Hedwig @hedgoe.bsky.social Alte Frau Eifel/Mosel, seit Jahrzehnten Berlin
Keine AfD, keine Misogynie, kein Antisemitismus, keine Queerfeindlichkeit
Respekt und freundliches Miteinander
Lies viel, vergiß das meiste und sei schwer von Begriff (Montaigne)
Amelia Hutchinson (she/her) @ameliahutchinson.bsky.social materiality, health, environment, and networks of extraction in the early modern kingdom of hungary | deutsches bergbau museum / leibniz association
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
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
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social cultural, environmental historian | co-head of KLIMER research group, UiO | Swiss Excellence Grant alumna | based in Oslo & Zurich 🇳🇴🇨🇭 | here for culture of digitality in HEIs, care ethics & environmental history
Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social Historian of early modern Europe | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project | Asst Prof of History at TCU | Taco enthusiast
Ewelina Sikora @drsikora.bsky.social PhD from @historicalstudies.bsky.social
Food, drink, and diplomacy. Especially early modern and Central European.
Woring on a book manuscript that traces how exchanges cantered around the table reflected political negotiations.
🌻🍉
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
| Co-Editor History of Education
Giovanni Bracchi @giobrach.bsky.social Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous
Aske Laursen Brock @askebrock.bsky.social Working on urban development, gender and history from below more broadly in the early modern period
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Brendan C. Walsh @brendancwalsh.bsky.social Early Modern Intellectual Historian and Religious Scholar from Australia. Devotee of the Dark Arts: demonology and the supernatural in the 16th and 17th century Anglosphere.
https://brendancharleswals.wixsite.com/academic
Damiano Bardelli @damianobardelli.bsky.social historian, visiting fellow @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond · work & poverty · sociability & cosmopolitanism · Switzerland<>Europe
Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva @rgcuerva.bsky.social Científico titular IH-CSIC
Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social
Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis.
Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire
Charles Keenan, Ph.D. @charlesrkeenan.bsky.social
Helping build new programs in higher ed.
Sometime historian of early modern Europe, Catholicism, the Jesuits, ...
Heidi Keller-Lapp, Ph.D. @heidikl.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc France, colonies, nuns, religious texts, med recipes, gender/sex. I teach teachers, writers, voyagers, & other curious minds. I hang out with beagles, sons, sisters (blood and soul), & my first love. #earlymodernwomen #nuntastic
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social • Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
• Opinions mine
• She/her
Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social Animal historian working with rats 🐀 in early modern cities
University of York
I try to be creative too: artist, writer, videomaker and more
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
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.
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
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/
Peter @pemorel.bsky.social Bibliothécaire @labnf.bsky.social • Médiéviste & moderniste • Condottières, Colleoni, Italie(s) & Renaissance(s) 🇮🇹⚔ • Secrétaire @assomnemosyne.bsky.social • Parfois au micro de @cc2s.bsky.social 🎙️ • il/lui • 🏳️🌈 • 🌻🦊
Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social Historian of the English Revolution; Labour Councillor Lichfield City and Lichfield District Councils. Deputy leader of Lichfield City Council 2025-. Professor Emerita Keele University, UK.
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social Former philosophy professor and attorney, nascent historian and writer on Tudor intellectual history.
Chapel Hill, Oxford, Charlottesville, God only knows where next. Would very much like to live in a P. G. Wodehouse novel if that can be arranged.
Doris @dorisfornow.bsky.social Hero Image: The Quiraing, Isle of Skye
Photog: George Hiles
Source: Unsplash
Avatar: Climate temperature bars: https://showyourstripes.info/l/globe
June 21 is int'l "Show Your Stripes Day"
https://www.reading.ac.uk/planet/events/show-your-stripes-day
Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
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
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Monica Azzolini @m-azzolini.bsky.social Historian of early modern Science + Medicine + the Environment. Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and two rescue dogs. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
My views are my own.
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/
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. Historian. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social
and Early Career Research Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Researching the commissioning of governance and policymaking in the global Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social Maître de Conférences Sorbonne Université. Histoire du Saint-Empire XVe-XVIe siècle, histoire urbaine, arbalètes, baptêmes, et quelques calembours. Urban History of the Holy Roman Empire: between crossbows, Lutheran godparents and angry pastors
Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social Lecturing @manmetuni.bsky.social
Grand Tourist myself and Jacobite scholar.
FrHist/ SFHEA / PGCert
"The Jacobites and the Grand Tour" now out with Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179920/
🏳️🌈 & good theatre!
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
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Dr. Anna Brinkman @annakbrinkman.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/balancing-strategy/305960D358172DBCF641320024BFF71D#
Gabrielle Robilliard @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
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.
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
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
Tryntje Helfferich @tryntje.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
Niall Oddy @nialloddy.bsky.social Early modernist at the Open University, interested in travel and cross-cultural encounters.
Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun.
May post cat pics
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
Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Duncan Hardy @hrehistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor. 🇬🇧🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸. Holy Roman Empire & other medieval/early modern history. utk.academia.edu/DuncanHardy
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or employer.
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social Political theory PhD candidate, UC Berkeley polisci | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle
BA University of Toronto 🇨🇦 Save OSAP !!
https://antonia-alksnis.weeblysite.com/
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Andrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
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
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
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20