Gunnar Havsteen-Mikkelsen @gunnarhavsteen.bsky.social Special advisor on cyber security and risk management
Researching authoritarianism
Based in Copenhagen/Vienna
Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social I study early modern Europe and the history of drugs & alcohol at the University of Kentucky. I post about new scholarship on early modern Spain at https://emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/
Natália da Silva Perez @silvaperez.bsky.social Assistant professor of History at Erasmus University Rotterdam | Digital Humanities | History of Women | Languages | Dogs
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
@ironblok.bsky.social @ironblok.bsky.social 
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Tyson A. Luneau @tluneau.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SUNY Cortland. Deputy Editor, Environment and History (eandhwhp.bsky.social)
Historian of modern France & North Africa, studying colonialism, the environment, and urbanism. Former secondary history teacher.
www.tysonluneau.com
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.
Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology @acua-social.bsky.social https://acuaonline.org/
Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social Professor of History, George Mason University. Currently researching history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. Views my own.
zacharyschrag.com.
historyprofessor.org
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1420-551X
Ocean Decade Heritage Network @decadeheritage.bsky.social Without cultural heritage, how can the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-30 be delivered?
http://oceandecadeheritage.org/landing
Mary Hicks @maryhicks.bsky.social Author: Captive Cosmopolitans:
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/captive-cosmopolitans/
Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Here mostly maritime history & Ottoman history. Occasionally: German local history
#MaritimeHistory
www.linkedin.com/in/pd-dr-gul-sen-820422212
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social Postdoc at the KITLV | Editorial Assistant of the NWIG | Editorial Board Member of the EMLC | Historian of Empire, Maritime History, Slavery
https://ramonanegron.nl
Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Founded in 1966, Dialogue is the oldest independent journal of Mormonism, publishing scholarship, poetry, art and fiction on the Latter-day Saint experience. Published quarterly in print and online, the journal encourages a variety of viewpoints.
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Journal of Mormon History @jmormonhist.bsky.social The Journal of Mormon History is an official publication of the Mormon History Association (MHA). Its purpose is to publish scholarly work covering the full scope of Mormon History.
Est. 1974.
EDGES PROJECT @edgesproject.bsky.social EDGES is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2022 research & innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 101130077.
Fernanda Haag @ferhaag.bsky.social Lá vamos nós de novo!
Por aqui: futebol, História, feminismo e uma boa dose de reclamação.
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
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/
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
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
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. 
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Tudor food & garden historian 👩🌾 Author of 📕Eating with the Tudors. PGR @ University of East Anglia. Working on becoming *the* authority on the Chamberlyns of BB.
Helene Harrison MA MSc @tudorblogger.bsky.social Tudor Historian.
Writer behind TudorBlogger and HeleneReads.
Working at Northumbria University Library.
Books:
• Elizabethan Rebellions (2023)
• Tudor Executions (2024)
• The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn (2025)
• Henry VIII's Quest for an Heir (2026)
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
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/
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
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
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
Cat Evans @crevans.bsky.social Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social
Interested in books, beads, birds and baking. 
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
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.
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
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
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
Sophie Pitman @textilehistorian.bsky.social Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern)
Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social Singing researcher into #earlymodern ballads at Liverpool Hope University and Social History Society Administrator
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.
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.
Natália Pikli @puckinspirit.bsky.social Associate Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Shakespeare/early modern scholar, theatre and Star Wars nerd, rebellious bookworm. Author of "Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2022).
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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.
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Daphna Oren @daphnao.bsky.social Historian of women and the family in early modern Britian. Alt-ac. Mom. Geek. Dnd player. Crafter (knitting, quilting, cross-stitch). Posts are my own opinions. She/her.
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
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
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Susan M Cogan @susancogan.bsky.social Historian at Utah State Uni | Researching medieval/early modern grandparents & grandchildren, gardens, gender, material culture. Border collie mom, northwoods girl. 
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
susan rojas @susanrojas.bsky.social Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her)
MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
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
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social Project by Research Council of Finland, 2021-25 | Use of graphic devices + development of graphic literacies in England 1473-1800 | PI Matti Peikola, tweets by team members.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italy and other things; latest book: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy; Australian football tragic.
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.
Early Modern Metals Research Network @emodmetals.bsky.social EMMRN is an interdisciplinary, international research network for scholars interested in metals in the early modern world.
https://earlymodernmetals.wordpress.com/
EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @gmhamelin.bsky.social, media manager.
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
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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/