Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Octave Julien @octavejulien.bsky.social MCF Bibliothèques, archives et IA à l'université d'Angers (labo @temos-cnrs.bsky.social).
Médiéviste (Fr, Ang) - Codicologie quanti - Histoire du livre - Histoire & informatique
Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social Medieval Historian interested in the relationships between the Church and chivalric culture c.1100-1250.
'Parfois au loin se laissait voir / Un feu qui se balance'
Pursue happiness with diligence.
Marian Toledo Candelaria @malcolmcanmore.bsky.social Special collections librarian. Likes books, book history, book arts, and typography. Parent to two fluffy bunnies.
🇵🇷 (she/they/ella[e])
Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social PhD at EHU, Precarity and Anxiety in Political Culture in Plantagenet Britain and Ireland, co-convener North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network, Medieval Editor EPOCH PGR History Magazine, Newsletter Officer History Lab, sometimes Celticist.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
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.
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.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
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
Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ England ❧ Scandinavia ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @hist4dem.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Imago Mundi @imagomundi.bsky.social The International Journal for the History of Cartography
Browse Issues: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rimu20
Dr Charlotte Pickard @drcharlottepickard.bsky.social Medievalist researching noblewomen and marriage in 12th/13thc France | AL in FASS @ The Open University | Tutor on Exploring the Past Pathway, Cardiff University | Co-convenor Noblewomen Network | Co-editor of Approaching Medieval Sources Series | she/her
Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - haven’t done age verification. Sorry.
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/
Borders, Boundaries, Barriers Conference @bordersboundaries.bsky.social Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (Rewley House, 20-21 April 2026)
Registration open early October: https://buytickets.at/bordersboundariesandbarriers/1842029
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
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.
Hannah Montgomery @hannahmontgomery.bsky.social Studying Middle English Romance and playing too much D&D
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
Dr Christopher Monk @medievalmonk.bsky.social Medieval manuscripts, languages & cultures. I write about & cook medieval food @ modernmedievalcuisine.com; create public history content for heritage professionals & collaborate with creatives: https://www.themedievalmonk.com/projects--publications.html
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
J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .(all views my own)
Oswald's Raven @oswaldsraven.bsky.social Account of the AHRC-funded project "Liturgical and literary landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world" run by Johanna Dale & Sarah Bowden (KCL).
www.oswaldusrex.co.uk
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Ethan Buchman @buchmanster.bsky.social Money, history, political philosophy, sustainability.
https://ebuchman.github.io/
Building https://cycles.money/ to clear the most debt for the most people with the least money
James Doherty @jrdoherty.bsky.social | Honorary Research Fellow in History (University of Birmingham) |
Co-Editor of Midland History Journal |
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹
(No access to DMs, email me)
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Loughborough Road Histories @roadsw9.bsky.social History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood
Andrea W. @handle.invalid Medievalist @Mercer University; Dominican Order & exempla, medieval race, medievalism. Part time copper/silversmith, intown hiker. Owned by two cats & a foster Pyrenees. Likes critical thinking, actual facts, ideas, puns, generalist studies.
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
European Review of History @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social The European Review of History - Revue européenne d’histoire is an international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas across Europe and to assist exchanges between young historians.
Emma Kay, Author, Historian, FRHistS, Archaeologist @museumofkitchen.bsky.social Doing Things The Old Way - Historian,Author, Archaeologist with food specialism.Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Online Archaeology Tutor.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/oldway2 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTyhFgdStZBUTkSxu0qTMQ
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
The Mediaeval Journal @themediaevalj.bsky.social TMJ is a friendly international interdisciplinary medieval studies journal founded by @SAIMS. Website: https://tmj.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Posts mostly by editor @jtpmedieval
Frances Andrews @fea-sta.bsky.social Medieval Historian; Italianist; Prof at St Andrews
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Maria Zygogianni @mariazygogianni.bsky.social Audience Editor at OUP | PhD on enclosed gardens in medieval literature
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Multidisciplinary Approach. Experimental and Historical Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Cultural Heritage. www.myhistoricaltable.com- N Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social Student of law, customs, charters and castles.
margaret beaufort fan @tudorhistetc.bsky.social linktree: https://linktr.ee/margaretbeaufortfanclub
instagram: margaretbeaufortfanclub
history B.A. • boston red sox • medieval & early modern
Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Citizen Dundus @citizendundus.bsky.social
Top monkey. A companion to owls.
Mainly history, folklore, 📚. Catty with a chance of owls.
Patron Saint: Mathurin
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social Medievalist. First gen. Obsessed with all things 1050-1250. Political, cultural, social history, England & France. Currently researching women and rebellion. #churchcrawling. Annoyed by (VERY) Long Covid. Owned by a mini wire-haired Dachshun
Giro Medieval Finance Network @giromedieval.bsky.social GIRO: Medieval Finance Network │Connects scholars working on financial history of the Middle Ages│RT news - publications - cfp
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
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
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Luke Foddy @lukefoddy.bsky.social Interested in history, archaeology and the natural world. Bylines on medieval matters for the BBC, Medieval World Magazine, and Inside History
lukefoddy.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
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
Peter Crooks @petercrooks.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Trinity College Dublin (@historytcd.bsky.social) | Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) | Member IMC (@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social) |Lapsed violist 𝄡 |
Digging sentences, in archives, in gardens.
Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social she/her •medievalist • monastic landscapes • experiential heritage • neurodiversity & archaeology • medieval women religious • creator #muntastic #nunscapes • SFF nerd #AuDHD Ally 🏳️⚧️🌈
🔗https://hcommons.org/members/kimmcurran
Mathis Prévost @mathis-prevost.bsky.social Phd candidate, Medieval History (#political thought, #animals, #allegories #medieval #latin, #translation… #XIIIthcentury)
President of @alma-recherche.bsky.social
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Selden Society @seldensociety.bsky.social Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history. Account maintained by @jctate1215.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.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Sophy Boyle @wyvernandstar.bsky.social 𝙇𝙄𝘾𝙀𝙉𝙎𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝘾𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙇𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙀
Liz Papp Kamali @lizpappkamali.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Thomas McSweeney @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
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.
Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk
Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social Law professor. Legal history, constitutional law. PhD in philosophy. Forthcoming book on the origins of the English parliament, Routledge.
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
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.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Marie Richards @marierichards.bsky.social Medievalist. Former diplomat. Animal shelter volunteer. Interested in languages, religion, manuscripts, Bach, and Hayao Miyazaki.
Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social Historian of violence, underemployed academic, low-rent podcaster (patreon.com/dr_violence) he / him, treaty 4 territory
Kaija Rayne 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social Professional Editor/Author. Graphic Designer. Mixing/Mastering Engineer, Voice Actor. Actor. Researcher. Historian. Linguist. Bioanthro/Forensics. Folklorist. Lexicographer. ND, Non-binary. Bylines NY Observer/Bustle. Books/samples> https://kaijarayne.com/
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Emily Shaver Kay (she/her) @emilykay24.bsky.social 27. Public Historian w/ MA from Bowling Green State University & BS in Geology from University of TN Knoxville. Also a native Appalachian, nerdfighter, reader, gamer, cat enthusiast, and insufferable Swiftie & boygenius fan. DFTBA! 💫
Dr Diane Budden @dibudden.bsky.social Historian of health, disease and medicine late medieval early modern and heritage professional. Visitor Services - Royal Collection Trust, Trustee - The Jenner Trust, Visiting Fellow - University of Winchester
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/
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.
Tacfarinas @tacfarinas.bsky.social Historian (mostly medieval and ancient history) of no particular importance.
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
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Jessica M. Elliott @jmelliott.bsky.social Associate professor of medieval history. Working on Jewish-Christian interaction, religious conversion, and attitudes toward converts in medieval France and Italy. She/her.
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.virtualtreasury.ie
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social Research fellow at Swansea working on fiefs of medieval & early modern Jersey; women in the Plantagenet world, first book on the Palace of Westminster; formerly @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, UWE, York and Durham; was once called Irene Adler; dogs; she/her.
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Dr Dan Spencer @gunpowderdan.bsky.social Historian of late medieval military history. Specialising in English military technology, warfare, and castles. Also a fan of Warhammer, France, dogs, heavy metal and archery.
Dr Daniella M Gonzalez @deegonz92.bsky.social Medievalist: London, urban history, political discourse, documentary culture📜
Archives and Records Management Professional 📚
Social Media Fellow at @harchivestrust.bsky.social 💻
Co-founder @memslibukc.bsky.social
Digital engagement
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Dr Paula Del Val Vales @pauladelval.bsky.social Senior Content Curator at The Social History Archive, PhD in History from the University of Lincoln, Medieval Women enthusiast and interested in households and comparative history.
Colin Veach @colinveach.bsky.social Medieval historian at U. of Hull | VCH Yorkshire, East Riding
Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com Medieval Latinist · Postdoc in the History of Maths, Logic and Philosophy, working on Cardano, the impossible and the medievals: https://i2erc.wordpress.com
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
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Eliot Benbow @ebenbow.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research working on the Late Medieval London Customs Accounts. Formerly at MoLA. Researching Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.