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We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Posting hog on main. Chaotic Good. Website ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/ Merch ➡️ https://merl-shop.co.uk/ Podcast ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/absolute-units/
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & now OATHBREAKERS (Dec 2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com buttondown.com/modernmedieval
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | Tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@bho.bsky.social
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@lucyworsley.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@gladlib.bsky.social
A unique residential library; a place to read, write and rest. Book a stay through our website and discover our beautiful Reading Rooms and boutique bedrooms! www.gladstoneslibrary.org
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social
The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@enghistrev.bsky.social
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods. Find our content here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr
@medievalists.bsky.social
Hello from Medievalists.net, where the Middle Ages begins - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
@yorkadventurers.bsky.social
Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting. Website: merchantshallyork.org
@glawrence.bsky.social
Author, Archer, Erratic gardener, Kung Fu novice, Leftie Intersectional Feminist (who is hopefully always learning more). Curiousity is better than judgement. Indie author of historical fiction and fantasy, looking for new friends and old on Bluesky! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@nlandarchives.bsky.social
Accredited archives for the county of Northumberland and Diocese of Newcastle. Housed at Woodhorn, near Ashington, and at Berwick Library. northumberlandarchives.com
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
@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/
@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/ 🗃⚱️📜
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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@proflroach.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
@drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social
Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
@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
@helencarr.bsky.social
Times and Sunday Times best-selling author Medieval Historian Mother of Doggos SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
@susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
@nikkiclark86.bsky.social
Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Views own, etc. She/her.
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in medieval history, feminist, parent, widow, sequin aficionado. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
@tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
Tudor food historian & author. Living the life of an accomplished Tudor housewife from a small Tudor Manor. Book: Eating with the Tudors. Early Modern History MA @UEA.
@jennscott1485.bsky.social
Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750. https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
@nathenamin.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society • HWA Book judge • Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor https://amzn.to/4e499k9 • A Chronicle of Dragon & Cats https://bit.ly/48klsaQ • Events & Talks https://linktr.ee/nathenamin • Welsh-Kashmiri
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley "visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal 💚🇨🇦
@adamchapman.bsky.social
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
@gabbystorey.bsky.social
Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria. Book: Berengaria of Navarre. Lord of Le Mans and Queen of England (Routledge, 2024). Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
@webstermedieval.bsky.social
Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
@marcmorris.bsky.social
Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
@amymcelroy.bsky.social
Author of: ☆Educating the Tudors - January 2023. ☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024. ☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025. Now working on Desiderius Erasmus. All published by Pen & Sword HWA Crown Awards Judge
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