American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
AwfullusDoom @awfullusdoom.bsky.social I’m an aging adult working as a librarian in a world that doesn’t value reading. The struggle is real. Arnold and Ethel are the loves of my life.
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
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
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
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com corpus bones!
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.
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
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
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.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
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
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
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.
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
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
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
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.
Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com
Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social Independent Scholar/Medieval Francophonie & Italian Historiographies. http://digitalhumanitiesddp.com, http://tcf.lauramorreale.com, http://dalme.org.
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Scott Clemons @gsclemons.bsky.social "When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Desiderius Erasmus
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social 
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
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.
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Brian Cassidy @briancassidy.bsky.social Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian
❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
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.
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
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
Chris Celenza @chriscelenza.bsky.social Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
Prof. Stephen J. Milner @italprof.bsky.social Serena Professor of Italian, University of Manchester, FRHistS; Trustee, Cooperative Heritage Trust; Hon. President, Societa Dante Alighieri Manchester; Director, British School at Rome 2017-21.
Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social Of that of which we cannot speak
Stefano Dall'Aglio @sdallaglio.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
Illuminated Manuscripts @sharonargyle.bsky.social Artist, Art Historian
Flavia Bruni @flabruni.bsky.social 
melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (Codex Machina podcast, Strange Land Books). Luddite. Artist with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History. Loves periodicals. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
Meridith! @meridith.bsky.social I'm here mostly for watching #Svengoolie on Saturday night. Occasional non-linear associative thinker.
Podcasts:
Going Over Our Freds @goofpodcast.bsky.social
Murderland Chicago: A Deep Dish of Death @deepdishofdeath.bsky.social
The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
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)
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Harvard Divinity School Library @hdslibrary.bsky.social No, we're not just bibles.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library @buffalolibrary.bsky.social News and notes from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social No matter who you are, where you’re from, or where you want to go, at Queens Public Library, we speak your language.
London Public Library @lpl.ca Hello, London, Ontario Canada !
Here for #LdnOnt | #Libraries | Authors | Books | Reading | Literacy | Information | ❤️ Community.
Albany Public Library @albanynylibrary.bsky.social Albany Public Library educates, entertains, and empowers the Albany, NY community.
RLUK Research Libraries UK @rluk.ac.uk RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. #RLUK26 #RLUKICIL #RLUKDSF #RLUKSPACE #RLUKRSP #librariesXresearch
Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social We’ve got everything, and the books! Anyone can use our libraries, whatever your age. We've 11 libraries across the city that provide a fantastic range of activities https://www.hulllibraries.co.uk/
North Lanarkshire Libraries @librariesnl.bsky.social Library service in North Lanarkshire. News, events and of course books.
Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections and Pathology Museum at City St George's, University of London. Custodians of Jenner's cow Blossom 
Holland Patent Public Library @hollandpatent.bsky.social Composer, sound designer, and professional sleep maker. Please listen to Drifting Off With Joe Pera.
(Legal Disclaimer: I am not the actual Holland Patent Public Library)
Boston Public Library Professional Staff Association @bplpsa.bsky.social Labor Union
MLSA Local 4298, AFT MA
Representing librarians, archivists, curators, and conservators as well as professional staff at Boston Public Library.
https://www.bplpsa.org
Anne Arundel County Public Library @aacpl.bsky.social The best public library in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (and maybe the world).
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Calvin T. Ryan Library @unklibrary.bsky.social 🌟 Perks:
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Explore Nebraska history in the archives!
Library at Saint Mary's College of California @smclibrary.bsky.social The Bluesky home for the Library at Saint Mary's College of California.
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek @ddbkultur.bsky.social Das Portal für Deutschlands digitalisiertes Kulturerbe. 60+ Millionen Einträge: www.ddb.de
Mastodon: ddbkultur(a)openbiblio.social
Impressum: www.ddb.de/content/impressum
Netiquette: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/netiquette