Rob Pollard @robpollard.bsky.social History teacher. Music. And stuff.
Giovanni Bracchi @giobrach.bsky.social Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Charlotte Dodds @charlottedodds.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD candidate @ University of York 🦆 Researching children’s sensory history & education in early modern England/Scotland!
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.
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
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
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
The Library of Trinity College Dublin @tcdlibrary.bsky.social The Library of Trinity College Dublin is a major research library, supporting learning, teaching and research across the University. Follow us here for TCD Library updates, activities, events & a spotlight on our fabulous Research Collections.
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Izzi Strevens @izzistrevens.bsky.social 📖 PhD Student in Early Modern Drama
🕺🏼@revelsoffice.bsky.social Committee
💙 Research Assistant @ Beyond Shakespeare
🫀weird play enthusiast
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social PhD, FRAS, RHS Associate Fellow. Read history, spirituality, art, and immigration law. Research in 18th cen transatlantic British nonconformity and world Christianity.
Toronto, ON (Treaty 13)
Cinzia Priola @profcvpriola.bsky.social Prof of Work and Organisation Studies, The Open University. Posts in personal capacity. Repost not endorsements. Italian & Sardinian in UK. Work Homepage: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/vp3444
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)|Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw|Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team- J Julia Mahoney @juliamahoney.bsky.social Professor, University of Virginia School of Law. Political Economy, Property, Constitutional Law, Altruism, Innovation
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
Dr Alex Mortimore @alexmortimore3.bsky.social DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages. Thesis on Goethe's response to the French Revolution. Interested in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany.
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Mattia Corso @mcorso7.bsky.social Early modern historian | Material culture & religious studies enthusiast | Member of ERC HolyLab (https://holylab-erc.uniroma3.it/)
https://uniromatre.academia.edu/MattiaCorso
Dries Raeymaekers @driesraey.bsky.social Historian of early modern politics and culture at Radboud University. Interested in the history of monarchy, dynasties, and princely courts.
Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social Early English books | manuscript and print | between medieval & early modern | PhD | Lecturer, English @utu.fi | PI @titaraproject.bsky.social | she/her
Adi Blum Levin @adiblumlevin.bsky.social Dante enthusiast, bookseller @quaritch1847.bsky.social, and scatterbrain extraordinaire. Opinions are my own. She/her.
William Poulter @williampoulter.bsky.social History DPhil at St Peter's College, Oxford. Working on livery companies, strangers and integration in sixteenth century London.
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.
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Sophie Floate @librarybodle.bsky.social Rare books cataloguer at University of Oxford
Maria Giovanna De Simone @mginotherwords.bsky.social Rare Books Cataloguer for a stunning library in Cambridge, mum of two, pro-EU, Kaizers Orchestra fan, campaigner for many good causes - above all: #truthforGiulioRegeni. I try to do my best.
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Heather Nicholas @heathernicholas.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University researching George Whitefield and Evangelicalism in 18th Century England.
Project coordinator of Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500-1850
Tutor in Humanities at Aberystwyth University
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
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. 📚
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Dr Edwin Sheffield @edwin-history.bsky.social PhD in History from @uofglasgow.bsky.social: 'The MacKenzie Earls of Seaforth & the Stuart Dynasty, 1651-1719' | Historical researcher for the Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland & the UK | Primary Teacher | North Carolinian in Scotland
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
Aaron Ackerley @aaronackerley.bsky.social Modern British History. Press and Media. Empire. Economics. Knowledge and Power.
Associate Professor in History, University of Stavanger
Jane Falconer @falkie71.bsky.social Librarian at @lshtm.bsky.social. Systematic review searching, user services and teaching at work. History, #LFC and #crochet geek at home. Exiled highlander. She/her
Miri Rubin @mirierubin.bsky.social Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
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 Alison Daniell @alispencer.bsky.social Author, former family lawyer and all-round plate spinner currently working in learning development. Independent scholar: 18th century women, law, literature (esp Jane Austen) plus a bit of witchcraft 🐈⬛
Rachel Cockerell @rachelcockerell.bsky.social MELTING POINT coming to the US in May 2025 @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Michael Fraser @mcfras15.bsky.social PhD Candidate: Scotland in the Protestant International, 1689-1732 | University of St Andrews | Funded by SGSAH.
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Gerardo López Vázquez @gerlv.bsky.social Historiador, profesor y periodista de opinión 🌻🍏🤓
I write in English on https://medium.com/@xerardolpez
Islay Shelbourne @islayshelbourne.bsky.social Historian. Currently researching Californian understandings of the 1918-19 Flu. Strolling in St Andrews and finding my future in the past.
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.
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
Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social Historian addicted to premodern stuff, especially to bodies and knowledge...
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Rory Smith @rorysmith.bsky.social The Observer, Men In Blazers, the Monday Night Club, Libero. Author of "Mister" and "Expected Goals."
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 📚🦋
Charlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985. @QMUL History. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
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.
Wojciech Kordyzon @wkordyzon.bsky.social PhD | Book and literature historian | Early modernist | Assistant Professor @University of Warsaw
https://uw.academia.edu/wkordyzon
Doris Gruber @dorisirod.bsky.social Head of the Research Unit Art History @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social
#earlymodern, #prints, #bookhistory, #travelliterature, #dh, #computationalhumanities.
she/her.
Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (He/Him) @discantor87.bsky.social Historian of sound and senses in the early modern Mediterranean | Research Fellow at @standrewshist.bsky.social
Husband, father of 1 (cat), proudly woke 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (joined January ‘25)
Dr. Pelayo Fernández García @pelayo-fergar.bsky.social #earlymodern historian. PhD in History, PhD in Humanistic Research, FRHistS. Interested in cultural, war and diplomatic History, also network analysis. Early Modern History Substitute Professor in @udc.gal (He/him).
http://es.linkedin.com/in/pelayofergar
Isabelle Riepe @isabelleriepe.bsky.social PhD on Weltliteratur @EUI
book history | material culture | transcultural exchange | heritage
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Renaud ADAM @renaudadam.bsky.social Book historian | Low Countries 15th-17th | Censorship
https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=U188166
Elizabeth Shannon @shannonlane.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews
George C. Marshall, military history, and memoir
🇺🇸 American expat in Scotland 🏴
Dr Katie Crowther @katiecrowther.bsky.social research assistant | curator | PhD on material letters, print culture, and the c18 country house 💌
Henry Moxon @hjmoxon.bsky.social Bookseller and Medieval history graduate.
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Amelie Roper @amelieroper.bsky.social Head of Research at Cambridge University Library. Interests include research collaboration, AI for cultural heritage collections, collection development and early (music) printing.
Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social Medievalist. Pre modern lit & culture across borders, especially all things Arthurian. FRHistS, FHEA. Folkie. 🎵 Mareganlefay.bsky.social
Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network @oxscandistudies.bsky.social We're a @torchoxford.bsky.social Student Network, at @ox.ac.uk, run by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine, and Tzen Sam. Our focus is on Scandinavia as a region. Read more on our website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Maggie Shipstead @maggieshipstead.bsky.social Writer, Los Angeles
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️🌈
Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social History Never Ended Substack. Author The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself. Host ABC Saturday Extra. Former BBC US correspondent
Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
Leif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social Historian, museum jack of all trades, and DPhil candidate in History (Oxford)
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) 🇳🇿
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).