Lecturer on the Cambridge Foundation Year; landscape archaeologist; passionate about data literacy and natural history
Master of narrowboat Grumpy in The Fens. Amateur photographer. Priest in the Old Catholic Apostolic Church and the Order of the Holy Spirit. Police Chaplain. Hospital chaplain. Fellow and Praelector of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
History of science: currently working on medical treatises in viceregal Mexico. MPhil @ Cambridge.
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Erstwhile Prof. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
The optimistic Byzantinist
Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London.
Here to share my love of archaeology.
Mobilising Humanity Against Tech Alienation
https://www.offm.org/en/off-february
Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Archaeology and Ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility in the Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean 🏺
Human-Environment Interactions 🌱
Researcher @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments. NEW Wellcome project 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', UCL.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
Mostly books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University, London. New book, Wildly Different, about women and the wild is out in the wild!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Wrestling another one
We are the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. Caring for nature reserves, inspiring people to love wildlife and making our three counties wilder. Join us! www.wildlifebcn.org/join
Sharing nature stuff, stories & news from The Wildlife Trusts - our goal is nature's recovery on land and at sea. Posts by The Wildlife Trusts comms team.
Medievalist | PhD on Lawrence of Durham | classical reception, intellectual history, Anglo-Latin literature | plant eater, coffee drinker🌱
Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (currently: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
Hidden in Plain Sight is a collaboration between @qmul.ac.uk, @QMUL_HSS, @theul.bsky.social, @MAACambridge, @NLWales, and other leading libraries.
Website: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/inplainsight/
Official account for the medieval history subject group at the University of Cambridge. Posting about all things medieval
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Head of History, Deputy Housemaster and Rowing Coach | Cambridge PhD | Historian of Interwar Europe
Has acquired on this platform the handle Twitter so cruelly denied me in 2013
Director of MUHNAC-University of Lisbon
Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname💧| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) 📚| former primary school teacher 👨🏫| civis europeus 🇪🇺
English historian. Author of the Time Traveller's Guides. Lives on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, with 6,000 books, 2,500 records, 8 guitars, 3 cats and one wife.
Gallery Director at RCSI, Dublin; Honorary Research Associate at Science Museum and UCL STS, London; Galwegian. Own views.
📖 Author | Goddess with a Thousand Faces & Slay (2026)
🌙 Myth, history, magic & the feminine reimagined
🔥 Feminist rants likely
Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
www.museumbums.com
English Lit prof based in Edinburgh. Bisexual English Scot - volatile organic compound - he/they. Roundhead in politics, Cavalier in spirit. Small room dj. Opinions expressed here entirely my personal own.
Historian of medicine and science. Postdoc @HeidelbergHistory, PhD @CambridgeHPS. Exploring pre-modern body and healing. Writing on pulse, fever, and more.
Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Cambridge city centre pair of Peregrine Falcons, often seen on the old Emmanuel United Reformed Church and King's College Chapel spires. See "Archived from" dates in posts for accurate date information.
https://camperegrines.wordpress.com
Writer and legal academic. International law, critical and Marxist legal theory.
Finally migrated. Medievalist-emerita, currently conducting research among living people.
UCL History & LAHP PhD, 2021: Institutions & Territories of the Latin Church in Poland 1198-1357.
Medieval Latinist · Postdoc in the History of Maths, Logic and Philosophy, working on Cardano, the impossible and the medievals: https://i2erc.wordpress.com
"The Mistress" / President of Girton College, Cambridge University. Arabist, Middle East specialist (militant jihad; Yemen; Arabic poetry). No ivory towers here...
Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Seattle Insight Meditation she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
We're Cambridge University's home for the history of science.
Open Mon-Fri, 12.30-16.30.
Next Saturday opening, 21 February, 10.00-16.00.
History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Teaching Fellow in Global Medieval History, focus on early Islamic visual languages of power & relationships to Rome. General geek, chronically ill, I want to live on a boat again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRome
Fearless pioneers since 1869.
Meet our vibrant community; See our beautiful campus; Discover our world-class research.
www.girton.cam.ac.uk
Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
A Baystate medievalist in the Lone Star State.
Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
👩🏻🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool
📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University
🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library
📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science
💙 Books, Astrolabes
Literary historian, author, cultural critic, intersectional feminist, Senior Lecturer @swanseauni. Medieval literature, women, medicine, religion, science. All views own etc.
Philosopher and occasional historian of science. You can find me @ Aleksanteri institute, University of Helsinki. (she/her)
Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology; Vice Dean for Research and Impact, Faculty of Humanities, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social; Conservation; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the History of Knowledge @jhokjournal.bsky.social
World-renowned museum and collection of East Asian, Islamic & Western art, books and manuscripts. Check us out here: www.chesterbeatty.ie #ChesterBeatty
Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Premodern philosophy & mathematics
🇪🇺 🇫🇷 MSCA fellow @cnrs.fr SPHERE
www.mathematicalia.com
Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow @mpiwg.bsky.social / @tuberlin.bsky.social.
Medieval lit, mysticism, medical hums. Sometime yoga teacher. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @columbiaup.bsky.social. She/her.
hannahalucas.com
Semi-retired farmer. Early career medievalist (annalistic chronicles of Britain and Ireland). Lapsed trombonist. Occasional dogwalker.
Bishop, theologian & poet, enjoying retirement in Cambridge, grandchildren & writing. Hon Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely, & Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. https://www.grahamkings.org/ https://www.cccw.cam.ac.uk
Medieval philosophy professor at University of Messina (IT) | Seeker of elusive entities populating premodern ontologies | Boldly looking for ways to defeat academic compartmentalism
Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Temporalities, 6-9 July 2026.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
Professor of Education Futures at UCL. Personal account, posts represent my own opinions and not those of my institution.
Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
A museum of literature for the world's greatest storytellers. Plan your visit at moli.ie
Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
Environmental Historian, Science Scholar @maastrichtu.bsky.social,
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social,
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social,
Twin mom of three.
Research fellow @GirtonCollege
@UCamArchaeology
Early Medieval Europe | Death & Burial | GIS | Occasional Vikings
She/her
Known to offer tea or coffee at the end of In Our Time episodes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes
Eclectic.
Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-18
Editor, @timeshighered.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.
