Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com
Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
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.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views 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.
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
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
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 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) 🌈
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
linktr.ee/cejacobson
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
To sign up for newsletters, please visit leocadogan.com
@queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social come on
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
Colleen Barrett @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.- L Elizabeth Savage @leusavage.bsky.social Old books, old prints, old printing presses
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Heather Cole @heathercole.bsky.social Head of Collections, Teaching and Research at the University of Manchester Library/John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains. 
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own. 
Jonathan Kearns @bibliodeviant.bsky.social Rare Books & Manuscripts, secrets and stories and scrabbling under rocks. Unbearable but occasionally entertaining. He/Him. 
Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social Parent, librarian, public servant, person in Boston
Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Rare books in Philadelphia.
Awarding the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize since 2017.
Use books as bees use flowers.
honeyandwaxbooks.com
Molly Brown @mollybrrown.bsky.social Reference & Outreach Archivist (the ‘grammer behind the curtain for @NU_Archives) | empathy through history | opinions & exclamation points are my own | she/hers
Sian Prosser @prossian.bsky.social Medievalist now managing an astronomy library and archive. 
Elisabeth B @decorporis.bsky.social Rare book librarian in the Midwest, tea and fountain pen enthusiast, cat lover.
Jay Sylvestre @oldslyboots.bsky.social Ice cream maker, rare books curator, papercut artist, assumes that puns are funny automatically
Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social Rare materials cataloger, contains multitudes.🐍🦇
Brian Cassidy @briancassidy.bsky.social Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
Peter Sachs Collopy @collopy.net they/he | collopy.net
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן.
Immanentize the eschaton.
Another world is possible.
Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
Sara @tinyredbook.bsky.social Correct opinion haver.
Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social Book lover and bookseller with focus on medicine and science. 
Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social 📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
🏳️🌈 Proud Trustee of Newbury Pride.
Abbie W. @librarianmouse.bsky.social Librarian by training. Early Modernist by experience. KCL DSD PhD candidate (nuclear info knowledge networks). Techie by osmosis. Historian, foodie & baseball fan always. Team #HistSci Purveyor of my own opinions. She/her/hey you.
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Amy Leigh @rarebkcat.bsky.social tea drinker, amateur metalsmith, and rare books cataloger. she/her
Yersinia pestis @yersiniapestis.bsky.social Rare-books cataloger. Dotty middle-aged cat lady. YIMBY. Fucking bitch. Jeopardy! silver medalist. She/her.
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
Scott Clemons @gsclemons.bsky.social "When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Desiderius Erasmus
Noah Smutz @noahsmutz.bsky.social Based out of St. Louis
he/him/his
www.nsconservation.com
J.P. Ascher @jpsa.bsky.social The massage is the message
@jahillbooks.bsky.social @jahillbooks.bsky.social Booksellers in NYC
Website: https://www.jonathanahill.com/
Emma-Louise Hill @hillemmalouise.bsky.social Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
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
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social Library worker
mark funke @funkebooks.bsky.social Rare books cared for, researched, and placed in good homes. I brake for bibliographies. See our website funkebooks.com for new arrivals.
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.
Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social Vivant (sans bon). Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. Every story deserves to be heard. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Rebecca Parmer @rlprm.bsky.social Director of Biodiversity and Natural History Libraries, Harvard. Formerly director, Winterthur Library. Collaborator, listener, pie-enthusiast. Perpetually curious. Usually found outdoors.
Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Program chair for the Aldus Society, book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL.
https://joliebraun.com/
Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
William Claspy @wclaspy.bsky.social Director of Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University. Woodworker. Trout fisherman.
Erika Giddens @egiddens.bsky.social rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
Angela White @crankyapricot.bsky.social Encapsulated in mylar. Archivist and historian, living with/dying from recurrent chordoma and low grade BAP1-associated mesothelioma. Growing tumors is my BAP1 mutant superpower. Asexual/agender, she/her. Vegan. 😷
Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social Medieval and early modern manuscripts, books, libraries and archives
Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Plus local resistance stuff.
https://buffaloresearch.start.page
#BuffaloResearch
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
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Juli @julimarie.bsky.social Books, gardening, and miscellany Opinions mine and subject to change.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Phil Tromans @philiptromans.bsky.social Library Support Assistant and trainee librarian at Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Interested in book history, bibliography, rare books and material culture. PhD.
C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social PhD@UToronto CMS. Palaeography, codicology, forensics skeptic. Also Chaucer and video games. Wikipedia editor (AMA). AuDHD. 🏴🏳️⚧️
Also @cemhend@scholar.social and cemhend on birdsite
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
(pretty much always a library in my books)
http://www.rflong.com/
https://www.patreon.com/c/RuthFrancesLongJessicaThorne
Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social archivar/archivist, historiker/historian, latinist #archivCH #fridaynightatthearchives #viedarchiviste #AarbergBisZweisimmen
Mastodon @th_schmid@openbiblio.social
Instagram @th_schmid
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.