Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social side wound enthusiast. PhD researching queer history of medieval Italian religious women @ UCL. former library assistant. she/they.
Dr Eleanor Smith @englynsmith.bsky.social PhD in "knowing too much about fourteenth-century hagiographical manuscripts"; englynthusiast; general-purpose nerd. She/her.
Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social A public history blog from the Cambridge History Faculty 🪶
Molly Judd @mollyjudd.bsky.social medievalist, art historian, ecocritic
PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge
researching the relationship between wilderness and the Romanesque art and architecture of The Fens
Musée de Cluny @museecluny.bsky.social Compte officiel du musée national du Moyen Âge à Paris 🦄
Exposition "Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier" à partir du 13 octobre 📅
Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname💧| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) 📚| former primary school teacher 👨🏫| civis europeus 🇪🇺
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.
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
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.
Katie Vernon @katievernon.bsky.social Medievalist PhD researching arms and armour in Middle English romance.
Interested in medievalism of arms and armour in modern pop culture, esp. video games.
https://katievernon.weebly.com/
Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social
Lancaster-based medievalist working on this Southampton project:
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=UKRI4381
📍🌊🌎
Author of this book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing-st-guthlac-hb/ 📖
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
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.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Anna Parker @annaporker.bsky.social Past & Present Fellow, Institute of Historical Research. Writing about central Europe, families, psychology and art + objects in the TLS, Granta, Guardian etc.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
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Emma Olson @emmaolson5.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Cambridge | Researching the soundscapes of medieval Europe, particularly in Iberian towns
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies @saims.bsky.social SAIMS is an interdisciplinary institute of medieval studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Proudly bringing medievalists together from around the world since 2007! Website https://saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Gareth Lloyd Evans @garethlloydevans.bsky.social Medievalist at St John's College, Oxford.
Old Norse | Gender | Emotion | Poetics
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Susannah Bain @susannahbain.bsky.social (she/her)
PhD student in History. Connections, political communication and history-writing in the 13th/14th-c. Mediterranean. Also do environmental things.
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Vanina Kopp @vkopp.bsky.social medievalist & history professor • Amiens (pro) & Paris (priv) • cat & coffee lover
Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky
Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
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
Dr Andrew D. Buck @andrewdbuck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Beer enthusiast. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Miri Rubin @mirierubin.bsky.social Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. ICMS 2027: Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Medieval Studies at Lincoln @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
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Dr Charlotte Liebelt @havelokthedutch.bsky.social PhD in Medieval English Literature ᯽Education ᯽ Currently live in Groningen, The Netherlands ᯽1 husband, 1 cat, 2 sons
Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social Interdisciplinary medievalist; Stony Brook University History Dept. I work on religious history, Jewish-Christian relations, and the role of vision & material culture in shaping identity and generating prejudice. Fervent supporter of public higher ed.
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.
French History (Journal) @frenchhistory.bsky.social French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Nicolas Perreaux @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social Art historian & medievalist; under-appreciated plant enthusiast, uptight watercolourist. 🇨🇦✍️📚🌱. Insta: @alixebove
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Claire @carmineclaire.bsky.social sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹🗡️ curator 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
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~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Dr Sophia R.C. Johnson @letsgosojo.bsky.social she/sie | Postdoc in Hebrew Bible @Ruhr-Universität Bochum | PhD @University of Cambridge | Political and social identities in the narrative books | Reception history nerd | 💐
The MET: European Sculpture and Dec Arts (Bot) @meteuropesculpt.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department.
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social PhD in History | Environmental and Indigenous History in the American West & Borderlands | Writing an Environmental History of the North Woods | Research Historian @ Minnesota Historical Society | WI➡️MT➡️KS➡️MN
haydenlnelson.com
https://firearchive.omeka.net
Dr. Vikram @sultanofsnark.bsky.social tbd if/how I actually use this space. professional stuff? music? wnba fan account? who really knows?
Parergon Journal @parergon.bsky.social Peer-reviewed antipodean medieval and early modern studies journal, always open for submissions. Owned by ANZAMEMS.bsky.social, tweeted by mattfirth.bsky.social.
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
jbessmor @jbessmor.bsky.social Ph.D., history of slavery & gendered violence. Moved here from the other place. Navigating finishing a book. In solidarity with other researchers who have lost funding. Dog person, obviously.
Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
Suzanne Blier @suzanneblier.bsky.social Professor, Author & Civic Activist in Cambridge Ma. Art/Architectural History, African Studies, City Histories, Urban Planning, Museums). Native of Vt. Building communities. Find blogs and more at: suzanneprestonblier.com
EUI Intellectual History (IHWG) @inthiseui.bsky.social The Intellectual History Working Group at the European University Institute. Posts by @laurelinm.bsky.social and @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social.
Victoria Barlow @vic-de-valois.bsky.social Masters student at Sorbonne Université. Late Medieval Anglo-French monarchy. Louis d'Orléans is my problematic fav
Dr Lieske Huits @lieskehuits.bsky.social Art historian: 19th c, historicism, style, museums, and decorative arts/material culture.
University Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at Leiden University (she/her)
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/lieske-huits#tab-1
Matthew Lloyd Roberts @matthewlloydr.bsky.social writing about architecture
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Dr Matthias Bryson @poormedievalist.bsky.social Teaching Associate in medieval history at the University of Nottingham. Researcher of medieval saints and liturgy, Dungeon Master, Trekkie.
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Katherine Harvey @katherineharvey.bsky.social Historian and writer.
https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
Teresa Barucci @teresabarucci.bsky.social junior research fellow @ Magdalen College, Oxford || working on the social and political history of mobility in late medieval Europe
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
@whc-grace.bsky.social @whc-grace.bsky.social Historian of work, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid c20th Britain
Associate member of the NewBridge Project
https://thenewbridgeproject.com/artists/
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain working on childhood, education & young people's politics | Leverhulme ECF at University of Oxford | she/her
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
George Morris @gbmorris.bsky.social
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social Historian at University of Cambridge.
Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.
Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Jas @jterrib.bsky.social Historian of Gender, Urban Capitalism and Labour in 19thC
PhDing @Camericanist
Badger Scholar @ClareCollege
Cockney • Dyslexic & ADHDer •
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Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Views etc, my own.
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social World-leading research and teaching on all aspects of gender and sexuality across the disciplines at the University of Cambridge. MPhil and PhD degrees. www.gender.cam.ac.uk.