History Sister @annashi.bsky.social Music maker, historian of 17th century popular culture, print, astrology, magic and politics. Sometime modern politics and culture too. I’m an eclectic person. Australia.Living outside my timeline and ancestry.
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social Ecocriticism | early modern | soundscapes 🌻
“I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree”
PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.
Henry Carges @hcarges.bsky.social Phd candidate at Rutgers, studying gender, grief, and the failures of collective understanding in early modern english literature. Also very interested in genre.
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race.
Editor of H-Sicily.
Assistant Professor of History.
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
Bristol University Library @bristolunilib.bsky.social Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat.
www.bristol.ac.uk/library
Dr. Tamara @tammykm.bsky.social Adjunct Faculty at Kirkwood Community College and Coe College
Early Modernist. Research Interests: women, science, book history.
{ وَقُلْ رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا } 🇯🇴
OSU, Msstate Alum
📍Iowa City, IA
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
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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Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social I write recaps and reviews about British reality TV over at https://ariadnereviews.com/
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/
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social Queer Christian (Agnostic)🏳️🌈✝️ Father👴 Gaymer🎮 Geek🐲 Aspiring Trans ally🏳️⚧️ Lefty⬅️ Occasional Writer and Poet✒️ #poetry #microfiction Singer🎤 Hyperromantic🌹 Demisexual-ish🍆 He/him♂️ Occasionally NSFW (but always tagged or labelled)🔞
📍Somerset, UK.
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
EM animals & their writers @ayyveebee.bsky.social 🌟fan account🌟
In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in #EarlyModern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Springer Nature @springernature.com Leading research publisher empowering researchers, educators, and health professionals with our trusted brands for 180+ years. #BePartOfProgress
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DianeSnavely@bsky.social @dianesnavely.bsky.social Politics/Liberal Democrat, freedom & justice for ALL. Tree-hugger. Love animals, especially cats. Peace & love to those that care about our World! English, pls. NO PORN! NO zero posts!
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Rebecca Pinner @drrebeccapinner.bsky.social Assoc Prof in Medieval Literature. Currently researching saints, water & landscapes esp the Fens. Often up a hill. She/her.
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
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 Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️- S @stevelongstaffe.bsky.social @stevelongstaffe.bsky.social
Elisabeth Lechner @femsista.bsky.social 🤓 Cultural and Literary Studies
📚 PhD on Body Positivity @ Uni Vienna
📖 #RiotDontDiet - Aufstand der widerspenstigen Körper @ Kremayr & Scheriau❤️🔥 Feminist
🌱 vegan
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Sibylle Baumbach @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social Prof of English Lit&Cult @unistuttgart.bsky.social, passionate about literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
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)_/¯
Jenny Marie @jennymafo.bsky.social Asst Prof of 17C lit in WA, translator, swimmer, parent of two small children and one ancient pug, here for the reading recs.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
METh (Medieval English Theatre) @medengtheatre.bsky.social Since 1979 the Medieval English Theatre Society has promoted interest in and study of early theatre through the publication of Medieval English Theatre Journal.
https://medievalenglishtheatre.co.uk/
Emily Smith @shakespeerie.bsky.social Early modern literature post-doc at the University of Geneva. Usually somewhere between the digital, humanities, and seventeenth-ish-century.
James Hanover @jameshanover.bsky.social Words. History. Coffee.
Acknowledging Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social What would a world be like without the Arts, Humanities and Languages? Sharing the reasons why we matter at the University of Bristol.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-social-sciences/research/
Emily Nicholls @hamletcurrents.bsky.social millennial, itinerant, divided subject, joint-PhD student, KCL/HKU, Hamlet and Neurodiversity
Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social writer, dramaturg, scorpio, dad, oaklander.
SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET: THE DRAMATIC LIFE OF A WARRIOR QUEEN available now from @wwnorton.com
cwbomalley.com
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social Artist, Philosopher, History addict, Social Justice Worrier
#BLM 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social "A tattered coat upon a stick"
See https://independentscholar.academia.edu/AlbertRolls
See instead https://hcommons.org/members/albertrolls/
Lexidh Solstad @lexidh.catpasity.com 100% Original content!
Norwegian childfree crazy cat lady, married to a crazy dog man, trying to juggle chronic pain, adulting, crafting, reading, gardening, writing, and managing buildings/projects/investments. May contain nuts and insanity.
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Nick Munn @medievalmunn.bsky.social PhD candidate @ QMUL. Working on masculinity and the doges in fifteenth-century Venice. Fond of cats. Charlton Athletic fan, for my sins.
Hollyann Pye @hollyannpye.bsky.social PhD candidate (minors!) in English (University of Bristol) ~ fooling, folly, EM households, mobility, disguise, rivalry, and 'nothing'ness ~ AFHEA & private English tutor ~
walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org walk · listen · create (WLC) is the home of walking artists and artist walkers. We are a home for walking writers too!
Jenn Ashworth @jennashworth.bsky.social Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth
Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University
Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
MacCsaba @maccsab.bsky.social Early modern English utopias, travel literature, English-Hungarian cultural contacts, digital humanities. University of Pécs.
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Michael Powell-Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
Mareile Pfannebecker @mareilep.bsky.social Renaissance literature and history of thought. Book on the way: Travel Humanism in C17 Literature (MUP)
Lanyu Chen @clanyu.bsky.social Early Modern World flâneuse, 2nd year English PhD working on classical reception @JesusCollegeCambridge
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
Kate Shaw @kytchois.bsky.social Independent Researcher who pokes around archives & blithers about women in 16thC & 17thC. HE admin. Also do prancing around on/off stages & cameras. Views my own - except where shamelessly stolen. 
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Olivia Langford @emwombstuff.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD student at The University of Birmingham, studying Shakespeare’s non-English mothers. Auntie and dog mom.
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.
prithi @prithik.bsky.social archives, nyc history, cuny • public historian • scouser (she/her) • BROOKLYNITES @nyupress • https://prithikanaka.com
Vladimir Makarov @vmakarov.name Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature
Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
@jackiewright.bsky.social @jackiewright.bsky.social Organization matters. Books, art, music, theatre, sunsets, tea, and meditation are on my list. Like Lennon said: Love is the answer.
Eilís Smyth @eilissmyth.bsky.social W.B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature @ The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame | Writing about the politics of performing Shakespeare at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, Smock Alley in 17c-18c and all things Smock Alley promptbooks
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social 
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Kevin Finkelstein ☭ @kfinkelstein.bsky.social Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/disability). CU Boulder: MA, Theatre and Perf (2026); MA, English (2028). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
@duncansalkeld.bsky.social @duncansalkeld.bsky.social 
Society for Dance Research @sdanceresearch.bsky.social We advance research and education into the art of dance in all its forms.
McGowan Crisp Award - https://www.euppublishing.com/do/10.5555/news.2025.010/full/