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
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
✨Catherine Williams✨ @catherinevwill.bsky.social MA Student at UCL, Fordham Alum
Researching the links between 16th c. poetry, sovereignty and colonialism
I’m your Modern Margaret Roper, find me somewhere in the Renaissance
AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence @amendproject.bsky.social Researching neurodivergence in early modern literature and how neurodivergent people relate to it! Based at Swansea University and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Good to Know @goodtoknowhq.bsky.social 💎Discover hidden gems you’ll love & share your own
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot
Current Shakespeare on Substack
Clear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social Akiva Fox takes you through Shakespeare's plays, word by word. A read-along podcast for students, readers, and performers.
https://clearshakespeare.com/
N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social Brilliant Corners (CB Editions)
Views & Reviews: https://cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Contributing Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own. 
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
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@routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social News on Literary Studies and Creative Writing books from Routledge. This account is managed by the editorial team.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
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 ☕️
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
buymeacoffee.com/poetofcuisine
Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social Inspiring the next generation to develop ideas for a fairer world. Follow us for tweets about SOAS life, news and events. #WeAreSOAS
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (The Australian National University). Researcher: Shakespeare Reloaded. Author: Shakespeare & Place-Based Learning. Ecocrit, place, blue humanities, health humanities.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Megan Parlett.
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
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.
Liz Duffy Adams @lizduffyadams.bsky.social Semi-recumbent playwright. "Disturbing at best" –audience member. https://www.rsc.org.uk/born-with-teeth. www.lizduffyadams.com
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel) @mbkaethler.bsky.social Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London; Book Review Editor for Early Theatre; Acting President of Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance.
Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social An educational website for students, teachers and other Shakespeare enthusiasts at www.bardweb.net
Société Française Shakespeare @shakespearefrance.bsky.social Association loi 1901 fondée en 1975, la Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) a pour but de promouvoir l'étude des œuvres de Shakespeare et des auteurs de la période Tudor / Stuart, dans le contexte littéraire, politique et social européen à la Renaissance. 
evey reidy 🐌 @eveyreidy.bsky.social PhD & playwright formerly of Roehampton/Shakespeare's Globe | early mod. women performers, festive performance cultures, protest-performance
Berkeley for now, Chicago forever | always knows where to get ice cream | usually found in a graveyard (she/her) 🏳️🌈
National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk 🎭 On Stage on the South Bank
💻 Online with National Theatre at Home
🍿 In Cinemas with National Theatre Live
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson @john-y-wilson.bsky.social Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei).
Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
Jasmine Celtel @jasmine-celtel.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research studying communities of laughter in the Welsh Marches.
(Pabenham Clifford Hours, 55v)
www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-celtel
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.
Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social he/him. teaching C21 literature at ENU. co-ed of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (EUP, 2023). Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism (EUP, 2024). 
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
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
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
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
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
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Caminey Kuropatwa @camineyk.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
@edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social HS English teacher in Canada. Here on weekends and holidays; during the work week, elsewhere and sometimes deactivated.
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Bridge Theatre @bridgetheatre.bsky.social That theatre with the view of Tower Bridge
1623 theatre company @1623theatre.bsky.social Shaking, shaping and sharing creativity with communities and Shakespeare.
Madeline Sayet @madelinesayet.bsky.social Director/Writer; Where We Belong avail from @methuendrama
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social cultural big data, #digitalhumanities, HuNI http://huni.net.au Has Anyone Seen A Woman? http://vimeo.com/144863312
#academicsky
#feministsky
Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
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.
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
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season.
listen at badgayspod.com or wherever you find podcasts
subscribe to our monthly chat and advice show at patreon.com/badgayspod
Tiglath Pileser @tiglath-pileser1.bsky.social Exploring the history of Byzantium, the Ottomans, and their neighbours — empires, borders, and the crossroads of civilizations.
Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social Reader, writer, environmental lawyer. Books: The Trials of Nina McCall (2018); There Is A Deep Brooding in Arkansas (2025); Shakespeare’s Margaret (2026). Words: NYRB, TNR, WaPo, Atlantic, LARB, Jacobin, Baffler, etc. For more: www.scottwstern.com
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Fred Haas @akh003.bsky.social English & Journalism Teacher, Seeker, Iconoclast, & Creator | Former Writer for @ReadLiverpoolFC | Occasional Contributor for @JEADigitalMedia | he/his
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Linked Early Modern Drama Online @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.