo/
Judith Bleeker @judithbleeker.bsky.social PhD student in Medieval Studies at University of Groningen: @unigroningen.bsky.social. She/her.
English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the English Department of The Australian National University 📚✍🏽🤓
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Cvnterbvry Podcast: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales @cvnterbvrypod.bsky.social your favorite podcast’s favorite podcast. hosted by alice (she/her), aj (he/him), and shannen (they/them) helping you laugh and learn about the Canterbury Tales — one slay at a time 💅🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://rss.com/podcasts/cunterburypod/
Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/
Kenzie Scott @kccasper.bsky.social She/Her | 25 | Adaptation, Self-Ideation, and Reception in Renaissance Literature | Friends with Too Many Medievalists | Durham University PhD Candidate | Oxford MSt Graduate | Fire Truck O’Toys Founder | Computer Science Minor
Micah Goodrich, All Trans On Deck @micahgoodrich.bsky.social Shrieks when pulled from earth. Transsexual. Premodern trans studies. English Prof at Boston University
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis @ciditcharlotte.bsky.social Learning and Research Engagement Officer at Cambridge University Library | Author of two books on Christine de Pizan | Former lecturer in medieval French at Oxford University | Adventurer, pilgrim
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
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/
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
Jim Lawrence @jimzovich.bsky.social Wordslayer, guitar strangler, art botherer, armchair psychogeographer. Amanuensis to anarchist philosopher Crofton Wingwalker.
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of The Archers.
Southampton, UK.
Silvia Salvia @silvia-salvia.bsky.social Politics, Psychoanalysis, Decolonizing Psychotherapy, Hysterical Materialism
Vienna (she/they)
Sufang @sufang.bsky.social Early modern devotee, global citizen, loves coffee and cats.
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social The human version of a crow. 
Louise Mathilde Simongiovanni @thefeorhhord.bsky.social D.Phil student – Sorbonne Université, Paris.
Medievalist • Disability studies • Early Medieval Medicine • Old English Leechbooks • Tolkien
Christie Malry ☭ 🔻 @christiemalry.bsky.social Communist police disliker, still with her, Ace/Pan They/Them #EZLN #hellthread https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrHdLy47b8-jshYuE47oWw
B. Cunningham @b7cunningham.bsky.social Historian of early modern Ireland, former librarian.
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.
Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Simon Bond @simonbond.bsky.social a bit of wildlife, a bit of art, same old shit really
Dr Hannah Lucas @hannahalucas.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow @mpiwg.bsky.social / @tuberlin.bsky.social.
Medieval lit, mysticism, medical hums. Sometime yoga teacher. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @columbiaup.bsky.social. She/her.
hannahalucas.com
Lena Mattheis @lenamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in contemporary literature at Surrey University and host of the Queer Lit podcast. (they/she)
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
flore @pacificflore.bsky.social Medievalist. India past and today . Pacific Studies. Hokulea. Art. Museums. Archeology. Science. Biology. Environment.
Molly Judd @mollyjudd.bsky.social medievalist, art historian, ecocritic
PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge
researching the relationship between wilderness and the Romanesque art and architecture of The Fens 
Natalie Hanna @nataliehanna.bsky.social Medievalist at University of Liverpool
Carolin Pape @carolinpape.bsky.social Research Associate @FU_Berlin | Medieval Literature and Language | interested in narrated material related to the Marvelous, Magic and Religion: weather, jars and reliquarys, corals, gemstones…and diamonds! 💎| addicted to Opera | Catmom | all views my own
Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social Professor of Higher Education and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford | Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social Medievalist. First gen. Obsessed with all things 1050-1250. Political, cultural, social history, England & France. Currently researching women and rebellion. #churchcrawling. Annoyed by (VERY) Long Covid. Owned by a mini wire-haired Dachshun
HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web @helontheweb.bsky.social Shares the latest news about HEL. Posts by Dr Ayumi Miura (Associate Professor @utokyoofficial.bsky.social; she/her), who runs the website 'HEL on the Web' (2009-): https://sites.google.com/view/helontheweb/
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
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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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/