Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Kathryn Dyt @kathryndyt.bsky.social Vietnam environmental historian @ Warwick | Weather, environment & underground worlds | Author of The Nature of Kingship
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University.
Erin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social Historian of slavery, resistance, and gender.
Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute; Associate Tutor at Oxford Lifelong Learning; Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick.
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
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 |
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.
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
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
CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
Body in History Network, University of Oxford @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social The Body in History Network at @ox.ac.uk brings together researchers from across disciplines who are interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/the-body-in-history-network
Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social Writer and researcher. DPhil @ Oxford researching early modern eating disorders. Funded by AHRC & Clarendon Scholarships. Writing in Tribune, LARB, London Mag, History Today, etc.
https://www.helenaaeberli.co.uk
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social 
Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Clodagh Murphy @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social early modern letters ~ royal authorship ~ collaboration ~ manuscripts ~ scribal culture
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
John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social Professor of history @uclhistory.bsky.social + co-convenor @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social. Editor at @enghistrev.bsky.social.
Institutions, rationalities, environments, mostly medieval.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8r9yeh + https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/.
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: “Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.”
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Smell Studies Journal @smellstudies.bsky.social The first international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the field of Smell Studies
Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
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.
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social PhD in History, postdoctoral researcher @durhamhistory.bsky.social on 'Modelling the Black Death' project. Former Postan @EcHistSoc fellow and researcher for @womensworkexe.
ECHOES @echoes-she.bsky.social The European Chapter of the History of Emotions, under the auspices of the Society for the History of Emotions. Posts by boddice.bsky.social
Watch this space for information, opportunities and events in the history of emotions and related fields in Europe
Jean-Marc Hill @jeanmarchill.bsky.social Dr Jean-Marc Hill 👨🏻🎓 Oceanic & Maritime Historian ⛵️ The Noise of Piracy, under contract with Boydell & Brewer 🏴☠️
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. 
SRN Midlands @srnmidlands.bsky.social We are a collective of PGRs from the Midlands who are researching complex and emotionally demanding topics across the social sciences.
↳ www.srnmidlands.com
@mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social research network
📝Blog: blog.srnmidlands.com
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Samuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social 'The People of 1381' is a major AHRC-funded project investigating participants in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England. It has compiled a comprehensive database of rebels, victims and places affected by the revolt: www.1381.online.
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
Sarah Jones @callingdrjones.bsky.social Historian @UoBrisHistory: sexuality, science, print culture, c19th/c20th. Increasingly nerdy about pedagogy. I love trifle. (she/her)
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social UKRI AHRC funded project based at the Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk
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
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
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
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
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
@eloisaot.bsky.social @eloisaot.bsky.social 
John Lidwell-Durnin @johnlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Exeter. Agriculture, environment, resource extraction, and the natural world in eighteenth-century Britain. Currently developing a new project on the history of mining. New book out with OUP.
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social Putting class back on the agenda.
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
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
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Mark Shepheard @shepm.bsky.social Art historian working on musicians, artists & portraiture: mainly Italian & 17-18C. Producer of the Early Music Experience for 3MBS Melbourne: https://omny.fm/shows/the-early-music-experience/playlists/podcast
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
The Devon and Exeter Institution @dexinst.bsky.social Thriving Independent Historic Library and Educational Charity, welcoming new members of all ages. Find out more at: http://linktr.ee/DExInstitution
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Professional Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Working on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland too
Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her).
Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall.
ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
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.
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Paul Seaward @pseaward.bsky.social History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com 
Society for the History of Emotions @ehcsjournal.bsky.social The Society for the History of Emotions, home of peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Emotions: History Culture Society (EHCS). Publisher De Gruyter Brill.
www.societyhistoryemotions.com
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social Morris dancer by day, PhD student by night | They/Them
PhD Studentship in 'Gender and the Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'
Ask me about early modern sailmakers
Can't receive bsky DMs so please pop me an email: kb878@exeter.ac.uk
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