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
Phil Edwards @marketteacher.bsky.social Using my words and music to make a difference. Singer/songwriter, business management author
D.S. Griffiths(高旻靖) @gryphongryff.bsky.social Scholar of Early Islam | Oxon., QMUL | from 🇭🇰🇬🇧 | Aspiring Classical Philologist and Sinologist | speaks 🇬🇧🇹🇼🇯🇴🇩🇪🇫🇷 learning Syriac, Ge’ez, Literary Chinese
Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social Historian and Author, St Andrews (she). Team Leibniz.
Modern Germany, Identity Studies, Food History.
Publications: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/publications/
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social Criminalized Women and Girls’ Ancestral Research: Supporting Descendants of Those Incarcerated or Born at the Institution and Adopted.
#PrisonAdoptees #PrisonBorn #PunishedInUtero #Genealogy
https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @hssqmul.bsky.social Explaining the past, understanding the present, and imagining the future
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.
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)
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@taxsiarchis.bsky.social @taxsiarchis.bsky.social Posting mostly medieval works of art, manuscripts etc.
Olive Higham @olivehigham.bsky.social she/her • cat & castle appreciator • AHRC OOC-DTP PhD @ ASNaC, Cambridge
Daphne Harries @daphneharries.bsky.social 🏴🇦🇺 | she/her | English student @ Oxford | ‘Three Strikes’, my poetry pamphlet around Llŷn y Fan Fach, out now with Lemon Jelly Press (2026) | this is my sort-of digitial creative and academic journal :)
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 🐈
Birte Jensen 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 @passions-frucht.bsky.social Doktorandin @unigreifswald |📍Hamburg | Mediävistin |Figurenrede, Narratologie, Prosaroman, Handschriften & Frühdrucke |Privat 📚🎶🥖🏊🏻♀️
Header: Tierinitiale (Drachen), UB Leipzig, Ms 1151, f. 267v (Detailaufnahme).
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social linguist ✨ philologist ✨ medievalist ✨ digital humanist
Czech Language Institute CAS / Institute for Medieval Research ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social
Gene Matanky @edmatanky.bsky.social 🎓 Post-doc @Harvard & @HebrewU ● 📜 Early Modern History | Jewish Mysticism | #BookHistory | #ManuscriptStudies ● 🔍 Professional hunter of watermarks, messy marginalia & and the ghosts people leave behind ● ✨ Collecting human traces, one book at a time.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
DaveInNorwich @daveinnorwich.bsky.social Art, Buddhism, Goth, Rail, Norfolk, Norwich, Anglo Saxon, Norse, Socialist, Green, UCL, OU, EU
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Darling Disarray @darlingdisarray.bsky.social Name's Ryan. Your Friendly Neighborhood Goth Nerd. Writes about Temporally Displaced Romans and the Frazzled Post-Punk Loving Grad Students Who's Kitchens They Appear In. Sometimes I Make Things. She/Her. Ace. Feanorian Fangirl & Orkney Brothers Apologist.
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
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
Pierre Lovato @pierre-lovato.bsky.social Medieval historian. MA student (Rennes 2). Research on Dominican justice and disciplinary practices in Poland (1451–1517). Interested in mendicant orders, manuscripts and digital humanities.
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
Lucille Munoz @lucillemunoz.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian at St John's College, Cambridge. Views my own.
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕- E @erikscherer.bsky.social @erikscherer.bsky.social
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Eeldip @eeldip.bsky.social The Skull as a Complete Gentleman Company. Dedicated to the furtherance of The Enormous Vagueness. https://www.completegentleman.co/
https://eeldip.itch.io/
Current project is a big old adventure, "Thither Ruins of the Dimlit Downlands".
Richard Ingate @richardingate.bsky.social Retired this year (2025) thank the gods. Now starting a Medieval Studies masters at University of Wales Trinity St. Davids.
Columbo McGraw @columbomcgraw.bsky.social Inquisitive mind on history, books, libraries and art 🔎📚✨
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
Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
B.J./Mayim Pnina @killearnan.bsky.social Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social Palaeographer. Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages at IMEMS (Durham University). Gran Canaria-Sevilla-London-East Midlands.
Gabriele Passabì @gabpassabi.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscripts enthusiast. Film addict.
Research Associate at @ghilondon.bsky.social
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
PhD | University of Cambridge
Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social
House of Bast: Prowling the internet & beyond to bring you treasures from around the world 🌎
Tarot Runes Cats TNRM Photography Art Books Rocks Beads Music SCIENCE
NO magats
www.naturalmagickcoop.com
http://www.madamepurrla.com
Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social Writer and illustrator in Portland, Oregon
Open for commissions and illustration projects: arthursmid.com
Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy, palindromes, medieval manuscripts,, &c.
Upcoming: "Ego Tourism", a cringe-comedy-memoir about Taoism, Edinburgh Fringe, Aug 8-30 (not Tuesdays). Carbon Lounge Room 3, 14:25. PBH Free Fringe.
Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@lornawebb37.bsky.social @lornawebb37.bsky.social
Laura Gisseleire @lgisseleire.bsky.social PhD candidate @ University of Kent with Knowledge Orders before Modernity
(formerly) Medieval Studies @ Birkbeck 🦉
mortuary rolls, commemoration, gender & monastic culture, manuscripts galore.
Charlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
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.
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
buymeacoffee.com/poetofcuisine
Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app Erwin Ott is a constructed philosophical voice whose body of work is produced through generative systems.
https://erwin-ott.web.app/index.html
https://erwinott.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Josh Fitzgerald @intrepidhistory.bsky.social
Nick Munn @medievalmunn.bsky.social PhD candidate @ QMUL. Working on masculinity and the doges in fifteenth-century Venice. Fond of cats. Charlton Athletic fan, for my sins.
Philippa Smith @philippajs.bsky.social Retired archivist, loves books, gardening and nature
Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social Medievalist 📚 PhD candidate & teaching assistant working on Jewish converts in 15th-c. Iberia and premodern critical race studies @qmul.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #urbanstudies #latemedievaliberia
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
@lukebishop04.bsky.social @lukebishop04.bsky.social
Hannah Goeselt @hgoeselt.bsky.social Boston/Cambridge based. MLIS. Lurking in the depths of the Mass Historical Society. Here to post about manuscripts.
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/
Starmanjack43 @starmanjack43.bsky.social Geek. Christian. Take time and fix things.
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Elisa M. @buechernarr.bsky.social I teach and research book history at the University of Milan (Italy). Always in search of new knowledge and inspiration!
Richard Drew @rwdrew.bsky.social IT person.
Split my time between Kidderminster and Aberystwyth.
Work in a big library - which is magic!!
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Marcelle de Vries @mdvries.bsky.social Love art, hate inequality
Here to read and think about art history and democracy and post the occasional picture
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Alexandre Tur @tur-alexandre.bsky.social Conservateur de manuscrits et numérique à la BnF. Science des astres médiévale, entre autres choses.
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social The optimistic Byzantinist
Brodie G 💚 @brodieg99.bsky.social They/Them, enby, gay. English. Market Democratic Market Socialist. Politics & News (UK & Global) junkie. Follow/Repost ≠ endorsement always.
Cursed to be Cassandra.
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mary @roughrider994.bsky.social One Hell of an Angel, This is not medical advice, and I am not telling you what you should do. Every person is or should be in control of their own health in spite of what the current medical establishment would like you to believe.
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
⚜️Frenchy’s Tea Time & Politics : Madder Than The Hatter @itsfrenchy.bsky.social Progressive Lifelong Democrat in the Mississippi Delta Alluvial Plain -Come on in the waters fine, it’s where I keep the intel
« You’re only as sick as your secrets, so I’m telling EVERYTHING » The Chicks
Politics - Literature - Music - Culture - #Resist
Isabelle Lachat @isastylite.bsky.social Ph.D. Art historian, medievalist, iconoclast.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social All things lighthouse-related, with the occasional detour into maritime history, heritage preservation, and related fields, by an indifferent photographer, incorrigible bibliophile, and unlicensed pharologist. Remember -- typo's mean its real!
🏳️⚧️ 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 🇵🇱
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
KiKi @kdevaux.bsky.social I’ve been told that writing 200+ poems in less than a year makes you prolific and tortured. So, here I am — a tortured prolific poet.
I write poems about a lot of things, but mostly TTRPG characters.
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.
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Dr Janet Gunning @jangunning.bsky.social British-Kiwi. Full-time carer. Used to work with manuscripts and rare books. Learning to write fiction for children in my spare time. Love my garden. She/her.
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.
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Rachel Castro @duckyrpc.bsky.social Librarian. Cat mom. Baker of banana bread.
Excuse me, I must go lurk.
Yarn it! @yarn-it.bsky.social Knitter. Aspiring sewist. Neurospicy. Invisible disability. Books. Cats. Jewish.
Shamrock Roots @shamrockroots.com Discover the people and places that matter to you. Hire Ciara Chivers, Qualified Genealogist, to research your family tree or house history: http://shamrockroots.com
Tomas Kosegi @tomaskosegi.bsky.social Travel, medieval Latin & Byzantine art, old books & manuscripts, foreign policy, hiking...
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Emma Nelson @emma-nelson.bsky.social PhD candidate working on the medieval library of Lincoln Cathedral & assistant at Chetham's Library 📚📚📚