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
Cambridge Material Culture Workshop @material-cam.bsky.social Material Culture Workshop | convened by graduate students at the University of Cambridge.
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) 🏳️🌈
Charlie Spragg @cvspragg.bsky.social ECA-funded PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring King James VI & I's cultivation of a distinctly 'imperial' 'British' European image through art 🏛️
Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/she
Dr. Savannah Pine @savannahpine.bsky.social Fellowships Advisor at the University of Denver | PhD in Medieval History from University of Cambridge | Researches ritual brotherhood, masculinity, queer studies, and chivalry in Medieval Europe
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Raphaëlle Goyeau @biblioraphic.bsky.social Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social early career historian (rulership, power, and historical narratives in the later middle ages). AI sceptic.
📍Kaurna country, SA
Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social book history | digital humanities | early modern
Currently a postdoc on DORMEME project at KCL (Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe).
Mark Allen @markallen23.bsky.social PhD in history from Cambridge University. Examined coexistence & religio-political crises in early Stuart London through a case study of the Catholic queen's & embassy chapels.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117058
https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Russian Empire history at ULB #Brussels
Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
Matt Barfield @mdbarfield48.bsky.social ⚖️ PGDL student
🎓 PhD in 🇫🇷📚 from @gsas.harvard.edu
🎷🎹🎵 Jazz fanatic
📍 Cam, 🇬🇧 ➡️ Cam, MA 🇺🇸 ➡️ Cam, 🇬🇧
Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Purdue - early modern Spain, women and diplomacy, social network analysis, aristocratic women and political power – and probably something about equitable inheritance.
https://caroline-fish.com/.
Ellen Werner @ellenwerner.bsky.social Research associate in environmental histories at the University of Manchester | PhD research on "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at the University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
Haijiao Wang @haijiaowang.bsky.social First-year PhD student @WarwickHistory, working on women's beauty, emotion and relationships in early modern England | Obsessed with all beautiful things...🕊️
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia. 
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
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
Lillian Taylor @lilliantaylor.bsky.social History PhD student at William & Mary. Working on shipwrecks, environmental history, and history of knowledge in the Atlantic World. She/her
Astrid Wendel-Hansen @wendelhansen.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ Tallinn University
moneymakingempire.se
Economic history/material culture/alternative currencies
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @ University of Eastern Finland｜🌲 transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Beck Heslop @beckhistorian.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 they/them
🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester
♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist
🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social Great War, History, & Rugby.
PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917.
Guiding battlefields, Germany and London.
@howtodohistory Director.
Karaoke hound.
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Past PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social Researcher, Imperial College London • Historian #HistMed • PhD in Military Medicine • Blast Injury • Chronic Pain • Applied History • Cats, Podcasts, Spooky Things. And Pastry.
Janine Marriott @thejanine.bsky.social Owned by sassy ferrets, vegan, professional goth and cemetery dweller. Pronouns she/her. Undertaking a p/t professional doctorate in heritage. VERY VERY TIRED
Paul O’Donnell @paodonnell.bsky.social History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
Sandra Suárez García @sandrasg.bsky.social Late Medieval-Early Modern historian. Women in war and their experiences with/in the spanish armies in the 16th century. Postdoc University of Murcia.
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Patrick Sheridan @psheridanhistory.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia studying railroads and economic development in Texas and Louisiana. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈 🗃
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social PhD, @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Andrea Pérez Fernández @andreaperez.bsky.social Intellectual historian at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social Teach @Harvard
Previously @EUI_EU / @Columbia
History of political thought on land, territory, and state formation. Into the Holy Roman Empire.
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell1.bsky.social History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Researching the British Council and soft power in the twentieth century
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
clive henry @clivehenry.bsky.social phd student researching post-war fascism/history of emotions at uni of Northampton; proud enjoyer of all the musics; diy or die; new puritan est domini; shivering winner/moody brooder.
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza | Honorary Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
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/
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Joey Low @joeylow21.bsky.social History PhD from Brandeis - early modern China, Vietnam, Europe. Social history. On the job market
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social Costumier, dress historian and film producer for Crow’s Eye Productions 🌍🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇸🇪🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺
Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
Synthia Hynes @misshynesight.bsky.social PhD student at Uni of Liverpool researching the wives of c18 British Diplomats. C18 fashion enthusiast • neurodivergent • views mine. 🇵🇪🌎
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Max Portman @whuhistorian.bsky.social West Ham historian & PhD candidate.
@bssh.bsky.social Membership Sec.
@sportinhistorypod.bsky.social & thewesthamsyndrome.bsky.social Host.
Co-Convenor of Sports & Leisure History Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
@footycon.bsky.social co-organiser
He/Him.
Dr Rory M. Butcher @rmbhistory.bsky.social Historian | Visiting Research Fellow @LeedsUniHistory | National identity, masculinity, & contractual soldiering in the #C18th | Army Records Society Fellowship | Aspiring hockey goaltender | Historical reenactor | Opinions my own | he/him
Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) in British Art @manchester.ac.uk | c19 Horror/Occultism @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art & science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | they/she 👻🔮
Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
@iciaurriz.bsky.social @iciaurriz.bsky.social Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. 20th Europe-Communism (esp politics & ideas) and political violence / Formely at Durham Univeristy. PhD from Edinburgh University. LGTBQ+He/Him 🏳️🌈.
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Historian and essayist. Writes about almshouses, philanthropy, the Dutch 17th century, Tulip Fever, tricksters. Posts in Dutch and English. All views are my own. Most recent book: https://verloren.nl/Webshop/Detail/eid/94136
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Joris van den Tol @jorisvdt.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economic History @ Radboud University | #petitions #AtlanticHistory #EarlyModern
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
Dr Rosie Cousins @rosiejcousins.bsky.social Digital education specialist in AHC at the University of Leeds. PhD in Elizabethan politics and diplomacy. https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3205-994X
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
- Maritime Warfare (1513-1713)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Law & the Conduct of War
"Late onset academic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Murdoch
Elizabeth Beattie @elizabethbeattie.bsky.social Early Modern Historian | Women, Education, and Intellectualism in 17th Century Europe
👩🎓 MA, MLitt, University of St Andrews
📸 https://www.instagram.com/secret_historian/
Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮) @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • France and the Netherlands • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts • https://linktr.ee/bramvanleuveren
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social Author of Anticlerical Legacies
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168825/
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.