Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Advocacy & Academic Engagement Officer at Royal Historical Society. Lecturer in History @ Queen’s College, Oxford. FRHistS. All views my own. 🇨🇦🇱🇰🇬🇧
📧 hannah.elias@royalhistsoc.org
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
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.
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
Nikolas Funke @nikolasfunke.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Münster.
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Matthew Symonds @polybiblion.com
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).
Alan Stewart @alanstewart50.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Bridget Heal @bheal.bsky.social Early modern German history. Currently the Thirty Years War. And cats. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/bmh6
Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Maartje van Gelder @maartjegelder.bsky.social Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
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'
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
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/
Peter Barker @voxcanis.bsky.social I work in both history and philosophy of science. Current projects: the reality of celestial orbs before Tycho Brahe; the afterlife of Tychonism; women in the Scientific Revolution (with @sacrobosco.bsky.social)
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
Giovanni Gellera @giovannigellera.bsky.social Professor at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. Swiss National Science Foundation Consolidator Grant recipient. Early modern philosophy. John Mair, James Dundas @ihr-geneva.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci @dsc66.bsky.social
Serena Di Nepi @serenadinepi.bsky.social Historian of religious minorities and/plus jewish history in Early Modern Italy
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.
Charles Keenan, Ph.D. @charlesrkeenan.bsky.social
Helping build new programs in higher ed.
Sometime historian of early modern Europe, Catholicism, the Jesuits, ...
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
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#
Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
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!
Renaud ADAM @renaudadam.bsky.social Book historian | Low Countries 15th-17th | Censorship
https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=U188166
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.
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
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
Benjamin Anderson @benjaminanderson44.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of Edinburgh: Vermont, Northern Frontier, American Revolution, Localism🌲⛰️. Spare time: wandering with Sully the dug, stressing myself out with the Scotland national team 🏴, learning to deal with AuDHD.
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
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social
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.
Natalia Woszczyk @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social PhD researcher at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, exploring the history of emotions and migration in early modern Central-Eastern Europe.
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
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
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
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.
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
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!
Florian Wieser @florianwieser95.bsky.social history PhD grad and Honorary Fellow University of Edinburgh, c16&17 colonial, queer, global history - opinionated, gay, and nerdy --- 🇪🇺🏳️🌈📖
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/FlorianWieser
https://empirespastdotblog.wordpress.com/
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Danny Daly @rebels4ever.bsky.social Love GAA, rugby, European history, European football, Renaissance art, Baroque art, francophile, italophile, RFK, Caravaggio, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, Borromini.
Cleo Davies @cleodavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at Forward College in Paris. Formerly with PAIS Warwick Uni on project ‘Living with the Neighbours: the UK, the EU and wider Europe' - UK in a Changing Europe.
Bronwyn Clarke @bronwync.bsky.social Dress historian, historical dressmaker esp. 1750-1920 every day dress | Spinner, weaver, knitter, quilter, maker| Also novelist (as Bronwyn Parry)| Australian | Social justice matters| On Wadawarrung Country| She/her
stitchinghistory.com
bronwynparry.com
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 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Gilles Narcy @gnarcy.bsky.social Historien moderniste, doctorant Paris 1 - Statale (Milan). Italie - Méditerranée. Environnement et histoire sociale.
Susana Mateus @sumateus.bsky.social um caleidoscópio
inquisitions, diasporas, migrations, new-christians, gender, iberian colonial worlds
Grupo de investigação História das Inquisições:
https://portal.cehr.ft.lisboa.ucp.pt/Inquisicoes/index.php/Site/english
Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social Federico Finchelstein. Historian & Immigrant. 8 books on fascists & populists. Substack: federicofinchelstein.substack.com
Anne Régent-Susini @ar-s.bsky.social Earlymodernist, Literature Professor @Sorbonne nouvelle. French studies, Rhetoric, argumentation, eloquence, history of emotions, religious studies, travel narratives, historiography, preaching, (auto)biography, non-fiction
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmer’s son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Jaymie William Clarke @baronetjclarke.bsky.social ✨A fancy country squire ✨ something of a dandy or a fop /✨🏳️🌈 / 🇦🇺 / ASD🌻 / Labor / Civic-minded Social-Democrat🌹 / ✨ History / Politics major ✨
Dr Alistair Malcolm @alimalhistory.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Limerick. Lectures in Early Modern British, European and Global History. Researches seventeenth-century political and cultural history of Spanish monarchy
Gabriëlle La Croix @lacroixgabrielle.bsky.social Historian / PhD fellow at IN THE SAME SEA, University of Copenhagen / Family & Inter-island connections / Dutch & Danish in the 18th c. Caribbean
Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Iberian History at Oxford @iberiahistoryox.bsky.social Promoting the study of premodern Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world at the University of Oxford. https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Dr Charlotte Pickard @drcharlottepickard.bsky.social Medievalist researching noblewomen and marriage in 12th/13thc France | AL in FASS @ The Open University | Tutor on Exploring the Past Pathway, Cardiff University | Co-convenor Noblewomen Network | Co-editor of Approaching Medieval Sources Series | she/her
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social Updates and events from the History of Catholicism research cluster in the Centre for Catholic Studies at @durham-university.bsky.social
Andrea Rizzi @ Unimelb @andrearizzi.bsky.social Italian Renaissance Studies scholar, Translation historian, literary scholar, skier, very amateur tennis player..
Christian Casas García @christiangrciia.bsky.social Docteur en Histoire @EHESS_fr/@MondAmericains | l’Amérique latine dans les relations internationales au XXe siècle / la Colombie dans la Société des Nations. Histoire connectée des relations internationales 1919-1939
@ccailleaux.bsky.social @ccailleaux.bsky.social Compte personnel - Professeur d'HG et un peu médiéviste (chrétiens, juifs et musulmans en Catalogne) Duettiste - co-responsable national du groupe numérique et du groupe HG #SNES - Co-auteur du livre "Critiques de l'école numérique", 2019. Composteur d'IA
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social Department of Religion, UGA
Recent publications
On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml
On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social The leading publisher of illustrated military history
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England.
Philipp Hofmann @philipphofmann.bsky.social Historian | Religion, slavery, and landownership in early modern Angola | Postdoc at International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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/
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
💛Magda Teter🟦📖 @mteter-historian.bsky.social Historian/author: "Blood Libels, Hostile Archives"/"Christian Supremacy"/"Blood Libel"/"Sinners on Trial"/"Jews&Heretics" Fordham; NYRB
CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social 🔬 Centre d'Analyses et de Recherche en Art et Archéologie
La science au service de l’Art
📍 at Paris & Le Mans
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm