TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
KCL Chaplaincy @kcl-chaplaincy.bsky.social We are a multi-faith department at King's College London who seek to create a welcoming, caring, and inclusive community for King's staff and students through hospitality, running a variety of events, and offering pastoral & spiritual support.
Yuqi “Anna” Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
Vanessa R Barcelos @vanessabcs.bsky.social English PhD candidate, University of Miami
Renaissance literature, witchcraft, gender, and Critical Race Studies
Hassana Moosa @hassanamoosa.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature, University of Cape Town | Interested in Racial Slavery and Islamophobia in Early Modern English Drama (Shakespeare and Co.) |🧕🏽🇿🇦 she/her
Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social Early Modern History network based in Scotland & the North of England, but expanding worldwide - Bringing together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers interested in all things Early Modern.
Join us here: https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
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.
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Uni of Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor of IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Book forthcoming with MUP.
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
@alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Georgina Crespi @georgiecrespi.bsky.social PhD student @ UniofReading: Disobedience within Medieval & Renaissance Drama.
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Malmö universitet/Malmö University @mau.se ⭐️Research news from Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
📚Social sciences, humanities, medicine, technology and natural sciences.
🌏Website: mau.se/en
📝Posts in English and Swedish.
Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne ✨
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/seminars-reading-groups/early-modern-circle
(acct run by@paigedonaghy.bsky.social)
COST Action 23137: PCPSce @pcpsce.bsky.social Welcome to the official page for COST Action 23137:
Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)
Büşra Dede @busradede.bsky.social Dr.
~ Early Modern History of Science~
Autonomous University of Barcelona
~ Cartography🗺
Royal Historical Society Associate Fellow
Ellen Werner @ellenwerner.bsky.social Research associate in environmental histories at the University of Manchester | PhD research on "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at the University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social climate fictions 1500-1800 & speculation, postdoc at oxford. first book project on "writing performance: early modern drama and the work of interpretation." other things on intention, non-performance, plot, mistakes, pig bladders.
https://patrickdurdel.org
Jack Newman @jack-newman.com Project Leader Victoria County History 'The Making of Maidstone'. Associate Fellow @ihr.bsky.social and Honorary Fellow @memsunikent.bsky.social. Formerly @ Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities & Literary Criticism.
https://www.jack-newman.com/
Leon Hughes @leonhughes.bsky.social PhD researching prisons and the experience of imprisonment during the French Revolution • Trinity College Dublin
How-to History @howtohistory.bsky.social Instruction and information for historians. Into your inbox every month | https://how-to-history.com/ | Edited by Joe Saunders & Anna Cusack
KCLA Alumni @kclaalumni.bsky.social
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
King's English @kingsenglish.bsky.social Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the Department of English in @kingsartshums.bsky.social.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #KingsDLLC
Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social Historian of the 17th C. Americas: environment, plants, failed colonies, maps and more. Lover of travel, languages, stationery, and dresses. Wyoming isn't real unless you want to come visit me.
MEMICC @memicc.bsky.social Medieval and Early-Modern Iberian & Colonial Cultures
Victoria Munn @victoriamunn.bsky.social Post-doctoral art historian, studying hair, dyes, colour and beauty in early modern Europe. Champion of cats and dogs, historical women artists and recipe studies.
Vanille Reintjes @vanillepr.bsky.social PhD student in early modern literature at SEARCH (University of Strasbourg @unistra.fr) & @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social (Université Paris Cité) | Exploring portrayals of ugliness in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 🌈🪞
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
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.
William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | 📀
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
KCL Alumni @kclalumni.bsky.social The official King's College London alumni Bluesky account. #ForeverKings🦁
Farren Yero @feyero.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Lehigh U. health/disease in Latin America & the Caribbean. writing: ATLANTIC ANTIDOTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST VACCINE
Richard Coulton @rxcoulton.bsky.social I research eighteenth-century literature and culture and teach English + Digital Humanities at QMUL. Graduate supervision principally around history of gardening and plant humanities.
Alessandro Arcangeli @sandroarca55.bsky.social Cultural historian researching on early modern dance, leisure, passions, gesture and dreams. European liberal democrat. Non-Jewish Zionist
https://univr.academia.edu/AlessandroArcangeli
Jon Fitzgibbons @jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
Jérôme Brillaud @jeromebrillaud.bsky.social My research is on early modern kitchen gardens in France and England. Associate Prof/SL at U. of Manchester. Certified permaculturist.
Dr Mark Shearwood @markshearwood.bsky.social Early Modern Historian, looking at loyalty, Identity, and Religion in the late 17th century. Glorious Revolution, Monmouth Rebellion tour guide, Golden Retriever owner,
Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford
https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth, lecturer @MacEwan U, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jenni Merovuo @jmerovuo.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern, #borderlands, #belonging, #power, and #peace.
Teaching #palaeography
Scream like a curler
suomi🇫🇮/ English
Kate Allan @katefallan.bsky.social Early modern women’s poetry, scientific writing, and alchemy.
Troy Osborne @troydozzy.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern religion, especially Anabaptism in the Low Countries. Kansan transplant in Ontario
Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social Historian of Knowledge, Encounters, and the Mediterranean | Working on migrant artisans and cross-cultural intermarriage, 1500-1800 | Warburg Yates Fellow 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Bern 2026
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Christopher Dillon @drcrdillon.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany at KCL
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Cameron Whiteside @whitesidious.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Sheffield, researching the Commission on Fees and Monarchical Paternalism in early modern England.
King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social Bringing together the diverse community in artificial intelligence (AI) at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | kcl.ac.uk/ai | Contact: ai-institute@kcl.ac.uk
Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social PhD candidate Binghamton University • Editor @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social • News Editor, @memorients.bsky.social • Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
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/
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social Academic and heritage professional • Working on travelling players in the Midlands • Early modern drama, politics, religion • PhD • FHEA • Tutoring services (A-Level and up) on Tutorperch: https://l1nq.com/o4g75mp
Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social
Evan Bourke @evanbourke.bsky.social Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
Sian Hibbert @sianhibbert.bsky.social PhD University of York: early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social music + art in early modern England | Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | creative industries | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Purdue - early modern Spain, women and diplomacy, social network analysis, aristocratic women and political power – and probably something about equitable inheritance.
https://caroline-fish.com/.
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.- K @kevinkilleen.bsky.social @kevinkilleen.bsky.social
Dr. Niall Allsopp @niallallsopp.bsky.social Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.
Eventyr @eventyra.bsky.social Histoire franco-anglaise / Guerre & Diplomatie / Renaissance / Droit du travail
Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social Lover of early modern drama and of Dorothy Dunnett. Interested in Bess of Hardwick, the literary culture of the Cavendish family, and classic detective fiction.
Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social 🎬 Filmmakers combining unlimited curiosity & meticulous research
🪜 Visit EXPLORING ART HISTORY: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/
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Sierra Carter @dramaticletters.bsky.social they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time
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