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
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
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Tom Langham @probablynottom.bsky.social Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
Preview here https://archiveofourown.org/works/47902108/chapters/120770212
I #followback
Dan Tomlinson MP @dantomlinson.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet. Exchequer Secretary & Growth Minister in HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Jón Kristinn Einarsson @jonkristinn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History @ University of Chicago. Early Modern Danish Empire, Political Economy, Cameralism, Science.
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/jon-kristinn-einarsson
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
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Steven Young @stevey86.bsky.social Recovering Academic (political theory); currently trying to fill in my vast gaps in knowledge in things historical and scientific; fan of jazz and literature in translation.
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.
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
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)
Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Studies of Biblical Interest @biblicaljournal.bsky.social Studies of Biblical Interest (SBI) publishes a journal by scholars and students who are interested in espousing their new and original ideas about the Bible.
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Arthur Holmes @arthurh.bsky.social Political advisor at Southwark🌹& long-suffering Stoke City fan from Staffordshire 🏡
Views are my own
Tom Honeywell @tomhoneywell.bsky.social 🌹 Political Assistant to Labour Group at Liverpool City Council | ⚽ Boro Fan
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Ola Teige @olateige.bsky.social Norwegian, Early Modern historian. Denmark-Norway c. 1660-1814, especially social networks and elites, but also crime, queer history and other cool stuff. And sometimes I escape to the Great Northern War or WW1.
Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social Historian of 16th century French natural history focusing on three-toed sloths (Bradypus sp.). Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Gaelgeoir. All opinions are my own.
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.
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Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern book history and history of knowledge in the Spanish monarchy. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social Professor of English at Xiamen University. Author of 3 books, most recently 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘐𝘐𝘐 (forthcoming, Boydell). Tudor political/administrative history & early modern literature, inc. Shakespeare.
propter se ipsam appetenda scientia
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
Matthew Milner @matthewmilner.name Digital & Sensory Late Medieval, Reformation & Early Modern English Historian - Grants Officer, Memorial U of Newfoundland
https://www.nanohistory.org & We're Indigenous Still Here
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
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
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EERA Network 17. Histories of education @eeranetwork17.bsky.social The Network was founded in 1999: the original convenors were Frank Simon, Ian Grosvenor, Martin Lawn, and Henk Van Setten. The current link-convenor is Geert Thyssen.
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
James Smoker @synthur.bsky.social Registrar at Regent College | PhD, University of St Andrews | Coleridge, Imagination, and Creation | Theology & the Arts | Canadian
https://www.jamessmoker.com/
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social Website: https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/
Mattia Corso @mcorso7.bsky.social Early modern historian | Material culture & religious studies enthusiast | Member of ERC HolyLab (https://holylab-erc.uniroma3.it/)
https://uniromatre.academia.edu/MattiaCorso
Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past!
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
REFORC @reforc.bsky.social The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw @achttiendeeeuw.bsky.social Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. For everyone with an interest in this fascinating period in history. See also EMLCjournal.bsky.social and https://achttiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/
Mike Jones @mikej1971.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer, University of Bristol; Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; working on Mapping the March (https://mowlit.ac.uk) and Historical Photographs of Hong Kong (https://hphkbristol.net) also worked on https://hpcbristol.net
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.
German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social Live-posting events in the German Peasants’ War for their 500th anniversary. Account run by the Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants’ War Project at Oxford and Royal Holloway: https://germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
Marie-Alice Belle @mariealicebelle.bsky.social Prof. Translation Studies (Université de Montréal)
Ed. Meta: Journal des traducteurs/ Meta: Translators' Journal
Translation and print in 17th c. Britain: crosscurrentscatalogue.ca
Material, feminist, decolonial history of translation in early modern era
Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social historian of early modern things, Home News remembrancer, biggie lyric, personherd, board certified vin diesel lookalike
@jonathansheehan.bsky.social @jonathansheehan.bsky.social Early modern historian, UC Berkeley, all things sacrifice, anthropology and politics, banjo.
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social
Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social Historian of France and the Early Modern World, Indian Ocean Colonialism, Notaries, and Urban Social History in Texas.
Often professional, sometimes a silly goose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wilberforce Institute @wilberforcehull.bsky.social Our world-leading institute, established in 2006 at the University of Hull, is at the forefront of researching and tackling slavery and injustice, giving voice to the exploited, both past and present. www.hull.ac.uk/wilberforce
Jake Griesel @jakegriesel.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Church History and Anglican Studies, George Whitefield College, Cape Town 🇿🇦 / PhD, Cambridge / FRHistS / Long English Reformation / Reformed orthodoxy / Early modern theological controversies / ✍🏻 on John Pearson
bio.site/jakegriesel
COST Action 23137: PCPSce @pcpsce.bsky.social Welcome to the official page for COST Action 23137:
Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
New Economy Brief @neweconomybrief.bsky.social New Economy Brief brings together credible analysis and proposals for building a fair, sustainable & resilient economy. Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://www.neweconomybrief.net/sign-up
Institute of Economic Development @theied.bsky.social We are the UK’s leading professional body representing economic development and regeneration practitioners working for local and regional communities.
https://ied.co.uk/
Liam Temple @liamtemple.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham University. Lover of all things Catholic, mystical and Franciscan! First gen academic. More: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/liam-p-temple/
American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social The ACHA is a community of scholars, archivists, and teachers of the history of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1919, it is where Catholic studies began.
https://achahistory.org/
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
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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
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
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
Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente»
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Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
John McCabe @nechamberceo.bsky.social CEO of North East Chamber of Commerce; deputy lieutenant of Tyne & Wear; chair of North East Combined Authority business & economy board; honorary professor of business at Teesside University; trustee at The King’s Trust; Parkrunner and volunteer. Next 007
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
Hannah Keenan @hannahkeenan.bsky.social Associate Director at Institute for Government, and former civil servant (cabinet office, dfid).
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Emily Crouch @historypomegranate.bsky.social Historian and writer. Specialising in Early Modern England and France. Bibliophile and proud mum to a doxie
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 •
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Lois McFarland @loiswmcf.bsky.social Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Speculative fiction, feminist/womanist/queer theory, affect, ecology, and freaky apocalyptic things.
'Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction' (Bloomsbury 2026)
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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
Lady Jane Grey Info @janegreyinfo.bsky.social 25 years of news and information about the 9 days queen.
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Weird Religion @weirdreligion.bsky.social Exploring the borderlands of religion and culture. @weirdreligion on Substack.
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