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
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social Book historian and maker of things. Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org. MSLIS student.
Glasgow Coat of Arms @glasgowcoa.bsky.social Collecting images of the many variations on the theme of Glasgow's coat of arms.
Snaps my own if not credited. Contributions welcome! #Glasgow 🌳🐦🔔🐟
City of Bath Heraldic Society @bathheraldicsoc.bsky.social The City of Bath Heraldic Society meets regularly in Bath to discuss, learn and share knowledge about the fascinating subject of heraldry. Please visit our website for more information. https://bath-heraldry.org.uk/
Skribbler 52 @scribble52.bsky.social Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) and of York (PCY) copies of wills sometimes have initial capital letters with 'marginal faces'. Of the 2m+ wills, about 150 of these faces have, so far, been found.
Tim Welch @tfwelch.com urban planner, educator, transport nerd, data geek, dad
Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social Early Modernist, postdoc with @stemma.bsky.social, manuscripts, poetry, transmission
@madden1826.bsky.social @madden1826.bsky.social 
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org WHG is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language.
Project Director: @rmostern.bsky.social
Technical Director: @docuracy.co.uk
https://whgazetteer.org #DH #LOD #GIS
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
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
Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
Dr Sylvia Valentine @historylady2013.bsky.social Genealogy, medical history, life long learning student. PhD: "Controlling Smallpox in Scotland: Variolation, Compulsory Vaccination and the Rise of the Anti-Vaccination Movement 1721-1918.
Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social Cambridge photographer behind 'A Cambridge Diary' - 5,000 continuous daily pictures at www.cambridgediary.co.uk.
Published by https://cambridgebooks.co.uk
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
@livesandletters.bsky.social @livesandletters.bsky.social 
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
Anne BhD @annebhd.bsky.social #héraldique #heraldry #Heraldik #blason #art #moyenage
Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz 🗺🇳🇿🇨🇦🏔 NZ-based cartographer, actually now Canada-based. Blender, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Illustrator. Partial to a good mountain.
southarrowmaps.co.nz
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
Peter O'Donoghue @peterodonoghue.bsky.social York Herald at HM College of Arms. Heraldry, genealogy, flags, ceremonial and the like. Opinions are my own.
Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social Early modern British historian of science, digital humanist, first book, By The Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England, now out from OUP
Selden Society @seldensociety.bsky.social Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history. Account maintained by @jctate1215.bsky.social.
Jean-François Viel @dumultien.bsky.social Paléographe professionnel depuis 1992, mais aussi grand voyageur passionné. #paleographie #histoire #genealogie #voyage #argentine #japon 📜 ⛩️
Martin Uhrmacher @luxhist.bsky.social Historian University of Luxembourg @uni.lu history.uni.lu https://www.uni.lu/fhse-en/people/martin-uhrmacher/ #medieval #earlymodern #urban_history #historical_cartography https://luxatlas.lu history of epidemics
Lost Manuscripts @lostmss.bsky.social This project, led by Dr David Rundle of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, aims in a series of stages to build a union catalogue of manuscript fragments in the British Isles. Website: https://www.lostmss.org.uk
kugehouse 🏴 @kugehouse.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, design, heraldry, Wales, France, Crystal Palace FC, etc
SigiAl - Sigillographie de l'Alsace @sigialsace.bsky.social SigiAl est un projet de sigillographie participative de l'Alsace et du Rhin supérieur. Le but est de retrouver tous les sceaux alsaciens et de les numériser.
Valérie-Alice Dumoulin @dumoulinvalerie2.bsky.social Directrice Musée Médard et Archives Municipales de Lunel.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com 'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social Weird heraldry enthusiast, both ways that can be parsed.
Website: https://caerlaverockroll.com/period-armorials-online/
In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com Memes, merch, music, and publishing.
Est. 2020.
quiresandplaces.com
Posts by @voxpopple.bsky.social
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Hidden in Plain Sight @hips-project.bsky.social Hidden in Plain Sight is a collaboration between @qmul.ac.uk, @QMUL_HSS, @theul.bsky.social, @MAACambridge, @NLWales, and other leading libraries.
Website: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/inplainsight/
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
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.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
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
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The Flag Institute @flaginstitute.bsky.social Serving flag nerdery realness since 1971 • Free expert advice on flags and their use
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Jason Loch @jasonloch.bsky.social I am a historian of the British constitution whose work focuses on the Crown, the House of Lords, and the Church of England.
You can read my blog here: venerablepuzzle.wordpress.com. 
Aberdeenshire Flag @aberdeenshire.bsky.social Promoting our wonderful official flag, our beautiful Scottish county, and its rich culture and history. Our Shire, Our Flag. account run by @saoradair.bsky.social
The Flag Chronicle @flagchronicle.com Flag and vexillology news; Visit our website @ https://flagchronicle.com/ for more coverage!
TheFlagandAnthemGuy 🇸🇲 @flaganthemsm.bsky.social I am that flag obsessed sammarinese guy from youtube. (EN)
A so qvel ad San Marœin ch'u j è fised sal bandiri ma youtube. (RGN_SM)
linktr.ee/TheFlagandAnthemGuy
SoaringAven @soaringaven.bsky.social 
Gortius Octavo @gortius.bsky.social Published vexillologist and vexillographer from the Canary Islands | Student of history and passionate about books & sci-fi | Progressive Democratic Socialist & many other things 🇺🇳🇽🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪🇦🇲🇵🇸🇪🇭🇹🇼 | He/Him
https://linktr.ee/gortius_viii
Brandon Hundt @brandonhundt.com Civically minded product designer based in the Twin Cities. New MN flag finalist #f29 aka Starflake
Rowhouse Vexillology Project @rvpflags.bsky.social One man's excuse to grow his flag collection.
rvp_flags on the gram
Seattle Flag Commission @seattleflagcommish.bsky.social A good flag fosters civic pride, engagement, and love. Seattle does not have a good flag. This is an officially unofficial account. Vexillology and vexillography.
Flags For Good @flagsforgood.com We’re a flag company that only makes stuff we believe in and donate a portion of each to progressive causes. Pissing conservative neighbors off since 2020 | Based in Indy
Flagged for Content @flagged4content.bsky.social A flag show that has a little fun. Bi-weekly chats with folks from all over the vexillology world! Enthusiasts of all stripes welcome here.
https://linktr.ee/flaggedforcontent
Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social Historian, curator, heraldist, vexillologist, collector of arcane and eclectic Canadiana. All opinions my own. Likes, reskeets =/= endorsement.
IHGS - The School of Family History @ihgs.bsky.social Study with IHGS. Distance Leaning Courses for all levels. You can arrange your studies to fit with your timetable with our self-directed courses. Enrol anytime.
@adamrbruce.bsky.social @adamrbruce.bsky.social 20 years in renewables: holder of an Office of Profit under The Crown: board member Ocean Energy Pathway and Crown Estate Scotland. Usual disclaimers apply.
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social The Pelagios Network (https://pelagios.org/) is a community of researchers, scientists and curators using Linked Data methods and tools to investigate the past.
Mary Borgo Ton @maryton.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social Historian - Amsterdam - Suriname - migration history - 17th century - typos - was 17,5 jaar op Twitter http://voetnoot.org
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen. 
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Digital Scholar @digitalscholar.bsky.social Making Methods Modern since 2009
Designed by historians, our software and services make research, publishing, and cultural heritage work possible.
Zotero | Omeka | Tropy | Sourcery | PressForward | DHNow
https://digitalscholar.org/
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) 🌈
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
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.
Vexiupdate - Flag news @vexiupdate.bsky.social Providing flag-related news from around the world.
Feel free to send in news, you will be credited.
To find us on other platforms, check our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vexiupdate
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Boyds Historical Society @boydshistorical.bsky.social Preserving our community's history, including the historic one-room Boyds Negro School (1895-1936), the Boyds Historic District, & the B&O Railroad, in Montgomery County, Maryland. 501(c)(3)
See photos at https://boydspics.weebly.com/ !
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
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
STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie 
Philip Tibbetts @vextibbetts.bsky.social March Pursuivant Extraordinary & Honorary Vexillologist at the Lyon Court | Communities Vexillologist at the Flag Institute | All views my own
The Viabundus Map @viabundus.bsky.social This is the international viabundus-project, digitally recreating Northern Europe's route-network around 1500. 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪More on http://www.viabundus.eu
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
dr. goingpostale @goingpostale.bsky.social doctor of words (phd in medieval literature)
learner of things (textile enthusiast)
asker of questions (personal and professional)
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
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
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com