Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social early modern history, popular medicine, petitioning, women’s narratives in manuscripts, customary knowledge, colonialism, sovereignty
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441 book
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Ajay @ajaynet.bsky.social Death Researcher
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/
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.
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
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
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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Katie Noble @katienoble.bsky.social Dr of 18th C ephemera & theatrical culture; actresses; media history, mediation, adaptation; printing and book history ✨
Day job in education policy and Editor of BSECS Criticks
(she/they)
katiernoble.com
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!
Amy Freeborn @amyfreeborn.bsky.social Head of Content and Digital (9-5), writer and public historian (rest of the time). Driven by curiosity and creativity.
Ryan Alston @ryanalston.bsky.social Head of English
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, specialising in the cultural history of early America. Writing Edible Empire, a book on foodways and the making/breaking of Anglo-America. Indigenous knowledge, colonial appetites.
Harmony Turbines @harmonyturbines.bsky.social Empowering everyday homeowners with clean, renewable wind energy through innovative wind turbines. 🌬️🌱🏡
www.wefunder.com/HarmonyTurbines
https://HarmonyTurbines.com
#WindPower #CleanEnergy #GreenLiving
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
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.
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Dr Hannah Wilson @hlwilson.bsky.social researching early modern boy actors, enskillment, theatre history. 🏳️🌈 she/her.
Dr Ruby Rutter @rubyrutter.bsky.social Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’.
Views are my own 🫧
Ted Vallance @tedvallance.bsky.social Historian writing a book about regicide. Occasional and enthusiastic scuba diver and guitar player. Accomplished chef. Personal account, own views etc. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ted-vallance
gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
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
Wordwyrda @wordwyrda.bsky.social Literature grad. I study the intersection of women's writing, queer ecologies, religion and radicalism. Recommend me reads!
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research @oser-oxford.bsky.social The Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research is an interdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in letters from all geographical locations and historical time periods. Meetings take place fortnightly at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
British and Irish Branch of the ICLS @iclsbritishirish.bsky.social Welcome to the British and Irish Branch of the International Courtly Literature Society, which promotes the study and criticism of the literature of courts and court-oriented cultures.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/icls/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Julie Bungey @jbungey.bsky.social Former History teacher. Independent Scholar. Interested in the Long 15th Century and Walking Football.
@ooak4.bsky.social @ooak4.bsky.social 
Dr Adrea Johnson @adrearj.bsky.social Early Modern Historian - poetry, theology, & women’s writing | Teach @UFV & Lecturer @ Regent College | Fond of 📚 & 🐝| @adrearj 🇨🇦
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
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social Historian of art, science, and knowledge. Postdoc #VisualizingTheUnknown, @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Also a maker.
https://jessieweihsuanchen.com/
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
notorious_c.a.t. @catgrant2024.bsky.social Filthy-minded Disney Princess. Bed linen & housewares fetishist. Opera & history nerd. SPN Family. Dead Head. Born-again stoner. BLM. Vote BLUE. No f*cks given. She/her.
Emily Smith @shakespeerie.bsky.social Early modern literature post-doc at the University of Geneva. Usually somewhere between the digital, humanities, and seventeenth-ish-century.
neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
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
Thomas Plume's Library @thomasplumes.bsky.social The Library of Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), established 1704 in Maldon, Essex. www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.
Charlotte Emily Edgeshaw @ceedgeshaw.bsky.social • she/her • NBC Funded Northumbria University PhD student • EMCO Research Assistant • Women’s Education and the North •
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Jennifer Golightly @jengolight.bsky.social 18th-C literary and cultural history. Digital Teaching & Research Specialist and Lecturer in History @ Colorado College; Instructor at U of Denver. Technologist by day, scholar whenever I can. I have a lot of animals. 
Jason Pearl @jasoninmiami.bsky.social Assoc. prof. of English at FIU in Miami
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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.
STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie 
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
Committee for Autonomous Social Action - CASA, HGT @casahgt.bsky.social To promote the unity of all workers and their families and to conduct social and political actions designed to strengthen the working class movement. (https://casahgt.org/)
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 • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social Early Modernist, postdoc with @stemma.bsky.social, manuscripts, poetry, transmission
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social Scholar of cultures of travel within the French-speaking world, living on the Welsh seaside. Nowadays mostly working on the ways travel and education intersect at various periods, and colonial "influencer" tourism.
AJ Hartley @authorajhartley.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling novelist, Shakespeare professor, fan of Japanese rock music, collaborator with Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, hobbyist, creator, annoyed
author site: www.ajhartley.net
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlh2jTxFoqs&t=10s
Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies @oxfordcems.bsky.social CEMS is a hub for Oxford researchers of all disciplines who are interested in the various aspects of early modernity in Europe and beyond. Please see our website for details about our events and more: https://earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Dr Katie Aske @katieaske.bsky.social Lecturer in English at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in 18th-century beauty and skincare. Instagram: @drkatieaske
Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social History of books, sex/sexuality, & English lit Prof, Northwestern. 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 @pennpress.bsky.social; 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Editor: Marlowe's 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐 @Ardenpublisher.bsky.social now available.
Denison, @upenn.edu alum 🏳️🌈
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/2IHjNWV
Grey ships, black boats
Once a midship, always a midship!
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
nenazhivina.com/hi
No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Dr Cathryn McWilliams @candlelitink.bsky.social Irish women’s history, letters, memoir, creativity & writing. Norn Iron cutty. Ready for the hills.
Associate Prof of English, University of South-Eastern Norway.
Dr Jemima Hubberstey @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian | Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026 | Project Officer for National Literacy Trust - views my own
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
Elisa Cozzi @elisacozzi.bsky.social Irish Romanticism, Italy, the Byron-Shelley Circle, manuscripts, literary coteries.
https://irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/neh-fellows/elisa-cozzi/
Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social Tweets @recirc_
Carro 🇸🇪🌊 @carolinesweden.bsky.social Swedish. AuDHD. PTSD. Middle-aged, early retired. Atheist .Lifelong radical left scum. Democratic socialist.💙🇨🇦🇩🇰
Francesca Galligan @francescagalligan.bsky.social Rare books librarian, Oxford. 
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting