Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social Writer, historian, and post-doctoral fellow of Mexico, Japan and Asia Latin America 🌎 Writing a book on transpacific histories of war, race and mestizaje 🇲🇽🇯🇵 Interested in 1930s-1940s Mexico; WWII; archives, historical methods and family histories 📚
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Charlotte Dodds @charlottedodds.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD candidate @ University of York 🦆 Researching children’s sensory history & education in early modern England/Scotland!
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Stirling Maxwell Centre @uofgsmc.bsky.social Fostering an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection (University of Glasgow Library).
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/clust-centr/smc/
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.
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Luís Gomes @luisgomes.bsky.social Scholar, emblems, grammar, Portuguese. 
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Sally @electricgraayhem.bsky.social 29 year old history undergrad (animal history lover) Reading enthusiast, and currently attempting to learn to draw
🏴🏳️🌈
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard ✍🏻⌨️
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 ❤️)
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神，自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
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
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social Historian at LSE
www.davidmotadel.com
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Fabi Kutsche @fabikutsche.bsky.social Historian & archivist in training / Global Labour & Colonial History, Intersectional & Queer Feminisms, History of Psychiatry, Digital Methods and Archives. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them - keine Pronomen / https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8348-9889
J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social The Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History showcases research by staff, students and affiliates in Cambridge, working on all periods and domains of economic history.
Learn more at https://www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_papers.php
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
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
James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️🌈
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 ⚙️
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
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
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.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
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
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
View our social media commenting policy here: https://cup.org/38e0Gv2
Centre for Gender History @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social World-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at University of Glasgow. Women's and gender history; history of sexuality; queer & trans history. MSc Gender history (on campus and online) & PhDs. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/genderhistory
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
cboveland.bsky.social @cboveland.bsky.social Rare book librarian in Wolfenbüttel
Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
Maura @mkarchivist.bsky.social Archivist (women religious archives), historian, librarian. PhD (CUNY). Early modern history of archives ~ family record keeping and archives. she/her. Views my own, etc. Somewhere on the Hudson.
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
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800 
London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social Historian of early mod animals /environment / Reformation 🐏🪻⛪️ Postdoctoral Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Environmental History @glasgow.ac.uk
PhD hunting in James VI's court 🦌 👑
@rosemarygolding.bsky.social @rosemarygolding.bsky.social Music historian @ Open University, research interests in health history, 19th century Britain, social and cultural history, education history. Views my own.
https://musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
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
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.
Anguilla Noticer @myopicduck.bsky.social My job is literally just history
🇹🇹🇩🇰 PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Susan Baddeley @sbaddeley.bsky.social Words, words, words..... From Newcastle, linguist and translator, researcher into 16th-century French-English cultural exchanges. 
Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century | Research Fellow, Books and Borrowing (2020-2023) | www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit-baston-36998540
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/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
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)
Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social Rare books librarian & cataloguer | library & book history | moderately early modern
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
OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
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.
patrizia b. @bibliologia.bsky.social grad student & book historian in training • they/them pls • [eng/ita/hun]
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
William Poulter @williampoulter.bsky.social History DPhil at St Peter's College, Oxford. Working on livery companies, strangers and integration in sixteenth century London.
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social Managing Editor at Renaissance Quarterly. Enjoyer of old songs, strange tales, crafty arts, nerdy pastimes. They/them.
Daniel Bennett Page @danielbennettpage.bsky.social Cultural Historian | Musicologist | Tudor England | Psalmody | Polyphony | Gregorian Chant | Early Printed Materials | Bibliography | Court/Royal Studies | Musician | Educator | MFA | PhD
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD at UEA working on the medieval literary genealogies of 16th c. Spanish conquest narratives. Co-Founder & President of @memrn.bsky.social Fiercely enthusiastic about museums & public engagement 🏰
https://linktr.ee/clarabchamberlain
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
Sophie Floate @librarybodle.bsky.social Rare books cataloguer at University of Oxford
Heather Nicholas @heathernicholas.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University researching George Whitefield and Evangelicalism in 18th Century England.
Project coordinator of Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500-1850
Tutor in Humanities at Aberystwyth University
Jessica Weiss (Weiss-Bahia) @jessicaweiss-bahia.bsky.social Aspiring early modernist - UCL Quirk Funded PhD candidate.
Also a musician - Fear of Men and New German Cinema.
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Amelia Hutchinson (she/her) @ameliahutchinson.bsky.social Postdoc - currently working on materiality, health, environment, and networks of extraction in the early modern kingdom of hungary @ deutsches bergbau museum | phd @jesuscollegecam