Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Jon Chant @jonchant.bsky.social History of Catholicism - PhD Researcher at Durham University - English Catholic Exile on the Iberian Peninsula: A Study of the Library of The English College at Lisbon, c. 1622–1800.
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
The Lit & Phil @litandphil.bsky.social Newcastle's independent library, the Lit & Phil, is home to more than 200,000 books and music items, and has a rolling programme of events and activities.
www.litandphil.org.uk
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
David Gram @profdavidgram.bsky.social Theatre and Opera Director, Actor, Dramaturg, Playwright; Associate Professor of Theatre @ Oakland University; Producing Artistic Director of Renaissance City Repertory Theatre: rcep.org
Published Author; Dog Dad; Dual Citizen: 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Eli Lewis-Lycett Folklore and History @elilewislycett.bsky.social 'One of the definitive voices on Cheshire & Staffordshire Folklore' - BBC Radio. The Local Mythstorian / Tales From Antiquaria / Cheshire Life Magazine / Haunted Magazine / Inspectre Paranormal.
thelocalmythstorian.com
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
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
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Historian and essayist. Writes about almshouses, philanthropy, the Dutch 17th century, Tulip Fever, tricksters. Posts in Dutch and English. All views are my own. Most recent book: https://verloren.nl/Webshop/Detail/eid/94136
Joris van den Tol @jorisvdt.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economic History @ Radboud University | #petitions #AtlanticHistory #EarlyModern
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
Dr Rosie Cousins @rosiejcousins.bsky.social Digital education specialist in AHC at the University of Leeds. PhD in Elizabethan politics and diplomacy. https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3205-994X
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Basil Bowdler @basilbowdler.bsky.social he/him | PhD @StAndrewsHist | Anglo-Dutch Public-Sphere c. 1685-1713 | @USTC | @NEMN blog editor
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Atrocity & the Conduct of War
Late onset academic
#Dyslexic
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
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 Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮) @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • France and the Netherlands • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts • https://linktr.ee/bramvanleuveren
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social Author of Anticlerical Legacies
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168825/
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
Monica Azzolini @m-azzolini.bsky.social Historian of early modern Science + Medicine + the Environment. Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and two rescue dogs. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Europe and the World @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Formerly SNSF PostDoc @Zurich|Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr| EUI PhD
Iberian & North African Empires, Material culture, Mobility in the EM World 🌊
Waseem Ahmed @waseemahmed98.bsky.social UCL History PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA UCL Institute of Americas and EISPS, KCL History, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions 
Koen Stapelbroek @stplbrk.bsky.social Professor & Dean @jcucase.bsky.social (Early) Modern Political Thought & Intellectual History. Institutions of trade, free ports, commercial treaties and other. Working and living on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country. He/him.
Kajo Kubala @kajokubala.bsky.social history of political thought. mostly just vibing. j pronounced like a y (rhymes with ohio)
Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair
Leanne Smith @leanneks.bsky.social PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
Angela Göbel @unilot.bsky.social 💼 JGU Mainz • Doktorandin (Lyon 🇨🇵/Marburg 🇩🇪) • 🔎 Die Stadt Versailles im Ancien Régime und ihre Vorbildfunktion für europäische Residenzstädte (1682-1789)
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
Brigitta Schvéd @brigittaschved.bsky.social Historian exploring early modern politics & ideas ▪︎ PhD (University of Pécs) ▪︎ Based in Budapest, researcher @lupspolitics.bsky.social ▪︎ Editor @esprit-jeps.bsky.social & @ceraejournal.bsky.social
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Dr Ana Howie @anahowie.bsky.social Early modern art and dress historian at Cornell University/ Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in 17th-century Genoa / Global encounters and objects / Early modern race 
Laurelin Middelkoop @laurelinm.bsky.social PhD Researcher @EUI & convenor @inthisEUI - early modern political thought & intellectual history - PhDing on the Abbe de Saint-Pierre & confederations - single greatest sponsor of Autan mosquito spray
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Caroline Murphy @caromurph7.bsky.social early modernist / MIT Architecture / history of environments, water, building, early political economy
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
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/
Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social Early-modern history of science |
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
@sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
Dr. Jill Fehleison @jrfehleison.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation. Swiftie. Currently researching caregivers of the Reformation. Professor of History & Interdisciplinary Studies. Director of Gen Ed. Quinnipiac University. Mom of a Swiftie and 2 Rescue Dogs. 💪🐶
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato. 
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
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
Daphna Oren @daphnao.bsky.social Historian of women and the family in early modern Britian. Alt-ac. Mom. Geek. Dnd player. Crafter (knitting, quilting, cross-stitch). Posts are my own opinions. She/her.
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
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)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social One Place Studies of Springhill in Rossendale, Lancs and Newlands, Cumberland. History PG student. Also birding, anaesthesia and Burnley FC.
Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social Postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at University of Kentucky. Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world, 16th-17th C. Also here to follow climate, safe streets, YIMBY/urbanist, disability rights, and baseball stuff.
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
Author:
-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Tudor food & garden 🪴 historian. Living the life of an accomplished Tudor housewife from a small Tudor Manor. Author of ‘Eating with the Tudors’. Early Modern History MA @UEA.
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
Alex Craven @dralexcraven.bsky.social FRHistS. Freelance historian, working mainly for the VCH in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Interested in the English republic, radicalism, religion, and Reading FC. 
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Laura García Gascón @lauraggascon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at @eui-eu.bsky.social | Early Modern • Cultural History • Gender studies | A woman writing about women who wrote
Sandrine Parageau @sparageau.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern British History @sorbonne-universite.fr @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance (2023) @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Director of @hdeasorbonne.bsky.social
Renate Dürr @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social Early modernist interested in global history, the history of knowledge, and the history of slavery in early modern Germany 
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social Political theorist at DePaul and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024). Essays in NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Bloomberg, etc. Jazz Guitar, New York Mets.
Luc Wodzicki @lucowitz.bsky.social 📜 Historian of the Early Modern Mediterranean, Europe and Italy 🌍 | Exploring Thoughts, Things, & Landscapes 🏞️ | Post-Doc@ Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy🔍 | Antifascist
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.
Emily Price @dremilyprice.bsky.social Early modern historian looking at travel, hospitality, and interfaith conversations held over shared meals. Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle. Kitsch aficionado, ruin-bibber, immigrant. She/her.
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous