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/
Lewis Roberts @lewisproberts.bsky.social Teaching literature at Trinity College, Cambridge https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people//Lewis.Roberts
Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social Hand-picked lines from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, tweeted in random order. A bot by @hapax.bsky.social, powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
Travis Knapp @tknapp.bsky.social Erstwhile early modernist. Current instructional designer.
Jonas Gardsby @jonas-gardsby.bsky.social Writer of and historian of literary essays.
Writing a weird book on Montaigne, experimental living, banned books, and spies.
Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Charlotte Dodds @charlottedodds.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD candidate @ University of York 🦆 Researching children’s sensory history & education in early modern England/Scotland!
Damiano Bardelli @damianobardelli.bsky.social historian, visiting fellow @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond · work & poverty · sociability & cosmopolitanism · Switzerland<>Europe
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
James Harriman-Smith @jharrimansmith.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
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.
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
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
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
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
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social 
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
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
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
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.
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.
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/
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
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).
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Dr Adrea Johnson @adrearj.bsky.social Early Modern Historian - poetry, theology, & women’s writing | Teach @UFV & Lecturer @ Regent College | Fond of 📚 & 🐝| @adrearj 🇨🇦
Suzanne McDonald @smcdonald.bsky.social Theology prof seeking to live more fully into the glorious truths I am called to teach. If I'm not in the here and now you'll find me in the 17th C. Projects on George Herbert (profile pic) and Rev. Henry Fairfax (Sir Tom's uncle, hence the other pic)
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
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.
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social Independent scholar. I'm not in academia.
Comparativist.
Former staff member, Princeton U. Library.
Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
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
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
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.
Marta Garcia @martamagriet.bsky.social Connecting businesses with people, locally • Previously Director of Strategy & Planning @TUDNUSA • Emmy Award Winning Producer
Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social Among other hats, prof emeritus Eastern Illinois University. Historian of early modern plotting, sermonizing, politicking, gossiping, printing, and detecting before detectives. Mainly British archipelago.
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
🔗 bryanwaterman.org
Missing me here search the WFMU comments board.
Brennig @brennigjones.com UK-based novelist. Spaniels, fast bikes, music. Campaigner. Ex forces, 🏴
Web: https://brennigjones.com
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 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Ghislain Tranié @ghislaintranie.bsky.social Président de SIEFAR @siefar.bsky.social
Première modernité XVIe-XVIIe s.
Histoire religieuse et sociale
Humanités environnementales
Imaginaires culturels du XVIe siècle
...entre Lyon, Quercy et Rouergue !
Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social Professor of agrarian history, SLU, Sweden
Traveling in space and time analyzing inequality, material wealth, mills(!), and the effect of enclosures.
Uppsala and Lund, born and raised in Norrköping
https://www.slu.se/en/profilepages/s/patrick-svensson/
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian | Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026 | Project Officer for National Literacy Trust - views my own
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.- 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.
Corinna Ehlers @corinnaehlers.bsky.social Grenzgängerin Theologie/Bibliothek @ixtheo.bsky.social.
Außerdem: Christentumsgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte, Editionen, Alte Drucke.
Fediverse: corinnaehlers@openbiblio.social.
Privater Account.
Joe Ickowski @joeick.bsky.social A weird little medievalist trying to find his way in the world. He/Him
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente»
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Liselotte Willer @liselottewiller.dk I'm a theologian interested in philosophy, history of ideas and in political economics and history.
My life is complete with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Joana van de Löcht @doctoressa.bsky.social Klima und Literatur, frühe Neuzeit, literarische Moore und Winter, Editionen, auf der Reise durch die unerforschten Weiten der Gutenberggalaxis.
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff
Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
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
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
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
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
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.