Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Roslin Kerr @roslinak.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Glasgow, currently researching 17th century constitutional history.
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.
Chris R. Langley @chrislangley.bsky.social Early Modern Historian at the Open University
https://profiles.open.ac.uk/christopher-langley
Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race.
Editor of H-Sicily.
Assistant Professor of History.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
@emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social
scot17thcentury.bsky.social @scot17thcentury.bsky.social PGR-led research group focused on Scottish 17th century studies. Hosting a symposium event at the University of Glasgow on 11 June 2026.
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
@clairemcnulty.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social
Michelle M. @michellemabelle.bsky.social Multitasker. #TeamGeorge
From Dublin, Ireland.
Mark Lewisohn @marklewisohn.bsky.social Writer of the Beatles biographical history trilogy All These Years. The first volume, Tune In, is out. Volume 2 is taking an age but still progressing steadily. www.marklewisohn.net
Carey 🍁 @careyh.bsky.social Beatles, aviation, travel, looking forward. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 mostly Canadian 🏒
Your Own Personal Beatles @personalbeatles.bsky.social A podcast with Jack Pelling and Robin Allender in which we chat to guests about the greatest band of them all.
Series 4 out now.
https://podfollow.com/your-own-personal-beatles
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
SJMEditing @sjmediting.bsky.social Developmental editor for humanities scholars, specialized in historical subjects and working with non-native English speakers. I help secure grants & create impactful publications.
Brown PhD, former Assoc. Prof Art History.
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Texas A&M, British Atlantic, Religion, Revolutions, Jacobitism, Politics, and Generational Memory
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
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/
The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast @footballweekly.bsky.social ⚽ Occasionally on point analysis and antics from the world's leading football podcast
🎙️ @maxrushden.bsky.social and @barryglendenning.bsky.social plus special guests.
🔗 linktr.ee/footballweekly
Scottish Church History Society @scotchurchhist.bsky.social Society promoting interest in Scottish church history. 'Scottish Church History' journal published by EUP. Join our mailing list - eepurl.com/duJJc5
https://www.scottishchurchhistory.org/
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social @ucllaws.bsky.social
@11KBW
#EASTWESTSTREET
#THERATLINE
#THELASTCOLONY
#38LONDRESSTREET
Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social Tweeting all things #ScottishHistory. Journal: SHR via
@EdinburghUP
https://scottishhistoricalreview.org
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Archie Rhind-Tutt @archiert1.bsky.social Freelance | On-the-ground Bundesliga reporter for ESPN.| All views mine
Pat @swottypat.bsky.social SGSAH funded PhD researcher in early modern Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
I've been known to knit. Whiles I cook. I sometimes take pictures. But mostly I read.
Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 42 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
Christine Feldman-Barrett @feldmanbarrett.bsky.social Mod scholar, youth culture historian, Beatles expert, American academic in Australia. Author of A Women's History of the Beatles (Bloomsbury 2021).
Dr Edwin Sheffield @edwin-history.bsky.social PhD in History from @uofglasgow.bsky.social: 'The MacKenzie Earls of Seaforth & the Stuart Dynasty, 1651-1719' | Historical researcher for the Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland & the UK | Primary Teacher | North Carolinian in Scotland
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Grant Schreiber @grantschreiber.bsky.social PhD from the University of Guelph studying the history of post-Reformation charitable works in urban Scotland and England.
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
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.
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.
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
View our social media commenting policy here: https://cup.org/38e0Gv2
@socforrefstudies.bsky.social @socforrefstudies.bsky.social
Kathryn Marshalek @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social Early Modern Europe | Dynastic Politics, English Catholicism, and Arminianism in the 1620s
https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2026.10207
https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf050
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social Head of Research at Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PhD in archaeological glass science. Consultant in museum and heritage collections care. Trustee at Tarbat Discovery Centre.
Interested in all things #archaeology #museums #glass #Scotland #heritage
Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Kirkwall Tailors Project; Hammermen; Baxters; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Laura Mair @lauramair.bsky.social Modern Scottish History Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social Scotland's national refugee charity. Celebrating diversity and raising awareness about issues faced by refugees. Co-ordinators of #RefugeeFestScot.
https://linktr.ee/scottishrefugeecouncil
Brigitta Schvéd @brigittaschved.bsky.social Historian exploring early modern politics & ideas ▪︎ PhD (University of Pécs) ▪︎ Based in Budapest, researcher @lupspolitics.bsky.social ▪︎ Editor @esprit-jeps.bsky.social & @ceraejournal.bsky.social
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Montana Democrats @montanademocrats.org Official Account of the Montana Democratic Party (MT Dems). We are the Party of the People — dedicated to securing life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for every Montanan.
More info: montanademocrats.org
Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Dr. Pelayo Fernández García @pelayo-fergar.bsky.social #earlymodern historian. PhD in History, PhD in Humanistic Research, FRHistS. Interested in cultural, war and diplomatic History, also network analysis. Early Modern History Substitute Professor in @udc.gal (He/him).
http://es.linkedin.com/in/pelayofergar
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Alan MacDonald @estaitis.bsky.social Early modern Scotland, environment, agriculture, government, cider-making, green/left pessimist
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.
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w
Charlotte-Rose Millar @charlotte-millar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, works on supernatural belief, the history of emotions and print culture. Book in progress: Ghostly Emotions: Space, Satan, and the Supernatural in post-Reformation England
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social A Wellcome Trust funded project at the University of Manchester exploring an environmental approach to the history of sleep care.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/
Micheline White @michelinewhite.bsky.social Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
Heather Nicholas @heathernicholas.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University researching George Whitefield and Evangelicalism in 18th Century England.
Project coordinator of Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500-1850
Tutor in Humanities at Aberystwyth University
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society | Community promoting interdisciplinarity & fellowship among students | Run by University of Edinburgh students
Pam Ritchie @hicks905.bsky.social Historian, co-founder of TannerRitchie Publishing, and author of a book on Mary of Guise. 🇨🇦
Rex Factor @rexfactor.bsky.social A history podcast reviewing kings and queens in history.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses
Natalie M. Smith @nataliesmith.bsky.social Associate lecturer at @mhafhs.bsky.social; Rettig Fellow. History PhD on the Swedish Empire & identity from St Andrews. Swedish & Sami History, history of empire, science and knowledge. Also expect baking, crocheting and cats 🐈
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
Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social PhD | Early Modern Literature | Ghost Stories| Ballads and other Cheap Print | First Year Writing |
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her