Medievalists
A starter pack to make it easy to fill all your medieval historian needs
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@thehistorybits.bsky.social
@christep.bsky.social
Historian of Anglo-Norman England. FRHistS. Researches elites, gender, and social landscapes. Passionate about prehistory, travel, and cats.
@gillcresearch.bsky.social
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval history, Cairo Genizah, Semitic languages | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU
@timlubin.bsky.social
Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. VP of American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
@jessehurlbut.bsky.social
Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
@anneebailey1.bsky.social
Oxford medievalist, pilgrimage enthusiast and researcher. Member of Oxford's Faculty of History and tutor at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. Posting about saints, relics, shrines, & pilgrims!
@scmedievalist.bsky.social
Prof. Medieval History, Clemson. Women and Gender history, especially England. Ladies-in-Waiting. Loves: mysteries and mountain hikes. Views are my own.
@jalbarran.bsky.social
Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
@mjporterauthor.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction set in Saxon England & 20th century historical mysteries. A bit obsessed with the Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Pub by Boldwood Books, Pen & Sword and Indie. Infuriatingly prolific. Formula 1, 2, 3, E, Academy & Extreme E/H fan.
@richardasquith.bsky.social
Historian and researcher. Vintners’ Company archivist, secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art. Often at Berkeley Castle.
@scottmanning.com
Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024). Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him https://linktr.ee/scottmanning
@historymondays.bsky.social
Author & Historian | Exploring #Towton1461, the Wars of the Roses & medieval military history⚔️ 🗣️ For a deeper perspective join me at: historymondays.substack.com
@gunpowderdan.bsky.social
Historian of late medieval military history. Specialising in English military technology, warfare, and castles. Also a fan of Warhammer, France, dogs, heavy metal and archery.
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Writer, mum, journalist. The Process of Poetry, Amazon no.1. Sequel here https://www.5islandspress.com/product-page/the-making-of-a-poem, or direct from me if you're in the UK. Journalist The Guardian, SMH, The Australian and Salon.com
@billadot.bsky.social
Historian of 🇫🇷: C10th-12th Anjou; violence, customs, law, monks/nuns, lordship, unfreedom. #charteriffic #Smithie She/her.
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@5minmedievalist.bsky.social
Author of Chivalry and Courtesy, How to Live Like a Monk, and Life in Medieval Europe. Creator and host of The Medieval Podcast. Professional nerd. she/her. danielecybulskie.com http://ko-fi.com/5MinMedievalist
@sharper1509.bsky.social
Medievalist / Social Science impact specialist hybrid. Tastes, and posts, eclectic.
@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
@bruceholsinger.bsky.social
THE GIFTED SCHOOL and THE DISPLACEMENTS (from Riverhead Books). English prof at University of Virginia.
@mariodamen.bsky.social
Historian | Medieval History | Burgundian Low Countries | Brabant | Tournaments | Nobility | Gift-giving | State formation | Heraldry | Paleography | Associate prof @ University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/a/m.j.m.damen/m.j.m.damen.html
@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.
@slatteroo.bsky.social
Cousin Jack of all trades, master of dungeons and medieval dick jokes. She/they.
@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.
@medievalists.bsky.social
Hello from Medievalists.net, where the Middle Ages begins - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
@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
@enghistrev.bsky.social
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods. Find our content here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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/
@themerl.bsky.social
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/
@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
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@paulaloftingauthor.bsky.social
Here for the history! No politics! Author of historical fiction Sons of the Wolf Series set in the 11thcentury and writer for Pen and Sword. Currently working on Historical Biography of Harold Godwinson. website: www.threadstothepast.com
@officiallyjpd.bsky.social
International Bestselling Thriller & Historical Nonfiction Author ✍️ Active Member of International Thriller Writers (ITW) 📚 Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ⚔️ Book 1 In The White Hart Series £0.99/$0.99 www.officiallyjpd.com
@historygal7.bsky.social
FRHistS, Historian, travel writer, and author of On the Trail of Richard III and On the Trail of the Yorks.
@vanessaking1066.bsky.social
Honorary fellow of Birkbeck College. Slowly writing a book on early English Queens for Routledge. https://queenshipinpreconquestengland.wordpress.com/
@derekbirks.bsky.social
#Bestselling action thriller author of #HistoricalFiction #TheLastoftheRomans #TheWarsoftheRoses #Podcasts: Co-hosts A Slice of #Medieval Podcast. And now, non-fiction history!
@rjcassidy.bsky.social
Potters around with pipe rolls, and sometimes memoranda rolls or even receipt and issue rolls. 13th century English government finance, in other words. Also does crosswords and dotes on grandchildren.
@royalstudies.bsky.social
Scholarly network, resource & podcast for all things relating to royal studies & the institution of monarchy across periods & locations! Oversees K&Q Conference
@juleshumphrys.bsky.social
Historian, writer, and guide. Lecturer on historical tours. Leads English Heritage battlefield walks. Scriptwriter for museum audio guides across the UK. www.julianhumphrys.com
@amylicence.bsky.social
Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
@mattlewishistory.bsky.social
Medievalist, co-host Gone Medieval podcast(https://podfollow.com/gone-medieval/view), host Echoes of History (https://podfollow.com/1615075257/view), fascinated by Richard III & the Princes in the Tower. Substack: https://mattlewishistory.substack.com
@ewoodacre.bsky.social
Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
@enortonhistory.bsky.social
Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
@medievalfemina.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval Studies, Lincoln, formerly at Canterbury. Passionate about medieval women, queenship, the thirteenth century, English medieval government, medieval aristocratic life styles, medieval records, and Magna Carta. Views my own.
@miladyjosephine.bsky.social
✍️Free range historian and author. PhD in New Testament studies, now lives in the 17th century. 👜Loves notebooks and handbags.📒 Unpaid Carer.🌺 Agent: Andrew Lownie.
@anniehistory.bsky.social
Author, Historian, FRHistS, HWA, SoA. Winner HWA/Dorothy Dunnett Soc. Comp, Judge HWA Nonfiction Crowns & HNS story Comp http://anniewhiteheadauthor.co.uk anniewhitehead2.blogspot.co.uk
@jllaynesmith.bsky.social
Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .
@dbsantiuste.bsky.social
Historian of late medieval Britain (especially 15th-century England and Scotland). Lecturer in Humanities at COL, University of Edinburgh. I work with adults of all ages, focusing on lifelong learning and educational transitions.
@turiking.bsky.social
British & Canadian geneticist/genealogy/forensics/archaeology #DNAFamilySecrets, #RichardIII DNA gal, Television/podcast presenter. Professor of Genetics and Public Engagement in Science, Agent: http://josarsby.com
@royalhistorian.bsky.social
Historian, royal commentator, author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada (2015), Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2015) & Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting (2017). Co-editor of the English Consorts series! royalhistorian.com
@robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval buildings mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie. Triskele Heritage https://triskeleheritage.com Based in Nottingham, UK
@marcmorris.bsky.social
Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
@katefarrantshaw.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, PhD - researching EU Rule of Law, CJEU, EU/public law, legal/medieval/celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820
@historylauren.bsky.social
Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod. AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
@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.
@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
@jeanneologist.bsky.social
Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
@mattfirth.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. English Queens, 850-1000 out now (https://t.ly/Q395d). Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) & Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders out soon (https://t.ly/So2-E).
@webstermedieval.bsky.social
Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
@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
@iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
@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.
@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/ 🗃⚱️📜
@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)
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
@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
@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
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@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.
@profgabriele.com
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
@thehistorybits.bsky.social
Historian of Medieval & Women's History. FRHistS. Mum. Yorkshire lass. New book Jan 2025: Scotland's Medieval Queens Blog: Historytheinterestingbits.com Podcast: A Slice of Medieval https://viewauthor.at/SharonBennettConnolly