Dr Laura Varnam
Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers Volume Seven: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Writing a book on Du Maurier.
@bibliologia.bsky.social
put on this earth to read books about books and #bookhistory | tentative & hopeful print & publishing history phd candidate 🎓📜🪶
@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social
PhD-ing @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social | Medieval(ism)ist | Archaeology, Viking Death and the Victorian Literary Imagination
@kaszyma.bsky.social
Just migrated over here! Asst prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
@franrg.bsky.social
Old English scholar | Avid gamer | Full-time cat enthusiast Currently Assistant Lecturer at Universidad de León Formerly of U. of Galway and UCC
@rosiebonte.bsky.social
Academic publisher @Brepols.bsky.social specialising in archaeology and history. British living in France. Sometimes writes about Vikings and goes digging in holes for old things. She/her
@ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
Regular (free!) podcast episodes on a range of issues relating to the life and work of early career researchers working in the Humanities: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vbaa4na9v6R4LN4p9a4ZF?si=b14
@elliotvale.bsky.social
Research Associate at FSU Jena. Translator, poet, Anglo-Saxonist, and all-round prune. Also on Twitter/X (for now) at: https://x.com/ElliotVale93
@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College. Sign up for our events: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/events Join our writing groups: http://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/writing-group Subscribe to our newsletter: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/SignUp
@gordonoriain.bsky.social
Ollamh, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-staff-and-scholars/celt-prof-gordon-o-riain/
@dralicekelly.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
@katie-urquhart.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Yale University Press London (views my own)
@siglum.bsky.social
Boston calligrapher, http://siglum-calligraphy.com, http://youtube.com/@siglum, He/him/his. Allyship is discipleship, Trans rights are human rights 🌈
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@jdmccafferty.bsky.social
A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
@helenbrookman.bsky.social
Professor in Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Education @kingsartshums
@kayguccione.bsky.social
I listen to stories and I think about them. Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development, Co-Director of Lab for Academic Culture. PFHEA. National Teaching Fellow. UCU 🆒 Papers here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ris/staff/kayguccione/#publications
@catscreatechaos.bsky.social
Medievalist and musician, long-haul PhD at Liverpool on “monstrous men” and mappaemundi. Mountains, mushrooms, music, festivals and cats. 🏳️🌈🏴
@7sagesresearch.bsky.social
AHRC and DFG funded project exploring the Seven Sages of Rome/Dolopathos/Book of Sindibad, focusing on gender, genre, and multilingual medieval transmission. https://seven-sages-of-rome.org/
@jeannecorviere.bsky.social
Medievalist, historian of Medieval Normandy, gender, masculinity, sexual violence, 600 years later time's up, author of "Negotiating Clerical Identities" (Palgrave, 2010) and the award-winning "The Manly Priest" (Penn Press, 2015). Rep'd by Chris Rogers
@historyworkshop.org.uk
// Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ // || enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ || \\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
@eve-johnson.bsky.social
Myfyriwr PhD llenyddiaeth Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe || doing an English lit (medieval literature) PhD at Swansea Uni, 🏴.
@richardnevell.bsky.social
@themamoconf.bsky.social
The 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. themamo.org
@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social
Likes: medieval literature, sea swimming, plants, embroidery. Dislikes: transphobes, bigots, jelly. Leverhulme ECF at Oxford, researching identity and the sea in medieval romance.
@aschurchill.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - ERC Starting Grant Project COLLAB @KU_Leuven | Collaborative Practices of Making Literature in Contexts of Displacement and Migration | ex-professional opera singer
@niamhvh-l.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, creative advisor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly). UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk. https://linktr.ee/nh_l
@misswalsingham.bsky.social
Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
@leahveronese.bsky.social
She/her. Early modernist at University College Oxford. Petition. John Donne. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
@prosanitate.bsky.social
We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
@kateheartfield.com
Novels: Mercutio (2026). The Tapestry of Time. The Valkyrie. The Chatelaine. The Embroidered Book. Games. Assassin's Creed books. Former journalist. University instructor. Ottawa, Canada. She/her. Trans rights or gtfo 🏳️🌈 https://kateheartfield.com
@markdoeswords.bsky.social
He/him, specialist in twentieth-century British literature Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel out now with Edinburgh University Press
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
@emilyscartoons.bsky.social
Cartoonist & author Prints and comic booklets available here! 👉 http://emilyscartoons.myshopify.com
@sarannmcd.bsky.social
Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
@jamesewand.bsky.social
Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic. Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc. Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
@lawrentian.bsky.social
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
@samanthalf.bsky.social
Librarian, fangirl, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting and spinning and chatting and sewing and reading and generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject.
@socmedfem.bsky.social
The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.
@annabeerauthor.bsky.social
Author of 'Eve Bites Back' and 'Sounds' and, new crime fiction, April 2025, 'Death of an Englishman'. https://www.annabeerauthor.com/ https://thespeakersagency.com/speakers/anna-beer/
@oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social
Community-powered poetry in Oxford. Workshops, events, open mics and a lending library of poetry open on Saturdays from 12pm-3pm. Entirely volunteer-run. Currently based at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, OX1 1HU https://linktr.ee/oxfordpoetrylibrary
@jillyluvsmusic.bsky.social
Here to talk about Pop Music especially Stock Aitken Waterman, Kylie, 80s/90s Boybands/Girlbands and Eurovision, also loves Books and TV Soaps Corrie, Neighbours and Eastenders
@badsquiddogames.bsky.social
Annie Norman. Pioneer of Believable Femme Miniatures for wargames & TTRPG. Historical, Fantasy & Sci Fi. International TV, Radio & Magazine star. Humble. www.BadSquiddoGames.com