Dr. Barry Torch
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
@jubalbarca.bsky.social
Historian of the Medieval Caucasus, web community organiser, game developer, liberal activist, songwriter and storyteller. Somewhat hobbitish. Also at https://exilian.co.uk/, https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca, and https://hcommons.org/members/jubalbarca/
@yeoldeamel.bsky.social
thinking (and sometimes writing) @princeton medieval maghrib and ifriqiya PM @genizalab
@hergrim.bsky.social
Delivery driver and r/AskHistorians mod. Dabbler in medieval history, fantasy nerd, Australian. He/Him 🏳️🌈
@medievalappalachia.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in medieval literature at CUNY Grad Center | writing a dissertation on medieval romance, game studies, and premodern race She/her 🌺 Okinawan/Ryukyuan diaspora ✨Professional Yapper 👩🏫 Dork Academia
@petreraleigh.bsky.social
movies, socialism, occasionally history. newsletters on film, horror novel in progress. he/him https://peterraleigh.substack.com/
@tfbretz.bsky.social
They/Them Neurospicy middle-aged nerd, hands-on amateur historian (medieval and early modern), unrepentant leftie, owning my ENBYness more loudly in 2025, occasional gamer, swords are cool.
@anniebellet.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling fantasy author, artist, nerd, and armchair medievalist. She/her. www.anniebellet.com
@argv.bsky.social
VP Security at Google. Co-Chair Cybersafety Review Board, Co-Author Building Secure and Reliable Systems. r00t. Medieval historian.
@jennyflyrocks.bsky.social
(she/her) medievalist, Old and Middle English LITERATURE, medieval medicine; job seeker; educator; I love LONGFORM fiction: Beowulf, SGGK, Borgen, Supernatural (Destiel), Foundation; HATE FREE ZONE, unless you hate the patriarchy: I support that!
@chriswhitewrites.bsky.social
PhD in Medieval Weirdness - ghosts, werewolves (and werecats!), things that go bump in the night. Tokyo raised. Husband, father. Certified human. Terrible at origami.
@shelbyjudge.bsky.social
Lecturer, Derby Uni • researches feminist myth retellings and, mostly unrelatedly, Incels; teaches english literature & media • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
@wordorigins.bsky.social
Focusing on the origins of words and phrases and their cultural context since 1997, plus dog pics and videos. Run by Dave Wilton (he/him).
@taylorcowdery.bsky.social
I teach medieval literature at UNC. "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry" is out now from Cambridge UP.
@eatthatbee.bsky.social
Medievalist • Assistant Professor of medieval literature @ Southeastern Louisiana University • University of California, Riverside, PhD feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, & haunting • he/him/his opinions expressed are my own
@emilyprice.bsky.social
Digital editor and PhD candidate in medieval lit 📚 Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻 Words @ Polygon | WaPo | PC Gamer | Post45 | Digital Trends | Paste | etc.✏️ https://emily-price.neocities.org inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
@kitfrench1348.bsky.social
Medieval Historian; dog and cat lover. Looking for order, finding chaos.
@biclaggedinclay.bsky.social
It was in the reign of George II that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
@megsmith.bsky.social
• Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social • Medieval/early modern Irish historian • Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist • Die-hard Packers fan • Avid quilter/xstitcher • Margaret, not Megan • She/her • STL
@julialilinoe.bsky.social
Rare Books Librarian at Lambeth Palace Library. Talk to me about nuns and books! She/her, views my own.
@rachelmartin.bsky.social
3rd year PhD student, Harvard Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, focus on the Mythological Cycle.
@historydan1066.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor @UCDHistory, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk Historian of the British-Irish Isles & the Papacy in the 11th & 12th c. Likes 🏏🏔️🚲
@hellomizk.bsky.social
Cartoonist, Chaucerian, pigeon enthusiast. Co-founder of @guildmedmak.bsky.social a society for medievalist makers and creatives!
@deegonz92.bsky.social
Medievalist: London, urban history, political discourse, documentary culture📜 Archives and Records Management Professional 📚 Social Media Fellow at @harchivestrust.bsky.social 💻 Co-founder @memslibukc.bsky.social Digital engagement
@kersti.bsky.social
Premodernist, nerd, Mawrter, English postdoc at Boston U Society of Fellows. Research: identity studies, the history of science, canon law, and med/ren comparative lit. WIP: Queer Magic: Sodomy, Sin, and the Supernatural, 1150-1650 🏳️🌈🇱🇻
@thatbeheadinggirl.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer. Medieval and Medievalism. Violence and Gender. Intersectional Feminist. She/her. ‘That Beheading Girl’
@medievaliste.bsky.social
independent scholar, sometime professor, academic editor medieval studies; musicology; women’s and gender history; increasingly writing about feelings glgower.com
@lenamstrid.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on parchment production in Scandinavia (in progress).
@tomepritchard.bsky.social
PhD at Cambridge researching British walking-writing (medievalism, myth, belonging, protest) | Copywriter & editor 📍 Ventnor, Isle of Wight / Cambridge
@malentendre.bsky.social
Literature prof (UoGuelph) | science before 1700, esp. medieval animals | they/them | songwriting, sci fi, whale facts 🐋 🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Tkaronto/Toronto
@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
@chriscelenza.bsky.social
Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
@carrielarocco.bsky.social
Classicist and Early Medievalist at Oxford. Working on: female patronage in the late- and post-Roman west; late Roman + Visigothic Iberia. Sometimes I make Roman recipes ☺️ (she/her) #MosaicMonday ♾️
@marcmorris.bsky.social
Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
@tyguson.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25) at Institute of Historical Research; 11th-century Normandy, maritime and riverine environments, the Norman invasion fleet. https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
@northages.bsky.social
Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. Feast days, on this day, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
@domwass.bsky.social
Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ England ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ Scandinavia ❧ based @ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @digitrip.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
@medievalcarly.bsky.social
PhD in Celtic, focusing on early medieval Irish and Scottish history. Saints, monasteries, monastic networks, and water-based travel. Founder and Managing Director of My Academic Family, a non-profit supporting student success in university.
@hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Glas.) | MA (Oxon) Balliol, Oxford history | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain | Co-Ed. / Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | Archaeology & Museum Comms | Govan Stones Museum Assistant
@downham.bsky.social
Medievalist, Liverpool. She/Her. Author of ‘Medieval Ireland’ (Cambridge University Press) ‘Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland’ (Liverpool University Press) currently commissioned for a Penguin Classics volume on the Viking Age
@medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social
Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
@womenof1000.bsky.social
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
@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!'
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval history, Cairo Genizah, Semitic languages | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU
@nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social
Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity. She/They
@scottmanning.com
Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024). Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him https://linktr.ee/scottmanning
@uelizahnd.bsky.social
Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson. Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net