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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
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social Science & Medicine Historian @ Lancaster University. Author of Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London http://tinyurl.com/yy4nhqn7
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social Postdoc at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙‍♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩‍🎓 Cats 🐈‍⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her https://linktr.ee/tabithastanmore
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 Róisín Donohoe @roisindonohoe.bsky.social medievalist & leisure witch / special collections & archives / medicine & ritual & devotion / she.her.sí.í
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England.
Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
Anna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social Researcher @ Universiteit Leiden • Early Modern History of Science, the Environment, Capitalism • Book: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social Interested in the early modern Iberian Atlantic, Lecturer at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, UCL
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!? IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️‍🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~ + speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
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/
Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social Heritage at @nenature.bsky.social 'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund Writing stuff is over here: @pdkmitchell.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
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).
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social‬. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Xianglong Zhu @shannonzhu.bsky.social Studying modern Chinese history of science and technology @HPS Cambridge
Finn Manders @historyfinn.bsky.social Year 1 History PhD at UCL & The Wellcome Collection, particularly interested in health & the body, gender and time. Also a runner, Quaker and poetry-writer.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Melanie Keene @melaniekeene.bsky.social Historian of science, education, and childhood. Homerton College, Cambridge.
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time' Volunteer for Abortion Support Network Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social Early Modern Poland–Lithuania history of science/thebook/reading/writing astrology/writing–almanacs/annotation practices @eui-history.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/jakub.ochocinski
Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Rosanna Dent @r-dent.bsky.social historian of science and medicine : Brazil : Latin American studies : digital humanist. she/ela/ella
@charusingh.bsky.social @charusingh.bsky.social
Mary Augusta Brazelton @brazelton.bsky.social Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science || Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge || Singer, sailor, runner, father || "Always generous" – The New Yorker
S Sebestian Kroupa @sebkroupa.bsky.social Historian of early modern medicine & science
Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social Historian of the Social Sciences, Education & Drugs/Drug Policy Convenor of Post-Prohibition: Research, Pedagogy & Action, CRASSH Network Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France
Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Faculty of History and University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Reading & writing about 19-20th c. botany, zoology, and other expeditionary sciences in SEA 🇸🇬 she/her https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/katherine-enright
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social Postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-27) - skin and the senses in early modern drama - women's writing - material culture - history of the book
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
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
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator Not often here. Insta below... Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
@luisfbjunqueira.bsky.social @luisfbjunqueira.bsky.social D. Kim Foundation & Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-luis-fernando-bernardi-junqueira
Jen McFarland @jenmcfarland.bsky.social Historian of early modern Italy working on ageing, disability, community and urban space
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
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.
Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Europe and the World @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Formerly SNSF PostDoc @Zurich|Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr| EUI PhD Iberian & North African Empires, Material culture, Mobility in the EM World 🌊
Suze Zijlstra @suzezij.bsky.social Historian | Colonial & Maritime History | Assistant Professor in Public History of Slavery at University of Amsterdam | Research Curator at the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum | Author of 'De voormoeders'
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor @Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Jenni Lares @jlares.bsky.social PhD in history focusing on Middle Ages, Early Modern, social & cultural history, public history, and history of drinking 🍻. Currently working with Viabundus Finland 1350-1650 HGIS database & map at Tampere University | IG: jenni__lares
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️‍🌈
Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. Member of the UKLAH board. Colonial LASA Social Media committee. https://guillaumecandela.github.io
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
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.
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social PhD candidate @Radboud University studying the history of human-insect relations 🐜🦗🪰 | Editor for the Yearbook of Women's History (AUP)| #envhist #entomology Nederlands & English
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Raisa Toivo @raisatoivo.bsky.social Professor of the history of early modern society. I work on history of experience, faith and religion, family and gender and withchcraft on particular. I am a person.
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
Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
Lloyd Bowen @lloydbowen.bsky.social Early modern historian of Wales and Britain (esp. British Civil Wars) at Cardiff University. Also work on petitioning, duelling, political cultures. Edward Vaughan book free to download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-trials-of-edward-vaughan/
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
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
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780. Also likes baking cakes
James Fox @jamesafox.bsky.social Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Marie van Haaster @marievhaaster.bsky.social PhD researcher @eui-eu | History of Consolation, Health, Welfare, Religion, Experience
Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname💧| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) 📚| former primary school teacher 👨‍🏫| civis europeus 🇪🇺
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
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.
Miri Rubin @mirierubin.bsky.social Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
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
Alisha Rankin @profrankin.bsky.social Professor and Chair of History at Tufts. Co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Posts on the history of early modern medicine and science; teenagers; cooking; running; cats.
Euan Roger @euanroger.bsky.social Principal Medieval Records Specialist at The National Archives (UK), Medieval/Tudor historian & archaeology fun as well as #ChaucerLifeRecords. All views my own
Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.