Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing about: medieval plant grafting | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
hunter🌹 @hunterx3.bsky.social unapologetically myself
chi🏳️🌈
instagram.com/hunth_245
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
Monstro ElisaDrew @radliftist.bsky.social video games, bodybuilding, memes and mental health. gay, vegetarian, leftist and nd. reposts get my attention. 📍 Boston
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
close reading forever
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
M🍊 @mandrn.bsky.social Mando.
Certified Silly Goose.
I bake 🍪 and I lift 💪
He/him 🏳️🌈♈️👬🌸
brogressive overload @meatballjake.bsky.social big dumb bator | tighty whitey fanatic | 32 | chicago
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Ricky Karlson @morinus.bsky.social 🤩 Yo!
🇸🇪 Swedish • 🌎 29 • 🏳️🌈 Gay
🤓 Nerd • 💪 Fitness • ⚔️ Triumph
✨ https://www.instagram.com/ricky_karlson ✨
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. 
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social SUNY Oneonta Assistant Professor on Kanien'keháka and Onʌyoteˀa·ká land
African paleoecology, human evolution, land stewardship, foraging. Views my own 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026). Actor. Director. Linguist. Cymbelinism and Other Things of the Imogenation, Stories of the Bundle and the Box, The Bread and Cloth Company (2027).
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Jenni Tolls @jennitolls.bsky.social Sluggish, lazy, stupid, and unconcerned
📍 Brooklyn
thatsugarguy (he/him/his) @thatsugarguy.bsky.social 🎶Lots of pretty boys, lots of funny business🎶
Recently single
Aries♈️Queer🏳️🌈Progressive🫏
IG: @thatsugarguy 🍬
🚫NO MAGA or AI!🚫
Here to post shirtless (never full nudity) pictures and look at hot guys. 👀
https://throne.com/thatsugarguy
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social PR chap, martial arts enthusiast, oenophile, occasional musician & fanatical book-lover. Tweed and corduroy are the original performance fabrics
Tommy @corpish.bsky.social 28 | AL → NYC | Partnered | He/Him
insta: @tommy_oswalt
🇦🇺 🐨 @aussie-himbo.bsky.social not made for heterosexual consumption • 🐨 • 👬🏽 • instagram.com/itsDMCL • 📍DC • cat dad 🐈⬛ •
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Ty Daddy @mynameistyler.bsky.social just a gay boy surfing the internet
📍Santa Monica
fitness - travel - pop culture - selfies - nonsense
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social (he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
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.
@mr-chitown.bsky.social @mr-chitown.bsky.social 
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
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social Just a silly himbo 🏳️🌈✨️ random thoughts, memes, movies, horror, cats and selfies
thotscar wilde @thotscarwilde.bsky.social a gay guy
Matt Huculak @jmhuculak.bsky.social Librarian. Director, Kula Library Futures Academy. Dad. Erstwhile modernist and periodical / book history person. 2024 Library Journal Mover and Shaker
Nick @easyonnick.bsky.social IG: @easyonnick
📍NYC
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
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop
https://linktr.ee/thomscottphillips
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
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Dan Welden @danwelden.bsky.social Virtual Personal Trainer and Owner of OnlyGymFans. Currently in the Agentic AI Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University 🤓https://linktr.ee/Danwelden
Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social Lover of early modern drama and of Dorothy Dunnett. Interested in Bess of Hardwick, the literary culture of the Cavendish family, and classic detective fiction.
Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
caltho @gymbunnytho.bsky.social Ethically 🇮🇪, culturally 🇬🇧, psychologically 🇩🇪
https://linktr.ee/gymperialism
'himbo adjacent'
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
Nater Tater @mcgreatthenate.bsky.social Only 20% unhinged • He/him 🏳️🌈
📍St. Louis
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Teddy Swolesevelt @himbiologist.bsky.social Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
📍PNW
|| 🍉 || BLM || TLM || he/they || Partnered ||
https://linktr.ee/Himbiologist
Johnny Santoro @huskyfit.bsky.social 🇮🇹
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
ImpressedBee @impressedbee.bsky.social Streamer🎮 Cat Dad🐈⬛ Plant Dad🪴 Himbo💪 occasional Sims 2 CC Creator🛠️ and New 🌶️ Creator with the name Vander Verdan
https://heylink.me/VanderVerdan/
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Lewis 🤘🏼 @lewisfdcm.bsky.social Loud and annoying gay moron • he/him • London • video games, DND, actresses, “the gym” & other cliched things, I guess
👬 - @tomraider.bsky.social
instagram.com/lewisfdcm
Heartbeatken @heartbeatken.bsky.social 28, 📍Rijeka, PhD, 🏠 Italy, Naples 🇮🇹
I know a lot of languages, that's my flex
✨ Joyride ✨
♋♊♋
ig: @heartbeatken
🌶️ vids: https://linktr.ee/heartbeatken
Liam @intriguinghats.bsky.social Ageing gay gym enthusiast with a lust for pizza and wine. Sometimes have a mustache.
Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
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
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
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
DNA @dnaforever.bsky.social 🧬 i am the artist, this is the project 🧬
lying for a living 📍FL
Exhaust_Fumes @vcp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Early Modernist, WoC, Cat lady, grouch. Was Vim, PhD on Twitter once. Live in one of the 5 boroughs. Teach, read, & write for wages. pro-union. Eat a lot. Complain a […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@VCP, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭
17th Century Theatre
Oxford University
Professional Yorkshireman
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind”
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social M*rketing Analyst 📊 Cat dad 🐈 Married to @taystrom.bsky.social 👬 Gay 🌈 Travel ✈️ PNW 🏞️ Geek 🧙♂️🚀 Civic engagement nerd 🗳️ Prone to tpyos 🙆♂️
https://linktr.ee/dgschell
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
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/
Buck @goesnuts.bsky.social Fake Vers Bottom Jock
28, German
He/they
https://throne.com/goesnuts
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Alice Leonard @wanderlanderr.bsky.social Book historian and early modernist, thinking about error
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Jonny P @jonnpatrick.bsky.social Just some pits and Pokémon
Richard ‘WeShould’ Linklater @weekendwarrior.bsky.social Movie, tv, box office nerd.
Occasional thirst trapper.
You know what, hell yea!
🇺🇸🇽🇰🏳️🌈
📍NYC
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Shakespeare Company | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social | movement practice | inclusive pedagogies | statues that come to life…
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social Hard copy: https://amazon.com/Who-Will-Believe-Verse-Shakespeares/dp/192558867X
eBook (free): https://www.academia.edu/125775909/The_Most_Intricate_Mechanism_in_Literature
Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/jamesleyland/
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/