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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
Prof. Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Rochester (she/her)
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Little Owl Genealogy @littleowlgenealogy.bsky.social Little Owl Genealogy is owned by Megan I. Culbert. I help people connect with the past by illuminating the stories of their ancestors through genealogical research. Visit littleowlgenealogy.com for more information.
Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SLU @annualsmrs.bsky.social Hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University, SMRS is an annual conference covering all facets of Medieval and Renaissance studies. SMRS 2026: June 8–10. Visit us at smrs-slu.org.
Den Houthakker 🇳🇱🇪🇺 @denhouthakker.bsky.social Buitenmens ☆ Bos en Natuur ☆Hardlopen ☆ Geschiedenis ☆ Genealogie ☆ Kunst en Cultuur ☆ Tuinieren ☆ Veluwe.
Mijn genealogische speurtocht gaat vooral naar Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland en het Graafschap Bentheim.
Posts in Nederlands, English & Deutsch.
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
Derrick Pitard @synderlic.bsky.social Medievalist who writes on Chaucer and religion in later medieval Britain; teaches Latin, Lit, and the History of English; family historian; dad; husband; once and future rower; union member. https://gladlywoldehe.net/
Lisa | Regency Relatives @regencyrelatives.bsky.social Hello, I'm Lisa. Family historian with a love of the Regency era, strong tea, and research rabbit holes. Honest about the chaos of genealogy. Founder of Regency Relatives: regencyrelatives.co.uk
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
@thefamilyarchives.bsky.social @thefamilyarchives.bsky.social 
Eddie Maza @edwardmaza.bsky.social Medieval Art Historian & Educator
IHGS - The School of Family History @ihgs.bsky.social Study with IHGS. Distance Leaning Courses for all levels. You can arrange your studies to fit with your timetable with our self-directed courses. Enrol anytime.
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
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. 
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
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)
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
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/
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.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
#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.
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
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).
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.
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
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
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
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
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
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
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
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.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social Principal lecturer; 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
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
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
vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social Was passierte HEUTE vor 400 Jahren? #vor400 #30jährigerKrieg
What happened TODAY 400 years ago? (#earlymodern #30yearswar)
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
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
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
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.
Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social - - - never not going the way of myspace - - -
art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
same id at insta, mastodon.social
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
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 
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University.
she/her.
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.
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Hanna de Lange @hanna1.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern Books, News, Print & Manuscript.
Research fellow WidowsPrint, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
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 🐶🐶
Emperor Abby (the first pope) @arobertswrites.com BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Relapsed Catholic. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
Website: arobertswrites.com
Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites
Dr Justine Gallagher @justinegallagher.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, teaches on BA(Hons) Childhood and Early Years Studies. Research themes of motherhood, poverty, genealogy and family history.
Bram Hilkens @bramhilkens.bsky.social Economic history - Preindustrial inequality - Early modern Holland - Unrelated near-dangerous music obsession
Free UK Genealogy (FreeBMD • FreeREG • FreeCEN) @freeukgenealogy.org.uk Free UK Genealogy is a charity providing free access to UK historical genealogy records for family historians worldwide.
Publishers of FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN.
Volunteer-powered | Open access | Genealogy for everyone.
Brecht Liefsoens @brechtl.bsky.social Historian & Genetic Genealogist
Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies @strathgenealogy.bsky.social Delivering excellence through research, education and collaboration. Short courses - MSc in Genealogical Studies - PhD in History with Genealogical Studies.
Pierre Lovato @pierre-lovato.bsky.social Medieval historian. MA student (Rennes 2). Research on Dominican justice and disciplinary practices in Poland (1451–1517). Interested in mendicant orders, manuscripts and digital humanities.
Intl Federation for Research in Women's & Gender History @ifrwh-offical.bsky.social The IFRWH encourages & coordinates research in all aspects of women's history at an international level. See our website for details of the Federation: https://www.ifrwh.com/
Alexia Elise Kerkhof @treasuresofdutch.bsky.social Historian, etymologist, philologist, historical linguist - Historicus, etymoloog, filoloog, historisch-taalkundige
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
REFORC @reforc.bsky.social The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
@jaapjacobs.bsky.social @jaapjacobs.bsky.social 
@deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social Director of the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, archives rat, #VastNewNetherland
New York Almanack @newyorkalmanack.bsky.social A daily journal of history, natural history, the arts and outdoor recreation in New York State. https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
jbessmor @jbessmor.bsky.social Ph.D., history of slavery & gendered violence. Moved here from the other place. Navigating finishing a book. In solidarity with other researchers who have lost funding. Dog person, obviously.
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Roz S Ro @rozsro.bsky.social History ABD at Duke
Writing a diss on material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Jobina Tinnemans @jobinatinnemans.bsky.social Composer interested in visual arts, history and the natural world. Sound production and mastering. Transcriber for the Prize Papers Opera.
Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️