✨Catherine Williams✨ @catherinevwill.bsky.social MA Student at UCL, Fordham Alum
Researching the links between 16th c. poetry, sovereignty and colonialism
I’m your Modern Margaret Roper, find me somewhere in the Renaissance
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- E Edward W Baptist @ewbaptist.bsky.social Retired biochemistry PhD in Durham NC.
Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of ‘normal’ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. Tangata Tiriti in-progress.
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Clive McCarthy 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇩🇪 @clivemccarthy.bsky.social Retired University Senior lecturer in Media studies, Code, Digital media, Data privacy, UAV UAS Drones, Geopolitics, Areas of Interests Military history, Postwar history Cyberwarfare, Disinformation, internet surveillance Love my wife & Archie the cat
@kayacmurat.bsky.social @kayacmurat.bsky.social 
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Esme (she/her) @esmegrace31.bsky.social Archives MA student
Broadside ballad and trad folk enthusiast
Big fan of the sea!
Quinten Somsen @quintensomsen.bsky.social Dr. | Historian | Lecturer at Radboud University | Book Project: Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic | Holy Roman Empire & Dutch Republic | #earlymodern | https://independent.academia.edu/QuintenSomsen
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Kropotke🖖 @kropotke.bsky.social "Wer gab den Wölfen die Kreide, das Mehl, stäubte die Pfoten weiß?" (Degenhardt)
Bakemo Marenah @bubacarr65.bsky.social 🌍 Pol Sci dropout | Brikama 🇬🇲
Business = my second chance at life |
Passionate about IDEAS, cultures & conversations that build 📚✨ |
Book lover 🤝 | Here for real talk, not fluff. ✌️
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.
Paul Rousselle (𐌂𐌄𐌍𐌀𐌁𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌔) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @sgrechycoed.bsky.social Vegan Druid, Morris dancer (Carreg Las Border Morris) & scrumptious pansy. Y Gwir yn erbyn y byd.
Using the spectacle of the cosmos to bring calm to my psyche.
Struggles to hocus-focus.
Non-binary.
🏴 they/them, 🇫🇷 iel, 🏴 nhw/eu
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Steve Zorn @cvfpartnerships.bsky.social Author, “Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845;” ex-union organizer, journalist, Papua New Guinea and UN gov’t official, lawyer and law prof, horse racing insider. Currently writing about Drogheda/Cromwell’s Irish campaign 1649-50. 🇵🇸🇵🇬🇮🇪🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
Niall Oddy @nialloddy.bsky.social Early modernist at the Open University, interested in travel and cross-cultural encounters.
Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun.
May post cat pics
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
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/
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
EM animals & their writers @ayyveebee.bsky.social 🌟fan account🌟
In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in #EarlyModern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Lurig Drama Cushendall @lurigdrama.bsky.social Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
@rtnrlfy.bsky.social @rtnrlfy.bsky.social History buff, stamp collector, music fan. Lover of real books and genuine, non-hallucinated sources. Opinions my own.
Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social Leo transcribes handwritten historical documents instantly, helping you turn your unwieldy manuscripts into an organized, searchable digital library. Try it for free with 10 credits every month at http://tryleo.ai
MO-KAN HASH @mokanhash.bsky.social 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Kansas cannabis reform • Psychedelic awareness • Veterans advocacy
Building community through education, art & conversation.
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lil dave @ftalildave.bsky.social Celebrity n Influencer
niyantasangal.bsky.social @niyantasangal.bsky.social PhD candidate at UMD | Shakespearean | Early Modernist | Mughal History and Culture | In-between oceans and places
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social 
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Tim Amos @tza1.bsky.social - M @myfreetime.bsky.social @myfreetime.bsky.social
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
@lightshadowlight.bsky.social @lightshadowlight.bsky.social Music | Bob Dylan | Books | Film | Wim Wenders | Travel | Central Europe | History | Yorkshire | Photography |
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Telizmary Pinales Roussel @telizmarypr.bsky.social 🎓 MBA HR | 🎓 B.Sc. BA Mgmt | Journeying through UK, France, Italy, Greece & Egypt—immersed in history, art, theater & journals of timeless beauty
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American literature, Swansea University. Working on Harlem Renaissance writers' tours of the South. Book: The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South (UGA Press, June 2027) linktr.ee/sianround
Science Events @scievents.bsky.social Science Events helps you organise a scientific conference or workshop. Use our platform to organise your next event! Visit our platform at https://www.sci.events
Quick Dives @quickdives.bsky.social Quick, engaging posts—perfect for when you need a little escape!
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). poetry / essays / neurodiversity & disability studies / 🏳️🌈 
Dr David Jackson-Perry @davidjackson-perry.bsky.social Late-diagnosed as an academic | Honorary Lecturer Neurodiversity @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social | HIV @Lausanne University Hospital | Queerhood | Intensely interested in failure, but will it last...?
Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel) @mbkaethler.bsky.social Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London; Book Review Editor for Early Theatre; Acting President of Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance.
christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.
Emily Nicholls @hamletcurrents.bsky.social millennial, itinerant, divided subject, joint-PhD student, KCL/HKU, Hamlet and Neurodiversity
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
@nlcocks.bsky.social @nlcocks.bsky.social 
Laura B @botherrantsretreat.bsky.social mad & nachtaktiv;
critical scholarly editions & critical ADHD studies
banner by @woutvanart
laura cowley @lauracowley.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
rflan2 @roserenee.bsky.social chicago + oxford | disability, hsmt, inclusive ed
Alice Equestri @draliceqst.bsky.social Early modernist at Padova Uni | ex MSCA Researcher at Sussex Uni | author of 'Lit and Intellectual Disability in EM Lit' (Routledge, 2021) | editor of 'Shaping IDs in EM Culture' (EUP, 2025); current projects on early mod novella translation and law and li
Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social Author, historian, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION forthcoming from Putnam. Rep: Helm Literary.
Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social website: www.gary-needham.com Film and Screen Media, University of Liverpool & currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
Shaun Nowicki @shaun-now.bsky.social UCSB Graduate Student in English (Focus in Early Modern Literature) | Board Member of the Public Domain Players
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
inflatable aliens @inflatablealiens.bsky.social Just some puppets singing some anti-MAGA songs. Better to laugh than cry. Not for kids.
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Laura S. DeLuca @laurasdeluca.bsky.social Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑 📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate @CarnegieMellon
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social 
Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern Anglo Atlantic World
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.