Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
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
Dr Ian Friel @drianfriel.bsky.social Independent historian, FSA and FRHistS, specialising in maritime, local and house history, based in UK. Author of five books on maritime history, multiple research papers and house histories. www.ianfriel.co.uk Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
@bumaritime.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social
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.
Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social medievalist | postgraduate research student | @qmul.bsky.social | @ihr.bsky.social | @londonmedieval.bsky.social
writing about museums & medievalism
Camilla Lindfors @cali016.bsky.social Translator English - Swedish. Johannedals Språk & Konst
#Translator #Translation #Linguistics #Terminology #LanguageValidation #Klarspråk #Writer
Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social #FamilyHistory researcher
Trustee @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Editor @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
OFHS advisor
Singer, baker, occasional mudlarker
Blogging at digupyourancestors.com
Heccyben @heccyben.bsky.social Queer 🌈#doctorwho fan 🌌, Archivist 📜🖥️. Runner,🏃♂️ writer 👨💻. Did PhD on early modern English travel writing once ⚓️ Likes trains 🚂, he/him
@nickkingsley.bsky.social @nickkingsley.bsky.social Historian of the country house; archivist; FSA; Chairman of Gloucestershire County History Trust; author of Landed Families blog
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
Tim Couzens @tj-couzens.bsky.social Local historian. Author of Hand of Fate, the History of the Longs, Wellesleys and the Draycot Estate in Wiltshire, ELSP, 2001.
Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social Works in academic publishing but will one day find out what she wants to do when she grows up. Supports Norwich City so must have done something awful in a previous life.
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Dan Carter @dmcarchaeo.bsky.social Archaeologist with a love of post-Roman pottery who hopes for a more open and fair society. All opinions are my own.
Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social PhD in History, postdoctoral researcher @durhamhistory.bsky.social on 'Modelling the Black Death' project. Former Postan @EcHistSoc fellow and researcher for @womensworkexe.
Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org Founded 1849.
Helping to protect and promote Somerset’s rich heritage and natural environment.
Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social Archaeologist in South West England. Dog owner, gardener, baker, walker, book lover.
Views my own.
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Sprecað Englisc @sprecathenglisc.bsky.social A dedicated community of learners & teachers of Old English holding free weekly Zoom classes, using Stephen Pollington's 'First Steps in OE' & other texts. Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spreceng. Questions? sprecathenglisc@gmail.com
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
Martin Šorm @martinsorm.bsky.social history - critical medievalism - literature
ecology & human rights
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories.
Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪- J John Clibbens @johnclibbens.bsky.social Emeritus Prof at BCU: linguistics and psychology, archaeology, Old and Middle English, classical languages, choral singing…
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Dr Tom Morcom @tommorcom.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, UCL
Pre-modern narrative theory, the sagas, other bits and bobs.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/97142-tom-morcom/about
Florence Bourgne @florencebourgne.bsky.social Professor of English Medieval Studies & head of @cema-su.bsky.social, the Centre for Medieval English Studies at @sorbonne-universite.fr
VP of the AMAES (French Society for the Study of Medieval England)
Singing/Cotentin/Medieval Inscribed Objects
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @historymalc.bsky.social Books & Writing, History, Art, design & architecture. Co-author of Churches of Salisbury & District.
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers Volume Seven: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Next books on Du Maurier, and Beowulf.
Simon Trafford @simonjptrafford.bsky.social Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
J.J. North Wannabe @phillyadam.bsky.social Collector & researcher of English, Irish & Scottish hammered coins minted in the 13th-14th centuries. Member BNS, RNS, ANS & ANA. Cambridge United supporter
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
Cory James Rushton @crushton.bsky.social Editor of Arthurian Studies at Brewer. All about Camelot, zombies, Lovecraft, Tolkien. Not necessarily combined.
But maybe?
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social postmedieval is an award-winning journal bringing medieval and modern into productive critical relation.
For queries, postmedievalED (at) gmail (dot) com.
https://linktr.ee/postmedieval
Tim Gollins @timgollins.bsky.social Director SCUA at Vanderbilt University. Posts etc. my own - Loves #Kites #MorrisDancing #Archives #DigitalPreservation #Digipres #Libraries #Photography
LinkedIn uk.linkedin.com/in/timgollins
Flikr https://flickr.com/photos/111510787@N06
David Gould @drdavidgould.bsky.social Freelance archaeological researcher / iIllustrator - www.thedavidgould.co.uk
Did a PhD looking at medieval rabbit warrens because why not (book coming 2026 via Liverpool University Press). Makes/loves music too.
Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social I've written biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert J. Oppenheimer and am currently preoccupied with climate change. My passions include music and ancient churches. I am proud to be a volunteer tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral.
Mike Horswell @mjhorswell.bsky.social Publisher | Historian | Author | Editor
Managing Editor Blue Goat Books.
I research the memory and use of the crusades and medievalism. Hon. Research Associate at Royal Holloway, Uni of London; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Views own.
Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
Susan Moore Research @susanmooreresearch.bsky.social Freelance researcher specialising in Chancery records and other records of places and people in the 16th and 17th century. Trustee of British Association for Local History, BALH
Tudorfp @tudorfp.bsky.social Gustav, Isobel & Imogen Holst and Vally Lasker. Mrs. Gustav Holst (2022). Church history and history of ideas, mostly Tudors and Huguenots. Next book Confidence: History of an idea from the 14th century to the present.
Tim Powell @tepowell.bsky.social Places of Deposit Manager at UK National Archives. Interests in archives, aircraft, hillforts, Warwickshire CCC and AFC Wimbledon.
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.
Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social Labour city councillor for Salisbury St Edmund’s. Honorary museum librarian & social history researcher. Community farmer. Southampton FC supporter.
Ruth Butler @ruthdotbutler.bsky.social Day job in heritage education & public engagement with #archives + volunteer roles focusing on #history & #heritage inc Salisbury Cathedral, #SarumChronicle & City Livery. Views my own.
James Baillie @jubalbarca.bsky.social Historian of the Medieval Caucasus, web community organiser, game developer, liberal activist, songwriter and storyteller. Somewhat hobbitish.
Also at https://exilian.co.uk/, https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca, and https://hcommons.org/members/jubalbarca/
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Lecturer at the University of Bath, Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages, gardens. Etc
Turi King @turiking.bsky.social British & Canadian geneticist/genealogy/forensics/archaeology #DNAFamilySecrets, #RichardIII DNA gal, Television/podcast presenter.
Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social We record and study historic buildings in the county of Somerset, UK. Events, surveys, research, publications. Established 1979. https://svbrg.org.uk/
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Kathryn Baird @kathryn11baird.bsky.social Transcribes Pitman Shorthand on postcards, in diaries, anywhere. Family history, Lancashire, typewriters, books, art, music, random things. Quite fond of an Oxford comma.
Hannah James @hannahjames.bsky.social Archives, records, and data protection. Derbyshire lass in exile, Beaver (Scout) leader, Friend, and proud Mummy.
Anne Verjus @anneverjus.bsky.social Histoire politique féminisme études de genre révolution française patriarcat radicalité anglaise James Henry Lawrence, Anna Wheeler maternité politique Lyon Villefontaine écologie transition bouquets véganisme Ecosse Angleterre
Kathy Seay @sapreaude.bsky.social A historian who has yet to write her masterpiece and a nerd for all things Roman and Medieval. A lover of cats, hiking, reading, and critical thinking. I’m not the gal you bring to your conservative gathering unless you like debate.
Richard Bradford @dorsetandbeyond.bsky.social Muddlings from the banks of the Dorset Frome and its water meadows. Rusty botanist.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Dolorous Edd @metalmedievalist.bsky.social History Grad in Bologna | Middle Ages & Medievalisms | Byzantines & Heavy Metal | Fedele allo Imperatore
Carol Barbon @childoflions.bsky.social Uvic student majoring in Medieval Studies, future Medievalist, a fan of paleontology, and a mother of three. (she/her).
Mike Baldwin @mikebaldwinharp.bsky.social Historian, Dr of organology, PhD supervisor, SEN teacher, harp maker, and author of Mizen: Rescued Folklore, Skibbereen: Rescued Folklore, Béara: Rescued Folklore, and Harp Making in Late-Georgian London. GHOSTS OF COUNTY CORK out 22 September 2026
Sally J. @sallyj.bsky.social Archivist. History Nerd. Still working my way out of the fog but one thing I know for sure is that every adoptee has a right to their original birth certificate.
Tom Pritchard @tomepritchard.bsky.social PhD at Cambridge researching British walking-writing (medievalism, myth, belonging, protest) | Marketing & Creative Lead
📍 Ventnor, Isle of Wight / Cambridge
Laura Burnett @tokeneffort.bsky.social Archaeologist. Mainly metal objects, coins, and coin like things. Fascinated by money and society in all periods. Researching 17th century trade tokens at Exeter. Former FLO.
Author: 50 finds from Somerset and 50 Post Medieval and Modern finds
Lucy Vinten @lucyvinten.bsky.social Archivist, Rare Books specialist at the British Jesuit Archive, collector of old household books, wooden boat enthusiast. Part-owner of a 2CV. Parent. She/her
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social Postgraduate Admissions Tutor and Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Outreach Coordinator for German and Affiliated Lecturer in MMLL at Cambridge. Medievalist (English/German). Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Imp @impishshadow.bsky.social Former quiet twitterer. Archives and history nerd, caffeine addict and politics watcher. Geeky interests and benign intentions.
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Robert Rouse @rousemedieval.bsky.social Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Penny Duggan @pennyduggan.bsky.social Archives | Local History | Family History
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
Tudor Places @tudorplaces.bsky.social Tudor Places is an independent magazine exploring the sites and buildings of the Tudor world and their stories, past and present. www.tudorplaces.com
David O'Flaherty @doflaherty.bsky.social Transcribing English inquest records with some annotations, 1888-89 North East Middlesex coroner's district. Pals with Emma and Molly. Learning astrophotography for the peace and quiet of it. Views are my own.
Catherine Beale @cbeale1.bsky.social Writer & historian. 'Champagne & Shambles' & 'Born out of Wenlock'. Clients inc Hampton Court, Herefds, Heckfield Place, Hants, & Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. cbeale.co.uk
Maria Sienkiewicz @mariasienk.bsky.social Archivist. Became an archivist because I like books and now I spend all day glaring at a computer. Manchester and Cheshire.
https://home.barclays/archive-barclays/
James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Expertise in: Text Encoding Initiative (Chair of #TEI Board of Directors), digital #editions, #medieval #drama, #REED, #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHAwards, #HTR, #AI
Kathryn Faulkner @kathrynhf.bsky.social Retired archivist. Historian. Amateur musician. Reader. Knitter. Aspiring world traveller.
Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social Archivist. Records Manager. Talks nonsense. Over here now. She/her. All views are my own etc.
Moggie @bibliatech.bsky.social Reference / Research
Fiber Artisan /Historian/ Technology Librarian
She/Her, 91 Bravo, Cats, Cardigans, Crafts.
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Dr Rachael Harkes @latemedievalist.bsky.social Historian | postdoc @mappingthemarch.bsky.social | Interested in processes of decision-making, borders, networks, and digital humanities | Canadian in the UK | she/her
Frederic Aparisi Romero @far1254.bsky.social proғ. нª мedιevαl @UV_EG @uocuniversitat 👨🏻🏫 🔸@mengeupeixdaci 🔸#Gandia770anys 🔸#ruralhistory🔸1/3 @harcamedievalis 🔸#TrencantTròpics
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