Jan Trachet @jtrachet.bsky.social Researcher of Landscape Archaeology & Historical Cartography ///
Likes bikes, hikes & hammocks
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Vanessa Joosen @vanessajoosen.bsky.social academic, literary critic, children's literature, English literature
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.
UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social The Centre for Urban History (CSG) examines urbanised societies and patterns of urbanisation from the Middle Ages to the present.
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.
Universiteit Antwerpen @uantwerpen.be UAntwerpen is een jonge & dynamische onderzoeksuniversiteit met meer dan 20.000 studenten. Onderzoek en onderwijs zijn nauw met elkaar verbonden.
Bepaal mee de toekomst, kom studeren aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. https://www.uantwerpen.be
Tine Van Osselaer @tinevanosselaer.bsky.social
Jeroen Vandommele @jjmvandommele.bsky.social Curator Modern Manuscripts (after 1550) at the KB/National Library, Den Haag. Drama enthusiast. Interested in stories and how people tell them.
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Bente Marschall @bentemarschall.bsky.social PhD Candidate Medieval Urban History (UAntwerp) || Editor@Madoc
Urban history, social history, Late Medieval Cities, internal divisions, health care and children
Medieval Amsterdam, Maastricht & Bruges
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/bente-marschall/
Maartje van Gelder @maartjegelder.bsky.social Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam
Daniël Ermens @daniel-ermens.bsky.social Looks after the heritage of the @UAntwerpen - President of the Belgian-Dutch Bookbindings Society.
Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social ik geloof wel dat ik íets ben
Mark Visscher @markvisscher1.bsky.social Neerlandicus | Middeleeuwen | Ajax | HR bij Intergamma (GAMMA/Karwei)
Wim Vanhaecke @wimvanhaecke.eurosky.social Historicus. Archivaris. Informatiebeheerder. West-Vlaamse Pajot.
Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social The Huygens Institute of History and Culture of the Netherlands opens up historical sources and keeps them digitally accessible. We study historical sources and literary texts in innovative ways in an international perspective.
🌐 https://huygens.knaw.nl
Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur.bsky.social Directeur Kennis, Internationaal, Europa & Macro-economie bij Ministerie van MinBZK * Historicus * Geeft lezingen * Op deze dag in.. * Schrijft boek * Schrijft over boeken (en verloot ze soms) * Post op persoonlijke titel
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished Professor Utrecht University | „Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
Alan Moss MD @alanmoss.bsky.social Physician, Scientist
Professor of Medicine @BU
Chief Scientific Officer @CrohnsColitisFoundation
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Birgitte Breemerkamp 🌈 (she/her) @thebirg.bsky.social The Birg is the word.
Ontstaan van Holland @ontstaanvanholland.bsky.social Stichting Ontstaan van Holland wil de publieke belangstelling voor de vroege geschiedenis van het graafschap Holland stimuleren. Onderzoek, symposia, evenementen. www.ontstaanvanholland.nl
LeidenCity @leidencity.bsky.social (re)tweets over Leiden eo - Voor iedereen die wat met Leiden heeft
Rindert Jagersma @rjagersma.bsky.social PhD | Book Historian | 17c and 18c | Quantitative #bookhistory | metadata | 🏳️🌈
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Alexis Wilkin @alexisawilkin.bsky.social Professeur d histoire médiévale, Université Libre de Bruxelles @Universite Libre de Bruxelles/ Professor of medieval history@ Universite libre de Bruxelles
#Moyen Age, # Histoire économique #Middle Ages, #Economic History
Medieval Studies at Lincoln @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
Martinet @martinet.bsky.social Getouwd met mijn vrouw, 1 🐈, leest, kookt en luistert graag naar muziek.
Liefhebber van kunst, oude en/of mooie boeken en bijzonder drukwerk.
'Eet dat gaer, drinckt dat klaer is en spreeckt dat waer is'
Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (Ovidius)
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - MdNL @letterkunde.bsky.social De Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, gevestigd te Leiden, werd in 1766 opgericht als een vereniging van letterkundigen, taalkundigen en historici.
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Jean-Marc van Tol @jmvtol.eurosky.social Tekenaar, auteur, uitgever. Muziek, geschiedenis, strips, voetbal, literatuur. Romans Musch en Buat. Volg me voortaan via: buat.substack.com (voor Johan de Witt) en vantol.substack.com (voor Fokke & Sukke) Of: @JeanMarcvanTol@mastodon.nl
@marnixbeyen.bsky.social @marnixbeyen.bsky.social Teaches modern political history at University of Antwerp. Studies the history of nationalism, parliamentary culture, reactions to occupations during the First and Second World Wars, colonialism, etc. Keen interest in the Balkans.
Jelmar Hugen @hugenjelmar.bsky.social Dr | Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at Leiden University | Medieval Dutch Literature | European Romance Traditions | Multilingualism | Arthurian Literature
Jaco Zuijderduijn @jacozuijderduijn.bsky.social Associate professor │ Economic History Department, Lund University │ Book: Medieval Capital Markets │ Project: Retirees and pensions of the past │ @GiroMedieval
Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social PhD | Medieval and Early Modern Dutch (religious) literature @UAntwerpen | History of women's intellectual, literary, and religious culture | Book history | Sermon studies
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
Goetgevonden! @goetgevonden.bsky.social Goetgevonden! is de online applicatie waarmee je kunt zoeken in alle besluiten van de Staten-Generaal van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden (1576-1796). Je vindt ons op Goetgevonden.nl!
Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social Writes a PhD thesis about Berlin in the 1920s in contemporary popular culture. Works @UniLeiden as Research Manager.
Likes pop & classical music, literature, (model) trains, Peanuts, Donald Duck, hiking, old musical films and much more
Nicolas Perreaux @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
Brigitte Niemeijer @briniemeijer.bsky.social #050 | stad en provincie | luisteraar en aan-elkaar-prater | doorvrager | systemische aanschouwer | trotse ambtenaar
David Santiuste @dbsantiuste.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Britain (especially 15th-century England and Scotland). Lecturer in Humanities at COL, University of Edinburgh. I work with adults of all ages, focusing on lifelong learning and educational transitions.
Judith Arnopp @jarnopp.bsky.social Historical Fiction author writing in the medieval and Tudor period. I love the war of the roses & Henry VIII. Also garden and houseplant lover and collector of antique dolls houses - 22 and counting. #CoffeePotBookClub
author.to/juditharnoppbooks
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
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
Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
Marsely Kehoe @marselykehoe.bsky.social Early modern Dutch global art history | digital humanities | textiles | knitting | weaving | urban farming
Bart Wallet @bartwallet.bsky.social Jewish history University of Amsterdam
Bob Pierik @bobpi.bsky.social Historian. Researching early modern space, gender, water and other things.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Urban History at the VUB. Brussels based.
Posts in Dutch and English
https://linktr.ee/bobpierik
Merle Renée Lammers @merlerlammers.bsky.social Militair historicus | Verzamelt oude boeken en pamfletten
Karen Hollewand @khollewand.bsky.social Historian, studying the early modern history of sexuality, science, gender, female bodies, cultural heritage. Books on Beverland. Articles on the clitoris, female bodies in anatomy, sex and the classics.
Assistent Professor at the University of Groningen.
Enny de Bruijn @ennydebruijn.bsky.social Schrijver | Journalist | PhD | 'Het IJzeren Veulen' | 'De hoeve en het hart' | Reviusbiograaf | Cultuur, religie, geschiedenis | ennydebruijn.nl
Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social PhD candidate @Radboud University studying the history of human-insect relations 🐜🦗🪰 | Editor for the Yearbook of Women's History (AUP)| #envhist #entomology
Nederlands & English
Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social Historian and translator
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/.
Stephan Friedrich Mai @wicquefortdiary.bsky.social Privat hier. Historian (early modern period). Knowledge, diplomacy, politics/conflict and war, gender, and history represented in digital games. PhD project: social construction of diplomatic knowledge (A. de Wicquefort)
Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
DescartesLab @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLaboratory is a research group directed by Fabrizio Baldassarri and Simone Guidi on the French philosopher René Descartes and the reception of his thought and science - online seminars and collaboration in events #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci
Arjan van Dalfsen @arjanvd.bsky.social PhD candidate | Dutch disposition towards animals (1550-2000) studied with AI | Computational Humanities, Human Animal Studies, AI, Historical Literature
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social Erfgoeddeskundige en cultuurhistorica voor religieus erfgoed met een passie voor (devotie)prenten, devotionalia, sterke vrouwen, kerken, Leiden (en 🇪🇸 😉).
Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.
Loek Zoon @loekzoon.bsky.social Historian
Early modern history
Public history
Vluchtelingenonderzoek
Rampjaar 1672 #yearofdisaster
Geschiedenis
Hardloper running
#earlymodern #skystorian #refugees
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loek-zoon-47a425230
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
International Students of History Association @isha-international.bsky.social The International Students of History Association. Follow us to know more about conferences, volunteering opportunities and our journal and editorial board!
linktr.ee/isha.inter
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
The Bishop @nomuskplease.bsky.social Education, Lecturer, Councillor. Interests are many but specifically are : Early modern political history ( print, Parliament and Succession) , London history, politics and the natural world. West Brom Fan. Not in any particular order. #Skystorians
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Maite De Beukeleer @beukeleir.bsky.social Historian | PhD at KU Leuven 🇧🇪 | Gender, Catholicism, lived religion | Kringwinkelnerd | Long-distance bicycle adventurer 🚲
🔊 About my name: http://bit.ly/3ZhajDF
Margreet Brandsma @brandsmargreet.bsky.social Historian of the medieval Low Countries I countesses and duchesses I peasants and lords I power relations in medieval villages I nobility I rural institutions I gender I Burgundy I Noble literary patronage in urban space
Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians.
Editor – Peter Moore
Creative Director – @jordanacosta.co
https://www.unseenhistories.com/
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
RK @krtzsche.bsky.social Tout ce qui est historique, numérique, religieux, terrestre.
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.)
Remco Sleiderink @remcosleiderink.bsky.social Hoogleraar Nederlandse literatuur tot 1800
Professor of Dutch literature up to 1800
UAntwerpen
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.
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
Digital Renaissance Editions @dreditions.bsky.social Scholarly editions of early modern English drama and literature | Open Access | Woodcut Whimsy
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
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
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
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
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.