MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Ambra Ventura @ambraav.bsky.social ERC funded PhD at UCC - NorseMap Project ~ Linguist turned Old Norse Philologist ~ Reception, Gender, Ethnicity, Law and Medievalism in Old Norse ~ she/her 🏳️🌈
Dr Lily Hawker-Yates @gwenofmonmouth.bsky.social archaeology & heritage outreach/public engagement ⚬ embroidery inspired by archaeology & medieval manuscripts
Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social ⚔️ Medievalist and bookseller. Sometimes poet. 30.
📍 PhD student in UCC's School of English and Digital Humanities working on genre & masculinities in Old English Literature.
📖 Editor in Chief for Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social Immigration lawyer & cat dad
Facts care about my feelings.
Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social
Lancaster-based medievalist working on this Southampton project:
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=UKRI4381
📍🌊🌎
Author of this book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing-st-guthlac-hb/ 📖
Norselass @norselass.bsky.social Early Medievalist, far traveller, health humanities. Sadly no longer lives next to Robin Hood.
NECRON - Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse @necron-network.bsky.social NECRON is an interdisciplinary network of Early Career Researchers and PhD students working on the Medieval North
https://necronnetwork.wordpress.com/home/
Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com PhD Researcher in Transgender Archaeology at the Uni of York. Former Mayor of Bangor, Author, Activist, Board Gamer, Welsh, Queer, Non-Binary (they/nhw)
Rosalind Phillips-Solomon @rphillips-solomon.bsky.social 🪦 medievalist & whale fan 🐋
Currently working on late medieval death ritual 🪽
Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉
PhD candidate at the Courtauld
🌸🪻🦋 (they/she)
David Winter @vetur.bsky.social Distractable historian of medieval & early modern Europe. Current shiny things include: all things Icelandic; the demonic; popular religion; taxonomies. Currently working on a translation & study of Icelandic bishop, Oddur Einarsson's Descriptio Islandiae.
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
Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social Appalachian academic. Medievalist. Mom. Maker-in-training. Vikings/Women/Labor/ Identity. Chaotic good gnomish bard. She/her. Per uni attorneys: "'opinions expressed here are my own' so it is clear" I am "not representing an official university position.
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social Postdoc on ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture’ ERC project @clic-erc.bsky.social, Aarhus University
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'.
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”! 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧➡️🇮🇸➡️🇩🇪
David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social Rewriting archaeology, @durham_uni
Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works
Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social Adjunct prof in Medieval Icelandic Studies | Project manager at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social | Researcher @antidote-network.bsky.social |📍 🇮🇸 & 🇨🇿 | Historical Linguist | Víglundur 🐈
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
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
Doc McCullough @marginalviking.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Museum Director. Musings on public history, Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic. Opinions my own, etc.
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social Medievalist and longbowman.
Views mine.
https://nikolasgunn.co.uk/
Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social Managing Editor at Renaissance Quarterly. Enjoyer of old songs, strange tales, crafty arts, nerdy pastimes. They/them.
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social Postgraduate Admissions Tutor and Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Outreach Coordinator for German at Cambridge. Medievalist (English/German). Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
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.
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.
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
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
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.
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Shiloh Carroll @medievalismist.bsky.social PhD. she/her. Studies fantasy (neo)medievalisms. Repped by Michelle Hauck at Storm Literary. shilohcarroll.wordpress.com
Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social 🏴 PhD student @irishinstitute.bsky.social vikings, women & textiles
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Dr Cat Crossley @catscreatechaos.bsky.social Medievalist and musician, FINALLY completed a PhD at Liverpool on “monstrous men” and mappaemundi. Mountains, mushrooms, music, festivals and felines. 🏳️🌈🏴
Stella @basitdtcadeogun.bsky.social Rose
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
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
@mepiw27795.bsky.social @mepiw27795.bsky.social 
Audrey Martel-Dion @amarteldion.bsky.social History PhD candidate @ Stanford History, working on early modern transmasculinity (she/her)
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Pen name of a dark fantasy/horror writer. Displaced northener. Culinary Cenobite. Möther to Vesper & Pippa. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites & https://ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding
Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social medievalist | postgraduate research student | @qmul.bsky.social | @ihr.bsky.social | @londonmedieval.bsky.social
writing about museums & medievalism
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
British and Irish Branch of the ICLS @iclsbritishirish.bsky.social Welcome to the British and Irish Branch of the International Courtly Literature Society, which promotes the study and criticism of the literature of courts and court-oriented cultures.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/icls/- K @keyrn.bsky.social @keyrn.bsky.social
MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027.
themamo.org
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
BlueDotBubba@LesDepew.bsky.social @bluedotbubba.bsky.social 🔵 BLUEDOT in deep red Louisiana
Old enough to know better than the bullshit they’re pushing. We have fought the fight against fascism multiple times, I’m hoping it won’t take a war this time 😎✌️
@sidicob.bsky.social @sidicob.bsky.social 
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Dr Nic @eldergoth.bsky.social Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice. "Grim(m) Perspectives: Stitching Tales of Self" https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/handle/10399/5406
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Katy Mortimer @katydotcom.bsky.social Medievalist • PhD in crusader-Muslim diplomacy • Historical writing girlie 💁🏻♀️
Catrin Haberfield @catrinh.bsky.social Medievalist and B2B copywriter | PhD candidate @Stanford | Old English, manuscript studies, DH, and UX approaches to textual cultures of the Insular world (they/she)
Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social Researching the extreme right | cultural production and aesthetics | music, food, fashion, fighting | FR in Hungary | punk rock & equal rights | proud dog mom | AuDHD | Senior Researcher at the Norwegian HL-Senteret | Affiliated @crexuio.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇭🇺🇧🇻
lil dave @ftalildave.bsky.social Celebrity n Influencer
Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social In the Woods, & online. #humansecurity, #archaeology, #culture, #Newfoundland, #WPS, #chickens, #navy, #metal, #GenX, #gardens, #books, #food, & #nature, not necessarily in that order.
Awesome Subliminals @awesomesubliminals.bsky.social The best sissy feminization and sexual Subliminal files. Audio with quiet affirmations that trigger your subconscious as a tool for manifestation.
SHOP: https://awesomesubliminals.bandcamp.com/
holiday quinn express @holidayquinnxpress.bsky.social A 38 year old they/them in north theirolina
music and baseball player+appreciator
medcalc.gay
Marlow//Larkspur 🪻🐦⬛ @messymermex.bsky.social they/he/she + neos, 28 yr old disabled animist jewish diasporist (🇵🇸) witch, writer, and maker of stuffs• On Letterboxd & Storygraph as ‘erythrai’. • 🧄🪬🦋♾️🥄🌈🏳️⚧️
Galdrasdottir @galdrasdottir.bsky.social Queer & chronically ill in Scotland (she/her). Non-practicing medievalist, practicing textile nerd.
Dr Emily Hooke @emilylovesparis.bsky.social Independent academic now in the charity sector; big dreams of turning my thesis into a book about women, history-writing and the French resistance, some day…
Mainly thinking about food and the random pets I befriend while wandering around.
She/her
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
FarageWatch @faragewatch.bsky.social Britain's community reality-check newsletter. Independent. Fact-reporting. Fully sourced. Print copies crowdfunded and delivered door-to-door by volunteers.
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social A Long Island native, a lover of Jesus, a lifelong servant of teens, a mega fan of their ridiculously funny & random humor, an avid reader, a music explorer, a curse word aficionado, and a 💔confronter of Christo-fascism, 💙 INFP, she/her
Extreme Right Research Network @errnetwork.bsky.social The Extreme Right Research Network is dedicated to understanding the extreme right of today by understanding its past, and using that to inform future intervention and engagement. Part of the Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton.
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
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
Fab @knifewitch.bsky.social literary agent @kiagency.bsky.social **closed to unsolicited queries** ex Grimdark Magazine, ex medievalist. queer. she/they (header is a Rovina Cai illustration from Spear)
Dr Siobhan Hyland @siobhanhyland.bsky.social Researcher at UON’s Centre for Historical Studies, Associate Lecturer at the OU