Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast (out soon!)
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC
Robert Pralat @robertpralat.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health
Birkbeck, University of London
Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
@rafi52.bsky.social @rafi52.bsky.social Atatürkçü Laik, Demokrat, Bağımsız Adalet taraftarı
Collector of Love @thehobbytime.bsky.social Love to collect. Reselling all the time.
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/- J jh125783585.bsky.social @jh125783585.bsky.social
Lamin @modoulaminjaiteh21.bsky.social With God Nothing Is Impossible With God Everything Is Possible
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Giovanni Bracchi @giobrach.bsky.social Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
Like/repost/follow≠endorsement
No bio or posts, no follow back.
https://t.co/f5xOlVyLoc
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Jonathan Fruoco @jonathanfruoco.bsky.social Medievalist | Autistic | FRHistS | Professeur agrégé | Lone Chaucerian at Paris Nanterre University | Cat person | Dad | He/him
Rhiannon White @rhiannonwlibraries.bsky.social Library assistant and enthusiast. Passionate about compassion, critical thinking, and cats. All views my own.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Charles Kuper @charleskuper.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Fellow in Byzantine Studies @DumbartonOaks.bsky.social | The Menologion of Basil II (HUP 2025) tiny.utk.edu/basil
Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham. 
Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social | earlier CRAC UW & @humboldtuni.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity | http://bit.ly/3pIqAR9 | views own
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
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
Miranda Rainbow @mirandarainbow.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the Institute of English Studies and the British Museum.
I work on the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century English embroidery and also its reception in the 19th century.
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social Medievalist :) I work with Old Norse-Icelandic literature with a focus on female anger, emotion and monster studies, reception/Medievalism, and narrative networks @ University of Tübingen
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social Formerly with Dutch military intelligence (MoD) and counter-terrorism (MoJ)
Former optimist
(Opinions are mine, usual caveats apply, etc.)
Re-posting is not by definition endorsement
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Patricia Cantrell @patriciacantrell.bsky.social All about Finance, investing Tax refund program, CEO PATRICIA
Register with Midket trading Platform and get $ Startup Capital
ella o'shea @ellaroshea.bsky.social uncanny valley dweller and friendly neighbourhood vocal stimmer. in a parasocial relationship with the franks casket
Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social Director of the project PATHS (ANR - Access ERC) working on medieval astronomy, astrology, magic and divination | A Warburgian to the bone
https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/annuaire/andriani-eleonora
Jillian Reid @jillianreid.bsky.social archaeologist, medievalist, and devoted fan of cats
AHRC-funded PhD researcher on the archaeology of medieval women
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
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente»
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Matriarchy now. Seattle Insight she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
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/
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
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
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.
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Faye Getz 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱🇨🇦 @fayway.bsky.social Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. F’ing bitch.
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
Lilzeejnr @victornnamdi47.bsky.social I'm a hardworking person.kind.caring and loving
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social Posts from Research Services Team at
@UoLLibrary
/ UKRN@Leeds #openaccess #opendata #openresearch #openscience #openeducation #UKRN #UKRNLeeds #ReproducibiliTea
Glasgow Scribes @glasgowscribes.bsky.social Calligraphy hobby group in Glasgow, Scotland, with interests in medieval manuscripts, broad pen & pointed pen scripts, design techniques, and all things lettering-related.
https://glasgowscribes.blogspot.com
(run by @ergative-abs.bsky.social)
@streamlbx.bsky.social @streamlbx.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
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
Clemens Radl @rotula.bsky.social Historian (medieval), digital MGH, http://www.clemens-radl.de/index_en.htm
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
Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Dr Gabriela C. Luz @gabrielacluz.bsky.social Brazilian. Doctor in Literary Studies and English Literature. Medievalist researcher in love with female monsters, witches, saints and overall weird women.
@johnnymoore242.bsky.social @johnnymoore242.bsky.social WE GROW THROUGH WHAT WILL GO THROUGH 🏮
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
BYARUHANGA DAVID ,Happy hour ministry uganda organisation @davidb48.bsky.social (HAPPY HOURS MINISTRY UGANDA JINJA GIVING HANDS)Non profit organization. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. Home 4 All
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭
17th Century Theatre
Oxford University
Professional Yorkshireman
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind”
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Phyllis Weliver @phyllisweliver.com Victorian literature & music history │
NEW coursebook: Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2025), co-edited with Katharine Ellis
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
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
Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social English prof turned instructional designer
The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era (UNC Press, 2026), available here: https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!