Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
ssnci.org
Marina Inì @marinaini.bsky.social Early Modern Historian of the Mediterranean with a focus on Italy, quarantine, architecture, funerary rituals and religious minorities.
https://www.marinaini.com/
John Freeman @johnffree.bsky.social Historian with an interest in all things Baltic, as well as early modern maritime, colonial and global history. Cutting down words is my vocation. Gets excited at football and fun maps.
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social Music historian at UMass Amherst | bit.ly/evanmaccarthy
Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments
Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell)
Coined #HerBook
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
The Edward Worth Library, Dublin @edwardworthlib.bsky.social The Edward Worth Library is an early eighteenth-century collection. We are based in Dr Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin 8.
Registered Charity: RCN 20066093
www.edwardworthlibrary.ie
Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social Promoting the study of economic and social history in Ireland since 1970.
www.eshsi.org
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.
Welsh Academic Press @welshacademicpress.bsky.social Wales' premier independent academic publisher since 1994.
History & Politics (🏴🏴🇮🇪)•Nordic & Baltic Studies•Medieval Celtic Studies•
Public Affairs•Education•
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
"Welsh in Identity, International in Outlook"
acutfitz.bsky.social @acutfitz.bsky.social Hi. I'm Kevin. Writer: history-culture anti-racism decolonial transnational peacebuilding. Tutoring services and materials for English as foreign language and college preparation for liberal arts.
Ann O’Sullivan @osullivanannie.bsky.social Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin 🍉 @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
Sarah M @skittlebrauu.bsky.social Ireland
johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social @johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile) @amberflood.bsky.social History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution.
I won't bore you with my other interests.
She/her
🇮🇪
@dianaelenap.bsky.social @dianaelenap.bsky.social
Róisín Doherty McBride @roisinmcbride.bsky.social
Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
MICAppLinguistics @micapplinguistics.bsky.social
Online/blended GradDip/MA/PhD in Applied Linguistics at
@micireland.bsky.social
Programme information, FAQs and application details at http://www.mic.ie/PhDAL and http://www.mic.ie/MAAL.
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
MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network sponsored by CHASE DTP (AHRC). We provide a supportive and relaxed space for academic collaboration between postgraduate students. DM us and join the mailing list!
https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social Founded in September 1995, the Society for Court Studies is the leading international academic society for the examination of royal and princely courts and households from antiquity to the present. https://courtstudies.org/
https://linktr.ee/courtstudies
@fmrsi.bsky.social @fmrsi.bsky.social
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Natalie Tolentino @fragmentali.bsky.social PhD Researcher University of Kent & Canterbury Cathedral. Pragmatic and Prejudicial Reuse of Medieval Manuscripts in the 16th c. (+) Digital Humanist. Archivist. Librarian. Palaeographer. Runologist. Memory Studies. Video Game Enthusiast.
Thomas Cummins @thoscummins.bsky.social Soil Science at University College Dublin, archaeology and environmental resource management, urban and anthropogenic soils. Committee member @sssireland.bsky.social
Repost means I've read it
And a little budburst survey (since 1994) #phenology
Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com 🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award | 🏳️🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride | 🇵🇸 Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/limerickslife
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Bridget Heal @bheal.bsky.social Early modern German history. Currently the Thirty Years War. And cats. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/bmh6
Bring Your Own Hammer @bringyourownhammer.bsky.social Bring Your Own Hammer brings historians and composers together to create new and original song material based on historical sources.
Sonia Llewellyn @soniallewellyn.bsky.social Librarian at the Devon and Exeter Institution. Interested in libraries, archives, special collections, books, history.
The Devon and Exeter Institution @dexinst.bsky.social Thriving Independent Historic Library and Educational Charity, welcoming new members of all ages. Find out more at: http://linktr.ee/DExInstitution
Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social Prof and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
(Dr) Tat Zhukova @duchessofdiplomacy.bsky.social Historian of EM Diplomacy & Material Culture
Working on Encounters: Early Modern Diplomacy in 50 Objects, 1500-1800 @RoutledgePress
English, University of Limerick @ulenglish.bsky.social The wonderful English Lit and Creative Writing section at the University of Limerick!
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/
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Breandán Ó Cróinín @ocroininb.bsky.social
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
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Ciara McCaffrey @ciaramccaffrey.bsky.social University Librarian & Director of Library & Information Services at the University of Limerick. Current chair of CONUL: Consortium of National & University Libraries in Ireland
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
@laurapurcell.bsky.social @laurapurcell.bsky.social - E Eleanor Giraud @eleanorgiraud.bsky.social Musicologist & medievalist, she/her, Course director of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song @IWorldAcademy, @UL - views my own.
@ulhistory.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social
Gordon Ó Riain @gordonoriain.bsky.social Ollamh, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-staff-and-scholars/celt-prof-gordon-o-riain/
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies @ralahinecentre.bsky.social @ University of Limerick, Ireland
https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/ralahinecentre
https://pure.ul.ie/en/organisations/ralahine-centre-for-utopian-studies/persons/
Book series : https://www.peterlang.com/series/rus
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
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.
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Mallory SoRelle @profsorelle.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Duke Sanford | Author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection | Aspiring Renaissance woman
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.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social historian of early modern philosophy at UMass Amherst, researches philosophical debates about slavery in 17th and 18th century Europe and America, https://websites.umass.edu/jjorati/
Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
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
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.- P pattie @punchpattie.bsky.social librarian
"own notions"
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie
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.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
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.
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
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)
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
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.
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.
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
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