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.
Joel Barker @joelbarker08.bsky.social Professor of Biblical Studies at Heritage College. Fan of Toronto sports and nerdy humour. Mostly posts about curling 🥌
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news. 
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Jessica Weiss (Weiss-Bahia) @jessicaweiss-bahia.bsky.social Aspiring early modernist - UCL Quirk Funded PhD candidate.
Also a musician - Fear of Men and New German Cinema.
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
Matthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social 4th year PhD (part-time). Presenting at Gulliver's Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London. 23rd-24th Sept 2026.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England. 
Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
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
Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
he/him
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)
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She/Her 👩🏻🏫🏴🇨🇾 https://linktr.ee/drkatiecross
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Laura Mair @lauramair.bsky.social Modern Scottish History Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
@amywok1.bsky.social @amywok1.bsky.social 
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle
https://www.csecs.ca/
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social We share George Orwell’s vision of a decent society where thought is free, truth is valued and brave writing is celebrated. Sign up to our newsletter 👇 https://orwellfoundation.substack.com/
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca Giving voice to the humanities and social sciences across Canada | Porte-parole des sciences humaines dans l'ensemble du Canada
Dongjun Seo 서동준 @dongjun-seo.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk
PhD in World Christianity, University of Edinburgh,
🔗 https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-dongjun-seo
Philip Ziegler @pgziegler.bsky.social Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen
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/
Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 (Birmingham) @bhamcrems.bsky.social The Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 supports interdisciplinary research into the early modern period at the University of Birmingham.
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
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/
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Laura Mason @lm8son.bsky.social History & critical film studies (France). Author of The Last Revolutionaries; editor of Imaginaries. Flaneuse. Speaking only for myself.
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social Catholicisms, c.1450-c. 1800 is a book series of @imems.bsky.social Press, an imprint of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Details can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/catholicisms-c-1450-c-1800/
Fr Simon Cuff @frsimoncuff.bsky.social Priest. Vicar, St Peter de Beauvoir Town. Trustee, Migrants Organise. Vice-chair, Just Money Movement.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/ 
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
George Palmer @georgepalmer.bsky.social Ordinand, Westcott House | PhD student, Emmanuel College Cambridge | CofE and Politics 1885-1914
Stephen G Brown @stephengbr.bsky.social 
Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social “Earthy, funny, tender, and frank” Rambo
Feminist theologian working on bodies, theologies, trauma, liturgy, Song of Songs, and smashing the patriarchy.
Westcott House & Cambridge University (views my own etc etc)
Henning P. Jürgens @lobwasser.bsky.social Historiker, bes. Religionsgeschichte: Frieden, Predigten, Polen, Ostfriesland, Druckgeschichte und ein paar andere. Early Modernist. Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Hier aber privat.
Dr. Amy Scott @dramys.bsky.social Canadian. From Alberta but live in Toronto. High-anxiety mom to three glorious humans. Non-trad wife. I write about Shakespeare’s history plays and teach writing.
Interests: fossils, crocheting, and baseball. Other random interests: War of 1812
She/her
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
Ecclesiastical Law Society @ecclj.bsky.social The Ecclesiastical Law Society promotes the study of ecclesiastical and canon law and produces the thrice-yearly Ecclesiastical Law Journal, published by the Cambridge University Press.
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Jake Griesel @jakegriesel.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Church History and Anglican Studies, George Whitefield College, Cape Town 🇿🇦 / PhD, Cambridge / FRHistS / Long English Reformation / Reformed orthodoxy / Early modern theological controversies / ✍🏻 on John Pearson
bio.site/jakegriesel
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Robert Myles @robertjmyles.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Divinity, Australia. Writes about Religion, historical materialism, New Testament, historical Jesus from below, etc.
www.robertjmyles.com
Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament • Yale Divinity School • biblical texts in immigration, borders, apocalypse, textuality, biological metaphors
• 她/she • not always here • http://yiijanlin.com
Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social Department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen — over 500 years of world leading research and teaching!
School of Divinity @uoedivinity.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh
Harvard Divinity School @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Make a World of Difference #WeAreHarvardDivinity
Catechist's Quill @catechistsquill.bsky.social Canadian. Trekkie. Geek. High Church Evangelical Anglican (ACNA). BCP shaped. PhD in theology from University of Toronto, Wycliffe College. https://t.co/yYqPrrr32J
John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social Historian at Lumen Center (Madison, WI) and Messiah University. Author of 6 books. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM #Bruuuuuce!
Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social 'dust in the air suspended,
marks the place where a story ended'
Find me at http://www.simonknott.co.uk
Also available on X/Twitter. All 📷 by me unless otherwise stated.
Melody Maxwell @melodymaxwell.bsky.social Professor, Acadia Divinity College
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social We publish books that engage academic theology with the wider church and with society
Shortlisted for the Independent Publishers Guild DEI Award 2026
https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk
World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 leading research in #WorldChristianity since 1982 • @UoEDivinity.bsky.social, @Edinburgh-Uni.bsky.social.
https://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk
Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social Historical theologian of early Christianity at Gordon College. Lover of all things ancient and all things geeky. Co-author: Christian Women in the Patristic World. Co-host of OnScript podcast.
CWCIT (Center for World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology) @cwcitdepaul.bsky.social Established in 2008 at DePaul University, CWCIT focuses on the global nature of Catholic Christianity, especially but not exclusively in the global South—Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Visit us at https://cwcit.depaul.edu.
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Hendrik Simon @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social politics, history, law @fgz-risc.bsky.social assoc. @prif.org @trace-center.de | (theory and history of) int'l relations and int'l law | (transnat'l) labour studies | editor @voelkerrechtsblog.org 
Frederik Dhondt @herakleitosmd.bsky.social Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social
Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT ≠ endorse.
https://vubcore.blogspot.com/p/frederik-dhondt.html
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Leif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social Historian, museum jack of all trades, and DPhil candidate in History (Oxford)
Jamie Mātenga 🤓😝🤙🏼 @jaymatenga.bsky.social (Au/koe/ia) Māori theologian. Kō Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, me te kō Ngāti Porou, kō Ngai Tahu ōku iwi. Compulsive question-asking got me a doctorate. Pursuing purposes of God. See more here: jamiematenga.com
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025. 
Thiu Elias KC @rathiulung.bsky.social Theology, indigenous thought, ecology, world Christianity, digital.
Rongmei Naga.
Associate Researcher @unibonn.bsky.social
Research Associate, BIAPT
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
William Gibson @williamgibson.bsky.social Candidate for Ministry Church of Scotland. ✝️🏴 PhD Student Theology Uni of Glasgow, researching secularisation + mission in 1960s CofS. 📚 Iona Community New Member. 🕊️Trade Unionist at Unite. ✊ Ayrshire. Coffee and whisky lover. ☕️🥃 He/Him views my own.
Christopher B. James @chrisbjames.bsky.social practical theologian, missiologist, professor, author: church planting, ecumenism, ecclesial ecologies, cities, common good, theological education