@rarebooks.bsky.social @rarebooks.bsky.social
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Hannah 🌙 @ttf0119.bsky.social probably a bad idea, but we both know you're gonna tap anyway 😏
@lennyvalentino.bsky.social @lennyvalentino.bsky.social Art, music, education, politics.
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/vevian_zaki1/index.html
Jennifer Gable @jennifergable.bsky.social 🌎🏟️🎪🎫Touring Headliner Viral🦠Comedian, Lol0nKillTony,Funny0r😵,Special ‘6 DRINK MINIMUM’ 300K+ Views on YouTube!🤣🫳🎤JenniferGableOfficial.com PHILLY 10/29! FL 4 Shows! Denver 5 Shows! 🎟️🎫& Subscribe: https://bnds.us/4otirb 2nd📺🃏🍿⛲️
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
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Jamie Robinson @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social Manager of the Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab
Multispectral | Photometric Stereo | 3D | Heritage Imaging
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social University of Manchester
Dana Whyte @carishartman896.bsky.social
Marco @vrmarco.bsky.social Muziek. Literatuur. Geschiedenis. (Oude) boeken. Films. Vinylliefhebber. Etc.
Music. Literature. History. Rare books. Movies. Vinyl. American West. Etc.
Jim Wallmann @jwallmann.bsky.social Retired corporate attorney. Organist & music historian.
Karen Hill 🇺🇸 #VaccinesSaveLives 💉 @hill0karen.bsky.social Democracy requires courage
Do not loose hope 🦋
Be a force for good
Never forget you have the power 🗳️
@sulliview.bsky.social
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pbs.org/newshour
pbs.org/frontline
archive.org
climate.us
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#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
MC @silentvioletmc.bsky.social Librarian whose interested in OA, archives conservation, crafts, and so much more!
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Peter Sachs Collopy @collopy.net they/he | collopy.net
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן.
Immanentize the eschaton.
Another world is possible.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Juliet Sperling @julietsperling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Washington. Author of Tactile Sensibilities: Seeing Through Print in American Art (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Spring 2027).
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
neo-gothic skyscraper @rachelreuben6.bsky.social Charred oak, burnt caramel, vanilla, salty butter, nut oil.
Once upon a time in...1946 The Dark Corner by: Henry Hathaway @chenpengchuan.bsky.social
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
lyra tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, history of medicine, labor history, gender. Cairo Geniza fangirl.
(Blocks are not personal)
They/elle/αυτή/היא/هي
Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social Formerly with Dutch military intelligence (MoD) and counter-terrorism (MoJ)
Former optimist
(Opinions are mine, usual caveats apply, etc.)
Re-posting is not by definition endorsement
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
@aurorabreak.bsky.social @aurorabreak.bsky.social
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social- B BadSikander @badsikander.bsky.social Mostly re-posting items that I've found interesting relating to history or science. Some cinema and music too.
Judy Gressel @judyhere.bsky.social Anti-fascist Librarian against book banning | Human Rights | Women’s Rights | LGBTQ Rights | Anti-Fascist | Vote Blue | Austin TX | Abolish ICE
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern and Restoration literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
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Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜
amanda wyatt visconti (they/them)
yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal
free high fives & exclamation marks
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social Reviews: "unhinged", "deluded", "incoherent", "sick jerk" | Black Lives Matter | Vidas Indígenas Importam | Trans Lives Matter | typography, politics, profanity, analog electronics, retrocomputing, coffee, food | Mastodon: https://timeloop.cafe/@symbo1ics
Scientific Instrument Society @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social International society promoting the study and preservation of scientific instruments; publisher of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
https://scientificinstrumentsociety.org/
Dena jackson @denajackson524.bsky.social
Erik Eklund @eklundsays.bsky.social 3x award-winning Nabokov specialist
literature and religion at Northwest
research fellow, Russian stuff at Northwestern
author, AND THEN NOTHING (2026)
great at parking
“The dumbest smart person I’ve ever met”
—my beloved wife
Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
Drew Thomas @drewbthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unisalzburg.bsky.social | Digital History | Applying AI to early modern print & visual communication • The Industry of Evangelism (Brill) • FRHistS
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
B Hacker @basement-hacker.bsky.social Author of electronics books. Maker of bad music. Builder of synthesizers and other silly projects. #RVA
diana myers @dianahmyers.bsky.social quasi-feminist disdain for salad | medievalist + archivist, now working as a rare books dealer | philadelphian, and you’ll hear about it | she/her | dianahmyers.com
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social Once was an architect.
Wangal land. DOB 329.43 ppm CO2. #GenXClub 🤞#NoDickheads.
I receive DMs from mates. Any others will be deleted without response.
I can’t send you money. Refusal may offend.
I HATE MICROSOFT.
They’re skeets.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Michael Smith @mcsmith.bsky.social Lawyer dad in Marshall, Texas, mostly federal courts & patent litigation. Interested in WW II, scale modeling, history, books, & learning. Scale fundamentalist - only 1/700, 1/200 & 1/72. Extremely fond of the rule of law and almost as fond of Canadians.
Dennis Schäfer @mrschaefer.bsky.social Researcher, Curator, & Book Collector, who is interested in German media history (broadly defined) and mostly here for cats. 📍New York City.
https://dennisschaefer.com/
Juan Carlos Mezo @jcmezo.bsky.social Historian of sexuality, gender, and visual culture | Mexican and transnational history | Assistant Professor @mountroyalu.bsky.social | Author of Gay Print Culture (Duke University Press, 2026) 🏳️🌈
juancarlosmezo.com
Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social crime novelist interested in Chinese law, both dynastic and modern, and possibly retired investigator
www.laurencewestwood.com
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social Librarian at Utrecht University
profile photo by @raymonddekker.bsky.social
Friends of the Nations’ Libraries @thefnl.bsky.social Friends of the Nations’ Libraries, or FNL, awards grants for acquisitions to regional and national archives, libraries and museums. www.fnl.org.uk.
@damedurden.bsky.social @damedurden.bsky.social "Anything to vary this detestable monotony."
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
@anairplant.bsky.social @anairplant.bsky.social - B Benoît Laurent @benoitoboe.bsky.social Prof au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. Hautboïste, passionné des musiques du 15è au 19è siècle et autres choses tout aussi inutiles qu'indispensables...
Amber @amberla.bsky.social amlit phd | community college prof | a little black cloud in a dress | swimming through libraries 🐋 she/her
Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social * theater meets brain science & goes on a bender * research-creation * research-as-theater (RaT!) * feminist STS * making & doing * compelled to collaborate || Univ of Alberta || Ugly Duckling Presse || https://ualberta.academia.edu/YelenaGluzman
jar jar methinks @parapraxis.bsky.social mostly lurking
wiley sharp @wiley.pink feminist geographer, PhD at U of T ✨🧭 web gremlin at https://geoz.one 💖🎉 she/her
https://wiley.pink
Albert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || https://websites.umass.edu/lloret/
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler @jkbuhler.bsky.social Design Historian and author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Sarah McElroy Mitchell @smcmitch1127.bsky.social
Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own.
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
@troile.bsky.social @troile.bsky.social
dave @gloomfather.bsky.social Minotaur forgiving me
orlandogloom.bandcamp.com
Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social rhetoric, education, neurodiversity, dad humor. Author of Absence of National Feeling: Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (U. Press of Mississippi, 2025).