Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
The Queen's Translation Exchange @translationexch.bsky.social Welcome to QTE, an outreach and research centre @queenscollegeox.bsky.social offering translation and international literature initiatives for schools, students and the public.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Johnny McGonigal @flyingcoracle.bsky.social Archaeology grad. Museum worker. Dysgwr Cymraeg 🏴
Naomi McKeown @naomimckeown.bsky.social PhD student. Medieval Irish literature and food. Belfast. she/her
John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social Professional Yorkshireman, geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist, Northumbrian smallpiper and all things more esoteric musically
CSANA @csanaceltic.bsky.social The Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) is a scholarly organization that supports the academic study of Celtic-speaking cultures
https://celtic-studies.org
Niall Ó Siadhail @niallosiadhail.bsky.social Litríocht, ceol, Gaeilge. I ngach ord.
Jessica DuLong @jessicadulong.bsky.social Independent historian; journalist; author of SAVED AT THE SEAWALL: Stories from the Sept. 11 Boat Lift; book collaborator/ghostwriter/editor; chief engineer, emerita of 1931 Fireboat John J. Harvey; writing 17th cen historical fiction www.jessicadulong.com
Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British lit, street lit, and Gothic Revival. Dreaming of illuminated manuscripts.
Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed.
Always intentionally unhinged. You post, I reply. Never legal advice.
Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA
That's So Medieval Podcast @thatssomedieval.bsky.social A twelve episode series funded by Fordham's Center on Religion and Culture in which Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Bertrand tries to find the connections between the medieval Church and the modern world. New episodes release on Wednesdays.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds. Researching representations of Muslim women in Old French and general medieval European literature and culture. Funded by AHRC/WRoCAH.
Co-convenor of @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Native Dialogs in Irish @nativedialogsga.bsky.social Practice your #Gaeilge by chatting to virtual humans.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams @hoooaw.bsky.social Books: Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things. And some exhibitions.
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • x💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson| https://linktr.ee/katelaity
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Erin Griffey @eringriffey.bsky.social art historian, University of Auckland; friend of animals; lover of plants and dresses; admirer of Titian, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Gainsborough
Leah DeVun @ldevun.bsky.social New here! Author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance; historian, photographer & professor at Rutgers University.
Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
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
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Mathilda Osborne @bookmatty.bsky.social Durham 2023, York 2024
Medievalist with too many hyperfixations🏰
Main research interests include medieval animals, Old French, Middle English, and Scandinavian romance, integrated with manuscript studies🐇
Banner: Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark
Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social Societas Celtologica Europaea
The Association of Celtic Studies scholars in Europe. https://celtologica.eu/
Lara Clerck @laraclerck.bsky.social BA Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Interests include early medieval kingship, ecclesiastical institutions, manuscript culture, and the roles of women. Passionate about history and storytelling, through art, myth, legend, and literature.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
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.
@julierichrddlsace.bsky.social @julierichrddlsace.bsky.social Docteure en Histoire médiévale - Manuscrits, cartographie et géographie médiévale
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Amy Saunders @a-l-saunders.bsky.social Nag Hammadi PhD-er at Durham. Currently working on the Tripartite Tractate (send help).
Usually found crying into a Coptic dictionary or trying to adopt my friends’ pets.
@makszymkinas.bsky.social @makszymkinas.bsky.social
Mark Laynesmith @marklaynesmith.bsky.social Anglican priest diocese of Oxford, Academic Dean Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology, early medieval church historian
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Celtic Hagiography Network @celtichagiography.bsky.social
The Celtic Hagiography Network is intended to bring together academics with interests in hagiography, the cults of saints, and related topics for collaboration, conferences, new publications, and other opportunities @
celtichagiography.org
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social International scholarly society studying the peoples of early & high medieval Europe & their encounters in the Mediterranean, Baltic & larger medieval world.
https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Cyril Senn @partonopier.bsky.social Germanistische Mediävistik | Uni Freiburg Schweiz | 🏳️🌈 | (er/ihm) |
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
Lea Beness @leabeness.bsky.social Honorary Assoc. Prof. in Roman History, Lefty, Feminist, Dog Lover, Regularly Romesick. She/her. All views her own.
@lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association @rmmra.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association is a nonprofit academic society dedicated to the advancement of learning in global Medieval and Renaissance studies.
https://rmmra.org/
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social Community-driven, free, open and transparent peer-review for #preprints in #Archaeology
http://archaeo.peercommunityin.org
also @PCI_Archaeology@archaeo.social
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Jack 🏳️⚧️ @tombstone-crow.bsky.social MA History Student | Research: early modern European conceptions of space, time, and mortality
Liz Garnett @lizgarnett.bsky.social MA Heritage student and also travel photographer, artist and writer specialising in France and Kent (UK). Author of Holiday Cookery Series. Stock library. NDW and Cross Channel Geopark Ambassador, pilgrim, Slow Walks For Artists - www.lizgarnett.com
Hannah Montgomery @hannahmontgomery.bsky.social Studying Middle English Romance and playing too much D&D
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social Interested in descriptive & historical linguistics.
Like Caucasian & Indo-Iranic languages, & dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas & along the Nile.
Georgian calligrapher & fish-cook henceforth.
Daniele Toro @danieletoro.bsky.social research assistant · University of Passau · entangled history of industrial societies · fascist networking in interwar Europe
https://www.geku.uni-passau.de/neuere-und-neueste-geschichte/lehrstuhlteam/daniele-toro
orcid.org/0000-0002-2533-263X
Dr Aimee Scott @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social 'Classical' reception and pop culture scholar and professional tea drinker.
Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com ♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
resdifficiles.com
opietasanimi.com
R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
Helen Roche @drhelenroche.bsky.social Historian, University of Durham. (Sometime Classicist/baroque string-player.) Author of 'Sparta's German Children' and 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools'. Researching: Fascism/Nazism; far-right appropriations of the ancient past; HGS: https://helenroche.com
Aneirin Pendragon @theancientgeeko.bsky.social Ancient religion, magic, sex work, & Classical Reception 🏛️ B.A.² & M.A.² Ph.D. student St Andrews. 📜 YouTuber. 🎭 Queer, Enby: They/Them🏺Views: Mine🦉
Sarah Scullin @scullin.bsky.social Writer & Editor | Former Managing Editor of
Eidolon Classics Journal | She/her | Satire, Humor, Ancient Medicine, Modern Parenting | www.SarahScullin.com
Maciej Paprocki @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social Student of ancient Greek theologies, librarian, tea drinker, gamer. Lover of myth, poetry and magic. Myth adviser on #Apotheon
Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social Hosts Colin, Elijah (@ecfleming.bsky.social) & Christie (@voguearchaeology.bsky.social) break down modern media depicting ancient Greece, Rome and the wider ancient world. Do you dig it?
Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/movieswedig
Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Adelaide University; research interests in palaeoecology, cave sediments, coprolites, ancient DNA, environmental DNA, extinction and evolution
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social Australian Archaeologist | CEO, Archae-aus | Archaeomalacology, Island & coastal archaeology, worked shell experiments | Researching Australia’s oldest Aboriginal marine invertebrate use (51 ka) | Desert People Project & Adjunct Lecturer, UWA
Madeleine Smith @madeleinerosesmith.bsky.social She/any
@deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social Hosted by Jesse and Liam, Dead Bunyip Society is a popular history podcast about the people that made modern Australia.
@jonahssiegel.bsky.social @jonahssiegel.bsky.social Professor at Rutgers. Student of literature, museums, collections. Always a late adopter.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt @genxotaku1971.bsky.social Gen X'er (anime & manga) Otaku. IRL job: Librarian (Interlibrary Loan). Love public mass transit & going to faraway anime cons.
Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University | Co-artistic director of Theatre of the @GentleFuries | researching Athenian forensic oratory & theatrical receptions of myth | she/her | catposting
Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social Léachtóir sinsearach i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. An Fhiannaíocht. Na Dánta Grá. Lámhscríbhinní na Gaeilge. Liomsa na tuairimí seo!
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
Monique Vanderlaan @tellmeahistory.bsky.social History MA @ ASU
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
🏳️⚧️ Poli @hellopoli.bsky.social "Postmodernist Neo-Marxist". Queer. Fat. Lapsed medieval art historian. Current day job in data analysis. EN/PL/FR/IT/DE
they/them 🏳️⚧️
Warsaw/Gdańsk 🇵🇱
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Sorbonne Digital Encyclopedia of History - EHNE @historysorbonne.bsky.social Open-access encyclopedia of European history featuring hundreds of articles written by scholars, published by Sorbonne Université.
https://ehne.fr/en
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
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths