Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
iansdonnelly.bsky.social @iansdonnelly.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute. Researching classical tragedy and early modern English drama, particularly Senecan influences on Elizabethan Inns of Court dramas.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
RedPandamoniums @redpandamoniums.bsky.social Green voting Feminist (pro-intersectional), Ally, Wokey Cokey dancer, pro-floof, artist, crafter, poetry dabbler, menopausal. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🇬🇧☕️🫖🍰
No TERFS, SWERFS, racists, ableists, fascists, gammons, body or kink shamers & bloody plonkers. Intolerant of intolerance.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social Fair Library Jobs is a group of library workers aiming to improve recruitment & employment practices in libraries in the UK https://linktr.ee/fairlibraryjobs
English Radical History @englishradical.bsky.social Quotes, facts, images and videos about England’s radical past.
Cambridge English Faculty IT Office @cam-english-it.bsky.social IT Office at the Faculty of English, Cambridge. We like animals, technology and helping people.
Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Olive Higham @olivehigham.bsky.social she/her • cat & castle appreciator • AHRC OOC-DTP PhD @ ASNaC, Cambridge
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
Ture Laiti @turebiehtar.bsky.social Co-chair Global Indigenous Youth Caucus | Saami-indigenous rights activist | Climate activist | Indigenous policy specialist at Operaatio Arktis
Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social The official account of Stockholm University. Here, we publish research findings and other news from SU, as well as updates on when our researchers appear in the media or participate in public debates. Mainly in English.
su.se/english
su.se
Massachusetts Institute of Technology @mit.edu This is the official Bluesky account for MIT. We are currently not active on this platform.
English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the English Department of The Australian National University 📚✍🏽🤓
Indie Press Network @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social A network of indie presses working together to celebrate and improve the publishing industry
Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social Academic and heritage professional • Working on travelling players in the Midlands • Early modern drama, politics, religion • PhD • FHEA • Tutoring services (A-Level and up) on Tutorperch: https://l1nq.com/o4g75mp
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Daisy Dixon @daisydixon.bsky.social Philosopher of Aesthetics at Cardiff University
daisy birch @girlquixote.bsky.social ex-english lit student, museum worker, & writer on the side | https://substack.com/@girlquixote
Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
Tumbleweed @disconnectedjoy.bsky.social
Blaire Krakowitz @blairekay.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University (English literature).
Writing about comic villains, performance, and adaptation. Shakespeare lady, Gothic lit enthusiast.
Romans 5:8
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Marlena Tronicke @marlenatronicke.bsky.social British literary and cultural studies @University of Münster. Shakespearean, (neo-)Victorianist, theatre enthusiast. she/her.🦖
Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
Loek Zoon @loekzoon.bsky.social Historian
Early modern history
Public history
Vluchtelingenonderzoek
Rampjaar 1672 #yearofdisaster
Geschiedenis
Hardloper running
#earlymodern #skystorian #refugees
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loek-zoon-47a425230
Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Studies at RHUL. The Dark Bible (OUP, 2022). She/her
Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.
Dr Maria Salenius @drmariasalenius.bsky.social Docent, Senior University Lecturer in British Literature at the University of Helsinki; Past President of the John Donne Society. @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
#JohnDonne #language&religion #TheTudors
Cristina Delgado-García @cdelgadogarcia.bsky.social Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Glasgow. Contemporary British/European playwriting, performance, dramaturgy and political theory. Next book is on Tim Crouch (MUP). Also: 🌿🚴🌈🎉 Orgullosament xarnega. Hola!
Claudine van Hensbergen @claudinevh.bsky.social Associate Prof in English Lit, C17th & C18th. Current projects include a cultural history of Aphra Behn's grave, editing Behn for OUP, and a study of public monument in Britain, c.1640-1740.
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Rob Watson @fullback.bsky.social Rob Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, working on Shakespeare, poetry, environmentalism, and cultural evolution. He loves teaching, playing soccer, and dogs.
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Sierra Carter @dramaticletters.bsky.social they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time
Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social Bereaved mom, Professor FSU Shakespeare, Performance, Book, and Theatre History, Irish Drama. Musical Theatre. General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare. Author. Dramaturg. Amateur Astronomer. Private pilot.
@siobhankeenan.bsky.social @siobhankeenan.bsky.social Lover of old books, buildings, films and theatre history
Melissa Pullara @melpullara.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Early Modern Lit. Lover of naps, trivia, books, and furry animals (especially dogs).
Dr. Lindsey Drury @drueried.bsky.social Field Notes on Ambiguously Moving Bodies - drury.live
Postdoc, Critical Dance Studies, Freie Uni. Berlin
She/sie. Reposting is not endorsement.
Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva @borderlandsshax.bsky.social Transforming how Shakespeare is taught to reflect the lived realities of La Frontera.
🎭Amplifying Chicanx and Indigenous art.
⤵️Learn more
https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
Allison Lemley @allisonlemley.bsky.social PhD candidate at Goethe University researching EM history plays, cultural memory, and theatrical space. WissMit at the University of Bamberg. Opinions can only be blamed on me.
Jstor enthusiast and glass jar collector
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Christine Sukic @christinesukic.bsky.social Professeur de littérature anglaise à l’université de Reims Champagne Ardenne/Professor of early modern English studies at university of Reims
Dídac Pujol @didacpujol.bsky.social Translation professor @upf.edu. Literary translation, Shakespeare reception, translation and adaptation.
Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music
The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Shakespeare before 1700
Shakespearecensus.org
Play On Shakespeare @playonshakes.bsky.social Shakespeare's Plays + Contemporary Playwrights
Carrying Shakespeare Forward.
Bringing Artists Together.
Liz Leemann @lizleemann.bsky.social Writer/PhD graduate @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Thesis: Spiritual motherhood in early modern literature
Interests: comparative literature, texts in translation, multilingualism, dreams, witchcraft, gender, history of science, medical humanities
Lesel Dawson @leseldawson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & Culture at the University of Bristol
Arts and Culture Lead of the Good Grief Festival
I am interested in the relationship between grief & creativity, early modern literature, the history of the emotions & gender.
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social The German Shakespeare Society / Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (DSG), founded in Weimar in 1864, is open to everyone interested in and enthusiastic about Shakespeare. Join the DSG today! https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lan
Andrea Yang @andreayang.bsky.social PhD UC Davis English || early modern race, surveillance studies, sts, digital humanities
Dr Anna Graham @annagraham.bsky.social Early Modernist | Ageing Women's Writing
Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social Shakespearean, fight director, actor, dramaturge. Assistant professor of theatre University at Buffalo.
Bardfilm @bardfilm.bsky.social Author of Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Blog: http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/
@scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social
Kim @professorkhc.bsky.social Theatre Artist/Professor, Shakespeare scholar (early modern performance practices.) Cat 🐈⬛ Dad. Beer 🍺 snob. History geek. New Englander, but really wishing I lived in Old England again.
So very, VERY neurodivergent.
✨Catherine Williams✨ @catherinevwill.bsky.social MA Student at UCL, Fordham Alum
Researching the links between 16th c. poetry, sovereignty and colonialism
I’m your Modern Margaret Roper, find me somewhere in the Renaissance
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
@christianalgar.bsky.social @christianalgar.bsky.social Prances around with old books.
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
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Rembrandt @rembrandtrijn.bsky.social Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a 17th century Dutch painter (1606-1669), printmaker, and draughtsman.
#artbots by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/rembrandt_artbot
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
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.
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social Professor of economic and social history at Exeter University. Research on work, gender, households, material culture, rural economy and more. Mostly England 1300-1750.
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue | Curating records of Shakespearean breeches performance from 1660-1900 | Project Director: @aelagrand.bsky.social | www.pointslikeaman.com
Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (http://bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): http://bit.ly/2rjkbAc
Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social Mom. English Teacher. Scholar. Writer for hire. Runner. Pursuing a PhD in English for reasons beyond my understanding. Currently studying Shakespeare, queer/ecocrit theory, & critical pedagogy. Probably talking about my kids.
The Heong Gallery @heong-gallery.bsky.social MAGMA RISING: A Journey to the Centre of Icelandic Volcanoes
Wednesday - Sunday / 12pm - 5pm
FREE ADMISSION
James Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses | @wolfhumanities.bsky.social & @futuresed.bsky.social fellow.
Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
Anna Wainwright @annawainwright.bsky.social associate professor of Italian studies at UNH. any and all views posted are my own, not those of my employer.
New book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/widow-city/9781644533598/
Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Sawyrrrr @hamlethologram.bsky.social Transgender Shakespearean; Baseball Enjoyer; West Virginia's Greatest Disappointment.
It can't all be dirtbikes and Mountain Dew.
Kate Allan @katefallan.bsky.social Early modern women’s poetry, scientific writing, and alchemy.
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Jason Kerr @jakerr35.bsky.social he/him Professor of 17th-century British literature, composer, occasional homilist. Author of Milton’s Theological Process (Oxford, 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/miltons-theological-process-9780198875086
Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social Spanish Tragedy evangelist | dramaturg, full prof, theatre historian (18thc, celebrity, & Shakespeare) | 📚Carrying All Before Her (2022) | opinions mine
https://spanishtragedy.villanova.edu
https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/carrying-all-before-her/
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works