@trevordean.bsky.social @trevordean.bsky.social Historian of medieval crime and criminal justice, in Italy. Emeritus Professor. Currently working on a book on homicide in Europe.
Johann Petitjean @johannpetitjean.bsky.social Historian with a severe addiction to the news. Passionately interested in all forms of writing. Media | Communication | Intelligence | Diplomacy | Public Health. Italy and the Mediterranean, but in Poitiers. Proud father, football fan and graffiti lover
ELEXAI @elexai.bsky.social Horizon EU project for Lexicographic data, tools and services. Updating lexicographic data from the ELEXIS infrastructure with Large Language Models.
Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social Costa Rican
Economic Historian of Roman and Late Roman Egypt
Lover of running, reading, and birds
Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social Professor of History and founding Director of the School of Social, Historical and Political Research at the University of Waterloo. Posts in a completely personal capacity.
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social I teach and research the history of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (@lseechist.bsky.social) ⋅ member @rehpere.bsky.social ⋅ research associate @historyecon.bsky.social ⋅ personal website: https://cleocz.com/
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
Aaron Freedman @freedaaron.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Columbia, dissertating on the political economy of Wall Street in the 1980s
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination.
Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social Historian of 19th & 20th century Russia/Europe (mostly pre-1921); science fiction author & fan; lover of cats, dogs, chocolate, books, movies, television, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, cricket, Hawaii.
Follow my Substack! https://thomasbeck.substack.com
Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews
Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social Political economist @ LSE, currently visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study | benjaminbraun.org
Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social Professor of Maritime History at The University of Southampton https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x9xmp/professor-craig-lambert
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
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).
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social Award-winning community college professor, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Immigration Movement. Alte kaker in training.
Views are mine, not my employer's, and are protected by the First Amendment.
www.BryanEdwardStone.com
Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social Academic editor, History PhD, Jewish Studies expert; adinayoffie.com.
W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org I am a historian at Rice University. I use this account for updates about my work, cross-posted from my website at https://updates.wcaleb.org.
DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social DigiLab is the digital humanities hub of the @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, coordinating digital initiatives, building digital literacy, and supporting research across medieval studies and heritage science.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Dr Caroline Bourne @carolinebourne.bsky.social Researcher of early medieval regional identities, especially Gower.
Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.
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.
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Erica Buchberger @ericabuchberger.bsky.social History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social Professor of economic and social history at Exeter University. Research on work, gender, households, material culture, rural economy and more. Mostly England 1300-1750.
Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social Social and economic historian
Nathan Melson @nsmelson.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Marseille, Provence, saints, relics, and religious economy; adjunct
Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2027 will take place in Manchester, from 5-8 January 2027. Stay tuned!
https://2027.computational-humanities-research.org
Evelyn Gius @evelyngius.bsky.social Prof at TU Darmstadt, director of @fortextlab.bsky.social, editor @jcls-io.bsky.social.
Digital Humanities | Computational Literary Studies | Annotation (with @catma.bsky.social) | Operationalization | Narrative Theory | Events, Plot, Conflict
Viktor Illmer @viktor.im research software developer @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
he/him ♢ capta.systems
DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by
@uniofleicester
https://www.dosseproject.com
Chris Evans @cevans3.bsky.social Historian of enslavement, emancipation, energy, and metals. Author of “Slavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation” ( 2026).
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social PhD Student at St Andrews, focused on historicising environmental thought in high medieval Britain.
SGSAH funded, thoughts are my own
She/her
Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social Manuscript theorist. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ (2026) https://www.routledge.com/Memory-and-the-Digital-Manuscript-Resurrection-Divinity-and-New-Materiality/Thomas/p/book/9781032966656
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Kevin Kiernan @ktsk45.bsky.social Editor of Electronic Beowulf (https://ebeowulf.uky.edu/eBeowulf), interests in Old English language and literature, Anglo-Saxon and coastal Georgia history and archaeology, digital humanities....
MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project funded by Arcadia.
https://maeasam.org
PJ Wilson @pjwils.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins (migration & Acts) at the University of Edinburgh § coordinating refugee and asylum seeker support projects with the Naz § usual caveats: views are my own, etc.
Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com Manuscripts and JavaScript | PhD, NT Textual Criticism, U. of Edinburgh | Software Engineer | Trail Ultrarunner | Immigrant
📍: Edinburgh, Scotland
jacobwpeterson.com
Visiting Scotland? myScotlandGuide.com
Dr Katharine Jewitt (She/Her) @drkatharinejewitt.bsky.social Smallholder SW Scotland, Travelholic, Education & Wellbeing Consultant, Researcher, HE Lecturer, Coach, Co-Chair UNESCO Edu & Digital Skills Policy Lab, #DigitalSchoolsAwards Validator, #ALDinHE Administrator #JLDHE TechEditor #LoveLD Editor #AcademicSky
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social I study early modern Europe and the history of drugs & alcohol at the University of Kentucky. I post about new scholarship on early modern Spain at https://emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.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.
Bob Rae @bobbyrae48.bsky.social Canadian citizen activist, university teacher, writer, husband, father, grandfather
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press).
✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade.
Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Gerard Fitzgerald @gfitz.bsky.social Military-Environmental History, #envhist Department of Engineering and Society, UVA, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities U. Stavanger, History of Airborne Disease, Technology, Chemistry, Biology, Senses, CW & BW… and ships and railroads.
Maartje Janse @maartjejanse.bsky.social Historian at Leiden University, working on histories of political participation and protest
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
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. International communism, the Spanish civil war, transnational networks, gender, war & memory, childhood. Never pass up unusual travel opportunities.
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social Department of Religion, UGA
Recent publications
On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml
On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Ruth Gornandt @ruthmg.bsky.social Researching Scholastic sources in late medieval Armenian texts at AMES Oxford. Also interested in Early Modern Christianity, Natural Theology, Theology and Science. I love coffee, tea, and cake 🍰
John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social All things medieval; PhD from @tcddublin; Current Early Career Research Fellow at @CWDLancaster; Previously the RHS Centenary Fellow @ihr_history
Tutor at DCU, TCD, UCD
Researcher for Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and Irish Manuscripts Commission
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkehist.bsky.social Wannabee Historian. Studying at University of Greenwich. Political Liberal and Eurofederalist. I always have time for people who are experts in their own field.
Dr. Sarah Donovan @plottingpapist.bsky.social Catholic | Historian studying 18th cent. extralegal violence in Atlantic World at W&M | Brockport & Lycoming alum | Writing center aficionado | Dog Mom
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social News on the history and philosophy of the 'economic thought'. Edited by @hugocerqueira.bsky.social at Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
https://linktr.ee/economicthought
Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
https://alikichapple.net/
All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social economic historian
https://bradleyahansen.blogspot.com/
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
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
Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social Music historian at UMass Amherst | bit.ly/evanmaccarthy
David Santiuste @dbsantiuste.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Britain (especially 15th-century England and Scotland). Lecturer in Humanities at COL, University of Edinburgh. I work with adults of all ages, focusing on lifelong learning and educational transitions.
Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
SuffolkDeb @suffolkdeb.bsky.social Academic background in Early Modern English History. One foot in the UK, one in Canada. Stuck in the States. Lover of theatre, art history, Venice, chocolate, photography, languages, and travel. Hoarder of books. she/her #ElbowsUp
Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/46350-alexander-hibberts/about
Nigel Holmes @nigelholmes.bsky.social Lexicographer at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy #DigitalHumanities #FrenchLiterature #OpenScience #XML #Python #Zotero #Ubuntu #HongKong #Iran #Ukraine #ClimateCrisis
Personal account. Opinions are my own. Reposts […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fedihum.org/@christof, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society
https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Marnie Hughes-Warrington @marnieh-w.bsky.social Standing Acting Vice Chancellor and Provost, Bradley Distinguished Professor @UniSA.
Systems Philosopher and historian. Current project Artificial Historians
Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social Ukrainian. American. Associate Professor at UofI. Co-editor at AER:I and EEPE. Co-founder of http://econ4ua.org. deryugina.com https://ukraineinsights.substack.com/
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Marcus Meer @marcusmeer.bsky.social Medieval historian teaching at @ucl.ac.uk – formerly @ghilondon.bsky.social, @hhu.de, @durhamhistory.bsky.social and @uni-muenster.de.
David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social Teaching Professor, University of Washington School of Law #LegalWriting
My stuff: https://linktr.ee/djsziff
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff