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Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
(pretty much always a library in my books)
http://www.rflong.com/
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Helen McKee @helenthev.bsky.social Likes dead languages and medieval manuscripts. She/her.
Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCD. Young Academy Ireland. https://t.co/ZQ4XYYxM7H
Ancient DNA, goats, sheep (begrudgingly), pathogens, climate, MTG, Traitors.
I watch too many films: http://letterboxd.com/GingerHowley
He is openly gay (citation needed).
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Kelli Hansen @kellihansen.bsky.social Special Collections, archives, rare books, etc.
THAISIS @thaisisproject.bsky.social MSCA-PF project, 2025-27: Rethinking medieval & modern sexualities through the ‘harlot saint’ Thais. Researcher: Alicia Smith, @timekeptcity.bsky.social. Follow for updates on ongoing research on this complex and fascinating figure in medieval culture!
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/ 📖
Ninon Dubourg @ninondubourg.bsky.social Postdoc on Medieval Disability and Old Age (13-16 c.), currently fellow A. Von Humboldt at Uni Köln.
Searching for a permanent position 😊
My book is OUT with Amsterdam UP!
Blog: http://dishist.hypotheses.org
Leah Pope Parker @parkerchronicle.bsky.social Baker of hand pies. Scholar of medieval literature and disability: www.leahpopeparker.com She/they. Views: own. Cat: Æthelthryth. Book: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12571891 Banner: close-up of swirling shades of yellow in oil paint, vaguely floral.
UNR Special Collections and University Archives @unr-scua.bsky.social Home to the University of Nevada, Reno Archives and Special Collections materials. Our strengths include Nevada politics, activism, environmentalism and land use, mining and railroads, people and places of Nevada, and book arts/artists’ books.
Duncan Hardy @hrehistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor. 🇬🇧🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸. Holy Roman Empire & other medieval/early modern history. utk.academia.edu/DuncanHardy
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or employer.
@jldeuffic.bsky.social @jldeuffic.bsky.social La recherche ma passion
Le Moyen Âge mon domaine
Les manuscrits mon quotidien
La Bretagne au coeur !
https://pecia.blog.tudchentil.org/
Thomas Phillips @thomasphillips.bsky.social Medievalist • Musicologist • Anglo-Norman chant traditions • Postdoctoral researcher @ University of Cambridge • 🏴
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
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
Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social Writing about old things at W&M, PhD UC Berkeley. Author FORMS OF DEVOTION IN EARLY ENGLISH POETRY (Cambridge UP 2023) and LITERARY FORM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (Cambridge UP 2025) she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own.
www.jenniferlorden.com
Barbara Bombi @bbombi.bsky.social Medieval Historian, interested in diplomacy and the Medieval papacy. Loves dogs and baking. Opinions are my own
Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social FBA, Professor of Medieval History, University of Oslo. Interested in cultural, intellectual, religious, and legal history, vikings, early Rus/Ukraine, manuscripts, medieval world history. President of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law. #medievalcanonlaw
Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social Medievalist. Likes maps, birds, nature, cycling, cider and primates. She/her.
Laura Jokisalo @laurajokisalo.bsky.social Writes. Interested in history, reading, libraries, archives, information retrieval and seeking, data journalism, preparedness, general knowledge and trivia. Everything about the UK and most things about Canada. And horror, especially horror.
Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social Professor, University of Agder
Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social Librarian at Hereford Cathedral. Librarian cliche & loving it. Expect books, tea, crafts & cats. All views my own, in case it needs to be said.
"She's the most librarian librarian I have ever seen."
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.
Evie @evievievie.bsky.social I like books, writing, and kindness. I don't like social hierarchies.
🚫 no ai.
🌈 she/any pronouns
Blood Cancer UK @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social Dedicated to beating blood cancer through research, and supporting those affected by leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, MDS & MPNs.
Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social Climatologist & Weather Historian.
www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxcrc
Weather news. Climatic statistics and records. By M. Herrera
@extremetemps in all networks
Claire @chirila.bsky.social Prof of linguistics. 🇦🇺/🇺🇸; Australian languages, historical linguistics, Voynich Manuscript
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | 📀
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
oren falk @orenfalk.bsky.social 🇮🇱🇵🇸 medieval cultural history, esp. Norse. wake up. brush teeth. sagas. rinse. repeat. not necessarily in that order.
John M. Jackson @johnxlibris.bsky.social Gardener. Father. Academic librarian. (bibliothecarius communicendi). I drink and I know things. https://johnxlibris.com #librarians #libraries #skybrarians
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
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.
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
Harry Ransom Center @ransomcenter.bsky.social Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Opening August 15: The Worlds of Gertrude Stein • Opening August 29: Houdini’s Library
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Want to join the Guild? Take a look at our website: https://www.guildmedmak.com/
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Historic Royal Palaces @hrp-palaces.bsky.social Six palaces, one charity
and a whole lot of history. 🏰
Europeana @europeana.bsky.social - Europe’s cultural heritage online http://europeana.eu
- European data space for cultural heritage https://dataspace-culturalheritage.eu
Funded by the European Union
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.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.
Westminster Abbey @westminsterabbey.bsky.social A royal church offering daily services for all and a World Heritage Site with over a thousand years of history.
Exeter College, Oxford @exeter.ox.ac.uk Founded in 1314, friendly and inclusive Exeter College lies at the heart of Oxford, supporting students and fostering academic excellence for over 700 years.
https://linktr.ee/exetercollegeoxford
St Bene’t’s Church Cambridge @stbenetscam.bsky.social An Anglican parish church and prayerful, safe space in the heart of Cambridge.
Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Celebrating the arts, sciences, and ideas that shape our world 🌍✨
https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
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/
Athelstan Museum @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social The Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Capturing the History of Malmesbury, burial place of St Aldhelm and King Athelstan, birthplace of Thomas Hobbes, and much more...
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io The Universal Viewer is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚 📜 📰 📽️ 📻 🗿 with the 🌎
https://universalviewer.io/
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la BnF et de ses partenaires. 📚
Accès libre et gratuit à des millions de documents numérisés ➡ gallica.bnf.fr
BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France @labnf.bsky.social L'actualité de la Bibliothèque nationale de France : salles de lecture, collections, agenda culturel, expos et musée sur le site Richelieu.
www.bnf.fr
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/
Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks
@ProfShakespeare @profshakespeare.bsky.social Professor Emerita, University of Reading; Founder & Director https://henslowe-alleyn.org.uk; Shakespeare, drama, theatre history, literature and manuscripts expert.
Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Laura Gisseleire @lgisseleire.bsky.social PhD candidate @ University of Kent with Knowledge Orders before Modernity
(formerly) Medieval Studies @ Birkbeck 🦉
mortuary rolls, commemoration, gender & monastic culture, manuscripts galore.
Gabriele Passabì @gabpassabi.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscripts enthusiast. Film addict.
Research Associate at @ghilondon.bsky.social
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
PhD | University of Cambridge
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
John Manley @jgmanley.bsky.social PhD student in medieval history at @memsunikent.bsky.social. Before that Reuters, AFP. Before that a physicist.
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
@christianalgar.bsky.social @christianalgar.bsky.social Prances around with old books.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Erkka Railo @erkkarailo.bsky.social MustRead-verkkojulkaisun päätoimittaja, osakas, poliittisen historian dosentti ja isä. Usein huumorilla, välillä asiaakin. Viserrykset ovat omiani
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
@madden1826.bsky.social @madden1826.bsky.social
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
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/
Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social Author of Marvel Prose Novels (Domino: Strays, Outlaw: Relentless, Siege of X-41), and Quietus and Terminus, science fiction novels set during the Black Death. Newest: Twilight Imperium: Voice of One, out now! Somehow on Bluesky now. They/them.
pam lach @plach.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-Prez. she/her
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Michelle Dalmau @mdalmau.bsky.social Librarian / Bruh-Mom
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Michael Angerer @mlangerer.bsky.social Austrian researcher and lecturer in medieval English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Medieval translation, multilingualism, historiography. Collector of dead Germanic/Romance languages. Occasionally pictures of pretty manuscripts.
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social Professor of runology (= runes & runic inscriptions, not urology), working with all things runic and more. Own views and random thoughts.
Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Dr Patrick McDonagh @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social Historian of Late Medieval Ireland, Wales, and England | Irish Traveller | https://shorturl.at/u4JSw
Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social Interested in Syriac manuscripts
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org