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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Todd Atticus @toddatticus.com Artist and book cover designer Current show: Alas Alas, July 16-25, Tasman Building, 16-22 Anzac Ave, Auckland http://www.toddatticus.com https://www.instagram.com/toddatticus
Minoo Dinshaw @minooframroze.bsky.social Author, ‘Outlandish Knight’ & ‘Friends in Youth’. 1066-1746 hist (,) lit & lit hist w/ few forays into ancient world & 20th c writing. Recovering Jacobite, unreconciled Roryite
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford. E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies. Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
TORCH Oxford @torchoxford.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
International Spenser Society @spensersociety.bsky.social Fashioning a gentleman or noble person, one morall vertue at a time
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Selden Society @seldensociety.bsky.social Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history. Account maintained by @jctate1215.bsky.social.
IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social Seminars on British history c. 1500-1650. 5.30pm on Mondays at the IHR, London, and online. All welcome! Join out mailing list: tudorstuart.seminar@gmail.com
Ros Smith @rossmith.bsky.social Lover of marginalia, early modern poetry, women’s writing, gardens, dogs, city and country pursuits
Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC 📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge, occasional academic. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Dr Jemima Hubberstey @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
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.
Dr. Niall Allsopp @niallallsopp.bsky.social Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history. Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
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.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️‍🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈‍⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social Early modernist, perpetual reviser. Career Development Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/amy-lidster
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️‍🌈
Kate Allan @katefallan.bsky.social Early modern women’s poetry, scientific writing, and alchemy.
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University. she/her.
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) 🇳🇿
Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social Writer and theatre type
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Tom Cook [isn’t really here] @tomcook24.bsky.social poet critic person • typographer for Faber & Faber and elsewhere • TLS contributor • currently editing a new selection of Wordsworth • typesetting work: tom.cook@turnstonebooks.co.uk
Jake Arthur @jakearthur.bsky.social
Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙‍♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE🐦‍⬛ THE FALCON AND THE ROSE 🥀
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
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.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦‍🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
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
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Emma Rhatigan @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social Early modernist at Sheffield.
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
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
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
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
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.
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European. ‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History at Uni of Oxford | Roman Asia, Numismatics, Post-Classical Polis | Butter lover (he/him)
jenyth evans @jenyth.com she/her 🌿 jenyth.com content designer @ aquila interactive 🌿 used to teach medieval irish lang & lit 🌿 views my own, not of my employer
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social‬ ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social She/her. Early modernist. Postdoc on @stemma.bsky.social at @uniogalway.bsky.social. PhD on Petition. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
David Francis Taylor @davidftaylor.bsky.social Professor of English, Oxford
Oxford English Faculty Outreach @engfacoutreach.bsky.social The official account for the Oxford English Faculty Outreach team.
Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September! https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art 🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social We care for Shakespeare's family homes and share the love of his work, life, and times from his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. www.shakespeare.org.uk
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭 17th Century Theatre Oxford University Professional Yorkshireman “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind” https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social
Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social I used to be a structuralist, but now I'm not Saussure. Bad puns/ good books/ eighteenth-century material culture/ feathers & prisons and their constitutive meanings/ global enlightenments. Trinity College, Oxf/ Leverhulme ECR / BBC new gen thinker. Tired.
Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies @oxfordcems.bsky.social CEMS is a hub for Oxford researchers of all disciplines who are interested in the various aspects of early modernity in Europe and beyond. Please see our website for details about our events and more: https://earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court @mappinginns.bsky.social For researchers of all things Inns of Court in the 16th and 17th centuries. https://mappinginns.wordpress.com/
Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social Early Modernist, postdoc with @stemma.bsky.social, manuscripts, poetry, transmission
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
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.
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
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K Bee Wilson @kitchenbee.bsky.social I write about food. And other things. Latest book is THE SECRET OF COOKING. Founder of TastEd ( a food education charity): the joy of vegetables & fruits.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️‍🌈
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
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