
Dr Francesca Brooks
@frangipancesca
Poet, writer & researcher living in Manchester. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Teaching + Research Training & development at MMU. She/her
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Manchester Libraries
@manclibraries
Open & looking forward to seeing you! FREE to join - sign up via our online catalogue. No fines on late books! Free ebooks, audiobooks & 1000s of events
UCU
@ucu
University and College Union, UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in further and higher education.
Jo Bratten
@jobratten
PhD St Andrews Poet person CLIMACTERIC ('22) @fly_press she/her
Princeton University Press
@princetonupress
Proud to publish books that spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide. @princetonupress.bsky.social
Rich Ware
@warer
poet & writer | fourteen poems (issue 13) & Impossible Archetype (issue 16) | he/him | co-founder of Queer Poetry Collective 🌈
joelle taylor
@jtaylortrash
Poet & Author. Books include C+nto & Othered Poems, winner TS Eliot Prize & The Night Alphabet// Agent: [email protected] // Events: @tommacandrew
jenyth
@jenythevans
she/her 🌿 phd student 🌿 researching medieval pseudo-histories in ireland, wales and england 🌿 @jenyth.bsky.social
Michael Pinchbeck
@mdpinchbeck
Professor of Theatre & Research Lead @mcrschart_prg @mcrschart @manmetuni @bunkertalks. Theatre-maker, writer, dramaturg & director. Board member @derbytheatre.david wheatley
@nemoloris
Economic migrant, 90s poet. 'Doyen of debris'. Neo-classical Aberdeenshire Jacobite. Gaeilge Sruth na Maoile agam. Novel, Stretto, published by CB Editions.
Dr. Gary Spicer
@recips
Retired lecturer. Now Artist and Writer.
Dr Laura Varnam
@lauravarnam
Tutor in Eng Lit @UnivOxford. Church as Sacred Space 2018. Encountering Margery Kempe 2021. Primers 7 @NineArchesPress 2024. Writing a bk on Du Maurier. she/her
Lydia Unsworth
@lydiowanie
Latest: Arthropod @of_whilst | Books @OsmosisPress @theredceilings above/ground @KFandS_press | NWCDTP-funded PhD candidate @MMUEnglishDept
Fatima
@moufridji
Aspiring Old English Professor, interested in Western Asia and early medieval England relations
Tom Jenks
@zimzalla
Poetry, prose, performance and publishing.
powanfish
@lauriedd
writer, some sort of poet, editor, reviewer (@GlasgowRevBooks), creative writing workshop facilitator, mentor. Also posting poetry on Insta @powanpoetry
Archives+
@archivesplus
All your archives in one place: @NWFilmArchive, @AIUCentre, @MLFHS, @BFI, GMCRO, Disabled People's Archive, GM Sound Archives & @ManCityCouncil @MancLibraries
AuroraWatch UK
@aurorawatchuk
Receive alerts when the #aurora may be visible from the UK. A service provided by Space Physicists at @LancasterUni For more information see our website
Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn
@womenshistnet
A national association supporting those who are passionate about women's and gender history. Can now be found at Bluesky & LinkedIn @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Helen Smith
@conversiontales
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixteenth century.
Mateusz Fafinski
@calthalas
Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages. Manuscripts. DH. Assistant Professor @unierfurt Medieval Networks of Memory @Stanford. Book out now: bit.ly/2O2dCxU A Gandalf
Scott Thurston
@scott_thurston
Poet, mover, critic, co-editor of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, co-organizer of The Other Room, Reader in English at University of Salford
Joey Frances
@joeyfrances
Poet, &c. Co-organise @peterbarlowscig poetry readings. Co-run the essential poetry reading group. he/him
Manchester Histories
@mcrhistfest
Account is no longer in use, please join us at [email protected]
Dr Bryony Armstrong (she/her)
@bf_armstrong
Freelance editor • PhD from @durham_uni • the modernist kiss • @wtppod_ host. I love great books and bad TV.Medieval Manuscripts
@blmedieval
Tweeting about the British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts
Dr Rachel Carney
@createdtoread
#poetry collection 'Octopus Mind' @SerenBooks #creativewriting tutor @LearnCardiff & @CUEngCommPhilos #neurodivergent #ekphrasis
Dr Hannah Lucas (hannahalucas.bsky.social)
@hannahalucas
Newby Trust Research Fellow @Newnham_College @Cambridge_Uni. Medieval lit, mysticism. Founder/co-convenor @CTP_network. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @ColumbiaUP. She/her
Noreen Masud
@noreenmasud
Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (2023) HARD LANGUAGE (2022) 🐨 BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner 🍉 ‘melancholy’ - The Guardian
Dr Katherine Weikert
@kateweikert
Medievalist of 900-1200ish England & Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier. Usually tired. She/her. Views own.
Victoria Chang
@vchangpoet
Poet, Writer, Reader • Bourne Chair in Poetry, Georgia Tech • Linktree: linktr.ee/fattery • IG: instagram.com/fattery12
Manchester Green Party
@mcrgreenparty
We represent @TheGreenParty in the @ManCityCouncil area 🐝💚 | Promoted by Manchester Green Party at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester, M21 9PH.
Dr Theresa Muñoz
@munozpoems
Poet & researcher
Dr Ruth Alison Clemens
@ruthieclems
🎷 & 🦷 | Postdoc @LUCAS_Leiden | Ass. Ed. @FutHumanities | Researcher @PosthumanitiesH | she/they
Jo Grady
@drjogrady
General Secretary of the University and College Union @ucu | unrepentant dyslexic
Stewart J. Brookes
@stewart_brookes
Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs | 🖥 Digital Humanities with my friends at @kingsdigitallab | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
Britain Elects
@britainelects
Est. 2013, the UK's largest poll aggregator. Most accurate forecaster of 2024. Co-founded by @BNHWalker and Lily Jayne Summers.
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw
Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of Medieval History. Talkin' 'bout eels, maps, my kids & my dog. Maps on commission: SurprisedEelMaps.com
Dr Francis Young
@drfrancisyoung
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | CofE Reader and lay canon @stedscath | Tutor @oxfordconted
Otto Saumarez Smith
@osaumarezsmith
Historian of shopping precincts, leisure centres, power stations, derelict landscapes, inner cities, new towns, & city centre redevelopment. @c20Society trustee
MANPalestine Action
@manpalestine
A network of people in Manchester taking creative action against Israeli apartheid through BDS & other participatory Palestine solidarity work
Dr Mairi Stirling Hill
@mairijshill
expect tweets on medieval women and the Edmonton Oilers
Natalie Jayne Clark
@nataliejayclark
Debut novel 'The Malt Whisky Murders' out 2025 w/@BirlinnBooks | Writer & Editor @SNACKmag | Assistant Producer @StAnzaPoetry Festival | ND | rep'd @agentjenny
Stephen Hopkins
@phil_lol_ogist
Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book on hell & apocrypha. Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar. He/his
Ellen Enderle
@ellenenderle
Lover of creativity, authenticity, and nature🌹Visual and material culture ✍️ Currently @metmuseum 🏰 PhD student @BardGradCenter 📚 ✨All views my own✨
Wild Court
@wildcourtpoetry
An international poetry magazine based at King's College London | Poems-reviews-essays-short fiction
Dr. Erik Wade -- CEASEFIRE NOW
@erik_kaars
queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex & race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/they). views my own.
Rosemary Kelly - rosemaryk96.bluesky.social
@rosemarykelly96
29. PhD student @EnglishUCC. Editor in Chief for @Apardjon1. Bookseller & Medievalist. Interested in gender & genre in Old English & Old Norse lit. ⚔️
Joe Devlin
@joedevlin
Artist
Dr Emma Nuding
@eknuding
RA @yorkmedieval Outreach & Edu @LancasterCityMuseums 👩🎓Medievalist & Medieval(ism)ist 📚 in press @boydellbrewer ✨🏳️🌈 @DrNuding IG
Clíodhna Bhreatnach
@cli_bhreatnach
Poems! In @poetryireland, @stingingfly, @propelmagazine, @forwardprizes, @banshee_lit. Poetry Intros 2024. Highly commended for Patrick Kavanagh Award 2024.
MST Performance
@performancemst
MA/MFA Performance at Manchester School of Theatre with specialist routes in Contemporary Performance & Laboratory Theatre. @McrSchArt @ManMetUni @mcrschart_PRG
Nia Broomhall
@niaandthepoems
Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence, Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Cheese fan.
Greenhouse Books
@greenhouseb00ks
Weird and wonderful bookshop/coffeeshop in Stockport, Underbank. Direct enquiries to [email protected]
Dr Nuria de Cos
@nuriadecos
PhD on the religious modernism of Juan Ramón Jiménez and W.B. Yeats || Fulbright Scholar 2024-25 || Poeta cuando me dejan.
CalveleyAcademy
@calveleyacademy
Welcome to the official Twitter account for Calveley Primary Academy and Nursery, part of @nwatrust
zainab🇵🇰🇵🇸🍉
@zensaidsummat
• poet / facilitator / community n engagement at national museums scotland @NtlMuseumsScot • she | he | they • PhD creative writing @univofstandrews
Researcher Development @ University of Manchester
@uomresdev
We work with postgraduate researchers, postdoctoral researchers, research fellows, and their supervisors, to enable researchers to achieve their potential.
Dr Aimee Merrydew
@playfulaims
Academic Skills Manager. Curious about collage poetry + pedagogy, playful learning, social annotation + all things academic literacies.
Oksana Maksymchuk
@ok_maksymchuk
STILL CITY 📖⏳ 2024 @Carcanet/@PittPoetry ⚪️ bit.ly/4bFl9Hs ⚪️ Poems @parisreview, #ThePoetryReview ⚪️ Fellow NEA '19, @iasceu '22 ⚪️ Lit translator 🇺🇦
Art Research Group
@mcrschart_arg
The Art Research Group @mcrschart @manmetuni @mmu_research focuses on practice-based and theoretical research in Curating, Fine Art and Visual Culture.
Performance Research Group
@mcrschart_prg
We influence creative development, policy and culture with our impactful research @mcrschart @manmetuni @MMU_Research. instagram.com/mcrschart_prg/
Josh Coulthard
@joshmcoulthard
PhD @edgehist Political Culture and Identity in High and Late Medieval Britain and Ireland, MA Medieval Studies @Yorkmedieval co-convener @nwmsnetwork
Castlefield Viaduct
@ntcastleduct
Victorian-era viaduct transformed into a temporary ‘sky garden’ in the heart of Manchester.
Green Elects
@grnelects
Official feed for Green Elects. The new polling aggregation, analysis, election news & results on Green Parties around the world 🌍 Founded by @Daniel_Laycock1
Dr Florence H R Scott
@florencehrscott
Historian: coronation & queens in early medieval England. Antiracist. Non-binary. Marxist. Writes Ælfgif-who?, bios of medieval women @ florencehrs.substack.com
Sam Hogarth 🏳️⚧️
@samhogarth26
Medievalist working in commercial archaeology and researching medievalism on the side. he/him
Robert Macfarlane
@robgmacfarlane
Books: Is A River Alive? (1 May 2025) | Underland | The Lost Words | The Old Ways etc … | Films: River, Mountain | Nature, climate, people | Prof @Cambridge_uni
Dr. Basil Arnould Price
@basilaprice
He / Him 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 John W Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow at @UCLA_CMRS ✨ Old Norse & Anticolonial Queer Theory ✨
Axel Folio, PhD,🔻Paddystinian Powerbroker 🪁
@isasaxonists
Dr. MRO: Literary Historian | WoC: product of Black/brown love | gif lover | racist magnet | abolitionist | yarn dyer| not Eddie Murphy (she/hers)
Catherine Clarke
@cathamclarke
Doing #history a bit differently. Professor & Director @CHPPC_IHR, Director @vch_london. Visiting Prof @SotonEnglish. Mum. Musician. Beach hut owner. Own views.