Welsh history, people, and personality.
Essays on notable (and overlooked) Welsh figures — what we know, what we don’t, and why they matter.
✍️ Long-form on Substack: https://substack.com/@famouswelshminds
Research Fellow in Medieval History at GHIL @ghilondon.bsky.social I Passionate about History, Music and Teaching I German, Londoner & Hispanist
https://www.ghil.ac.uk/team/our-team/thomas-kaal
PhD researcher in medieval history at the University of Exeter.
Studying how ecclesiastical rhetoric shaped social norms and shared values in lay English communities, c. 900–1100. Or rather trying... https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/42141-aymeric-lamy/teaching
Medievalist. Manuscripts enthusiast. Film addict.
Research Associate at @ghilondon.bsky.social
Research fellowships at PIMS (Toronto), SISMEL (Florence), and Trier University (Germany).
PhD | University of Cambridge
Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ Historiography ❧ England ❧ Scandinavia ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @digitrip.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
Researcher at University of Hamburg. Literary studies and medievalist.
Historiker, Archivliebhaber, begeisterter Gärtner und Spaziergänger.
Forscht am liebsten zur Geschichte ländlicher Räume und zur Wirtschaft- und Sozialgeschichte des Spätmittelalters.
Stolzer Papa von Bienengeschichte
Academic librarian, European migrant, former medieval philologist. Open Research, Eurovision, wombats, puns, pints, sci-fi/fantasy, FPL. He/him.
PhD Theology candidate at Durham University researching the paratext of Codex Amiatinus, exploring palaeography, philology and manuscript cultures.
Historien. Si vous me dites que l'arc long à été décisif à Azincourt, je vous éjecte dans les limbes.
https://u-bordeaux3.academia.edu/VincentHaure
Medieval war in Eng. Gascony & medieval urban⚔️ policies
The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Currently closed due to renovation works.
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Historiker: KI und Geschichte - nec laudibus nec timore - Mitinitiator von #IchBinHanna / www.kubon.info
The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
The SSAH promotes & supports the study and enjoyment of art and art history in Scotland. Registered Scottish Charity (SCO35621)
BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.
https://irishstudies.co.uk/
Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
News on upcoming events by Irish Studies Würzburg - Irish literature, language, history and culture
More info: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/
@uniwuerzburg.bsky.social
Medieval Historian / dissertation about Emotions, Historiography, english history
Historian exploring the Speaking of Truth to Power in High Medieval Europe
We are Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Flinders, across Literature, Language, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Gender Studies, on Kaurna land.
An international journal of Celtic Studies appearing once a year in paper and electronic format. Published by the Faculty of English/Adam Mickiewicz University
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/scp
https://sciendo.com/journal/SCP
The LMS is a forum for cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions about the Middle Ages. The LMS has been hosting colloquia since 1945; it hosts three colloquia each year.
Website: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/
Forschen – Digital Publizieren – Vermitteln
https://neuere-geschichte.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personal/universitaetsprofessorinnen/gersmann-prof-dr-gudrun
Medievalist | Celticist | Research Asst Prof @TCDHistory. PI of Early Irish Hands @Research Ireland, CLÓSCAPE @TLRH, and Wandering Books. Passionate about all things medieval Irish, manuscripts, palaeography, and early Christianity in the insular world.
Archaeologist of borders, Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist, University of Birmingham. Archaeologist in Residence, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
PhD at Bangor researching rebellions in 10th and early 12th century England and Normandy.
Lover of Norman (and Anglo-Norman) History, and general fan of Robert Curthose & Robert de Belleme.
https://medievalhistory.home.blog/
Wannabe scholar. Breton linguistics and history. Old and Middle Breton stuff.
I like very old books.
Fait des enquêtes ethno-linguistiques sur ses enfants.
Professeur des écoles en bilingue par immersion.
#bzhg #MitzvahArBrezhoneg
Fischige Literaturwissenschaft aka professioneller Spezi-Fisch 🐟🐋💙 FirstGen & AuDHD, Researcher, Translator, Artist & Writer: 📚Literature, 🎨Art, 🇫🇴Faroe Islands, 🌊North Atlantic, 🐟Fishery, 📝Academia. #Fischkanon https://reado.app/profile/spezifisch
• Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Ollamh le Sean- ⁊ Meán-Ghaeilge, BARE
Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪
Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
#ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
he/him
Historian @uni-goettingen.de
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas. ❤️project: @viabundus.bsky.social
Medieval historian, Maynooth University; EC member, Young Academy Ireland; PI, Research Ireland Pathway Project, 'Power and Patronage in Medieval Ireland'; Author of The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland; Host, The Medieval Irish History Podcast
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social.
irinadumitrescu.com
Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Medievalist. Perceptions of exclusion in the Anglo-Norman realm. 🏴
Medieval historian and Latinist, specialised on the Irish and Carolingian scholar Dicuil
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
PhD Student at St Andrews, focused on historicising environmental thought in high medieval Britain.
SGSAH funded, thoughts are my own
She/her
Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Medievalist @unipb | Early and High Middle Ages | War and Authority | Queenship and Gender | Historiography| views my own | she / her
The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
Medieval historian @Uni-Bonn 🎓@degruyterbrill, @WissenVerbindet & @OxUniPress monographs 💡Western Europe, Byzantium, mobility, military, digital humanities ✐Heisenberg (DFG)
Medieval historian at U. of Hull | VCH Yorkshire, East Riding
Works for the Public
Digital Transformation, Climate, Culture and Circular Economy. Born 340ppm.
Secretly a medievalist working on memory, landscape and Normans.
Anti-Fascist. Opinions my own.
he/him
Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaftsblog für das Mittelalter und seine Rezeption.
https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/beitrage-einreichen
mittelalter.hypotheses.org/credits
Medievalist; Early Middle Ages; Frankish World; Early Medieval England; Research Fellow @ghilondon; views my own
Associate Professor of Nordic Medieval History, University of Oslo
Professor | Historian of crime, law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, 7th-13th centuries | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
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
Medievalist who loves reading, especially science fiction & fantasy. I don't speak for my employer or anyone else.
she/her
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
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
Historian | postdoc @mappingthemarch.bsky.social | Interested in processes of decision-making, borders, networks, and digital humanities | Canadian in the UK | she/her
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country UPV/EHU - Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (2025-2026)
Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • board member @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at University College Dublin
Historian of the British-Irish Isles & the Papacy in the 11th & 12th c.
Likes 🏏🏔️🚲
History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at University of Groningen, past President of IAS-BB & co-editor of Arthurian Lit. Research: treason, sleep, dwarves, & the Medieval Middlebrow. Canadian expat, Welsh exile, aspiring European. She/her.
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.
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.
Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
he/him, neurodivergent
Teaches medieval English, researches Latin medical texts. Assistant Prof (Odborný asistantní) FHS UK Prague. Not a "Prof." yet, I haven't even got my 1st Habilitation!
Yes I love every critter that crosses my path.
Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @UoNEnglish.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ See https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @UofGlasgow. Writes on Byzantium, Britain, and everything in between.
Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @dependencybonn.de,
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Book available at http://t.ly/LfaV
https://jmharland.hcommons.org/publications
Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
PhD student at University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25) at Institute of Historical Research; 11th-century Normandy, maritime and riverine environments, the Norman invasion fleet.
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Jewish, queer, post-covid crip, neurospicy, she/her. Environmental crisis/justice keeps me up at night. Live on Lenape land.
Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol 📚 w/ Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Boydell & Brewer, Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press; now writing ‘The Medieval Library: Using and Abusing Books in the Middle Ages’ for Reaktion Books
PhD Early Medieval History | University of Manchester
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky
Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at University of Lincoln. Medieval Loyalty Research Network co-organiser (https://medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk). Charters, property, environment, and regional society. Occasional archaeologist
The AND is an open-access digital platform at Aberystwyth University about Anglo-Norman, the type of French used in the British Isles throughout the medieval period.- visit https://anglo-norman.net.
Medieval Historian. Postdoctoral Researcher @ Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts", Universität Hamburg. All views are my own. She/her.