Anna Reynolds @annareynolds.bsky.social
James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social Sublunary microcosm
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
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Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him.
Philippa Kergozou @philippak.bsky.social Société Jersiaise Archaeology Section. Jersey Heritage volunteer. Replica Neolithic longhouse builder. FE college staff
David Turner @gs65.bsky.social Past organiser of #GreatStrides65 team walk in Surrey Hills AONB for CysticFibrosisTrust | Labradors | Insurance silk at 4 New Square | 📷
Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social A son of California (Go Bears!)/educator/scholar of things medieval, theoretical, literary, theatrical, Renaissance-ical, political 🏳️🌈🇮🇹🇮🇪🇺🇸
Robert Catto @robertcatto.com Canadian/Kiwi/Australian photographer on Gadigal land, specialising in theatre, dance, opera and music. Member of Kage Collective. Oh, and silent film researcher, who also likes Formula One. 📷🇨🇦🇳🇿🇦🇺🏁
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Sean Douglass @seandouglass.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, playwright, and teacher. Credits/commentary in TheGamer, BroadwayWorld, The Clyde Fitch Report, NY Times, and others. Fan of Chekhov and kombucha.
Nathan Hunt @nathanhunt4hunts.bsky.social home of bad opinions and other fun
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Alison Rae @zkatrae.bsky.social
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert
Dr Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton.bsky.social Egyptologist. Books, TV, online lectures. Director of The Robert Anderson Trust
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Rachel Reid @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social Author of the GAME CHANGERS series and TIME TO SHINE. New book: THE SHOTS YOU TAKE out March 4, 2025. Living that Early Onset Parkinson’s life in Nova Scotia. she/her
London Historians @londonhistorians.bsky.social
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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Clare Whitehead @clwhitehead.bsky.social Clinical academic researching pregnancy complications and prematurity
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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social Headteacher, picturebook addict. Sometimes a bit ranty. Passionate about the best job in the world. #PicturebookPage
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social Professional Book Nerd
Early Modernist
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Shakespeare etc
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York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust @yorkmysteryplays.bsky.social Supporting the York Mystery Plays: keeping the story alive
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.
Hackney Citizen @hackneycitizen.bsky.social Hackney's independent, free monthly newspaper. Got a story? Contact us at editor@hackneycitizen.co.uk
Sophie Ratcliffe @sophieratcliffe.bsky.social Writer, academic, thinks about collections, archives, grief, love and the kitchen sink - most recent book Loss, A Love Story www.sophieratcliffe.com
Mark Ludmon @markludmon.bsky.social Freelance journalist, editor & ghostwriter, writing on theatre, drinks, bars etc. Theatre studies MA from Central School of Speech & Drama. Early modern literature & history postgrad. Včasih slovensko, parfois français, always European. 🌈 he/him
Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Prof of Drama, Queen’s University Belfast: Author, HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Atria 🇺🇸, Ebury 🇬🇧) Rep’d by Inkwell Management
Simona Maggiorelli @simonamaggiorelli.bsky.social Journalist, editor in-chief Left magazine
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
John Garrison @handle.invalid I'm a bi nonbinary person. He/they.
I'm a shitposter at heart.
Early 40s. WoW. Married. Polyam with one other partner. Kinky. A switch.
john@garrison.beer
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Geth @gethinhuw.bsky.social
William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social Head of Communications at @theelders.bsky.social. Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺
Laura Swift @lauramswift.bsky.social editor / maker / writer / researcher. Free Palestine 🍉
Helping good people make good books.
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Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama out now with CUP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/reprints-and-revivals-of-renaissance-drama/061B68B70ADC59CD5A6D9C3A0F9C0D40
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.
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/.
Richard Preiss @richardpreiss.bsky.social Keeping his circuit by the slicing edge.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
@egsharpe.bsky.social @egsharpe.bsky.social
The Marlowe Society of America @marlowemightyln.bsky.social The Marlowe Society of America promotes scholarship on poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe's life, works, & crucial role in the early modern theater.
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
Thea Buckley @thea987.bsky.social Rhymes w Leia. Doc of Shakespeare, Keralan, She / her. bham.academia.edu/TheaBuckley
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
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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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person.
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC).
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Steve Purcell @stevetpurcell.bsky.social Academic, director, writer. Co-Artistic Director of The Pantaloons and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. All views my own.
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/
Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social Editor of Up Here Business (uphere.ca)
Freelance writer for whatever you got (amykenny.ca)
Adam Hembree @ahemmm.bsky.social Actor/academic. Talk to me about early modern language, theatre, magic, role-playing games, photography, and other witchy wordy nerdy business. (he/him)
www.soothplayers.com
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
Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social Performance historian. Reader. Teacher. Feminist. Views my own and represent no one else. She/hers
Ambereen Dadabhoy @drdadabhoy.bsky.social Anglophile, Ottomaniac, Fangirl, Early mod prof. One of these is not like the others.
Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Dr Stephen O'Neill @mediashakes.bsky.social Stephen O'Neill, university teacher & Shakespearean | “Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak” | 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
More info here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/stephen-oneill
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains.
David Jardine @davidjardine.bsky.social 1997 — they/he — toronto
davidjardine.ca
making an attempt at life
Elisabeth Weston @liliwestartworld.bsky.social
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Alex Hewitt @alxhwtt.bsky.social Writer, producer, journalist, sometimes actor. He/him.
linktr.ee/alxhwtt
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
Leslie Travers @leslietravers.bsky.social International set and costume designer. Currently, RSC, Santa Fe Opera. Finnish National Opera, Opera de Lausanne. Greek National Opera.
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
zor!! 🐾 @zorrahh.bsky.social PROFESSIONAL DOG
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Jack Hawkins @omnifocus.bsky.social
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
Emily Corbett @dremilycorbett.bsky.social Academic specialising in children's and YA literature. Head of the MA Children's Literature programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
Dorothy Price @profdorrothy.bsky.social Art Historian, Curator, Professor @TheCourtauld Institute of Art London. Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History.
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.
Kathryn Maude @krmaude.bsky.social Head of Medieval Records at The National Archives
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
David Davison @notdrdave.bsky.social Hoarder of unread books—failed UMich PhD '24—AuDHD phenom—he/him enby—PASC
Was: global anglophone literatures+modernities, 1840s–2020s
Am: comparative political economies/philosophies/psychotherapies
Always: ethics, power, identity, theory of mind
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
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@sarabradley.bsky.social @sarabradley.bsky.social
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Katherine Scheil @kscheil.bsky.social English prof at U of Minnesota, fan of dogs, cats, books, theatre, wine, Anne Shakespeare and her husband, all the good stuff in life.
Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com Analyst @redmonk.com 📊
Affiliated researcher @ Georgia Tech 🎓
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