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Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
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.
Margarita Rainford @tigerita.bsky.social Glass, archaeology, local history,old churches and being pleasant.
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.
Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social Retired Egyptologist/archaeologist now heckling. Volunteer assistant logboat conservator at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Currently @theees.bsky.social bake sale, formerly archives and events volunteer. Dog servant. Spooky. AuDHD.
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social Costa Rican Economic Historian of Roman and Late Roman Egypt Lover of running, reading, and birds
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
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
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
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'.
Dr Jasmin Higgs @jaztherunologist.bsky.social Runologist for hire! I’m interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems. Currently working on: early medieval inscribed rings.
Geoffrey Greatrex @otavano.bsky.social Professeur, Études anciennes, sciences des religions, Univ. d'Ottawa Professor, Classics & Religious Studies, Univ. of Ottawa Prezidanto, Kanada Esperanto-Asocio President, Canadian Committee of Byzantinists President, Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social Head of Research at Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PhD in archaeological glass science. Consultant in museum and heritage collections care. Trustee at Tarbat Discovery Centre. Interested in all things #archaeology #museums #glass #Scotland #heritage
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social Heritage photographer. Trying to become an archaeologist. Bit of a thing for landscapes, archaeology, movies, music, history, and chocolate. Derbyshire-based.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
S Dr Murray Cook @stirlingdigger.bsky.social Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Anton Larsson @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social Doctor of Archaeology and project manager at Lödöse Museum, Sweden.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts. https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social #Archaeology for a #biodiversitycrisis, #heritage for a #climate positive future. Optimist. #Pleistocene archaeologist, rugby coach, knitter, former public servant, now doing what I can in a large #conservation NGO with #landusechange and IRO research.
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
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.
Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social #Archaeology, #Ancient #Classical World & #Roman Frontier Studies MA. Former life Archaeologist doing a bit now and then. Every day above ground is a good day! Romanes eunt domus!😂
Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk Senior Lecturer in archaeology @sheffielduni.bsky.social Interested in archaeology🏺 monasteries ⛪ and the occasional cat 🐈‍⬛ www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/people/history-staff/hugh-willmott https://www.hugh-willmott.co.uk/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-7796
Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social FRHistS, lover of Carolingian coinage, Vikings, Jesus and my wife and daughter, though not necessarily in that order
Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter | Editor of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy 📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art 🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined 🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social Rep: PEW Literary
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow. Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology
Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social Exploring what happens when empires die. Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity, interested mainly in Prosopography, Late Latin Historiography, Ethnic Identity and Systems of Dependencies.
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval + medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focusing on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Communities, 5-8 July 2027. https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
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Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Worldwide society for prehistoric archaeology, established 1935. www.prehistoricsociety.org Posts by Tess Machling (membership secretary)
Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things
Current Archaeology @currentarchaeology.bsky.social The UK's favourite archaeology magazine. Tweets by Editor Carly and team. Subscribe today: https://archaeology.co.uk/subscriptions
Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social #OpenAccess peer-reviewed #digital #journal for #archaeology at University of York (UK). Posts by Judith Winters (Ed) #publication #digital #heritage 🏺
Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, Bristol University; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-century maritime connections in the North Sea world https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
Dr Alice Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social Curator, National Museum of Scotland
Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social Early medieval historian at the University of Kent | Reviews editor, Early Medieval Europe | Convenor @earliermiddleages.bsky.social kent.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/roberts.html
Kael @kaelball.bsky.social Vikings / Living History / Climbing / 18th Century/ Nerd Stuff
DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social Posts from the Archaeology Advisory Team and the Historic Environment Record at Derbyshire County Council
Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social Archaeology (Time Team, Portable Antiquities Scheme). Politics (Green Party). Always have too much going on to do anything properly.
Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | archaeologist | I write about the 'Dark Ages' Views my own. Appears on BBC radio occasionally. LITTLE KINGDOMS out now: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingdoms-Hardback/p/56542
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology @brownarchaeology.bsky.social Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World (JIAAW) is dedicated to the academic study and public promotion of archaeology and the ancient world, with a focus on the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Near East. archaeology.brown.edu
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
A Averil Cameron @averilcam.bsky.social Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
Paul Dilley @babelalexandria.bsky.social Erling B. "Jack" Holtsmark Associate Professor in the Classics, Departments of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Iowa. Digital Humanist. Opinions are my own.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social Award-winning writer/broadcaster Editor British Archaeology magazine 2003–23 Editor Society of Antiquaries of London e-newsletter 2015–20 President Sussex Archaeological Society https://mikepitts.wordpress.com/
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org The latest research in Archaeology from @universitypress.cambridge.org cambridge.org/archaeology
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine... Views all my own 😊 Green party 💚 She/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Our Bluesky account - University College Dublin, Ireland - posts by Aidan O'Sullivan and Conor McDermott
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling” https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/ Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
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.
Histo-Rik Sowden @historicechoes.bsky.social Heritage professional, public and living historian, reenactor and historical interpreter. Man of many hats. Probably not a time traveller. Probably. He/Him.
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛 2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos It's my real name | he/him www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Interlace knots @interlaceknots.bsky.social KNOTWORK IS A THING! sole focus: interlace under-over weave patterns across eons, origins, styles, methods, media, function, context, & meaning-making.. endless creativity, sometimes theology cosmology text commentary connection intention - Brian Dench
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
@victoriawhitworth.bsky.social @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social #Archaeologist. Neolithic-Bronze Age. Doctoral thesis on ~4000 socketed axes from Romania. ~15 years at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Türkiye. Now public relations and research @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Also #photography. Private account.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval" nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
Dr Rowan English @rowane.bsky.social Archaeologist, PhD on the ivory trade in late antiquity. Also interested in early medieval northwest Europe, circular economies, funerary archaeology, and long-distance interactions of all kinds.
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.
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕 Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en& Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) @ascorpus.bsky.social AHRC-funded 'Worked in Stone', the final phase of CASSS, is based at Durham Archaeology. Posts by Dr @celticist.bsky.social & Prof Sarah Semple.
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well. Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social Archaeologist
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old ⏰️ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm 🎟 FREE entry!