Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Quicky Design @quickydesign.bsky.social Creative Direction, Design and Illustration for web, games, apps, e-learning, interactive & print media.
Yorkshire Numismatic Society @yorkshirenumsoc.bsky.social The Yorkshire Numismatic Society aims to promote the study of coins
Website: http://yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com/
Follow us on X at https://x.com/yorkshirenumsoc
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social Lecture in geospatial archaeology at the University of Glasgow, interested in landscape archaeology, GIS, remote sensing, hillforts, causewayed enclosures and anything big on top of a hill
Toby Martin @tobyfmartin.bsky.social Assistant Director at Oxford Lifelong Learning; early medieval archaeology, material culture, digital education.
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
Dr Jasmin Higgs @jaztherunologist.bsky.social Runologist for hire! I’m interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems. Currently working on: early medieval inscribed rings.
Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social Landscape Archaeologist, Engagement Practitioner | PhD @york.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social | Trustee @archaeologyuk.bsky.social | Palaeoecology and perceptions of natural and cultural heritage in the North York Moors | Views own
Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social FRHistS, lover of Carolingian coinage, Vikings, Jesus and my wife and daughter, though not necessarily in that order
Dr. James Dilley @ancientcraftuk.bsky.social Experimental Archaeologist; Media consultant; Specialist in Flintknapping & Bronze casting: see my work displayed at The British Museum & Stonehenge
Find me at: https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/
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
Saga Thing Podcast @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social Find out what the Vikings did when they were at home with John and Andy, two professors who are passionate about medieval Iceland's literature and history.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Hilbert Vinkenoog (History with) @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social North Sea-lander (Northumbrian/Dutch/Frisian) studying Viking and Medieval Studies. Early Medieval Frisia and the Frisians, Pre-Christian Religions of the North, Frisian Language(s). History with Hilbert. Frisian with Hilbert.
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.
Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social Professor of runology (= runes & runic inscriptions, not urology), working with all things runic and more. Own views and random thoughts.
Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social Finds & Archives Project Officer @ Greenlane Archaeology Ltd in Ulverston, Cumbria.
Loves small finds, cats, archiving and archives.... And databases/metadata😄
Kate Kamini @raederle.bsky.social
Dr Wendy Scott @wendreda.bsky.social Cumbrian, Museum Archaeologist, Numismatist, early Medievalist. Curator:hoards (post Roman coins), British Museum. Committee member SCBI/BNS
All views my own.
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
Jerzy Sikora @jsikora.bsky.social Fornleifafræðingur (mostly medieval) based at University of Łódź (wutɕ).
Archaeology, Middle Ages, some photos I take and drawings I make.
Pighill @pighill.bsky.social Archaeological illustrator & heritage graphic designer, Peter Lorimer.
Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
Emma Jones @emlouwynjones.bsky.social videographer/photographer & maker of prehistoric personal ornaments 🎥 📸 📿
Wilhelm Lagercrantz @wilhelmlagercrantz.se Like to travel in time and space by means of bikes and books.
@kvitbein.bsky.social @kvitbein.bsky.social
Astri Bryde @bryderiet.bsky.social Textile historian, textile artist, educator and reader. And yes, I have a cat.
Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. FLO for Rogaland County, case officer, project coordinator. Working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland.
Bren MacNeil 🏴🏴🏳️🌈 @brenmacneil.bsky.social ½ Welsh, ½ Scottish,
Tour Guide,
Film & TV nut, Cinema fan, Trekkie,
History nerd, Map nerd
Architecture nut, Graveyard fan,
Gay, Goth, Pagan
Record Collector (70s/80s)
Model Railways
...
Dayanna Knight @dayannaknight.bsky.social Illustrator, medievalist, substitute teacher. Commissions open.
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
Áine Foley @medievalaine.bsky.social Medieval historian, lover of smut, Buckingham Nicks Stan account.
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Dawn Hadley @danelawdawn.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Archaeology. President of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage
Julian D Richards @juliandrichards.bsky.social Director, Archaeology Data Service & Heritage Science Data Service; interested in Vikings and Computers, but rarely at the same time
Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath
David McGovern @monikierockart.bsky.social Heritage Stone-carver, medieval obsessive. Dewar of the Clag Buidhe Naomh Medan. FSAScot. Pictish Art and late medieval West Highland sculpture. As long as the world spins around, I'll take my time.
Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
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
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old ⏰️ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm 🎟 FREE entry!
Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social Passionate about uncovering history, committed to heritage. We’re a leading archaeology charity in the UK, trusted by partners and communities for over 50 years. Visit oxfordarchaeology.com for insights on our discoveries and projects.
Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins.
Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast
Explore Ireland with me at
@tuatha.ie
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
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
Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social I make comics, a Viking era one called the Hogback Saga and Malky Dungeon about a Scottish occult detective
https://www.patreon.com/malkydungeon
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
Sarah Miles @sarahmiles.bsky.social #Archaeologist Director, Community Archaeology North CIC www.cancic.com @cancic.bsky.social Prehistory, Neolithic, Bronze Age, fieldwork, landscape, community. Former publisher.
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
Irish Archaeology @irarchaeology.bsky.social Sharing Ireland’s amazing archaeology as well as interesting sites from around the world. Posts by Wexford archaeologist Colm Moriarty.
@emerp.bsky.social @emerp.bsky.social
Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
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
Steph @stepho71.bsky.social Still obsessed with early medieval history, archaeology, cycling, nature and new wave music. Mound botherer. Occasional posts and very badly taken photos. Older, but not necessarily wiser. She/her.
Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social Aerial photography | GIS | Sarsen stone | landscape archaeology | archaeological comics | archives | YAC Leader | MHFA | FSA | MCIfA | all my own views
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
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/
Archaeoptics @archaeoptics.bsky.social Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
Claire Bradshaw @clairelbradshaw.bsky.social Community Archaeologist in Morecambe Bay. Loves early prehistory, experimental arch, fibre arts, pc gaming & gardening.
Lurker. All views my own.
She/her
Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen
Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present
Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
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/
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
Becca Gregory @beccagregs.bsky.social Fan of place-names, dogs, vikings, and general silliness. Teaching and researching names, medieval language, and digital pedagogy @ Uni of Nottingham. She/her
Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • deputy chair of board @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
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- E Ellie Rye @ellierye.bsky.social Linguist working with place-names and medieval Englishes at University of York (she/her)
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg @dcrb.bsky.social Viking Age/Early Medieval Scholar. Coordinator of Digital Engagement for ICMA. Editorial Assistant for Church Archaeology Journal. Co-Host of New Books in Irish Studies. Current MLIS Student.
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
Northumberart @northumberart.bsky.social Lynda Taylor- Landscape artist/ gallerist of Crown Studio Gallery in Rothbury Northumberland UK. Interested in art, history, archaeology, craft technology, gardening and nature. Online shop- crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com
Cassidy Croci @cassidycroci.bsky.social Humboldt Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Hosted by the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Tübingen. Working on “Routes of Narration: Domestic Travel in the Íslendingasögur”! 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧➡️🇮🇸➡️🇩🇪
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Jessie Yusek @jessicayusek.bsky.social she/they
Emma Brownlee @ecbrownlee.bsky.social Research fellow @GirtonCollege
@UCamArchaeology
Early Medieval Europe | Death & Burial | GIS | Occasional Vikings
She/her- M Mark Oldham @markoldham.bsky.social Archaeologist
Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social Medievalist and longbowman.
Views mine.
https://nikolasgunn.co.uk/
Sally Pointer @sallypointer.bsky.social Freelance heritage educator, bringing you objects and inspiration from the past to enrich the future. Experimental archaeologist, HedgeBotherer, string wrangler.
YouTube tutorials: www.YouTube.com/c/sallypointer
Website: www.sallypointer.com
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
Frida Espolin Norstein @fridanor.bsky.social Archaeologist at Stockholm University, Viking Age, Early Medieval, burial practices
Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social Runologist-for-hire, librarian, PhD in Scandinavian languages. Translator into Old Norse for Civ VI, God of War (but only the good runes), AC Valhalla. I infrequently make text games.
Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social I work in archaeology and data science in Scotland.
https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.166
Mike Heyworth @mikeheyworth.bsky.social UK-based heritage & archaeology professional working principally for the Historic Environment Forum, Arcadia & the Getty Conservation Institute, trustee Kilmartin Museum, Chair of CIfA & BM/PAS committees, Secretary APPAG, sighthound owner
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.
Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.eurosky.social Swedish archaeologist (PhD, Arch Sci).
Finds specialist (Iron Age through Medieval per.)
Surveyor of islands in the Baltic Sea.
😍LiDAR-spotting!
Works for @raa-se.bsky.social
Papers etc: https://raa.academia.edu/NyBj%C3%B6rnGustafsson
Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social Head of Research at Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PhD in archaeological glass science. Consultant in museum and heritage collections care. Trustee at Tarbat Discovery Centre.
Interested in all things #archaeology #museums #glass #Scotland #heritage
Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social Archaeologist
Emma Richard-Trémeau @brokensherds.bsky.social PhD student Archaeology (Durham) |🏺⚱️| Pottery and technology
She/Her
Sarah Lord @potsofhistory.bsky.social Historic potter at Potted History
Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Megan Kasten @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social She/her. Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow. Govan Old and OG(H)AM; researching Digital Imaging and Early Medieval Sculpture
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