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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
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
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World Opinion @ The i Paper Fellow @ Tech Policy Press Fellow @ Demos PhD researcher @ UCL Laws newsletter @ techtris Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.jamesrball.com/
Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social An annual survey of the language gender-divergent people use to describe ourselves. Results are made freely available in full. Website: https://www.gendercensus.com
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.
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
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her. Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
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.
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.
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/
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social One of the largest, most diverse Schools of Languages, Cultures & Societies in the UK. A leading centre for Languages, Classics, Film, Intercultural Studies, Translation & Linguistics.
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 📚 bit.ly/londonmedieval
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️‍⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸 Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy Thomas Mann: “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy. Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage. Our newsletters: https://dispatch.the-citizens.com citizensreunited.substack.com You can also find us at https://the-citizens.com
Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social San Francisco based LGBTQ+ journal and press—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives. 🌈 🌉 https://linktr.ee/foglifter
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Galdrasdottir @galdrasdottir.bsky.social Queer & chronically ill in Scotland (she/her). Non-practicing medievalist, practicing textile nerd.
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian. http://ruthpearce.net
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.
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
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
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 Siobhan Hyland @siobhanhyland.bsky.social Researcher at UON’s Centre for Historical Studies, Associate Lecturer at the OU
Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social Historian of human antiquity in Australia writing critical histories of archaeology and settler intellectual logics. Lecturer @GriffithUniversity Collaborating Scholar @ANUDeepHistory Lover of Austen and AFL.
Isis journal @isisjournal.bsky.social A journal of the History of Science Society
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales) London Assembly Member. 🏳️‍🌈 https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
Archaeology @ Uni of York @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social The Department of Archaeology at the University of York is exploring the breadth of the human past and pioneering a future in sustainable heritage
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)
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
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
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI. All views strictly my own. Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social Associate Editor at AssignedMedia.org Voice and Editor of Assigned Media's Trans Stories at https://www.youtube.com/@AssignedMedia and https://www.tiktok.com/@assignedmedia (They/She)
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian ◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale ◦ host, This Guy Sucked ◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028) all opinions my own. https://www.ceaubin.com https://thisguysucked.com
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
Abbie Fray (she/her) @abbiefray.bsky.social Queer Medievalist 🏳️‍🌈🏰 PhD student at the University of Bern, researching empathy, dysphoria and transformation in late medieval literature
Carantes @carantes.bsky.social Celtic AntiRacist ANTifascist Egalitarian Society. Fighting fascism and fostering inclusivity in Celtic Studies. Newsletter at caranteswg@proton.me Logo by Forfeda
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval. Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️🦇🏴 @drekisdottir.bsky.social I'm stuck in a city but I belong in a field, digging holes. Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist (They/Them) https://www.redbubble.com/people/Drekisdottir/shop
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 🇨🇦🇭🇺🇧🇻
Matthew @madaram.bsky.social Your least favourite faggot’s least favourite faggot. Horror slut, music slut, slut slut. Liverpool. He/Him. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice. They/them hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻 ** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. SFF Author. Poet. 🦉 Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022) They/Them. rachelahandley.com
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval" nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Dr Voids 🐙 @mostlyvoids.bsky.social Partially stars. They/it/he. Gleeful! Soft! Tentacular! ECR Fellow at Merton, Oxford. Not a work account. More cat here than in the other place. Profile picture by @liminalitea.bsky.social
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
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Spencer Hall @spencerhall.bsky.social
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
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.
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
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
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
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
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK. Website: dannybate.com Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk Pic: J. Kovalík
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Clare Vernon @clarevernon.bsky.social Medievalist
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕 Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en& Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos BUY MY NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Blog: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
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)
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Kate Maxwell @skatemaxwell.bsky.social Medievalist, multimodalist, musician. Vegan, goatmother, lover of academic kindness. She/they. Professor of music, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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
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
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/
Danièle Cybulskie @5minmedievalist.bsky.social Author of Chivalry and Courtesy, How to Live Like a Monk, and Life in Medieval Europe. Creator and host of The Medieval Podcast. Professional nerd. she/her. danielecybulskie.com http://ko-fi.com/5MinMedievalist
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
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
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 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
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.
Rebecca Merkelbach @beccamerkelbach.bsky.social Doctor of trollology. Saga fangirl. Assistant Prof of Old Norse at Uni Tü. Lefty nerd💚 Powerlifting yoga teaching harpist. She/sie🏳️‍🌈 #SkandiRetten
Katy Mortimer @katydotcom.bsky.social Medievalist • PhD in crusader-Muslim diplomacy • Historical writing girlie 💁🏻‍♀️