Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social A weekly newsletter about the world's most popular playwright.
www.shakespearenews.com
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political.
Colin Baker @oldsixie.bsky.social Actor Writer Pensioned Off Time Lord
Proud Father of four daughters
Colinbakeronline
Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social Writer and artist and - together with my partner - bookshop owner! My bookish youtube channel is here - https://www.youtube.com/@paulmagrs-g8n
Historic Royal Palaces @hrp-palaces.bsky.social Six palaces, one charity
and a whole lot of history. 🏰
Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social #EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
revoltingross @revoltingross.bsky.social Husband ✅
Dad ✅
Green Party ✅
General Witchfinders: podcast co-host, book club host, zine editor/designer
Dark Darzet: podcast co-host
Ooser Fest: co-founder
Lover of spooky stuff and funny, clever, kind people
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
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social Common person. Comedy fan. Colossal nerd. youtube.com/pipmadeley
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
RILCH at LJMU @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Posting about events, seminars, workshops & activities ran by our fabulous community of researchers and writers. https://linktr.ee/RILCH
Voices of British Ballet @ballet-voices.bsky.social A website and podcast celebrating the history of dance in Britain through the voices of the people who made it happen.
www.voicesofbritishballet.com
Ian Jones @ian-jones.bsky.social nearertotheend.co.uk
Jacob Tootalian @jtootalian.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
Suffolk Wills @suffolkwills.bsky.social Digitising and analysing wills from Suffolk from between 1490 and 1620. See https://suffolkwills.org. There's a bit about me (Martin) on the About page.
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Headpress @headpress.com Independent non-fiction publisher since 1991. We publish the stuff you love. Film. Music. Strangeness. Head honcho: @davidkerekes.bsky.social. Press: @harbottlestores.bsky.social. We do not use or publish AI-generated work in any form.
web: headpress.com
Tom Langham @probablynottom.bsky.social Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more 
Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social Special books celebrating great TV shows and the people who make them. tenacrebooks.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/tenacrebooks
ellen hartley @ellenhartley.bsky.social She/Her
Voice, text, accent - freelance theatre practitioner and creative @ The RSC / Shakespeare's Globe / Birmingham Rep.
Proud Brummie.
Dyslexic word lover.
Dyspraxic mover.
ADHD organiser.
Cis Intersectional feminist and ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🌻🍉
Trev Ellis 🏴 🇪🇺 #YES @gingertrevtrev.bsky.social South-west Scotland. Who'er.
Skilled at the art of falling apart. Running up that hill. Left my demons at the door. Memories are uncertain friends. Knock me down with a feather...
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Robert Crighton @robertcrighton.bsky.social Performer, writer, producer - founder of Beyond Shakespeare, but I won't be doing much of that here. Mostly other stuff.
HIDden Theatre @hiddentheatre.bsky.social HIDden Theatre produces work from and about the past, performing historically informed drama and bringing to life stories of times gone by.
hiddentheatre.com
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Lead Mojo @leadmojo.co.uk Audio, comedy, audio comedy.
NonCensored, Sound Heap, P.O.V., Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz, Newsmakers, Dara Ó Briain's Time Wasters, Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Lemn Sissay Is The One And Only, Live In Kyiv: Comedy From A War Zone.
leadmojo.co.uk
Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social Writer, festival director, interviewer. Projects: Future City Film Festival, John Boorman, John Berger, William Gray Walter, revisiting J B Priestley, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel book. Writing/ interviewing/ editing: https://festivalofideas.substack.com
Jokusatsu @joefriday37.bsky.social Joe Friday Higgins
Punk artist and art director based in Staffordshire
Horror - Comics - Punk Rock - Movies - Equality
He/They
Société Française Shakespeare @shakespearefrance.bsky.social Association loi 1901 fondée en 1975, la Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) a pour but de promouvoir l'étude des œuvres de Shakespeare et des auteurs de la période Tudor / Stuart, dans le contexte littéraire, politique et social européen à la Renaissance. 
German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social The German Shakespeare Society / Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (DSG), founded in Weimar in 1864, is open to everyone interested in and enthusiastic about Shakespeare. Join the DSG today! https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lan
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare.
https://t.co/65CgPIMCOm
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture @proverbialculture.bsky.social Account for the AHRC-funded project, Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture.
https://earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/
Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social This account charts the activities of the Skenè Research Centre including Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS) and its supplements
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SCLPostGrad2026 @sclpostgrad2026.bsky.social The Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe. This year's theme is 'Networks'.
Lazarus Theatre Company @lazarustheatre.bsky.social EPIC
ENSEMBLE
THEATRE
Beth Gisbey @bethgisbey.bsky.social Sussex by the sea 🌊 // Researcher and cultural historian 📚 // Rustington Museum 🏛️
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭
17th Century Theatre
Oxford University
Professional Yorkshireman
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind”
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Radio Free Skaro 🇨🇦 @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social Popular Canadian #DoctorWho podcast.
Tim - Missing Episodes Podcast @missingepisodespod.bsky.social Podcaster. Biscuiteer. https://linktr.ee/missingeps_pod patreon.com/missingepisodes
MJ @mjfouldes.bsky.social Just an irregular chap in an irregular world. Doctor Who fan, also writer of poetry & some songs (shared on IG). Love space related stuff & dinosaurs. Enjoys a pun!
Safe space for 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ - ally here, but hey, it's not hard to be nice!
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social Audio maker at Rhubarb Rhubarb of podcasts (Folk on Foot, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, Voices of British Ballet, The Sound of Anger) and radio. Black hearted in Battersea.
David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.social Geek, runner, sometimes creative. Routinely shares lots of random stuff about old telly.
Entered into the podcast game: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/no-its-not-doctor-who/id1862166294
Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Podcast on a queer & neverending quest through 80s & 90s fantasy films. Nostalgia & nightmares with Michael and Callum 📼🐉🏳️🌈🧚♂️🏳️⚧️🦄
linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social Actor, Comedian, Writer, Voice Guy, Professional Anorak.
Arcana is my armour. And my amour. 
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
The Ghost Story Book Club @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social The Ghost Story Book Club podcast. Join host Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social as he discusses classic ghost stories with special guests. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
David Cottis @davidcottis.bsky.social Academic, director, snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social Publisher & Founder, Frolic Press | Writer, Artist, Composer, Folklorist | Weird Fiction & Literary Horror
https://linktr.ee/6travisjohnson6
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Dr Maria Shmygol @mariashmygol.bsky.social MSCA Research Fellow (University of Galway) | Joint Chair (British Shakespeare Association) 
Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist, cat haver, bicycle centaur
Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Spring Thing, Xyzzys
versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid still exists
nazis are bad
he/him
Erika Sanderson @erikasanderson.com Actor, director, voice actor, geek. Hobbit-sized Jedi trying to stay out of mischief. She/her 🏳️🌈
www.erikasanderson.com
Ioana A @ioanaa.bsky.social Full-time audiobook minion, part-time narrator, editing podcasts on the side, occasional crafty person. Sometimes, I write. /Scriu, citesc și fac mărunțișuri (Ro/Eng) (she/they)
https://maruntisurisipovesti.com/links/
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social Conference on Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain at the University of Warwick on 10-11 June 2025 ✨ Email any questions to EarlyModern2025@gmail.com & find us @ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/socialidentity
Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @marginconference.bsky.social An archive for our inaugural conference! Please check @amaemconference for updates.
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 
Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social MEMSA is made up of postgraduate students from all disciplines working on the Medieval or Early Modern period at Durham University. ALL welcome at our events.
Wyrd Britain @wyrdbritain.bsky.social A place of stories of a stranger Britain.
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
The Audio Drama Hub @audiodramahub.bsky.social The Audio Drama Hub - How to make radio drama, audio fiction, radio plays, & fiction podcasts. https://www.facebook.com/groups/AudioDramaHub/
Inspire - Inform - Collaborate
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
METh (Medieval English Theatre) @medengtheatre.bsky.social Since 1979 the Medieval English Theatre Society has promoted interest in and study of early theatre through the publication of Medieval English Theatre Journal.
https://medievalenglishtheatre.co.uk/
Listen Through the Brown Window @soullessparty.bsky.social It’s Tom!
Creator of ‘Listen Through the Brown Window’ Comedy podcast. Available on Apple and Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0qNtknmdd79FuvhSUvRiIW?si=oPkysgocQgqeUcvDLjXRrw
Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social Writer and producer (mostly Doctor Who-related things).
Winchester City Councillor for St Barnabas ward. 🔶
For council enquiries email: jmorris@winchester.gov.uk
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social Television historian, writer, artist, 33% of Mulgrave Audio, comic inks and colours. Author of books about Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Robin of Sherwood. Usually found recreating BBC studio sets in CG. Solvitur ambulando. Marra. Durham.
ko-fi.com/andreworton
INDICATOR @indicator.bsky.social The UK's favourite boutique 4K UHD and Blu-ray label.
Part of British film distributor Powerhouse Films Ltd, UK.
Shop here:
powerhousefilms.co.uk
Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University
Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom.
FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr
United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk