Dennis Schäfer @mrschaefer.bsky.social Researcher, Curator, & Book Collector, who is interested in German media history (broadly defined) and mostly here for cats. 📍New York City.
https://dennisschaefer.com/
Zone1Librarian @walkinglibrarian.bsky.social Librarian who enjoyed walking around London, and beyond...
Murray Gove @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social AHRC Northern Bridge DTP funded PhD student at Newcastle University researching texts of travelling women prophets in the seventeenth-century - he/him 🏳️🌈🏴
Dr Grace Touzel @boundtobeused.bsky.social Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project (2023-25) http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
Firsts Rare Book Fairs @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social The Antiquarian Booksellers Association's premier book fairs
Firsts London: 15 - 18 May 2025
linktr.ee/firstslondon
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
@christianalgar.bsky.social @christianalgar.bsky.social Prances around with old books.
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social I read a lot of links; I post a lot of links. Mostly special collections, archives, libraries, museums, history, & technology. (#GLAM).
I teach in an MLIS program at [redacted]. Does not represent my employer.
#RBMS26
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
Fine Book Fairs @finebookfairs.bsky.social Organize rare book and print fairs across the US. Upcoming events in Indianapolis, April 25th-26th, DC, May 2nd-4th, NYC, September 26th-28th, Philadelphia, December 4th-6th. More information: finefairs.com
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
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
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social Early modern travel historian researching rare books. Digital Humanities enthusiast. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.
UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social UCL Special Collections is open to everyone. Our collections of rare, unique and historic archives & books cover themes including history of UCL, education, arts and sciences.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
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
Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle.
Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Hans Lindner in @hanslindner-1409.bsky.social I'm an experienced international Antiquarian Bookseller and have successfully exhibited in more than 400 international Book Fairs worldwide. I'm specialized in outstanding Children's and illustrated books. Beautiful books and traveling are my passion.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.- P Björn Biester @philobiblos.bsky.social
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Olivia Thompson @livyaugusta.bsky.social Digital Heritage Manager @ Libraries, Galleries & Museums | University of Liverpool • Thoughts mine: sometimes simple, mostly incomprehensible • she/her
Arthur Fournier @arthurfournier.bsky.social Broker of manuscripts & archives, ABAA/ILAB dealer of rare books. Active in BSA, RBMS, ARLIS communities. Qualified appraiser. Literature, the arts, social-political movements, underground / DIY press, pop culture + https://linktr.ee/arthurfournier
Lucy Vinten @lucyvinten.bsky.social Archivist, Rare Books specialist at the British Jesuit Archive, collector of old household books, wooden boat enthusiast. Part-owner of a 2CV. Parent. She/her
cua @cuanord.bsky.social Literatur, Kunst, Humanismus, Leben.
McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk Rare & second-hand bookshop in central Edinburgh, est. 1957.
Open every day 11am to 5pm, and till 8pm on Thursdays.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social 
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Durham University Collections @ducollections.bsky.social Collections from @durham-university.bsky.social museums, art collection, biosciences, archives and special collections. Not monitored 24/7. @dulib.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/DUCollections 
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
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/
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Sally Badham @sallybadham.bsky.social Based in rural Oxfordshire UK. FSA & MBE. Love churches, churchyards & their contents. Enjoy gardens. Disabled (but well looked after by much loved husband). Political views private. No DMs please.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association @abararebooks.bsky.social We're the trade organisation for dealers in rare books in the UK and Ireland.
https://aba.org.uk/
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100398-the-world-to-me/
Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.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
John McQuillen @bookishjohn.bsky.social Early printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum (New York City). My husband says that I fondle Gutenberg Bibles for a living. Sometimes we are in the Catskills.
He/him 🏳️🌈
Antiquariat Michael Solder VdA/ILAB @antiquariat-solder.bsky.social 
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America @abaararebooks.bsky.social Your trusted source for rare books and related ephemera since 1949. www.abaa.org
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social Writer of non-fiction books (latest: The Philosophy of Sheds). Online editor Fine Books magazine, columnist at Idler. Coined term "shedworking". Half-decent snooker player. Watford FC season ticket holder. https://thewritinghut.substack.com/
plyp666 @plyp666.bsky.social 
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Jessie Munster @dragonflyjessie.bsky.social I own an antiquarian bookshop with my husband, Jon, named Munster & Company, coach my kids soccer team, am a Girl Scout Leader, a member of our schools PTA, on the Corvallis School District Budget Committee, and do bookkeeping and upholstery on the side.
Leo van Snippenburg @leo.vansnippenburg.nl PhD candidate Radboud University | migrants and identity in early modern Livorno | 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 | https://vansnippenburg.nl
Scott Clemons @gsclemons.bsky.social "When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Desiderius Erasmus
Drew Snow @shakesbrain.bsky.social US Fulbright scholar (Alum): Distinguished Teacher Researcher | H.S. English Teacher & Dept. Chair | Collector of Rare Books | In the middle of Chicago.
www.shakespearesbrain.com — my book collecting website.
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Forum Rare Books @forumrarebooks.bsky.social Rare book dealers from the Netherlands, specializing in books, manuscripts, prints, maps & other works on paper concerning Travel & Exploration, Islamic World, Natural History, Early Printing, Cartography, Science & Medicine, etc.
www.forumrarebooks.com
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
York National Book Fair @yorkbookfair.bsky.social 12th - 13th September 2025
www.yorkbookfair.com
The UK's largest rare & secondhand book fair. Organised by the PBFA. 
Bucknell Special Collections/University Archives @bucknellscua.bsky.social Rare books, manuscripts, artists' books, University archives: putting primary sources into the classroom and beyond. 
International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social What's it going to be then, eh? All things Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) from his Estate and Archive in Manchester, UK.
www.anthonyburgess.org
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
Ceri Thompson @bookelfceri.bsky.social Librarian at Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections & Archives 📚 | Loves history, books, libraries | 'Be more kind my friends, Try to be more kind' (FT) | Prefers to be surrounded by books & drinking tea | She/her 🌞🏴 All views my own 📍London
❧ Rémi Jimenes @remi-jimenes.bsky.social ❡ Histoire du livre. ❡ Renaissance.
❡ Typographie. ❡ Bibliophilie.
Maître de conférences (Tours, CESR) et de Pigouchette (🐶)
Rédac-chef du #Bulletindubibliophile
Imprimeur amateur
Kendo
Projet ANR #TypoReF
http://www.philobiblon.fr/
Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English & Coordinator of the Digital and Public Humanities program at Saint Mary's College. Co-PI of the Peripheral MSS Project (peripheralmss.org). Interests: Medieval Lit, Book History, MSS Studies, and DH (she/her)
Dr Sarah Wingrove @sazwingrove.bsky.social ECR @ Surrey Literature & Languages and Sociology, and freelance technical editor.
Queer pilgrimage practices, lesbian histories and their legacies. www.sarahwingrove.com
she/her 🏳️🌈
Banner courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/003
PJ Zaborowski @pjzaborowski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Insruction, University of Iowa. General Education programs, Medieval Literature and Manuscript Culture, Early Printing, and all things bookish.
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social Professor & Head of Thompson Special Collections, Ohio State University / Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts / Medieval MSS nerd / Fragmentology / walking / puro RGV, y que
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/
Jennie Hill @jenniehill.bsky.social Archivist. Lecturer. Procrastinator. Likes reading, gardening, and the fibre arts.
PhD exploring the modern fine press movement.
Danielle Westerhof @behindthespines.bsky.social Rare books curator and historic libraries fan. Works in archives and special collectons at Durham University (UK), currently leading on the development of our academic teaching offer. Personal views only.
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Simon French @simonfrenchbooks.bsky.social Librarian, and a book collector with an interest in fine press books and ephemera.
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
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/
Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Professor at University of Alcalá. Book Historian & #Dante Scholar | Medieval & Early Modern Nerd. Co-Founder & Managing Editor of 'Bibliotheca Dantesca.'
#bookhistory #marginalia #rarebooks #italian #libraries #Mediterranean #popbooks
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
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
Julianne Simpson @juliannesimpson.bsky.social Librarian, Chetham's Library Manchester
Kat Steiner🔸 @kastrel.bsky.social Oxford-based medical librarian, butler to a cat named Abby, amateur actor, folk singer, cross-stitcher. Chronically helpful; annoying people for good. She/her, opinions absolutely my own.
Tony Fothergill | Ken Spelman Rare Books, York @tonyfoth.bsky.social Ken Spelman Rare Books, ABA. ILAB. PBFA.
books | birds | baking | photography | travelling | guitars ~ Art, gardening, women & science, Italian Grand Tour, manuscripts, the unusual.
www.kenspelman.com kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com
Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social Science at The Times
My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN
Friends of the Nations’ Libraries @thefnl.bsky.social Friends of the Nations’ Libraries, or FNL, awards grants for acquisitions to regional and national archives, libraries and museums. www.fnl.org.uk.
Frédéric Manfrin @fredmanfrin.bsky.social Compte en veille, avant possible fermeture.
Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social. Study: @Harvard.edu. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, intimacy/consent, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.