Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Pierre Salvadori @pierresalvadori.bsky.social ATER @upecofficiel.bsky.social. Thèse 2024 : "Des cartes, des humains et des glaces. Savoirs, empires et mondes sous les latitudes d'un Nord global, c. 1530-1610"
Globes d’Europe du Nord/empire suédois/natures froides d’Europe et d’ailleurs, XVIe-XVIIe
Aaron Larsen @double-a-larsen.bsky.social Medieval and Early Modern Historian at Mount Allison University. DPhil in History, Oxford, 3x UNBC alumnus, educator. Exploring space, place, and landscape in early modern Europe, with a focus on witchcraft, cartography, and the digital humanities.
Leah Price @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy #BookHistory, #VictorianStudies. Writing: NYRB / TLS/ NYTBR/Basic Books. Making: Scarlet Letterpress. Mid-move from Rutgers U to Oxford U. #Prosopagnosiac.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@LeahPrice, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Katarina Krotin @katarinalind.bsky.social 
Riksantikvarieämbetet @raa-se.bsky.social Riksantikvarieämbetet är Sveriges myndighet för frågor om kulturarvet. Vi arbetar för att kulturmiljöer, kulturlandskap, kulturföremål och museer ska bevaras, användas och utvecklas.
Läs mer om hantering av kommentarer: raa.se/socialamedier
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Natalie M. Smith @nataliesmith.bsky.social Associate lecturer at @mhafhs.bsky.social; Rettig Fellow. History PhD on the Swedish Empire & identity from St Andrews. Swedish & Sami History, history of empire, science and knowledge. Also expect baking, crocheting and cats 🐈
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Fürstinnenbibliotheken @fuerstinnen.bsky.social Ein DFG-Langfristvorhaben der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel und @tcdh.bsky.social. Wir rekonstruieren 100 Fürstinnenbibliotheken des 18. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Mehr Informationen: http://diglib.hab.de/?link=190
@ubuit.bsky.social @ubuit.bsky.social 📚 University Library at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway ❄️
Sharing books, research, events & library life from the top of the world 🌍✨
Hàncunín @hancunin.bsky.social 
UiT Norges arktiske universitet @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social Den offisielle kontoen til UiT Norges arktiske universitet. The official account for UiT The Arctic University of Norway. https://uit.no
History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
The Northern Review @thenorthernreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal | Human experience in the Circumpolar North | Open Access | Published at Yukon University since 1988
Whitehorse | Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council
https://thenorthernreview.ca 
Daisy Dixon @daisydixon.bsky.social Philosopher of Aesthetics at Cardiff University
Teaching the Codex @teachingcodex.bsky.social Pedagogical approaches to palaeography, codicology, and early print. Organisers: Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social), Tristan Franklinos, Jessica Rahardjo, Seb Dows-Miller (@sebdm.bsky.social)
Vetenskapsrådet/Swedish Research Council @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social I nuläget är vi inte aktiva i denna kanal.
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Per Pippin Aspaas @aspaasper.bsky.social Senior Academic Librarian and part-time researcher.
Open Access; Open Research; Digitisation of Old Texts.
History of Science; Neo-Latin; Renaissance Studies; Europe; Far North; Saami History; Aurora Borealis Research; Natural History; Cartography.
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
Anna Nilsson Hammar @annanilssonhammar.bsky.social Researcher in History at Lund University. Early modern knowledge societies, confessional conflicts and everyday lives. 
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser // Letterpress amateur // Previous rare books librarian at UMN // MLIS, St Kate's // MA American Studies, Columbia
DC -> NYC -> MPLS -> BC
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Fine Book Fairs @finebookfairs.bsky.social Organize rare book and print fairs across the US. Upcoming events in Indianapolis, April 25th-26th, DC, May 2nd-4th, NYC, September 26th-28th, Philadelphia, December 4th-6th. More information: finefairs.com
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social Canadian Medievalist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @Linnaeus Uni.
Docent @Lund Uni.
PI @MappingSaints.
WebEditor @info_Scandia.
Saints & society; Digital History; Medieval book fragments; Mediating the past via reconstructions/re-creations, (re)enactment
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
Sara Torstensson @saratorstensson.bsky.social PhD student with a passion for immunology
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social Early modern travel historian researching rare books. Digital Humanities enthusiast. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Kate Long @gingeykate.bsky.social Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Little bit of ranting. Research Services Archivist. Western Mass. she/her.
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Claire K Clement @clairekclement.bsky.social Medieval history (PhD Cambridge), Gates Scholar, comparative religion & philosophy. Independent scholar. clairekclement.com
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.
Danielle Westerhof @behindthespines.bsky.social Rare books curator and historic libraries fan. Works in archives and special collectons at Durham University (UK), currently leading on the development of our academic teaching offer. Personal views only.
Malcolm Choat @malfy-c.bsky.social Historian, papyrologist, Coptologist: forgery, authenticity, ethics, and provenance; scribal practice in Greek and Coptic papyri; Coptic monasticism & first millennium Egypt.
Jennifer Young @printlady.bsky.social 17th century book history, Shakespeare, ex-pat, all things early modern print culture 
McGowin Library @pembrokelibraryoxf.bsky.social The library of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Kelsey Lee @kelseyelee.bsky.social PhD (Durham University) | Anthropologist | Folklorist | Culture, animals, folklore, cartography, medieval archaeozoology & ethnobotany | Circumpolar Arctic | Has somehow ended up in TX
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
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social Curator of Archives at Museum Plantin-Moretus • Self-funded PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam • Posts about the printing staff of the Plantin Press
Fornvännen - Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research @fornvannen.bsky.social #PeerReviewed #OpenAccess journal published since 1906 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Nordic #Archaeology #ArchaeologicalScience #Osteology #Medieval #History #ArtHistory #Runology
https://publicera.kb.se/fornvannen
Centralantikvariatet @centralant.bsky.social Rare and antiquarian book store in Stockholm. Member of ILAB.
www.centralantikvariatet.se
Lucy Vinten @lucyvinten.bsky.social Archivist, Rare Books specialist at the British Jesuit Archive, collector of old household books, wooden boat enthusiast. Part-owner of a 2CV. Parent. She/her
Boekwetenschap UvA @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social University of Amsterdam, Book Studies. 
Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network @oxscandistudies.bsky.social We're a @torchoxford.bsky.social Student Network, at @ox.ac.uk, run by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine, and Tzen Sam. Our focus is on Scandinavia as a region. Read more on our website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Chiara Betti @chiara-betti.bsky.social Curatorial Research Assistant (Society of Antiquaries of London)
AHRC CDP PhD Student at SAS and the Bodleian Libraries, studying Richard Rawlinson's #copperplates
Art historian & print historian.
Instagram: @rascal_art_historian
Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social Early grammars and related matters of art and design. Images from institutions (attributed) and private collections (watermarked C&D). Coffee and donuts to be found elsewhere.
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Peter Sjökvist @sjokvist.bsky.social Librarian & Latinist. Uppsala University.
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
- Maritime Warfare (1513-1713)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Law & the Conduct of War
"Late onset academic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Murdoch
Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
Projekt Runeberg @runeberg-org.bsky.social Fri nordisk litteratur, på Internet sedan 1992.
https://runeberg.org/
Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
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
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
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
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
linktr.ee/cejacobson
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer @lmckeizer.bsky.social Curator (Early Modern Era) at the National Library of Scotland | Passionate about archives, libraries, and museums in any shape or form | she/her | views own
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social archivar/archivist, historiker/historian, latinist #archivCH #fridaynightatthearchives #viedarchiviste #AarbergBisZweisimmen
Mastodon @th_schmid@openbiblio.social
Instagram @th_schmid
Sara Schliep @sbschliep.bsky.social Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social Historian of early modern science and art |
max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
#VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions |
Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com
Andrew Preater @preater.com Always-already librarianing. 🍞🌹🌹
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. 💁♂️
🦣 @preater@hcommons.social
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of medieval literature in Louisiana • University of California, Riverside, PhD • once described as “disgusting and unnerving”
feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him
opinions expressed are my own
Matt Barfield @mdbarfield48.bsky.social ⚖️ PGDL student
🎓 PhD in 🇫🇷📚 from @gsas.harvard.edu
🎷🎹🎵 Jazz fanatic
📍 Cam, 🇬🇧 ➡️ Cam, MA 🇺🇸 ➡️ Cam, 🇬🇧
Julie Nelson Davis @juliendavis.bsky.social faculty @upenn, often thinking about early modern prints and books in Japan; sometimes writing about them, too. 
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Dr Micah Mackay @micahmackay.bsky.social Writer and Historian ✍️
Dr of Carols (yes, really) 🎓
Arts Development & Cultural Advocate🎭
Currently writing about how we can transform arts funding ✨