Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees
Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
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Here are an ever growing list of Bad Ancient contributors, editors, reviewers and long time supporters for people to follow!
@kbiittner.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Anthropology) at MacEwan University. Archaeologist. Archaeogamer. Queer. Polyam/RA. Matriarch. She/Her.
@louisecreechan.bsky.social
Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people.
@chalkefestival.bsky.social
UK's Largest History Festival 23 - 29 June '25 in partnership with Evelyn Partners Tickets On Sale Now 👉http://chalkefestival.com/tickets History Club 👉https://hub.chalkefestival.com
@historyrage.bsky.social
#HistoryRage is a #podcast by Paul Bavill where we invite historians to get angry about that one 'fact' you wish people would stop believing
@profannawhitelock.bsky.social
Dean of School of Communication & Creativity @CityUniLondon ; prof of history of modern monarchy; broadcaster. Distinguishing features: curly hair, red shoes.
@polygontreehouse.bsky.social
Award-winning indie game studio • Mythwrecked & Röki Creators • The Game Awards & Double BAFTA nominees
@jasmineelmer.bsky.social
History with Soul. Bringing you the past with meaning and purpose. Author, TV Presenter, Podcaster and Speaker. Goddess with a Thousand Faces Slay coming 2026 www.jasmineelmer.co.uk
@meganjdaniels.bsky.social
Asst Prof @AMNEUBC; studies migration and cross-cultural interaction in ancient eastern Med/western Asia
@ndhumanities.bsky.social
NDHums is a safe and generative research network and space that accomodates the diverse, individual needs of scholars working in the humanities | https://ndhumanities.com | Funded by the Wellcome Discovery Platform https://medhumsplatform.org |
@ainokash.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol | they/them | neuroqueering and/as literary praxis, literary asocialities | critical neurodiversity studies, transfeminism, affect | Co-lead of ndhumanities.bsky.social absashley.wordpress.com
@danielpjones.bsky.social
Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Research Associate @sheffielduni.bsky.social | Leadership Team Member @ndhumanities.bsky.social www.danielpjones.com
@pighill.bsky.social
Archaeological illustrator & heritage graphic designer, Peter Lorimer. Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
@lswisnom.bsky.social
Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner. https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
@carmunist.bsky.social
Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
@groomb.bsky.social
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
@kevin-gallant.bsky.social
Canadian Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9 Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤 https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
@manjeetsp.bsky.social
World Orders and World/Global History, Great Powers, Asia, China-India; Usual caveats; New Book - Divergent Worlds (Yale University Press, 2025)
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@tinerassalle.bsky.social
Ex-curator, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
@healthhistory.bsky.social
Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
@mathetria.bsky.social
Mother, writer, history professor, Homer fangirl & Alexander the Great geek * ATG Court Prosopography * Writing academic monograph on Hephaistion & Krateros * Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at UNO * Author, Dancing with the Lion duology
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Writer and academic. New book Pathfinding March 2025. Author of Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader. Writing courses at kerriandrews.co.uk Order Pathfinding here https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/9781783968428-s
@sebfalk.com
Historian of science || Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge || Singer, sailor, runner, father || "Always generous" – The New Yorker
@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
@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 historians: https://royalhistsoc.org/
@classicaljg.bsky.social
Writer and historian: author of Creepy Classics: Ghost Stories from Ancient Rome, exploring folklore and legend on YouTube as Classical JG https://linktr.ee/classicaljg
@carlyasilver.bsky.social
Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley "visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal 💚🇨🇦
@davidveevers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | colonialism and global history | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | academia’s longest commute
@hergrim.bsky.social
Delivery driver and r/AskHistorians mod. Dabbler in medieval history, fantasy nerd, Australian. He/Him 🏳️🌈
@sochistorywar.bsky.social
SHoW is an academic society aimed at understanding the history of war across time, spaces & cultures. https://www.show.org.uk
@tamarasiuda.com
she/they🏳️🌈| author | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | technology & its (mis)uses | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
@leedsclassics.bsky.social
Classical Civilisation, Classical Literature & Ancient History at the University of Leeds https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/classics-ancient-history https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/447/centre-for-ancient-world-and-classical-reception-studies
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
Founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art & archaeology in Ancient, Byzantine & Modern periods. Publishes JHS, AR & ARGO. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk
@grahamflhenderson.bsky.social
CEO of the London Chamber of Commerce. "Hope is a solemn duty which we owe alike to ourselves and the world." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley See www.grahamhenderson.ca for all things Shelley. I’m like him!!
@muclassics.bsky.social
Ancient Classics has been taught in Maynooth University since its foundation in 1795. And now the Dept. of Ancient Classics is on Blue Sky too! Find us at: maynoothuniversity.ie/ancient-classics Contact us at: classics@mu.ie
@pietervdheede.bsky.social
Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
@arkansasarcheology.bsky.social
The Survey's mission is to study Arkansas's past and share it with the people of Arkansas.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social
Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
@cscott58.bsky.social
Archaeologist focusing on digital approaches to the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Postdoctoral fellow with ANAMED. She/her. www.cbscottarchaeology.com
@jackelhai.bsky.social
History #author: THE LOST BROTHERS; THE LOBOTOMIST; THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (adapted into the movie NUREMBERG). #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. jack@el-hai.com
@benkaneauthor.bsky.social
Irishman, former veterinarian, fulltime historical fiction author, rugby nut. Fundraiser for Combat Stress and Park in the Past. Over 1.5 million books sold in 15 countries. 11 or 12 (!) Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. Also at facebook.com/benkanebooks
@simon-scarrow.bsky.social
Writer of historical and crime fiction. Have been known to be a Sunday Times number one bestselling author. I was a lecturer previously and sad to leave formal education. Try to make up for that by making interesting comments on social media.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚