Kat @byekitty.bsky.social work: yelling at 270 years of archives backlog
leisure: needlework, snacks, parkrun tourism, cricket despair, sweepstakes
cats: Malka the rescue kitten, Penelope-in-the-Wardrobe
Kris M @discoursemarker.bsky.social I’m the same me as everywhere else. MeFite, etc. she/her
diana myers @dianahmyers.bsky.social quasi-feminist disdain for salad | medievalist + archivist, now working as a rare books dealer | philadelphian, and you’ll hear about it | she/her | dianahmyers.com
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
patrizia b. @bibliologia.bsky.social grad student & book historian in training • library assistant • they/them pls • [eng/ita]
Sally Crosson @commandercups.bsky.social Climate fretter. Low-maintenance bicycling enthusiast. Doodler. I heart wool. 
Rebeca Escamilla @mrebecae.bsky.social 
Brian Rosenblum @blros.bsky.social * digital humanities, open access, shadow libraries, global librarianship, numismatics
* Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities: https://idrh.ku.edu
* KU Libraries: https://lib.ku.edu
* Numismatic channel: @rosenblumcoins.bsky.social
Ursula @blearyeyedduty.bsky.social She/her
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
@needrain.bsky.social @needrain.bsky.social 
Roids P. Benchley, Chair of the Yoked Caucus @lolbrarian.bsky.social Award-winning author of Swords of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social Poet and artist in triumphant distress • Reliquary archives a specialty • World's worst Catholic ❤️🔥 Problems merchant - international shipping
God stuff: being moved so it’s no longer on Substack
Strange essays & peculiar fiction:
natashakindred.co.uk
Camila Walls Castillo 🦇 @cwallscastillo.bsky.social ♱ Late Medieval/Early Modern Historian
♱ Rare Books & Special Collections Intern
♱ University of Toronto — Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Book History ☙ History of Religion ☙ Colonial Andes ☙ Spain and Empire ☙
Michelle Owens @michelleowens.bsky.social 
David Levy @booksongaming.bsky.social I collect and study books on gaming with a focus on the writings of Edmond Hoyle. See my blog at http://edmondhoyle.blogspot.com and my online Hoyle bibliography at https://booksongaming.com/hoyle/bibliography/
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
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 📚
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
John McQuillen @bookishjohn.bsky.social Early printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum (New York City). My husband says that I fondle Gutenberg Bibles for a living. Sometimes we are in the Catskills.
He/him 🏳️🌈
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
KU Libraries @kulibraries.bsky.social Official account of University of Kansas Libraries … Transforming lives by inspiring the discovery and creation of knowledge for KU and our global community. Learn more at lib.ku.edu
KU | The University of Kansas @universityofkansas.bsky.social 🔭 One of America’s leading research universities.
🌻 Bolstering Kansas. Bettering the world.
#RockChalk
@olsonrarebooks.bsky.social @olsonrarebooks.bsky.social 
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
Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x
Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social Maître de Conférences Sorbonne Université. Histoire du Saint-Empire XVe-XVIe siècle, histoire urbaine, arbalètes, baptêmes, et quelques calembours. Urban History of the Holy Roman Empire: between crossbows, Lutheran godparents and angry pastors
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Lethe @lethe1998.bsky.social 
Maite De Beukeleer @beukeleir.bsky.social Historian | PhD at KU Leuven 🇧🇪 | Gender, Catholicism, lived religion | Kringwinkelnerd | Long-distance bicycle adventurer 🚲
🔊 About my name: http://bit.ly/3ZhajDF
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Jordan Bimm @jordanbimm.bsky.social Historian of space exploration and professor of science communication at the University of Chicago. Originally from Toronto, Canada.
www.jordanbimm.com
Haven Hawley @ehhawley.bsky.social Special collections, printing, history of technology and books. Opinions my own on social media. (ehh_ptr "elsewhere")
Harry Ransom Center @ransomcenter.bsky.social Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Opening August 15: The Worlds of Gertrude Stein • Opening August 29: Houdini’s Library
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@sohahn.bsky.social @sohahn.bsky.social 
Matt Gibson @mgstowers.bsky.social Biologist at the Stowers Institute studying cnidarian development, evolution and symbiosis.
Margaret Gamm @mgamm.bsky.social Libraries, archives, special collections, leadership practices. Parent, occasional disc golfer. Any opinions or thoughts here are my own.
Aundi Cambiano @aundicambiano.bsky.social 
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 📚🦋
Emma Morris @curtainlecture.bsky.social Aspiring Sacred Monster. Astro Literate. Acquisitions Manager @ Newberry Library. She/her. Opinions mine & with apologies to the collective unconscious.
Rhys @rhizomorph.bsky.social | archivist & instructor, University at Buffalo [they/m]
| let’s talk queer metadata 🏳️🌈
Kate Sheppard @k8shep.bsky.social Mom. Runner. Egyptologist. Historian. Author: Women in the Valley of the Kings (St. Martin's Press)
KathleenSheppard.org
William Allison @texasbookman.bsky.social Rare Book Dealer, Texas and Western Americana ABAA ILAB Texas Booksellers Assn
College sports fan
Rice Owl
@blythe-candace.bsky.social @blythe-candace.bsky.social 
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Kelli Hansen @kellihansen.bsky.social Special Collections, archives, rare books, etc.
University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/
Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
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.
Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Professor at University of Alcalá. Book Historian & #Dante Scholar | Medieval & Early Modern Nerd. Co-Founder & Managing Editor of 'Bibliotheca Dantesca.'
#bookhistory #marginalia #rarebooks #italian #libraries #Mediterranean #popbooks
Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100398-the-world-to-me/
The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
A.E. Carver @ephemerite.bsky.social archivist darkivist snarkivist
(formerly)
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
@katyoung79.bsky.social @katyoung79.bsky.social Vegetarian librarian and friend to all cats! 🐱🌱
Ellen S Dunlap @ellendunlap.bsky.social Retired research librarian, grandmother, genealogy nerd
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/
Tess Gibson @tessrow.bsky.social She/her, librarian, very progressive liberal, loves dogs and cats, video games, horror movies, great TV and the philosophy of consciousness. Sorry, not interested in romance, crypto or get-rich-quick schemes. LGBTQ+ ally. Kindness is my love language
Anna Reser @annareser.bsky.social steely-eyed missile man. charm city.
american history gun for hire. @nightshadesmag.bsky.social
Pocock Rare @pocockrare.bsky.social Book dealer. Oft NSWF.
Biblio: http://bit.ly/3AdtyFg
eBay: http://bit.ly/3AfiW6r
curated: http://bit.ly/m/PocockRare
Julianne Simpson @juliannesimpson.bsky.social Librarian, Chetham's Library Manchester
Diane Shaw @museocat.bsky.social Retired museum library cataloger in Washington, DC area. Fond of birds and travel.
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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
Richard Wragg @richdwragg.bsky.social Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social PhD@UToronto CMS. Palaeography, codicology, forensics skeptic. Also Chaucer and video games. Wikipedia editor (AMA). AuDHD. 🏴🏳️⚧️
Also @cemhend@scholar.social and cemhend on birdsite
Phil Tromans @philiptromans.bsky.social Library Support Assistant and trainee librarian at Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Interested in book history, bibliography, rare books and material culture. PhD.
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Dr Elizabeth Gow @ecgow.bsky.social Manuscript curator and archivist in Manchester, UK. 
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
Antoinette “Toni” Bettasso @tonibettasso.bsky.social Fellowship Program Manager@ the Linda Hall Library| Lover of Chicago Sports and Hockey| Historian - Early/ Revolutionary America, Slavery, and the Continental Army| she/her|
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
Erika Giddens @egiddens.bsky.social rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
William Claspy @wclaspy.bsky.social Director of Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University. Woodworker. Trout fisherman.
Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Erik Geleijns @erikgeleijns.bsky.social Curator of material collections @kb.nl. Was cataloguer @allardpierson.bsky.social and Curator of Early Collections @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social. Double espresso. Archives. Long distance walking. Proud keeper of the STCN cheese slicer.
mark funke @funkebooks.bsky.social Rare books cared for, researched, and placed in good homes. I brake for bibliographies. See our website funkebooks.com for new arrivals.
Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social Library worker
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
runjuliet @runjuliet.bsky.social librarian, ohio, stuff.
Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project (2023-25) http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
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
Steph Nowotarski @snowotarski.bsky.social Head of EM @ Stowers Institute. Science & Art. All microscopy, mostly EM. Cell, Developmental, & Regeneration Biology to the front. Opinions expressed = my own, follows ≠ endorsement. She/They. 🏳️🌈
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
@jahillbooks.bsky.social @jahillbooks.bsky.social Booksellers in NYC
Website: https://www.jonathanahill.com/
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social Ad astra per aspera | archivist | in unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute territory | settler/trespasser | bitch who reads | higher ed baby| she/her | views are mine
Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe