✨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
Dr Nicola Tallis @nicolatallis.bsky.social Historian. Author. Contributor.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Molly Conisbee @mollyconisbee.bsky.social I research social histories of dying and death. I like dogs and books and wine. No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome) out in spring 2025.
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh @rcsed.bsky.social Championing the highest standards of surgical and dental practice worldwide since 1505.
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social The British Records Association is a UK charity, working for archives since 1932. Please become a member and support our work https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/
Blackwell's Rare Books @blackwellrare.bsky.social Blackwell's Rare Books buys and sells rare books of all kinds, since 1879. Purveyor of #badlydrawnanimals. Follow us on Instagram @blackwellrare
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, telling two million years of human history 🗺
Website: maa.cam.ac.uk/
Collections: collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/
Blog: maadigitallab.org/
SOAS Special Collections @soas-speccoll.bsky.social Archives, manuscripts and rare books from
@SOASLibrary, the UK National Research Library for Asia, Africa and the Middle East | special.collections@soas.ac.uk
Dr Jenner's House @drjennerhouse.bsky.social A discovery that changed the world.
From his home in Berkeley, Dr Jenner’s House tells the story of the pioneering Gloucestershire scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and his ongoing legacy of vaccination.
The Hunterian @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, The Hunterian connects people with stories, individuals and ideas.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum.org Explore 5,000 years of history from across the globe right here at The Met. Plan your visit → http://met.org/Visit
RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social The Royal College of Physicians museum, heritage library, archive & garden in Regent's Park | History, medicine, art & modernist architecture | Exhibitions & events
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social I’ve written three novels in my eight book Tudor Queens series, and I’m currently deep into writing Catherine Howard. No direct messages. Universal link: https://linktr.ee/Nicola_Harris_Author #KU #hisfic #wivesofhenryviii
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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Yuqi “Anna” Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
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.
Grant Schreiber @grantschreiber.bsky.social PhD from the University of Guelph studying the history of post-Reformation charitable works in urban Scotland and England.
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social writer | researcher | early modernist.
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Heccyben @heccyben.bsky.social Queer 🌈#doctorwho fan 🌌, Archivist 📜🖥️. Runner,🏃♂️ writer 👨💻. Did PhD on early modern English travel writing once ⚓️ Likes trains 🚂, he/him
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
Chloë Houston @chloehouston.bsky.social Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise.
https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author- R Jeremy Roe @roej.bsky.social Trainee archivist exploring data visualisation and innovative archival projects; cultural historian writing on early modern art, festivals, Iberian books and manuscripts; translator from Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese.
Carly Wenner @carlywenner.bsky.social Social Studies Teacher in BC 🇨🇦 / Adjunct Professor of Social Studies Methodologies / Interested in: historical thinking & reasoning, cities, and civic engagement
@edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
SKL🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @sklafon1.eurosky.social Pr. of 18th-century studies at Université Paris Nanterre: literature and the sciences; translation and history thereof.
Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™.
Translator myself.
Opinions my own.
Influenceuse ☔️
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Josh Hutchinson 🥄 @joshhutchinson.bsky.social Witch trial history guy. Co-host of The Thing About Witch Hunts and The Thing About the Salem Witch Trials. Co-founder of End Witch Hunts. Lead for the Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project. #witchtrials #fms #cfs
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social Early Modernist. From the British Isles to the sunny Mediterranean. EUI Marie Curie Fellow on Gender and Sexuality.
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social Intellectual History | Historiography | Hegel | Soviet Intellectual Life | Fanon & Anti-Colonialism
MA Fanon & Hegel, MPhil Young Hegel, PhDing on...
Other half: @marxologist.bsky.social
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
🏳️⚧️ Poli @hellopoli.bsky.social "Postmodernist Neo-Marxist". Queer. Fat. Lapsed medieval art historian. Current day job in data analysis. EN/PL/FR/IT/DE
they/them 🏳️⚧️
Warsaw/Gdańsk 🇵🇱
Patrick Barker @patombark.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean and Atlantic World. Working on the histories of slavery, resistance, and internal marketing systems. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute. Asst. Prof of History at Miami Dade College. Views my own, not my employer's.
Fabio Minervini @minervini.bsky.social Social History PhD candidate - University of São Paulo (Brazil). Italian emigration agents and subagents 19th-20th C.
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
Ben Rogers @brogers1721.bsky.social Research Fellow at The History Of Parliament Trust | House of Lords (1660-1832)
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
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
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social Family and Local History enthusiast, ex-WEA. Member many Family History Societies, MC Guild One Name Studies, etc! Based in Yorkshire, God's Own County.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
Sian Broadhurst @sianbroadhurst.bsky.social Urbanism, housing, garden city movement |PhD student at York University | Trustee at Curious Arts and Groundwork SANT
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social Writer and researcher. DPhil @ Oxford researching early modern eating disorders. Funded by AHRC & Clarendon Scholarships. Writing in Tribune, LARB, London Mag, History Today, etc.
https://www.helenaaeberli.co.uk
Emily Young | History by Hearthlight @hearthlighthistory.bsky.social Historical storyteller of family, faith & household in early modern England. I research & unravel the social & spiritual lives of ordinary people in the 17th & 18th centuries. For readers who love their history authentic, intimate & alive.
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social Ecocriticism | early modern | soundscapes 🌻
“I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree”
PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales
👉 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales
Tracy Borman OBE @tracyborman.bsky.social Historian, author and joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces. A Lincolnshire lass and chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University.
History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
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
Abby Beckett @abbybeckett.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University
History of Medicine
Working on corpse medicine 1550-1700
Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon. 
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente»
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
Stephen Herring @slherring1.bsky.social PhD (University of Aberdeen); teach at OCHJS, LST, ACU, Wycliffe; interested in all things Hebrew Bible; learnbiblicalhebrew.co.uk
@greenwichalumni.bsky.social @greenwichalumni.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.
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.
Jean-Marc Hill @jeanmarchill.bsky.social Dr Jean-Marc Hill 👨🏻🎓 Oceanic & Maritime Historian ⛵️ The Noise of Piracy, under contract with Boydell & Brewer 🏴☠️
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
CatJ @bondjamesbond2025.bsky.social Lover of books ✔️classic movies✔️ gardening✔️ sports✔️ travel and music. JerseyGurl 🏖️ Laker for life 🏀 past chair and president of some political stuff 🇺🇸 Kobe 💔
Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk 👋 Welcome to the home of lifelong learning at @ox.ac.uk – a global community of curious minds. Tag us in your #OxfordLifelongLearning content!
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Paul O’Donnell @paodonnell.bsky.social History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
Stuart Carroll @civsoc.bsky.social Historian interested in civil society, violence and emotions.
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.- M Michael Talbot @michaeltalbot.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East at the University of Greenwich
University of Greenwich @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social Celebrating diversity. Creating opportunity. Delivering impact. Part of London and South East University Group.
UCU University of Greenwich @ucugreenwich.bsky.social University of Greenwich UCU Branch. Supporting educators and staff members at the University of Greenwich. UCU is the largest post-16 education union in the world. Go to https://greenwich.web.ucu.org.uk/ for details on how to join UCU and get involved! 
Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social Historien.
Veille bibliographique.
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.