Early Medieval Scotland
Historians, archaeologists and other specialists working on (or adjacent to) early medieval Scotland (c.500 - c.1000). Let me know if you'd like to be included or removed.
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@fortrenn.bsky.social
@pictishartssociety.bsky.social
Founded in 1988 to affirm the importance of Pictish culture in Scotland's past. Monthly lectures throughout the winter and spring. Annual conference in October. Newsletter published 4 times a year. Join at www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk
@bobmarshall.co.uk
Edinburgh-based architectural illustrator and 3D reconstruction artist. #Blender3D Pro. Member: Society of Architectural Illustrators (MSAI), Scottish Castles Association, Caithness Broch Project. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
@scottishhistreview.bsky.social
Tweeting all things #ScottishHistory. Journal: SHR via @EdinburghUP https://scottishhistoricalreview.org
@pictishpasts.bsky.social
SGSAH-funded PhD researcher @ Glasgow Uni exploring the Picts in medieval, insular manuscripts. 📚 Outside of the office, you can usually find me in, on, or around Scotland's seas, rivers and watery places. 🐟 🌊 🛶
@archaeoplays.bsky.social
They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & digital archaeologist (alias: Dr. Heather Christie). Also early medieval Scotland specialist and glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. Business enquiries: archaeoplays@gmail.com
@northernstudies.bsky.social
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures. https://ssns.org.uk
@digitscotland.bsky.social
Discover Scotland’s stories with ground-breaking archaeology news and events that are open to everyone | A Society of Antiquaries of Scotland project | #HESsupported | #ScotArchStrat | Visit https://www.digitscotland.com/
@ericasteiner.bsky.social
Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing. Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible! Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
@dalisera.bsky.social
environmental historian | medieval speleologist | caves, religion, and stone | Boston, MA
@adammarkham.bsky.social
Climate change science, impacts & solutions. Biodiversity, cultural heritage, zooarchaeology & human-bird history. Part-time PhD student at UHI researching Viking/Norse birds. #climateheritage #archaeobirds. ArsenalFC. www.climateheritageadvisors.com
@henrywgc.bsky.social
Semi-retired farmer. Early career medievalist (annalistic chronicles of Britain and Ireland). Lapsed trombonist. Occasional dogwalker.
@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
@eblueaxe.bsky.social
Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
@stirlingdigger.bsky.social
Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
@orlacraig.bsky.social
Struggles with Galloway on a daily basis, muppets fan account, certified mayo Hater
@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
@ericasff.bsky.social
Fantasy writer. Fan of historical textiles, Pictish material culture, and other rabbit holes too numerous to count. Learning the lyre. She/her. (Image: a scribe writing under an arch filled with swirls - a clip from the early medieval Vespasian Psalter
@archscot.bsky.social
Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
@lottahiller.bsky.social
Archaeologist, academic, who wish they read more books (about dragons)
@peadairbeag.bsky.social
Place-names, history, archaeology, Celtic (hard & soft C), politics, EU, foster carer. Ex-Glasgow Uni. 'Graveyards are full of indispensable men' attrib. Charles de Gaulle.
@monikierockart.bsky.social
Heritage Stone-carver, medieval obsessive. Dewar of the Clag Buidhe Naomh Medan. FSAScot. Pictish Art and late medieval West Highland sculpture. As long as the world spins around, I'll take my time.
@govanstones.bsky.social
Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from early medieval Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old, and surrounded by our 1,500-year-old churchyard ⏰️ Open 7 days, 11am to 4pm 🎟 Entry is FREE!
@jennwall.bsky.social
@ragnasislands.bsky.social
A project researching the place-names of Orkney & Fair Isle built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social Find us at https://shorturl.at/ouzL0
@lucyjkoster.bsky.social
Biomolecular and osteoarchaeologist. Just got my PhD at the University of Aberdeen! Happiest with my two cats or reading a good book.
@scarf-scot.bsky.social
The Scottish Archaeological Research Framework at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. www.scarf.scot Explore and contribute! #HESSupported #archaeology #scotland #heritage #research
@danrhan.bsky.social
(they/he) PhD candidate in anthropology @ the University of Chicago. Picts, "heritage," identity, early medieval Scotland. Otherwise: motorsport, baseball, mandolin, and birds. All views (and F1 hot takes) my own. Website: danrhan.com
@samleggs22.bsky.social
Lecturer in Computational Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - early medieval bioarchaeology #isotopes diet & mobility, cemeteries, data viz, R enthusiast (she/her)
@postexgem.bsky.social
Post-excavation artefact specialist at National Museums Scotland: iron, metalworking, craft, Iron Age, early medieval and medieval. Mum, gardener and list-maker.
@zackhinckley.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Scotland. Interest in early medieval Europe, landscape, and defended settlement.
@jodarchaeology.bsky.social
Lecture in geospatial archaeology at the University of Glasgow, interested in landscape archaeology, GIS, remote sensing, hillforts, causewayed enclosures and anything big on top of a hill
@northernpicts.bsky.social
The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
@krisetc.bsky.social
I hate bios. I still climb trees. Living in a tiny island at the bottom of the world. Writing horror stories and fairytales, and apparently living in one. A cellular chain of words.
@justrena.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Research Fellow. Iron Age and early medieval material culture .Horses and sharp pointy things, mostly. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic even if cynical. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
@davidpetts1.bsky.social
Rewriting archaeology, @durham_uni Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works
@celticist.bsky.social
Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Instagram @sculpturesmith. Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. christinacowartsmith.com
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies. https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
@ccooijmans.bsky.social
Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y The Great Viking Survey - vikingsurvey.org https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
@northerntapestry.bsky.social
Exploring the sagas and stories that link medieval Iceland, Scandinavia & the northern British isles https://northerntapestry.com/
@antonhodge.bsky.social
Author of https://northerntapestry.com/ blog, In Black and White - the story of Gretna FC, The Border and The Great Wall of Britain. Exiled Scot now living in North Yorkshire. antonhodge.co.uk
@tcfairfax.bsky.social
Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
@archaeoptics.bsky.social
Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
@almostarch.bsky.social
Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
@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.
@danielmaclean.bsky.social
Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
@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/
@3dgroovanstones.bsky.social
She/her. Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow for the Og(h)am project; researching Digital Imaging and Early Medieval Sculpture
@neilmcguigan.bsky.social
Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
@rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews Own lefty views Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books sé/he/il/er/han
@archaeonado.bsky.social
Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
@malkydungeon.bsky.social
I make comics, a Viking era one called the Hogback Saga and Malky Dungeon about a Scottish occult detective https://www.patreon.com/malkydungeon
@judithjesch.bsky.social
Professor of Viking Studies, @UoNEnglish.bsky.social, @UniofNottingham.bsky.social, FBA. See also @RagnasIslands.bsky.social ORCID: 0000-0002-6020-0683
@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
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on settlement, the environment and human landscapes on the 4th-8th c. estuarine Forth, Clyde, and Tay. Originally from Appalachian Kentucky. Writing at https://trevors-newsletter-bb53ab.beehiiv.com/.
@fortrenn.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.substack.com