Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
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To read all its wit and wisdom, get a copy from a local bookstore or library.
Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social assistant prof college of charleston | early modernist |
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
Emi Hastings @unseenlibrary.bsky.social Curator of Books and Digital Projects Librarian at U-M Clements Library. Collects books about women bibliophiles.
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
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.
@lisawasthere.bsky.social @lisawasthere.bsky.social Archivist, ex jay walker, random acts of gardening, coffee, nun pal, semicolons, books. Just trying to see the forest for the trees.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Kate Long @gingeykate.bsky.social Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Little bit of ranting. Research Services Archivist. Western Mass. she/her.
SparkNotes @sparknotes.bsky.social The official feed for SparkNotes.com.
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) @cerl-community.bsky.social A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts.
www.cerl.org
SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social Art historian. OUT NOW: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
mayor of Shark City 🦈 @infinitymachine.xyz comics, zines, collages ✂ infinitymachine.xyz ⛓ non-binary dog dad 🐕✌🏻 (slowly) illustrating/exploring a dream library ✨ infinitymachine.neocities.org 📚🗝️ they/them 🦴 archives/// monyatoma.com
Timothy Vollmer @tvol.bsky.social Library worker: @ucbscholcomm.bsky.social
Union member: @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
When lightning strikes I’ll be on my bike.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Lauren Stoolfire @sunsoar25.bsky.social Librarian, Reader, Book Blogger, Postcrosser, Geek, Cat Lover, INTJ, Leo, She/Her
https://never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Nömi ♡ @motherluvbone.bsky.social Noemi | guilty of bad-behavior bonding | out of work librarian | going to try and get outdoors this summer | west TX cloud appreciation society ♧
♧
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social Medieval and Early Modern Book Historian, (Print Culture and the History of Reading) Adjunct at Rio Salado College, Improviser, (he/him)
SuzanneHagedorn.bsky.social @suzannehagedorn.bsky.social Mom. Medievalist. Opera Lover. Baker. Knitter. Fan of Democracy. Williamsburg, VA resident. Author of _Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer_ AAUP member. All opinions my own—especially political ones.
dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social tired goth historian, tour guide, folk artist, baseball fan, on Conestoga-Susquehannock land (ask me about it!).
Tours, contact info, resources, art @ https://emmakatherinebilski.place/link-tree/
[any pronouns. non-Native. still queer.]
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
saki @sakisavavi.bsky.social Camping the Sonoran Desert | Ancestral Archivist ⚒️| Interdisciplinary Artist & Writer | Cartographer | Leyline Practitioner
Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries @aldenlibrary.bsky.social, Athens.
https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity
(Not that XL public uni in Columbus)
Leah Hampton @leahhampton.bsky.social Writer of F*CKFACE, professor of Things
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
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 📚
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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
Dr Grace Touzel @boundtobeused.bsky.social Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
@m-prints.bsky.social @m-prints.bsky.social Amateur letterpress printer & common press operator.
These are my adventures in letterpress printing & the book arts. 📚
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Liesl Jensen (she/her) @liesljensen.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Researching asexuality and how to read and perform absences. Crazy cat lady. Cheese lover. Always has a cup of tea. Founder of the Guild of Queer Early Modernists GQEM.org 🏳️🌈 💜🖤🤍
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social The Guild of Queer Early Modernists is dedicated to the support and advancement of queer scholars and scholarship in early modern studies. Join us! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Logo by Jasmine Kular, cover image from Art Institute of Chicago. gqem.org
Michael Seminara @michaelseminara.bsky.social 
JP Mongeau @jpmongeau.bsky.social Metadata Librarian/Rare Books person/Masked girlie/Guncle to 9 cats. Follows #critcat/#critlib. He/They.
Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Bookdoctorbaddie 📚 @laracroftsboobs.bsky.social Lara D (36) 🍣👾
PhD Library and Information Sciences. Archive/Digital Preservation obsessive! pansexual transsexual woman, definitely not a professional account.
blissfully taken by Skye and Luxi💍10/25/2025
@ssssssssshhhh.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.
karissa✨ @trashii.bsky.social 35 • cataloging librarian • LI, NY • they/she 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social Sharing treasures from our Special Collections, Rare Books and Archives.
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Enquiries: specialcollections@reading.ac.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unirdg_collections
Fine Book Fairs @finebookfairs.bsky.social Organize rare book and print fairs across the US. Upcoming events in Indianapolis, April 25th-26th, DC, May 2nd-4th, NYC, September 26th-28th, Philadelphia, December 4th-6th. More information: finefairs.com
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|
Maura @mkarchivist.bsky.social Archivist (women religious archives), historian, librarian. PhD (CUNY). Early modern history of archives ~ family record keeping and archives. she/her. Views my own, etc. Somewhere on the Hudson.
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
Nathan Gabbard @nathangabbard.bsky.social Bibliophile. Rare and antiquarian bookseller, @OwlCreekBooks.com, mid-city Los Angeles. English bulldog dad. Midwest grown.
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
@sarahschreck.bsky.social @sarahschreck.bsky.social 
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
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/
Arthur Fournier @arthurfournier.bsky.social Broker of manuscripts & archives, ABAA/ILAB dealer of rare books. Active in BSA, RBMS, ARLIS communities. Qualified appraiser. Literature, the arts, social-political movements, underground / DIY press, pop culture + https://linktr.ee/arthurfournier
Thomas Plume's Library @thomasplumes.bsky.social The Library of Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), established 1704 in Maldon, Essex. www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.
McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk Rare & second-hand bookshop in central Edinburgh, est. 1957.
Open every day 11am to 5pm, and till 8pm on Thursdays.
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Sharkivist @creepingdoubts.bsky.social Childless Cat lady. Archivist in Academia. Not a librarian.
Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social Archivist and all around pop culture nerd. Plus I like to write about archives and archivists in pop culture! I'm a real catch! I can probably talk about other things. Maybe.
https://www.pop-archives.com/
Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social Refugee Solidarity
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Neurodivergent
Books, Books, Books 📚
Class War- Catering & PR dept
Militant Librarian
BLM ✊🏾
Trans Rights are non-negotiable
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Mþ. Kestrel (pronounced Myth) @kestrelsward.bsky.social They/them. Early-career librarian/archivist living in FL & working in higher ed archives & OER. Nonbinary, queer, disabled, white, divorced, parent
Onequeerlibrarian.com
Icon: Jonathan Poritz for OpenEd 2024
Banner: Isabelle Gedigk on Tumblr
Michele Casto @casto.bsky.social Local history librarian and printmaker from Washington DC
MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social library worker
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer.
Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.
Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social 🧢 CEO: Dropout
🎤 Host: Game Changer, Make Some Noise
🌸 he / him
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
Forum Rare Books @forumrarebooks.bsky.social Rare book dealers from the Netherlands, specializing in books, manuscripts, prints, maps & other works on paper concerning Travel & Exploration, Islamic World, Natural History, Early Printing, Cartography, Science & Medicine, etc.
www.forumrarebooks.com
Emma Stanford @emmastanford.bsky.social Your earnest friend in special collections digitization + access. Currently @ Stanford University Libraries, previously Hoover Institution Library & Archives, previously Bodleian Libraries, @e_stanf on Twitter.
Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100398-the-world-to-me/
@ibookbinding.bsky.social @ibookbinding.bsky.social 
Blackwell's Rare Books @blackwellrare.bsky.social Blackwell's Rare Books buys and sells rare books of all kinds, since 1879. Purveyor of #badlydrawnanimals. Follow us on Instagram @blackwellrare
Jamison @writingfanatic.bsky.social Cataloger for Athens Regional Library System | writer (writingfanatic on AO3) | trans man | gamer | cat and spider daddy | mischief maker
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
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.
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Micheline White @michelinewhite.bsky.social Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments
Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell)
Coined #HerBook
Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her
Masud Khokhar @masudk.com Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social I have a doctorate in English literature and work in a library, which probably explains everything you are about to read. Proud member of Vatican II's Lost Generation.
Amator @chaldaeus.bsky.social Amateur Latinist, now especially interested in Assyriology and some Biblical Hebrew
monumentofmud.com
Frances Stonehouse @frances-s.bsky.social Curator at Kirklees Museums & Galleries
* Oakwell Hall
* Tolson Museum
* Bagshaw Museum
www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/museums-and-galleries/index.aspx
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social Early modern travel historian researching rare books. Digital Humanities enthusiast. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.
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.