UHI Institute for Northern Studies
We are internationally renowned for our innovative undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research programmes in Culture and Heritage, Orkney and Shetland Studies, Highlands and Islands Literature, Scottish Heritage, Viking Studies and Island Studies.
@orkneyjar.bsky.social
Orkney. North of Scotland. Ran Orkneyjar website until 2024, when costs and time became too much. Now divide my time between nessofbrodgar.bsky.social and uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
@orkneyboreray.bsky.social
Our Community farms rare Orkney Boreray sheep for mutton/products & saving the breed Book, The Lost Flock, @chelseagreen orkneyboreray.com ++welfare, nature #agroecology Orkney, Scotland
@danclaggett.bsky.social
Archaeologist | PhD Candidate | Vikings, Boats, Burials! Flinders University & University of Edinburgh
@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
@drstamnes.bsky.social
Archaeologist dabbling with geophysical methods, heritage management, GIS modelling and various forms of remote sensing. Hobby jazz trombone player. Norwegian living in Denmark. Sometimes books flight tickets as Dr. Stamnes
@handansken.bsky.social
Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. Still working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland
@amberbaeden.bsky.social
Poetics. Old Norse poetry. English. Linguistics. EM books, Medieval MSS. Blog: https://whoisthereader.wordpress.com/ Book: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1183611
@cancic.bsky.social
Unearthing History Together. www.cancic.com Community landscape archaeology group. Formerly Appleton Area Archaeology Project - now a CIC. Dr Jane Harrison, Sarah Miles, Kathryn Murphy @sarahmiles.bsky.social @kmurphster.bsky.social
@megalithic.bsky.social
Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more. Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Early Prehistory🏺to 1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨ Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk Everything else: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
@jakestattel.bsky.social
Medieval Historian, PhD Student @Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, English Legal History
@florencehrscott.bsky.social
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@hspevans.bsky.social
🏴 PhD student @irishinstitute.bsky.social vikings, women & textiles
@simonjptrafford.bsky.social
Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
@viglundur.bsky.social
PhD in Old Nordic Religion and Belief, currently teaching a course of the same name at the University of Iceland. Research interests include ONR, supernatural beings, emotion studies, the belliphonic, and translation studies.
@anwl.bsky.social
Professional historian (tenth- and eleventh-century England), also a witch, with interests both in ancient rituals and modern practice. Lifelong socialist passionate about ecology and local resilience, member of the Transition community.
@hattiesoper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
@tommorcom.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, UCL Pre-modern narrative theory, the sagas, other bits and bobs. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/97142-tom-morcom/about
@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
@ralphtorta.bsky.social
Medievalist, blogger, charter enthusiast. Currently working as a research fellow on the Music In The Shadows project at the University of Nottingham. Read my blog at: https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
@hjparmstrong.bsky.social
PhD-ing at University of York | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, Environmental Humanities, North Atlantic Islands, Place-writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
@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 | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '25
@grungeviking.bsky.social
Viking archaeologist. Lapsed photographer. Guitars. Bad jokes. Probably too grumpy for Bluesky #pusb https://youtube.com/@graffitifoxes?si=I__M2PhxmIckzs4J
@heliuspirus.bsky.social
Viking Studies Historian (MA, PhD), author, polytheist, Buddhophile, Pratchett & Python fan, biker, hiker, runner, ecophile and linguaphile. Astronomy & dinosaur curious. I also do some origami & throw boomerangs. Posts in 🇵🇹 & 🇬🇧, maybe 🇸🇪 & catalan
@jaztherunologist.bsky.social
PhD runology and historical pragmatics at UoN • ☦️ • interested in historical linguistics, writing systems, and anything pre- and Old English runes
@em-ehx.bsky.social
Landscape and Ecology in Old Norse | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Place-Name Enthusiast | she/her
@stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social
A twelfth-century cathedral built during Viking times in the beautiful Orkney Islands. https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/st-magnus-cathedral/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20St%20Magnus%20Cathedral&text=Built%20from%20local%20red%20and,of%20the%20Kingdom
@dparrott.bsky.social
PhD student at Aarhus University using 3D modeling to track Viking Age brooches across Scandinavia 🇩🇰. All things animal art, early medieval, and archaeology
@rsparent.bsky.social
Franco-Ontarian, Wife, Mom of 7, Mémé of 2, PhD Candidate, Hobby Farmer, Knitter. Love #Viking #Medieval #History #Linguistics & #Gàidhlig💕
@brenmacneil.bsky.social
½ Welsh, ½ Scottish, Tour Guide, Film & TV nut, Cinema fan, Trekkie, History nerd, Map nerd Architecture nut, Graveyard fan, Gay, Goth, Pagan Record Collector (70s/80s) Model Railways ...
@dayannaknight.bsky.social
Illustrator, medievalist, substitute teacher. Commissions open back up August 15th.
@alexharvv.bsky.social
Author, artist, Early Medievalist; my latest book is on the Viking Age https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Vikings-New-Approaches-Viking/dp/1398122092?crid=BAU05AM2CB3E&keywords=forgotten+vikings&qid=1704124313&s=books&sprefix=forgotten+vikings%2Cstripbook
@darkinshistory.bsky.social
History & Classics teacher living in Argyll. Ancient and early medieval history. Romans, Picts, Scots, Britons, Vikings, with some Classical Greeks thrown in. https://youtube.com/@cowalhistory7598?si=N5zx4E8ToNVRRwg1
@mercianmigrant.bsky.social
Enthusiast of early medieval insular stone sculpture and natural history. Professional teacher of science. Born in Mercia; lives in Sussex.
@norseincork.bsky.social
Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
@salmaviking.bsky.social
@orlacraig.bsky.social
Struggles with Galloway on a daily basis, muppets fan account, certified mayo Hater
@danelawdawn.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval Archaeology. Director of the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage
@juliandrichards.bsky.social
Director, Archaeology Data Service & Heritage Science Data Service; interested in Vikings and Computers, but rarely at the same time
@vanlinduist.bsky.social
Project Manager & Researcher at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (@mshl-cdha.bsky.social) and @antidote-network.bsky.social | PhD in Icelandic Linguistics | Víglundur 🐈
@andyagate.bsky.social
Archaeologist, Finds Liason Officer for Northumberland and Newcastle, Visiting Fellow Newcastle University.
@makingawarrior.bsky.social
Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present Complete the Great Viking Survey at vikingsurvey.org Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
@realmundiriki.bsky.social
Old Norse Scholar by night, webcomic creator by night. I don't get much sleep. #comicsky #medievalsky #UFOsky https://hi.academia.edu/YoavTirosh
@fridanor.bsky.social
Archaeologist at Stockholm University, Viking Age, Early Medieval, burial practices
@natashaamberjo.bsky.social
AHRC DPhil Student at Lincoln College, Oxford | women in Old Norse translations, hagiographies, and religious texts | Clarendon Scholar | she/her