Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social International Nordic Master’s programme, offering an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.
oldnorse.is
Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social PhD student working on early medieval Lombard Italy at Padua, Venice and Salamanca.
Dr Rachel Souhami @rachelsouhami.bsky.social Museums consultant. Works at the intersection of design, narrative, partnerships and process. Develops and facilitates new approaches to museum practice. Founder of Prospect Heritage Freelancers branch. Producer of @museumsshowoff.bsky.social
She/her
Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social Archaeologist & writer. Senior lecturer at Uni of York. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill; The Remembered Land; Footmarks, a journey into our restless past. Agent: JP Marshall.
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Norse in the North @norseinthenorth.bsky.social Annual postgraduate student conference in the North-East of England on Old Norse and Viking Studies. Co-run by Durham University, University of York, University of Leeds and University of Nottingham.
2027 - Theme TBD (University of Nottingham)
Michael Lewis @tostig1066.bsky.social archaeologist, medievalist, longbow archer and virtual cricketer, something to do with PAS… and uni Reading & Helsinki
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
Zuzana Hofmanova @zhofmanova.bsky.social archaeogeneticist, striving to be cheerful
https://www.eva.mpg.de/archaeogenetics/staff/zuzana-hofmanova/
@nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social @nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social 
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Thomas Flynn @nebulousflynn.bsky.social 🗿 Cultural Heritage | 3D | Open Access | Engagement 🏺
Prev.: Sketchfab | Epic Games | British Museum | Museum in a Box
nebulousflynn.substack.com
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She/Her 👩🏻🏫🏴🇨🇾 https://linktr.ee/drkatiecross
Sarah Miles @sarahmiles.bsky.social #Archaeologist Director, Community Archaeology North CIC www.cancic.com @cancic.bsky.social Prehistory, Neolithic, Bronze Age, fieldwork, landscape, community. Former publisher.
Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social Historian of medieval gender and sexuality
Currently writing about pleasure and protests
Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History, Pembroke College Cambridge
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
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
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.
Morgan Mumford @mumfordmedieval.bsky.social Early Medieval History | Coastal Community | Environmental Humanities| PhD Candidate from Aus
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
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social We offer a focus for those with an interest in church monuments of all types and periods. Posts by @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social
Dr. Jenny-2026 version @jennyflyrocks.bsky.social Boo! (she/her) medievalist, Old and Middle English LITERATURE, medieval medicine; job seeker; educator; I love LONGFORM fiction: Beowulf, SGGK, Borgen, Supernatural (Destiel), Foundation; HATE FREE ZONE, unless you hate the patriarchy: I support that!
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
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 🏳️🌈
Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | working on Archetype 3.0 | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
Nathan Melson @nsmelson.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Marseille, Provence, saints, relics, and religious economy; adjunct
Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social Historian of medieval Europe, currently researching trouvères through their representation in documentary culture @ MUSLIVE, KCL. Wolves fan 🐺🐺🐺 embroidery enthusiast. She/they 🏳️🌈
Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social PhD-doer, Uni of York, working on distributed cognition and nature in Old Norse and Old English poetry (mostly).
Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
Yaniv Fox @yanivfox.bsky.social Early medievalist interested in GenAI in higher learning
michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social 🇳🇿 in 🇩🇪
PhD in Medieval History at the University of Tübingen
The one who keeps talking about Biblical Patterning in Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon.
Author of "Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women Doctors"
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
Yorkshire Numismatic Society @yorkshirenumsoc.bsky.social The Yorkshire Numismatic Society aims to promote the study of coins
Website: http://yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com/
Follow us on X at https://x.com/yorkshirenumsoc
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Using #archaeological finds and findings, we follow these traces and show human #behaviour and action, human activity and thinking. #archaeology #LEIZA
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
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
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Sarah Fry @drsfry.bsky.social Medieval historian: a focus on charters, the 11th century, and Normandy. Working to reveal unseen histories. May also be found writing about giants. IHR Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Book on Norman charters: routledge.com; Cerne giant writing: oxbow.com.
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social FBA, Professor of Medieval History, University of Oslo. Interested in cultural, intellectual, religious, and legal history, vikings, early Rus/Ukraine, manuscripts, medieval world history. President of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law. #medievalcanonlaw
Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social Student at @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social|History of Medieval Studies|Medieval Science and Education|Medieval Mediterranean|Latin-Arabic entanglements esp. translation movements
German and History Tutor
Tara Mulder @taramulder.bsky.social Roman historian. History of pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, sex, & gender. she/her
Available now: A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2026.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Medieval Food With Jennie @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social Random posts about medieval food and cookery. It's never as weird as you think. For non-medieval food adventures, check out @jenniehood.bsky.social
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.
Dr. Gabriel Baker @gabrielbaker.bsky.social Ancient History PhD. Teacher. H-War Network Editor. Author of Spare No One: Mass Violence in Roman Warfare. Chicagoland. Views/opinions are my own.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social 🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist http://childhoodbioarchaeology.org | http://facebook.com/childhoodanth/ | Co-Editor of Bioarchaeology International. Mother.
British Academy Global Professor at Durham University and Professor at University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social I just really like History | DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies @brookfarm.bsky.social brookfarminstitute.com
Utopian perambulations in the prefigurative humanities. Online and in-person seminars in Boston/Cambridge.
Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky
Early Medievalist @earlymedievalist.bsky.social Tim Clarkson. PhD, FRHistS. Historian and author.
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
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/
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Research in Action on Church Heritage @churchheritage.bsky.social Prioritising need and creating momentum to tackle an urgent challenge for the nation | A @socantscot.bsky.social and @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social project | Supported by #NationalLottery #HeritageFund and the Pilgrim Trust
Dr Duncan Berryman @dberryman.bsky.social Medieval archaeologist
Editor of the Castle Studies Journal • Secretary of the Historic Farm Building Group • Vice President of the Ulster Archaeological Society
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social Medievalist. Likes maps, birds, nature, cycling, cider and primates. She/her.
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.- P Paul Halsall @pbhalsall.bsky.social Byzantinist. Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Catholic. Gay.
Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social Prof of Geographical Thought & Practice, York St John Uni, UK.
Philosophy of geog, epistemic pluralism, geomorphology, higher ed., fieldwork, outdoors
FRGS, PFHEA, CGeog.
Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, Abbasids, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Assoc. Prof. at UCalgary
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MusheghAsatryan
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350985858
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social River Farm Foundation Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Comparative Belgian and British history of the FWW (and beyond). She/her. History, history, it is a mystery. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-pieters
The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social An interdisciplinary seminar series at the University of Leeds for postgraduate and early career researchers working on the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods.
Contact: thelongmiddleages@gmail.com
Website: thelongmiddleages.com
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social Early Medievalist, late to bluesky
Postdoc at Uni Köln
He/they
Jill Harrison @jillharrison1.bsky.social FSA Scot, Social art historian/Fifteenth-century Scotland, Flanders and Burgundy. Research Associate, Open University. Leads the Trinity Network and Adornes Network. https://profiles.open.ac.uk/jill-harrison
Mekhola Gomes @oldthingsarefun.bsky.social medieval historian of south and southeast asia (epigraphy nerd)| assistant professor @ amherst college | loves sci fi
Uncomfortable York @un-york.bsky.social Uncomfortable York runs academic-researched walking tours in the city of York, highlighting histories of race, gender, class and legacies of empire.
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.
My Historical Table @myhistoricaltable.bsky.social Historical food website, dedicated to bringing delicious recipes back from the past to the present. Join me at my table. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Founder @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social