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/
Renée Olo @reneeolo.bsky.social Early modernist, cemetery connoisseur, compulsive crafter, and general enthusiast dealing in ecstatic truth.
PhD Candidate in historical musicology @ UPenn Music
Housemate to Poe and Grace
She/They
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Lance Morrison @lanzknecht.bsky.social Musicology in Boston. Hardcore punk, renaissance polyphony, the avantgarde.
Kelly Christensen @katkel.bsky.social Research Software Engineer w/ musicology PhD. Currently data architect with the LostMa ERC 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (knights’ tales in Medieval Europe). Mostly Digital Humanities stuff, computational musicology, and football (Red Devils)
Saagar Asnani @monsieurviola.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Musicology and Medieval Studies at UC Berkeley
Visiting Doctoral Student at École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL
Motets • Dialectology • Historical Sociolinguistics • Codicology
Philly ➡️ Lyon ➡️ Berkeley ➡️ Paris
Violist by night
Cei Kane @ceikane.bsky.social Postgraduate student of medieval history living in Wales with my cats. Interested in early musicology, re-enactment, board gaming and cats.
Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert @msacuthbert.bsky.social Computers, AI, musicology, medieval, Artusimusic.com — longtime MIT prof, now Honolulu, Hawai’i
Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte @musikinbayern.bsky.social #Musikwissenschaft #Musikgeschichte #bayern
#Musicology #Musichistory #Bavaria- R Adam Harper @rougesfoam.bsky.social Musicology, music lecturer at University of Oxford etc (more soon...)
Department of Music @ King's @kingsmusic.bsky.social 🎼 High-level teaching and a flourishing research culture in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies: kcl.ac.uk/music
Christiane Wiesenfeldt @wiesenfeldt.bsky.social #musicology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social; expert on early modern liturgical music (Marian masses etc.), romanticism and concepts of home
Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social Associate Editor and Lead Critic, Washington Classical Review; Founder of Ionarts; Ph.D. in Historical Musicology; Classical Music Fiend; Opera Addict; Baroqueux agréable and Public Musicologist (all views expressed are my own, not those of my employers)
Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social transnational and transregional history | music history | research library | Italy | Mediterranean | Global south | medieval studies | early modern studies | contemporary history | musicology | digital humanities | fellowships & grants
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Jeffrey Dean @jeffreyjdean.bsky.social Music historian (15th–16th centuries), editor/book-designer/typesetter, Quaker; foreign-born naturalized British citizen; ally. He/him/his
NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or …
Fediverse: @JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
David Allinson @davidallinson.bsky.social Early Music specialist
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
Early Music Forum Scotland @emfscotland.bsky.social The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat
Pasadena CA & Washington DC
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social
Views my own.
mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk- A Adam Knight Gilbert @akgilbert.bsky.social Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
Michael Winter @michaelwinter99.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle University. Studying 15th and 16th Century English choral music, reconstruction, and fragmentary music manuscripts.
Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
Angela Mariani @angelamariani.bsky.social I have friends everywhere
Jason Stoessel @jjstoessel.bsky.social Tenacious music historian, coder/geek, lapsed violinist-wannabe viola da gamba player
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
RMA French Music Study Group @rmafrenchmusic.bsky.social Royal Musical Association French Music Study Group
https://rmafrenchmusic.wordpress.com
https://rma.ac.uk
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social The Music Department at The Open University offers distance-learning qualifications in Music, including BA, MA and PhD degrees. https://fass.open.ac.uk/music
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
Emerson Morgan @nemer50.bsky.social Librarian and musicologist. Here to help preserve (musical) evidence of people’s lives. Cat dad.
Daniela Graca @danielanicole.bsky.social ✨nunstorian/suorica✨
PhD candidate in musicology at Cambridge
(almost-)professional nerd about gender, music, bodies, mysticism, and convent culture in 16th-century Italy
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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
Philippe Vendrix @pvendrix.bsky.social Musicology
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
Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com PhD in Music Theory (not sure why I did this lol)
Area of Expertise: EDM, Renaissance (Victoria), Music & Internet Culture, 19th/20th-c American music
Career in RevOps & HubSpot
NH | Millennial | AuDHD
Primarily here to talk UConn/BOS/CIN sports
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
Adam Whittaker @adamwmusic.bsky.social Associate Professor in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Renaissance music theory and music education specialist. 
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social Updates and events from the History of Catholicism research cluster in the Centre for Catholic Studies at @durham-university.bsky.social
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
Janet Dickinson @janetdickinson.bsky.social Historian, tutor. Curious about things, mostly early modern. Teaches for Conted in Oxford and NYU in London. 
Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Studies at RHUL. The Dark Bible (OUP, 2022). She/her
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/
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.
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
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
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
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social 'Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates' covers all aspects of Black British history from the ancient to the contemporary. @ihr.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
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
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
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, focusing on earlier medieval history, c.300-1200. (Usually) Wednesdays at 5.30pm. Est. 1974. https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social intellectual historian • citizen -'old' republican • inspired by erasmus and grotius • member of the academia europaea • erasmianmartin.world
Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. Early English Queens, 850-1000 (https://t.ly/Q395d); Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders (https://t.ly/So2-E); & Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) all out now.
Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social Catholicisms, c.1450-c. 1800 is a book series of @imems.bsky.social Press, an imprint of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Details can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/catholicisms-c-1450-c-1800/
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/
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
London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social Join us for regular seminars at the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social
Organised by postgraduate & early career researchers since 1970 📚
bit.ly/londonmedieval
Jasper Hawkes @jasper-hawkes.bsky.social PhD student at St Mary’s University Twickenham. Working on a thesis examining the diplomatic career of Stephen Gardiner
Engagement Officer @courtstudies.bsky.social
Ruth Butler @ruthdotbutler.bsky.social Day job in heritage education & public engagement with #archives + volunteer roles focusing on #history & #heritage inc Salisbury Cathedral, #SarumChronicle & City Livery. Views my own.
Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social Early modern history - food, domestic spaces, health, hospitality and socialising, landscape. Where history intersects heritage, creativity, and wellbeing
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social Historian by training; textile artist by preference. Usually stitching something inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy. European.
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Isabel Holowaty @iholowaty.bsky.social Interim Head of Humanities Libraries, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. All views my own.
Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.
Hendrikje Carius @h-caria.bsky.social Early Modern History | Digital Humanities |working at Gotha Research Library, University of Erfurt | https://t1p.de/1rk0s
Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social Making over 850 years of the city of York's history accessible to all. Keep up to date with our latest projects and activities here.
Website: https://exploreyork.org.uk/archives/
Blog: http://citymakinghistory.org
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 🤬
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.
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27)
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
views my own
IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social Seminars on British history c. 1500-1650. 5.30pm on Mondays at the IHR, London, and online. All welcome!
Join out mailing list: tudorstuart.seminar@gmail.com
Conor Byrne @executedqueens.bsky.social PhD on executions of C16 queens (Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Jane Grey and Mary Queen of Scots); author of books incl. biographies of Queen Katherine Howard and Lady Katherine Grey. Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society. conorbyrnex.blogspot.co.uk
Author Amy Licence @amylicence.bsky.social Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Euan Roger @euanroger.bsky.social Principal Medieval Records Specialist at The National Archives (UK), Medieval/Tudor historian & archaeology fun as well as #ChaucerLifeRecords. All views my own
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social Tudor History Nerd. I love good music, books, and history. Owner of Adventures of a Tudor Nerd.
www.adventuresofatudornerd.com
Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social Fellow of the Royal Historical Society • HWA Book judge • Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor https://amzn.to/4e499k9 • A Chronicle of Dragon & Cats https://bit.ly/48klsaQ • Events & Talks https://linktr.ee/nathenamin • Welsh-Kashmiri
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
Farnham Castle Trust @farnhamcastletrust.bsky.social Explore 900 years of history at Farnham Castle, Surrey. Former home of the Bishops of Winchester, venue for Tudor monarchs and Civil War military base.
Check our website for opening times and updates https://www.farnham-castle.com/
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social Heavy poster • Tudor history enthusiast • loveable shithead • Islington Greens
(She/her/hers)
https://www.instagram.com/agirlcalledlina_?igsh=YW9ocjVqdzN0cWZm&utm_source=qr
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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/