Warsight @warsight.bsky.social Defence in depth.
Warsight is a European news organisation specialising in providing in-depth coverage of the most important stories in the world of defence, staffed by a multiple-award-winning editorial team and contributors.
https://warsight.com/
Éditions Mnémos @editionsmnemos.bsky.social Éditeur d'imaginaires
Maison d’édition soutenue par le CNL et la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
https://mnemos.com/
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
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
Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x
Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. Member of the UKLAH board. Colonial LASA Social Media committee.
https://guillaumecandela.github.io
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Europe and the World @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Formerly SNSF PostDoc @Zurich|Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr| EUI PhD
Iberian & North African Empires, Material culture, Mobility in the EM World 🌊
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
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.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social Historian - Amsterdam - Suriname - migration history - 17th century - typos - was 17,5 jaar op Twitter http://voetnoot.org
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social History professor & lover of mysteries, pets, & cocktails🍸. Author of THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery. Currently working on crime, immigration, & policing in 19th-c. London. All views, my own. www.brookennewman.com
Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) Professor at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats.
Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
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
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
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. 
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
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 🤬
Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social Historian of early modern science and art |
max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
#VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions |
Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Sally Osborn @salosborn.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader and indexer. PhD on 18c medical recipe MSS. Renovating an 18c chartreuse in SW France.
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Kees Teszelszky @teszelszky.bsky.social 
Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social Professor of economic and social history at Exeter University. Research on work, gender, households, material culture, rural economy and more. Mostly England 1300-1750. 
Emily Michelson @emilymichelson.bsky.social Historian of early modern Italy, religious culture, minorities, and cool stuff.
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts- M Mathilde Monge @mmonge.bsky.social Historian. Early modern diasporas and solidarities Framespa UMR 5136 Fellow of IC Migration and Emodir member. PI of the #ANR #Solidamin Project (2022-6)
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.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
Dr. Mary Beth Fraser Connolly @mbfconnolly.bsky.social Historian, sometime adjunct, and currently Continuing Lecturer of History & Concurrent Enrollment Liaison for History at Purdue University Northwest
Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
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.
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
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. 
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer @gvb1554.bsky.social Historian of the global Spanish Empire in the early modern period, with particular focus on the Philippines at the University of Bristol. Looking at race, society, marriage, intimacies, religion & politics.
https://www.instagram.com/gonzavelasco1554/
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Béla Vilmos Mihalik @mbeco84.bsky.social Early modern church and social history of Hungary and Transylvania, especially parish politics, popular sociability and late Catholic confessionalization. And everything with genealogy and family history 🙈
🏡 Budapest, Hungary
❤️ Vienna, Austria
Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social Research fellow at Swansea working on fiefs of medieval & early modern Jersey; women in the Plantagenet world, first book on the Palace of Westminster; formerly @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, UWE, York and Durham; was once called Irene Adler; dogs; she/her.
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social Assistant Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Early modern history. Working on early modern criminals, print, and cultures of communication in England and France
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Mark Allen @markallen23.bsky.social PhD in history from Cambridge University. Examined coexistence & religio-political crises in early Stuart London through a case study of the Catholic queen's & embassy chapels.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117058
https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
Susan M Cogan @susancogan.bsky.social Historian at Utah State Uni | Researching medieval/early modern grandparents & grandchildren, gardens, gender, material culture. Border collie mom, northwoods girl. 
Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.