Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile.
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
Dr Hannah Dongsun Lee @hd-lee.bsky.social Associate prof in Tokyo / early modern intellectual history / natural law / religious and political thought / https://researchmap.jp/sylvhana55?lang=en
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH IN CENTRAL EUROPE (out now) | https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/aleks-koutny/
alisha 马 @alisha-ma.bsky.social she/her | phd historian at @lsehy.bsky.social | researching mary ii’s collections spaces at hampton court & kensington | interested in global material cultures, aesthetics of otherness, and colonial objectscapes c.1600-1800
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
@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social Early modernist researching migration controls in seventeenth-century England.
PhD in History from the University of Leeds.
Not a fan of borders.
Email: julietatkinson99@gmail.com
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
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.
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)
Maria Cannon @mariacannon.bsky.social Historian of the family, life cycle, and emotions in early modern England currently working on life in blended families. Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth
✨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
Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
@clairemcnulty.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Lurig Drama Cushendall @lurigdrama.bsky.social Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
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.
Olga Gonzalez-Silen @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social Historian of Venezuela, Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World :|: Editor of the Diary of Philip DePeyster :|: Digital archivist
https://harvard.academia.edu/OlgaGonzalezSilen
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
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
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
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social Early Modern Social Historian | British Civil Wars and Trauma | Early Quakers in England | 📖 Zealous: A Darker Side of The Early Quakers https://linktr.ee/ericanela
ICHRPI @ichrpi.bsky.social The International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions promotes parliamentary, constitutional, legal & political history
ICHRPI website: https://ichrpi.info
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
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
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Dr. Kelly Plante @drkellyplante.bsky.social Ann Arbor-based writer. PhD in literature, history of the press, auto/biographical writing. Editor, https://bsky.app/profile/abojournal.bsky.social.
Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Studies at RHUL. The Dark Bible (OUP, 2022). She/her
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/
LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social Early Modernist. From the British Isles to the sunny Mediterranean. EUI Marie Curie Fellow on Gender and Sexuality.
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
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
Stephen Griffin @stephengriffin33.bsky.social Historian of Jacobitism, Irish Diaspora in Austria, France and Spain, Early Modern Diplomacy, Court Studies, Nobilities.
Works at Limerick Civic Trust.
Dr Gabrielle Fields @gabrielle-fields.bsky.social 'Queen Victoria’s Library'. PhD @ Historic Royal Palaces and University of Exeter. Funded by the SWW-DTP 📚
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Megan Barber @mbarberhistory.bsky.social MA History Student at University of Winchester | Postgrad Member of RHS | Researching Monarchy & Public History
👑🏰
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social Independent scholar. I'm not in academia.
Comparativist.
Former staff member, Princeton U. Library.
Maddy Keightley-Phillipps @maddyphillipps.bsky.social PhD Researcher. Durham University.
Studying the readership of early modern English Catholic women, lay and religious, and their book networks. 📚
Jon Chant @jonchant.bsky.social History of Catholicism - PhD Researcher at Durham University - English Catholic Exile on the Iberian Peninsula: A Study of the Library of The English College at Lisbon, c. 1622–1800.
@emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social
Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social PhD History researcher @QUB | Irish migration in England, Wales and Zimbabwe | Migration within transnational networks | Previously at Aberystwyth University
Durham Theology and Religion @durhamtheology.bsky.social Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/theology-religion/
Inês Olaia @inesolaia.bsky.social PhD in Medieval History @ FLUL, Lisbon, studying the queen consort’s role in late medieval Portugal. Cat, lover, tea addict, avid reader, anxious butterfly.
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social Sefydliad Ymchwil Ystadau Cymru | Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates. Research centre at Bangor University. www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe
History - Culture - Landscapes - Archives - Heritage - People - Places - Wales
Anna Blackman @annapcblackman.bsky.social Lecturer in Catholic Religious Ed., Uni of Glasgow. Co-facilitator @ Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. Catholic social thought & practice. Gospel nonviolence. Grassroots activism. Catholic Worker movement. Christian anarchism.
@lisbettarp.bsky.social @lisbettarp.bsky.social Associate professor in Art History. Early modern. Museology. Digital art history. Fan of collaborating with museums.
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/
Claire Schiano-Locurcio @claireschiano.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher | Early Modern England & France | Catholicism & Female Spirituality | Poor Clares & Benedictines Nuns
Working on the ANR Project "Abbesses et Seigneuresses: Une autre histoire de la Réforme Catholique (XVIIe)".
Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
@socforrefstudies.bsky.social @socforrefstudies.bsky.social
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
More at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary
Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
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/
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
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
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
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.
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Dr Lacey Bonar Hull @laceybonarhull.bsky.social Medieval/Tudor historian 🏰 Offering virtual courses on medieval history at http://medievalhistoryacademy.com
https://thehistoriansdesk.substack.com
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Linda Porter @drlindaporter.bsky.social Tudor and Stuart historian. Author of six books, most recent a biography of Henry VIII's misunderstood and maligned elder sister, Margaret Tudor. Historical consultant and broadcaster. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
History Hack @historyhack.bsky.social Fun history podcast recommended by the BBC.
The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK
www.cromwellmuseum.org
Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, Mondays fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Amelia Rosch @ameliarosch.bsky.social PhD student of post-1688 queens, gender and political power (sometimes coffee too). American in Canada. Consumer of tasteful reality television.
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Dr Johanna Strong @johannastrong.bsky.social PhD on Mary I’s legacy. History Teacher and Resident Tutor. Routledge author. Queen’s University alumna. Views my own. www.drjohannastrong.ca. 🇨🇦
Nazeea Elahi @ntelahi.bsky.social Work in collections management in a London museum.
Love books and tea.
Views are my own.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage @uolhumanities.bsky.social
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.