Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social Eye on Digital China 🇨🇳💬📱 Chinese social trends, online media & digital culture. See @manyapan on X for my most recent updates 🙏
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
molly @mollybdillon.bsky.social Clumsy Feral Librarian F89
Joh Peccadille @peccadille.bsky.social Post-doctorante à l'Institut national d'Histoire de l'art & chargée de cours à l'école du Louvre
Histoire culturelle & urbaine. Estampe, XVIIIe, Humanités numériques.
HAL : https://cv.hal.science/johanna-daniel/
Carnet : https://ig.hypotheses.org/
Juliet Sperling @julietsperling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Washington. Author of Tactile Sensibilities: Seeing Through Print in American Art (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Spring 2027).
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winner
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social Active since 1993, we publish 1,500 reviews annually thanks to the volunteer service of our review editors and reviewers. All reviews are freely available around the world to increase readership and citation. https://networks.h-net.org/search-reviews
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
Eleanor Glewwe @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social SFF author | Linguist at Grinnell College | she/her
eleanorglewwe.com
Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social a subby incorporeal dyke person *friend of grace* she/it tma. drummer. will bake you anything if you mail me ingredients. the a stands for autistic. horny ghost and grim connoisseur. call me Mar. 18+
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
@aaronfitzgerald.bsky.social @aaronfitzgerald.bsky.social
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social Award-winning TTRPG performer, unaward-winning game designer, writer, rogue archivist
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♾️ {they/she}
Star Trek account: https://bsky.app/profile/wheregnomeannegoes.bsky.social
I make so much stuff: linktr.ee/annethegnome
Email: annethegnome@gmail.com
Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
@clirnews.bsky.social @clirnews.bsky.social CLIR forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.
Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social linguist, classicist & medievalist. lecturer at Central European University in Vienna. into languages, history of ancient & medieval sexualities, literature, beer, wine, sexy beards. bănățan. he/him 🏳️🌈
https://tinyurl.com/49w6yvdv
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener, York resident, views my own
@ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social she/they • professor • person • MEDIEVAL ROBOTS & NECESSARY INVENTIONS (coming out soon)
Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Liz Emrich-Rougé @e-emrichrouge.bsky.social Independent Art Historian, Art Educator, Museum Professional, Lover of 川菜
http://e-emrichrouge.owlstown.net
kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social language enjoyer, he/him
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show 🌲🌫️
All that is solid melts into air
youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social Assistant Prof (Teaching) @UVA 明清文学
Charlottesville, VA
The long and unruly Chinese 17th century
‘21 National Book Award Finalist
scholar poet translator farm boy
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Nicholas Walmsley @hulegu.bsky.social Gentleman at Large | Astana, Tokyo| I do what I enjoy and enjoy what I do | opinions do not represent employer &c. | IG: ngwalmsley
“Some constipated pedant who will take an eternity to get anything done”
new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social new words {press} is dedicated to the elevation of trans & gender-expansive voices. our focus is poetry, experimental poetry, & hybrid work. we publish a journal, chapbooks, books, & special projects.
Clara🏳️⚧️🌈🩷 @clarab26.bsky.social Trans woman who is bi, loves playing the bass guitar, reading, rugby and great music, road trips and travelling to beautiful places in UK.
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Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social stately, plump Buck Mulligan
@ddsanders.bsky.social @ddsanders.bsky.social
Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
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
Marika Keblusek @feinzeit.bsky.social feinzeit
early modernist / book & art historian / lover of libraries, archives, gardens & museums / associate prof Leiden University / PI NWO-OC Large project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks, 1550-1700" / she-her
Heiko Droste @heikodroste.bsky.social Historian, gardener, interested in the Arts, movies, nature.
English, Svenska, Deutsch.
"Der Niederrheiner weiß nix, kann aber alles erklären." Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Anonymous accounts without face-pic and a fake name are considered bad style.
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.- A Anne Coldiron anniebherenow @anniebherenow.bsky.social Recently retired professor of renaissance/early modern and late-medieval lit; and book history. Exhausted. Relaxing. Reading. Playing piano. Gardening. More to follow.
Anne Gerritsen @annegerritsen.bsky.social historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
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
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social - - - never not going the way of myspace - - -
art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
same id at insta, mastodon.social
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Tryntje Helfferich @tryntje.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Eli Bernstein @elibernstein.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | The Queen's College, Oxford | c16 literary and intellectual culture | Erasmus to Montaigne
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Planning a new project on emotions and the environment. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Jeroen Puttevils @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social Historicus, late Middeleeuwen, loterijen, hoe keken mensen in het verleden naar de toekomst?
Historian, Late Middle Ages, lotteries, interested in how people in the past perceived the future. University of Antwerp & Centre for Urban History
David Neufeld @dyneuf.bsky.social Historian of Anabaptists and archives @uofwaterloo.bsky.social
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
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.
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 ☕️
Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
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.
J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .(all views my own)
Guillaume Coatalen @gcoatalen.bsky.social Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern East Central Europe, Czech and Polish, Global Renaissances, Utopia, History of the Future, World History, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Johann Petitjean @johannpetitjean.bsky.social Historian with a severe addiction to the news. Passionately interested in all forms of writing. Media | Communication | Intelligence | Diplomacy | Public Health. Italy and the Mediterranean, but in Poitiers. Proud father, football fan and graffiti lover
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social (Music) Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.
Mors et Amor @mors-amor.bsky.social Exploring art, faith, economy and politics of the Low Countries during the renaissance era. Explorando las artes, la fe, la economía y la política en Flandes en la época del Renacimiento
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Plants and Plantagenets @andplantagenets.bsky.social Becky Stockton, J.D. Historian & researcher; herbs, history & how they combine. Jacquetta of Luxembourg stan. Cat mom. She/her/hers
plantsandplantagenets.com
Josh Reid @joshreid.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies, ETSU
Spenser, Milton, Romance Epic, Translation Studies
General Editor, The Manchester Spenser
Book Review Editor, The Spenser Review
https://etsu.academia.edu/JoshuaReid
Aonghas MacCoinnich @aonghas-macc.bsky.social Gàidhealtachd, Eachdraidh, cànan. Highlands, Gaelic, History.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/aonghasmaccoinnich/
Duncan Hardy @hrehistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor. 🇬🇧🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸. Holy Roman Empire & other medieval/early modern history. utk.academia.edu/DuncanHardy
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or employer.
André Krischer @andrekrischer.bsky.social Historiker Frühe Neuzeit / Early Modern History / Uni Freiburg / works on treason / legal and political procedures / urban history / postwar (1648ff)
Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Lover of early modern history, nuns, cats, French fries, and the Nats. Hater of fascism and anything diminishing the humanity of those around us.
Alex Fisher @oecolampadius.bsky.social I'm a musicologist, specializing in sound studies and religion in early modern Germany, and like to follow stuff about #music, #musicology, #photography, #cycling, #astronomy, #chess, and lots else.
Henning P. Jürgens @lobwasser.bsky.social Historiker, bes. Religionsgeschichte: Frieden, Predigten, Polen, Ostfriesland, Druckgeschichte und ein paar andere. Early Modernist. Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Hier aber privat.
Fabrice aka Curious Crocodile @curiouscrocodile.bsky.social Historian, PhD. Reformation & Republics in Early Modern Times. Book lover, crocodile friend & whisky enthusiast.
Private account, opinions my own.
Corinna Ehlers @corinnaehlers.bsky.social Grenzgängerin Theologie/Bibliothek @ixtheo.bsky.social.
Außerdem: Christentumsgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte, Editionen, Alte Drucke.
Fediverse: corinnaehlers@openbiblio.social.
Privater Account.
Austin Collins @acollins16c.bsky.social Teach@Tübingen postdoc, 2024-25.
PhD Durham Uni & Erfurt Uni.
Historian of early modern France & Europe - cities, space, religion, monarchy, ceremonies, religious wars. (Angoulême, Charlesfort, Fort Caroline, France Antarctique, Lyon, Sens).
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Rian Hagebeuk @rianhagebeuk.bsky.social Independent Reformation / Early Modern History researcher, with a special interest in printing and early Latin-Vulgar language dictionaries
Co-author of "The Subtelty of Witches. A Reformation Era Cipher Mystery"
Also: Cats.
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php