HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social The Warwick History Postgraduate Work in Progress.
Showcasing talks by PG students across departments on history-related topics.
Every Monday at 5pm during term time.
Run by the history PhD community.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Whitney McGruder: Author Coach | Publisher @whitneymg.bsky.social I help launch Modern Authors toward big-picture goals
2,500+ Published 400+ National Awards
Looking forward to introducing you to the book publishing world ↴
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him. 
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Helene Harrison MA MSc @tudorblogger.bsky.social Tudor Historian.
Writer behind TudorBlogger and HeleneReads.
Working at Northumbria University Library.
Books:
• Elizabethan Rebellions (2023)
• Tudor Executions (2024)
• The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn (2025)
• Henry VIII's Quest for an Heir (2026)
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
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
Cat Evans @crevans.bsky.social Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social
Interested in books, beads, birds and baking. 
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social 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/
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Sophie Pitman @textilehistorian.bsky.social Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern)
Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social Singing researcher into #earlymodern ballads at Liverpool Hope University and Social History Society Administrator
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
Natália Pikli @puckinspirit.bsky.social Associate Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Shakespeare/early modern scholar, theatre and Star Wars nerd, rebellious bookworm. Author of "Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2022).
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • 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
Daphna Oren @daphnao.bsky.social Historian of women and the family in early modern Britian. Alt-ac. Mom. Geek. Dnd player. Crafter (knitting, quilting, cross-stitch). Posts are my own opinions. She/her.
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
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
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
susan rojas @susanrojas.bsky.social Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her)
MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European.
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italy and other things; latest book: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy; Australian football tragic.
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social Associate professor; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ 🌈 #MHmatters
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social Was passierte HEUTE vor 400 Jahren? #vor400 #30jährigerKrieg
What happened TODAY 400 years ago? (#earlymodern #30yearswar)
Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x
Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
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
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social PostDoc Researcher with STEMMA at University of Galway 📜 working on manuscripts and early modern poetry 🪶 probably somewhere talking about Thomas Cromwell 
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social Historian of early modern Ireland and England; part of léamh.org team (Learn Early Modern Irish); co-director of Democracy and Dialogues at UConn Dodd Human Rights Impact 
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
Oscar Patton @oscarpatton.bsky.social Elizabethan & Jacobean Chapels Royal | AHRC History DPhil @ Merton College, Oxford 
Matteo Pangallo @pangallo.bsky.social Dad, woodlander, trail-maker (literally), gamer, gardener, piano-player, book-collector, English prof. Books: “None a Stranger There”, “Teaching the History of the Book", "Shakespeare's Audiences", "Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater". He/him.
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Historian & more. Icelander in Dublin. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin—State building with early modern investigative commissions; governing the Danish Oldenburg Empire across the Atlantic World and Asia
Stefano Dall'Aglio @sdallaglio.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
Debra Kontowtt @debsadac.bsky.social PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900🩸
History of medicine: antiquity & early modern
Powered by coffee ☕️ | Owned by dogs 🐶🐶
Quick Dives @quickdives.bsky.social Quick, engaging posts—perfect for when you need a little escape!
Join our Free #Substack: https://quickdives.substack.com/
Camila Walls Castillo 🦇 @cwallscastillo.bsky.social ♱ Late Medieval/Early Modern Historian
♱ Rare Books & Special Collections Intern
♱ University of Toronto — Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Book History ☙ History of Religion ☙ Colonial Andes ☙ Spain and Empire ☙
MapWorks @mapworks.bsky.social Proyecto MAPWORKS-Marcos de mapeo y prácticas de territorialización en América (siglos XVI-XVIII): espacios, categorías y representaciones (PID2022-141020NA-I)
Nuestra página web, aquí: https://mapworks.ih.csic.es/
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
@socforrefstudies.bsky.social @socforrefstudies.bsky.social 
Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores “El Atlántico ibérico" @atlanrexjovenes.bsky.social Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores “El Atlántico ibérico: instituciones, actores y redes” organizado en el marco del proyecto ATLANREX. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UAM), 23 y 24 de septiembre de 2025. 
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne ✨
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/seminars-reading-groups/early-modern-circle
(acct run by@paigedonaghy.bsky.social)
Highways of History @thecreweofthefancy.bsky.social I am a dad, historian, veteran, author, and a History Youtuber. I cover history and travel, with some car related content along the way.
Current Youtube- https://youtube.com/@highwaysofhistory
Old Youtube-
www.youtube.com/@thecreweofthefancy
Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social Historian of 16th century French natural history focusing on three-toed sloths (Bradypus sp.). Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Gaelgeoir. All opinions are my own.
Alberto García Molinero @albertomolinero.bsky.social Historiador e investigador en el Departamento de Historia contemporánea de la Universidad de Granada. Visiting researcher Universidad de La Habana, University of British Columbia, Freie Universität Berlin.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Kathy Milanowski @kathymilanowski.bsky.social As an author, retreat leader, and Reiki teacher, I enjoy peace in the quiet outdoors and am often drawn to the natural world's rhythms.
#Spiritual #Earth #Nature www.WisconsinReiki.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Andrea Torre @chiorbo.bsky.social Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Literature and Visual arts. Petrarca, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, Emblems, Memory