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/
The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social An anthology-style podcast sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America and co-produced by Will Beattie, Loren Cantrell, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.
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Patricia Bracewell @patbracewell.bsky.social Author of the Emma of Normandy Series: Shadow on the Crown, The Price of Blood, The Steel Beneath the Silk. Writer, reader, scholar, medievalist, traveler, gardener, occasional tennis player.
www.PatriciaBracewell.com
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
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
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
MiyaMorgan @miyamorgan.bsky.social
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
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Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
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Tracey-Anne Cooper @tracey-annecooper.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at St. John's University, New York. Medieval history and culture. I love stuff and stories. Podcast " the past and stuff" on global microhistory and material culture. thepastandstuff.com
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.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
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Dr Rachel E Swallow FSA, FHistS @swallowtailarch.bsky.social Castles & Landscapes Expert | Research, Writing, Review, & Reach in Archaeology, History & Heritage | Where Words Work
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Tonbridge Labour Party 🌹 @tonbridgelab.bsky.social We are the Labour Party in Tonbridge, Edenbridge and the North Downs villages.
Promoted by Hollie Ridley on behalf of the Labour Party, 20 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 0SS.
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Michael Lewis @tostig1066.bsky.social archaeologist, medievalist, longbow archer and virtual cricketer, something to do with PAS… and uni Reading & Helsinki
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
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Rebecca Langlands @rebeccalanglands.bsky.social Professor of Classics at University of Exeter, co-director of Sex & History. Cyclist, footballer, violist, loves trees.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
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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
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
John Cotts @johncotts.bsky.social Medieval historian, humanist. Working on the crusades, violence, and the twelfth century. Pursuing new interests in environmental and climate history.
Brandon M. Bender @brandonmbender.bsky.social Writing about dead monarchs. Featured in World History Encyclopedia, Medieval World, Epoch History magazine, and many more.
Also the host of @thewandererhistory.bsky.social
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Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
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.
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
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
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
Julian Humphrys @juleshumphrys.bsky.social Historian, writer, and guide. Lecturer on historical tours. Leads English Heritage battlefield walks. Scriptwriter for museum audio guides across the UK. www.julianhumphrys.com
Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social Historian exploring the Speaking of Truth to Power in High Medieval Europe
Sig Sønnesyn @sigsonnesyn.bsky.social A sheep farmer in De Wulf's clothing, well-meaning idiot (in spe). Lonergan, Burrell, MacIntyre, McCabe. Waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – Alasdair MacIntyre.
Amy Hopkins @amyhopkins.bsky.social Permanently tired PhD candidate and PGR President at St Andrews / Medievalist and Art Historian / Cathedrals, patronage, archiepiscopacy, liturgy / she/they
James Morton @jamesmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Researches law, religion, and manuscripts in the medieval Byzantine Empire. Author, Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (http://bit.ly/3h3Huph) #ByzantineLaw
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
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Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
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Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
Emilia Jamroziak @emijami.bsky.social Medieval Studies, monasticism, East Central Europe and historiography. Here in private capacity. Co ma wisieć nie utonie.
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social Times and Sunday Times best-selling author
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Maya Soifer Irish @msoiferirish.bsky.social History professor at Rice University. Russian-Jewish American, "rootless cosmopolitan." I study medieval Iberia and its history of religious coexistence and confrontation. I love cats, nature, art, historical fiction, travel, and classical music. 📚🖼️🌊🎼🌸🐈
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
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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/
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social 'The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time'. Onomaphile and award-losing historian: 'Enough of all this academic chatter, Back again to devilry!'
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
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
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.
footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social Quality guided London walks by & for those who #LoveLondon delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm.
@footprintsoflondon - Where Londoners Walk
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
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𝙺.𝚁.𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 @the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social 𝙼𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 & 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 @𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑
𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 (𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝/𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕). 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔.
𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜.
𝙲𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌. 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social Chicago's 32nd Ward Committeeman. Host of Endless Urgency. Exposing MAGA and defending democracy. Entrepreneur, husband, dad, semi-happy Cubs fan.
Kimberley Hackett (she/her) @kimberleyjourno.bsky.social Senior reporter on GPonline.com part of Haymarket Media. Contributor to the Talking General Practice podcast: podfollow.com/talking-gp Got a story? DM or email kimberley.hackett@haymarket.com.
Formerly Nursing Standard and the Watford Observer.- S SCMedievalist @scmedievalist.bsky.social Medieval History, especially England. Author of Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England (2025). Loves include pets, mysteries, and mountain hikes. Views are my own.
Catherine Ibbotson @historysquirrels.bsky.social AKA The Historical Collaborator…
More to come.
Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social Dad ☆ Husband ☆ Low-Key Nerd ☆ EdD / JD
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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Paula Lofting @paulaloftingauthor.bsky.social Author of historical fiction Sons of the Wolf Series set in the 11thcentury and writer for Pen and Sword - newly released biography about Harold Godwinson. Currently working on Biography of Edmund Ironside.
website: www.threadstothepast.com
Andrew Homan @andrewhoman.bsky.social
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
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Callum Hendleman @callumhendleman.bsky.social Edinburgh PhD candidate | The Role of Women in Late Byzantine Literary Culture
Enjoyer of Medieval Greek verse and boulders of varying gradients
Vox Vulgaris @voxvulgaris.bsky.social The Shape of Medieval Music to Come
Early Music for Late Humanity
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-music-for-late-humanity
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle.
Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.
Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Marc Stuivenberg @mstuivenberg.bsky.social Research Master's student in Medieval Studies at Utrecht University | Writing my thesis on Rorik 'of Dorestad' (c. 820 - c. 875) | Vikings in continental Europe | Heritage and museums | Living history | Occasional illustrator
Archaeoethnologica @archaeoten.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, sometimes ethnographer .. eventually History & Art History professor. Defintivelly, construtive skeptict, dyslexical & systematical Eclectiic
https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/
Citizen Dundus @citizendundus.bsky.social
Top monkey. A companion to owls.
Mainly history, folklore, 📚. Catty with a chance of owls.
Patron Saint: Mathurin
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Dr Christina Cowart-Smith @celticist.bsky.social Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. Trustee @gefrintrust.bsky.social. British Museum tour guide.