Helen Spurling
Ancient Historian at the University of Southampton with a focus on Jewish Studies.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
@08mikowitsch15.bsky.social
Historian/Archaeologist; #museum & #SocialMedia - head of visitor service and events @unesco Roman Monuments Augusta Treverorum
@skorbel.bsky.social
contemporary history | cultural studies | gender studies | popular culture historian @UniversityofGraz principal investigator @FWF
@voguearchaeology.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean archaeologist & scholar (Ph.D in Anthro). I study women's roles in ancient medicine. Co-host of the podcast Movies We Dig (@movieswedig.bsky.social). She/Her https://linktr.ee/voglercm
@amelia-eichengreen.bsky.social
Archaeology PhD candidate at UMich; Archaic domestic architecture, director of the Southern Etruscan Tomb Survey implementing LiDAR (she/her)
@peterwebster.bsky.social
Head of digital scholarship and innovation, Southampton uni library: DH, digitization, preservation, web archives, #GLAM, #OA Also: historian of 20th c. British Christianity: theology, ecumenism, law/politics, religious arts. Own views, naturally.
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
PhD candidate Binghamton University • Incoming Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • She/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
@heliconide.bsky.social
Classical Studies, UNAM | Digital Humanities | Admin of Desde Themyscira: desdethemysciraffyl.mx | Admin of EPN, UNAM: iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano | https://alejandragj.com/
@matthewjkelly.bsky.social
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
@melissaterras.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including CoSTAR network activities, Creative Informatics, and Transkribus. MBE FREng.
@mirandaemmerson.bsky.social
Novelist (4th Estate); Dramatist (BBC); Academic looking at radio, BBC history and British national identities. Currently also exploring the world of Welsh women's boxing at University of South Wales. 🏴🏴🇫🇷🇵🇱
@georgegilbert.bsky.social
Associate professor @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research
@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.
@shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg University. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@tomirvinemuso.bsky.social
Professor and Head of Music, U. of Southampton. Global history of music and some other things. Sometime podcaster. My views.
@medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
@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
@jwbaker.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Humanities · Director of Southampton DH · Programming Historian Trustee · Historian of various things · He/Him · Born at 342 ppm · #COYW
@fsoyer.bsky.social
Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile.
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@uclhjs.bsky.social
University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics. Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
@hebraicaveritas.bsky.social
Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Bristol, UK. BIAJS Secretary (@biajs.bsky.social). #BringThemHomeNow
@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
@vrfreedman.bsky.social
Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. Co-convenor, Hebraica Libraries Group. Posts are my own views etc She/her
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@nathanmacdonald.bsky.social
Professor of the Interpretation of the OT, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St John’s. Pentateuch, ritual, cult, priesthood, temple. Views my own.
@guesnet.bsky.social
Based in London and Berlin. Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe. Co-editor 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies. Stand with Ukraine!
@jacculturelmu.bsky.social
The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures. www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
@biajs.bsky.social
to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
@sgollance.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
@bengidley.bsky.social
Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
@cathamclarke.bsky.social
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25. https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
@jtpmedieval.bsky.social
Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
@glatthorn.bsky.social
PhD | Musicologist & cultural historian | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | Author of ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (Cambridge University Press) | Reviews Editor of ‘Eighteenth-Century Music’
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
@neilgregor.bsky.social
Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM
@historyatsoton.bsky.social
History at the University of Southampton, where staff and students, past, present and future discuss history. southampton.ac.uk/study/subjects/history
@cazemiera.bsky.social
Ancient historian. Greek and Hellenistic world, religion, Macedonia, Aegean sea, islands, and coasts, cultural interaction. Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Co-director of the Antigonid Network. Based in Newbury, UK.
@lvhicks.bsky.social
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜