betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
~Howard Nemerov
#ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm #poetry #jazz
Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com #DoubleBass #Baryton & #ViolaDaGamba | Founder Midweſt415 | Perf. Black Tulip, ViolMedium, et al | Fac. Valparaiso University, Elgin Community College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, et al https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna
@bongordon.bsky.social @bongordon.bsky.social 
@lisbettarp.bsky.social @lisbettarp.bsky.social Associate professor in Art History. Early modern. Museology. Digital art history. Fan of collaborating with museums.
Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum @friendsofstcecilia.bsky.social We support St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum, Edinburgh. This hidden gem is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland and has a collection of over 6,000 historic musical instruments. We hold concerts. Join us!
https://friendsofstceciliashall.com
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Peregrin @terrificbroth.bsky.social A Nutritional Medium for the Growth of Bacteria. They/Them
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social Amateur choir based in Portsmouth UK exploring SATB repertoire from Renaissance to present day.
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Josephine Hoegaerts @singingarchives.bsky.social historian of political culture and public speech, knitting choral singer, professor of European Culture at U. of Amsterdam
Tamsin Prideaux @tamsinprideaux.bsky.social Historian of minorities and mobility in early modern Europe / Mediterranean world | Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at Leiden Institute for History (views own) | Currently living in the land that should be sea (and marshes) 🇳🇱 
Emanuela Vai @emanuelavai.bsky.social Renaissance/Early Modern Historian: Musical Instruments, Space, Sound and the Senses | Head @batecollection.bsky.social Head of Research(Hums) Fellow @Worcester College @ox.ac.uk | Digital Humanities & Sensory Heritage @torchoxford.bsky.social (FRHS,FHEA)
Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social Early career musicologist, part-time tenor and harpsichordist. Director musicaantica.org.uk, teaching and admin at Royal Academy of Music. Ex-doctoral researcher, ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a year of Italian Printed Books’.
Oboista Alli @oboistaalli.bsky.social Oboist (modern & Baroque), musicologist, former research fellow; production coordinator for Texas Early Music Project; film database manager for Austin Jewish Film Festival צדק צדק תרדף Leguminati 🫘
🐘 @oboistaalli@babka.social
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. New book, The Queen's Tears, publishes 15 Oct.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
Early Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
Dr. Elisabeth Natour @elisabethnatour.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern culture, politics, political theory and MUSIC, based at the University of Mainz
Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Orlando Gibbons @orlandogibbons.bsky.social Composer of early English music, #fella and swan fancier
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 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
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account of the society and Sixteenth Century Journal. #SCSC2026 Conference will meet in Chicago.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Mark Allen @markallen23.bsky.social PhD in history from Cambridge University. Examined coexistence & religio-political crises in early Stuart London through a case study of the Catholic queen's & embassy chapels.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117058
https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
Journal of Women's History @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
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social 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
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Stile Antico @stileantico.co.uk Early music vocal ensemble, recording for Decca Classics. Represented by Ikon Arts. ‘Breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance' (NYT).
www.stileantico.co.uk
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Stainer & Bell @stainerandbell.bsky.social Publisher of choral, instrumental, vocal, scholarly editions, contemporary hymnody and educational publications since 1907.
Maartje van Gelder @maartjegelder.bsky.social Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam 
Amanda Eubanks Winkler @awinkler90.bsky.social Musicologist | Cultural historian | Sometime soprano. Writes about music, theatre, performance, early modern and modern. She/her. amandaeubankswinkler.hcommons.org
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org 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/
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
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
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales @rism.bsky.social Documenting musical sources worldwide since 1952.
Search free database at http://opac.rism.info and http://rism.online
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
James Wood @thinkwoodist.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor in Political Economy @campolis.bsky.social | Staff Fellow in Politics @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social | Associate Editor @cjres.bsky.social | Researching innovation policy, housing, & the construction of political crises |
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Laurence Lux-Sterritt @lux-sterritt.bsky.social early modern history; Catholicism; nuns; England; France; recusancy; 17th century.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Olivia Bloechl @livbloechl.bsky.social Musicologist, keyboardist, lute player, tanguera, sewist, mad witchy gardener, Wisco grrl, neurodivergent, queer af. She/her
Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Website • jessicaholmes.phd
Music at the Margins of Sense • https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Music-at-the-Margins-of-Sense
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Elisabeth Giselbrecht @egiselbrecht.bsky.social Musicologist, book historian, PI Dormeme project (dissemination, ownership and use of music books in early modern Europe). Based at Kings College, London.
Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social music + art in early modern England | Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | creative industries | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social Architectural historian based in Cambridge (UK). Interested in early modern history, especially Venice, the Veneto, eastern Mediterranean. Gardens, landscape, cultural geography. Venetian painting. 
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
Voices of Music @voicesofmusic.org Award winning medieval, renaissance, baroque & classical music on period instruments. Performances in the San Francisco Bay Area and 8K video on one of the largest classical music channels in the world https://www.youtube.com/voicesofmusic- A Adam Knight Gilbert @akgilbert.bsky.social Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat
Pasadena CA & Washington DC
Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social Leading London chamber choir directed by Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social. Latest album 'Every Living Creature: choral music by Kenneth Leighton' released by SOMM Recordings.
https://www.londinium-voices.org.uk
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Marieke Meelen @mariekem.bsky.social Linguist @Cambridge (UK) interested in variation, change and endangered languages (Celtic, Himalayan), NLP for no/low-resource languages and also mountains & speed skating...
https://mariekemeelen.github.io/
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Olivia @drolu.bsky.social full time lurker 
Jen Wang @jenwang.com SoCal. Composer, ED of People Inside Electronics, choral singer, amateur viola da gamba & banjo player, mapo tofu enthusiast. No TERFs. She/her.