Rory Hennell James @rorydhj.eurosky.social Postdoc at the CSSB Hamburg, studying mycobacterial secretion with #CryoEM and #CryoET. Generally something of a nerd. He/him.
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
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
ARL @queebees.bsky.social européenne. historian*arthistorian*medievalist (sie/hon/she) #norrlandliebe
Erfurt & Ansbach – Europe
❤️sometimes 🟰Bookmark
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
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
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
Elizabeth Newton-Jackson @lizzienj.bsky.social Avid crafter and PhD student. I write about early modern women, textile history, and material culture. Through textile re-construction and re-creation projects, I explore the possibilities of embodied learning as a way to unlock the past.
Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social Novelist. PhD in early modern lit. History of science fan. THE VILLAGE HEALER'S BOOK OF CURES (Lake Union 10/23). Oregonian. Rep'd by Jen Newens/Martin Literary Management
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/
Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad de Valladolid @buvasantacruz.bsky.social 
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Juliane Eckstein @julianeeckstein.bsky.social Theologin, Alttestamentlerin, Übersetzerin
weder konservativ noch liberal
oder
liberal und konservativ – je nach Thema
in jedem Fall: christlich und nachdenklich
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social Books, birds, sometimes both
Lucie Moruzzis @lucieworuz.bsky.social Bookbinder, Conservator, PhD, Historienne et archéologue du livre, Zonarde des grands dépôts aux Archives nationales.
Amandine Jelen @msshhl3.bsky.social Moderniste • Histoire du cheval • Histoire du livre • XVIe-XVIIIe s.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Yijie Huang @yijiehuang.bsky.social Historian of medicine and science. Postdoc @HeidelbergHistory, PhD @CambridgeHPS. Exploring pre-modern body and healing. Writing on pulse, fever, and more.
Leonie Böttiger @leonieboettiger.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at MPIWG Berlin researching premodern Arabic recipe collections related to crafts. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
I write about my research at arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org
Océane Fontaine Cioffi @oceanefc.bsky.social PhD student in history (she/her) • History of Early Modern Science and Technology & Material Culture • Recipe books & reconstruction •
👃🌹🍃 Thesis topic: The Art of Scents. Fragrances in 16th-Century France •
History of senses, of olfaction, of embodiment
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
Dr. Michael W. Jung @mjung1.bsky.social history of scientific diving and diving technology, history of ocean exploration, deep sea diving, sub-oceanic history. author, bookreviewer, lecturer. ICHO member
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 📚
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
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 Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social CrowdsourceHerBook is a research project about women's history, old books, and participatory science based at the University of Southern Denmark.
Project blog: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/
Posts by Charlotte Epple
MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Dr Serin Quinn @serinquinn.bsky.social Early modern historian working on food, horticulture and global connectivity | Research Fellow with the Society for Renaissance Studies | Associate Fellow RHS | PhD on the history of the tomato 🍅 | she/her
Stefan Leicht @sutzkever.bsky.social Curator of yiddish exhibitions, philosopher, librarian.
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Hannah Wiepke @hannahwiepke.bsky.social art historian | early modern print & book history | maker-knower | PhD Candidate at University of Minnesota
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social School of History @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
Nathan Gabbard @nathangabbard.bsky.social Bibliophile. Rare and antiquarian bookseller, @OwlCreekBooks.com, mid-city Los Angeles. English bulldog dad. Midwest grown.
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social Minnesotan and Political Scientist: American law, comparative and historical constitutionalism, architecture, and just curious about everything. Moot Court coach. Sports: Timberwolves, Gophers, Everton, John Higgins, and sadly, Twins & Vikings.
Brian Harrington @abbistani.bsky.social Metadata wrangler. Sometime indexer/bibliographer. Minicomputer collector. Onetime early modernist. Baltimore, USA.
N.N. Scott @nnscott.com Archives and Records, Chicagoland. Inappropriately esoteric interests.
"A chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social
@jesslovesbooks.bsky.social @jesslovesbooks.bsky.social Librarian and book lover in Dublin.
Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia
Also: Abolish ICE.
Living with cancer.
Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
Shawn Pryor @shawnrpryor.bsky.social Writer. FAST BREAK from FSG/Macmillan, 2026. He/Him. Repped by K. Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literacy Agency.
linktr.ee/shawnpryor
Luís Gomes @luisgomes.bsky.social Scholar, emblems, grammar, Portuguese. 
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social Research Support & Special Collections Librarian at UCL IOE. Also Canadian & a lapsed musician. Researching teachers, interwar, eugenics and imperialism. #HistEd #EduSky #LibrarianSky https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48571-naz
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Luis Iturriaga @neurathic.bsky.social Historian of science and technology in the early modern (Iberian) world. Previously HPS Mphil (Cambridge) and BA (UKing's, Halifax).
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Abhijit Gupta @abhijitgupta.bsky.social Book historian; publisher at jadunivpress.org/; harassed dog parent; likes to cycle, play football when possible.
Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com
Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Lisa Kuitert @lisakuitert.bsky.social Boekwetenschap, Book Studies, University of Amsterdam
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/u/e.a.kuitert/e.a.kuitert.html
Elizabeth Beattie @elizabethbeattie.bsky.social Early Modern Historian | Women, Education, and Intellectualism in 17th Century Europe
👩🎓 MA, MLitt, University of St Andrews
📸 https://www.instagram.com/secret_historian/
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
Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social book history | digital humanities | early modern
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.
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
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Amelie Roper @amelieroper.bsky.social Head of Research at Cambridge University Library. Interests include research collaboration, AI for cultural heritage collections, collection development and early (music) printing.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, built 1687 from bequest of 17th century Robert Leighton, Principal of University of Edinburgh, Chancellor of University of Glasgow, Bishop of Dunblane Cathedral
https://www.leightonlibrary.org.uk
Jo @octavosaurus.bsky.social Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, Wikimedia, art, UCL, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. 🌈📚📦✨
https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social PhD | Early Modern Literature | Ghost Stories| Ballads and other Cheap Print | First Year Writing | 
Biblissima+ @biblissima.bsky.social Observatoire des cultures écrites anciennes, de l’argile à l’imprimé / Observatory of Written Cultures, from Clay to Print
Campus Condorcet
Aussi sur Mastodon https://universites.social/@biblissima et LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/biblissima
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Raphaële Mouren @rmourr.bsky.social Bibliothèques, histoire, compte personnel en 3 langues
Abigail Moreshead @amoreshead.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
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
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)- A Anne Coldiron anniebherenow @anniebherenow.bsky.social Recently retired professor of renaissance/early modern and late-medieval lit; and book history. Exhausted. Relaxing. Reading. Playing piano. Gardening. More to follow.
Book Culture & Archive Records @earlybookarch.bsky.social Early books & documents▪️The common history of Spain, the British Isles, and the US through Spanish special collections▪️Profile ©Szépmûvészeti Múzeum.
Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne @biblio-fil-guyenne.bsky.social Société savante dédiée à l'histoire du livre et à l'histoire de la Guyenne
Fondée en 1866 à Bordeaux. Activités scientifiques de la société et nouvelles de l'histoire du livre.
Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social art historian | printmaking | technology | media | lecturer at the university of st andrews
Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social Early English books | manuscript and print | between medieval & early modern | PhD | Lecturer, English @utu.fi | PI @titaraproject.bsky.social | she/her
Edmund Brumfitt @ebrumfitt.bsky.social Dealer in rare books, mainly before 1820, mainly European. Plus other distractions.
Malena Ratzke @malenaratzke.bsky.social German literature & manuscript culture up until 1650. Likely libraries.
@uni-jena.de
http://linktr.ee/malenaratzke
Banner image: København [Copenhagen], Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 2º, fol. 011r (detail). https://t1p.de/speculum-humanae-salvationis
William Poulter @williampoulter.bsky.social History DPhil at St Peter's College, Oxford. Working on livery companies, strangers and integration in sixteenth century London.