Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
raincoaster @raincoaster.bsky.social Journalist, gadfly, anarchist, petsitter. Petsitting pays the best. Bjork once called me cool. “The Lois Lane of Anonymous” according to some.
Paddy Young @paddyisyoung.bsky.social
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Jordan S. Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Timothy Simons @timothycsimons.bsky.social Actor. Golfer. Doesn't like cocaine but likes songs about cocaine.
https://linktr.ee/timothycsimons
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Sometimes funny. Author of WINTERSET HOLLOW (1st edition out of print, 2nd edition coming October 2026!) HOLLYWOODLAND coming 2027!
https://www.jonathanedwarddurham.com
https://jonathanedwarddurham.substack.com
Murder Of A Famous... @murderbastard.bsky.social A weekly murder mystery podcast, written and narrated by Mark Watson and featuring many guest stars. SECOND SERIES COMING SORT OF FAIRLY SOON.
Join the investigation: https://discord.gg/2eD3ZJ5UGN
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
The Rest Is Entertainment @trientertainment.bsky.social The Rest Is Entertainment pulls back the curtain on television, film, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde.
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
Stefano Dall'Aglio @sdallaglio.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
Luc Wodzicki @lucowitz.bsky.social 📜 Historian of the Early Modern Mediterranean, Europe and Italy 🌍 | Exploring Thoughts, Things, & Landscapes 🏞️ | Post-Doc@ Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy🔍 | Antifascist
Dr. Delphine Montoliu Di Stefano @delphinemontoliu.bsky.social Docteure en études italiennes (Univ. Toulouse II / SNS Pisa)
Chercheure associée Il Laboratorio - Univ. Toulouse II
Membre Honoraire de la Società Modicana per la Storia Patria.
> Académies et érudits de la Sicile des XVe-XVIIe s.
> Lettres Classiques - DH
Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social H-Sicily is a network focused on the history of southern Italy-from the islands to the mainland-from late antiquity to early modernity.
Find us on H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
Géraud Poumarède @gpoumarede.bsky.social Professeur d'Histoire moderne
Relations internationales, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Italie, Méditerranée, Empire ottoman
Sorbonne Université
Centre Roland Mousnier (CRM)
Alix K. 🌻 @lilithdebeauvoir.bsky.social 📚 femmes violentes, femmes artistes & autrices dans l'Italie du XVIIe 🔪 cofondatrice des Mains Invisibles 🫶
https://linktr.ee/lilithdebeauvoir
Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
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 ✝️
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account of the society and Sixteenth Century Journal. #SCSC2026 Conference will meet in Chicago.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
The Brilliant Club @brilliantclub.bsky.social We support young people to access and thrive at leading universities by working with schools, parents and the education sector. #BackingBrilliance
https://linktr.ee/thebrilliantclub
Jasper Hawkes @jasper-hawkes.bsky.social PhD student at St Mary’s University Twickenham. Working on a thesis examining the diplomatic career of Stephen Gardiner
Engagement Officer @courtstudies.bsky.social
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Ben Schwartz @rejectedjokes.bsky.social Rejectedjokes.com
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
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
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.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities. Keen on C16th letters & archives and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
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 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social early modern history, popular medicine, petitioning, women’s narratives in manuscripts, customary knowledge, colonialism, sovereignty
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441 book
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England.
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
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.
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.
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 Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Badly Parked Oxford @badlyparkedox.bsky.social Highlighting #antisocialparking across Oxford, UK.
Tag your #badlyparkedcars @badlyparkedox.bsky.social or email pics to BadlyParkedOxford@gmail.com for anon
@offmenuofficial.bsky.social @offmenuofficial.bsky.social
Charlie Bowden @charlie-bowden.bsky.social charliefromthetopofthehill.substack.com
Quinten Somsen @quintensomsen.bsky.social Dr. | Historian | Lecturer at Radboud University | Book Project: Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic | Holy Roman Empire & Dutch Republic | #earlymodern | https://independent.academia.edu/QuintenSomsen
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
Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social Green Party county councillor for Parks (Oxfordshire) & sustainability researcher @ox.ac.uk
Books. Bikes. Buses. Trains. Cooking. Hiking. Nature. Climate. Inequality. Public Health.
She/her
Promoted by James Thorniley at 12A Merlin Road, OX4 6EP
Maxime Morel @maximemorel.bsky.social French PhD Researcher in history at the EUI (Florence)
Early Modern Mediterranean | Naval Ceremony | Diplomatic History
Coordinator of the Diplomatic and International History WG
Alumnus Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/ENS Paris-Saclay
"Intolerant woke warrior"
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
New Diplomatic History network @ndh-network.bsky.social Investigating diplomacy as an extension of social interests, forces, and environments....
Website- newdiplomatichistory.org
Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society
https://brill.com/view/journals/dipl/dipl-overview.xml
@louisabergold.bsky.social @louisabergold.bsky.social
DIPLOINMED @diploinmed.bsky.social "Intercultural Mediterranean Diplomacy of the Spanish Monarchy / Diplomacia intercultural mediterránea de la Monarquía hispana" (PID2022-139326NB-I00)
IP Rubén González Cuerva
Max Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social
Dries Raeymaekers @driesraey.bsky.social Historian of early modern politics and culture at Radboud University. Interested in the history of monarchy, dynasties, and princely courts.
Vendy Hoppe @vendyhoppe.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, previously University of Warwick. Researching early modern velvets, visual & material cultures.
Lisa Castro @lisacastro.bsky.social Docteure en Histoire contemporaine Framespa I chercheuse associée MGNE
Bernadotte Programmet 2024 🇸🇪 👑 Queenship studies
Co-orga. JE Circulations des savoirs autour de la mer Baltique https://cbaltique.hypotheses.org/
🪶Comité @lesmainsinvisibles.bsky.social
Jack Rooke @jackrooke.bsky.social big boys out now on channel 4 and Hulu 👍
Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
Email newsletter twice a week: https://oxfordclarion.uk
For stories: news@oxfordclarion.uk
Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social Gently morphing from youth opera direction to libretto writing. Unrepent old leftie. Foreigner. She / her.
Ivo Graham @ivograham.bsky.social New app same pic. Would very much welcome any pre orders of my book
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
The Court Jeweller (Lauren Kiehna) @courtjeweller.bsky.social History, royalty, and other sparkly stuff from Lauren Kiehna @laurenkiehna.bsky.social, writer & editor at thecourtjeweller.com.
Contact: lauren@thecourtjeweller.com
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social Home to the University of Oxford's community of Intellectual Historians | Follow us for updates on events, publications & more | intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
Allison Adler Inglis-Taylor @allisonadler.bsky.social PG European political and cultural history 1750-present. Owned by setters Tess & Cora.
Sofia Barbieri @sofiainthearchive.bsky.social MSt History @Oxford | Violence, Honour and Space in 17th c. Genoa 💅🏻
Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social PhD in history @utoronto.ca | early modern festivals and military history |Sound Studies and DH | Singer | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | She/her
Website: https://heathernsmith.com/
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree
German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social Live-posting events in the German Peasants’ War for their 500th anniversary. Account run by the Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants’ War Project at Oxford and Royal Holloway: https://germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Lledó Ruiz Domingo @lledoruiz.bsky.social Adjunct Lecturer at the University Jaume I. PhD in Medieval History, University of València. Queenship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon is my passion. “El tresor de la Reina”, CSIC 2022.
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social
@tryleo.bsky.social @tryleo.bsky.social
Daniel Dale @ddale8.bsky.social I’m a senior reporter at CNN.
Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne ✨
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/seminars-reading-groups/early-modern-circle
(acct run by@paigedonaghy.bsky.social)
Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social Professor of Finnish and Nordic History, University of Helsinki, Finland. Suomen Historiallisen Seuran puheenjohtaja.
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/anu-lahtinen
Mastodon: @anulahtinen@mementomori.social
https://anulah.wordpress.com
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
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
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
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
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social. Study: @Harvard.edu. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, intimacy/consent, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.
Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.
The Bishop @nomuskplease.bsky.social Education, Lecturer, Councillor. Interests are many but specifically are : Early modern political history ( print, Parliament and Succession) , London history, politics and the natural world. West Brom Fan. Not in any particular order. #Skystorians