History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Mareile Pfannebecker @mareilep.bsky.social Renaissance literature and history of thought. Book on the way: Travel Humanism in C17 Literature (MUP)
Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD at UEA working on the medieval literary genealogies of 16th c. Spanish conquest narratives. Co-Founder & President of @memrn.bsky.social Fiercely enthusiastic about museums & public engagement 🏰
https://linktr.ee/clarabchamberlain
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/
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Barbara Bienias @bbienias.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences)
History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology;
early modern epistemology; history of the book
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Millie @millie-ran.bsky.social PhD researcher on the STEMMA project at the University of Galway. Late seventeenth-century person. Mostly writes about miscellanies. Likes music a lot.
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social book history | digital humanities | early modern
Currently a postdoc on DORMEME project at KCL (Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe).
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
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
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England. 
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social history, women’s narratives, petitioning, global socio legal, customary knowledge, sovereignty, early modern/modern
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441
Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social Heraldist by night, web developer by day. Lapsed particle physicist. Occasional palaeographer. Accidental digital humanist. He/him
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She.
Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser // Letterpress amateur // Previous rare books librarian at UMN // MLIS, St Kate's // MA American Studies, Columbia
DC -> NYC -> MPLS -> BC
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
Sparrow F. Alden @sparrowgg.bsky.social Lover, Matriarch, StoryWeaver, StoryMidwife, Tanister, Blue Resister, and Everyone's Great Aunt. 💙🩶💙
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
David L. Orvis @davidorvis.bsky.social Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Whitney Sperrazza, PhD @wsperrazza.bsky.social Texas A&M Assistant Prof. | early modern literature & science | poetics | book history | women writers | histories of gender & sexuality | media archaeology. She/her. Views my own. 
History in High Heels @historyinhighheels.bsky.social Historian, Dunkin Lover, Headband Enthusiast
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social Early Modernist, postdoc with @stemma.bsky.social, manuscripts, poetry, transmission
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
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.
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
Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social She/her. Early modernist. Postdoc on @stemma.bsky.social at @uniogalway.bsky.social. PhD on Petition. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
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.
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Christine Sukic @christinesukic.bsky.social Professeur de littérature anglaise à l’université de Reims Champagne Ardenne/Professor of early modern English studies at university of Reims
Gabriel Schenk @gabrielschenk.bsky.social Teaches fantasy | DPhil in Arthurian Literature | Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature Committee | 🏳️🌈 He/him
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
@lutchique.bsky.social @lutchique.bsky.social english teacher by training, degree in literature, Shakespeare studies, trying to figure out my place amidst this tempest of absurdity
Vladimir Makarov @vmakarov.name Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature
Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Sarah Neville @effectdefective.bsky.social Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else. 
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social Archivist and Records Manager, Balliol College, Oxford. All opinions here are very much my own.
Curtis @curtdubya.bsky.social Nerdy Writer and Editor | Speculative Fiction Scholar | Published at Reactor Mag, Tolkien Studies, Journal of Tolkien Research & more | Content & SEO Consultant @curtisweyant.com- S @shawngaffney.bsky.social @shawngaffney.bsky.social
@earreadthis.bsky.social @earreadthis.bsky.social 
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
Ann-Maria Walsh @annmariawalsh.bsky.social Early modernist, UCD; currently editing 17th-century Boyle women’s letters; interested in epistolary culture, women’s manuscript writings - diaries, accounts, wills, and also book ownership.
Book: Four Courts Press. Views own. She/her. 
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Càtedra UB d'Estudis del Renaixement Molins de Rei @crmrub.bsky.social BlueSky oficial de la Càtedra de la Universitat de Barcelona d'Estudis del Renaixement de Molins de Rei.
#earlymodern #Renaissance
📩catedra.renaixement@ub.edu
https://instagram.com/crmrub/
https://www.ub.edu/catedres/ca/catedres/catedra-ub-destudi
Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social Conference on Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain at the University of Warwick on 10-11 June 2025 ✨ Email any questions to EarlyModern2025@gmail.com & find us @ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/socialidentity
Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social Come to Somerville and learn to change the world 🌍 Proudly different since 1879 👩 One of the first University Colleges of Sanctuary 🧡 Home to @oxindiacentre.bsky.social
Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD @fepoulsen.bsky.social Danish/French 🇪🇺 intellectual historian 🇺🇦
🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net
🎓PhD History, European University Institute
🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen
🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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/
Bernhard Huss @bernhardhuss.bsky.social Prof FU Berlin, Director of Center for Italian Studies. Italian literature, early modern, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Quattro and Cinquecento. Socio straniero dell‘Accademia dell‘Arcadia, Accademico corrispondente estero dell‘Accademia della Crusca
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
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/
Sophie Floate @librarybodle.bsky.social Rare books cataloguer at University of Oxford
The Latin Programme @thelatinprogramme.bsky.social The Latin Programme #viafacilis. A UK charity working in state schools to improve literacy through Latin and storytelling. Latin and Classics is for everyone!
www.thelatinprogramme.co.uk
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Cats of Oxford @catsofoxford.bsky.social Our social media empire grows to another new outlet.
Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays
Jacob Tootalian @jtootalian.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social I read a lot of links; I post a lot of links. Mostly special collections, archives, libraries, museums, history, & technology. (#GLAM).
I teach in an MLIS program at [redacted]. Does not represent my employer.
#RBMS26
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
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
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Katherine Gillen @katherinegillen.bsky.social Prof at Texas A&M-San Antonio | Free Palestine, Sudan, and DRC | Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva: https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
@erendek.bsky.social @erendek.bsky.social PhD, early modernist, book historian, paleographer.
Holly Pickett @hollypickett.bsky.social ❤️: Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion, letterpress, linocut
Department Head & Prof of English at W&L