Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social Greek literature and culture | Christianity | Churches, abbeys, cathedrals | Poetry | Chair of school governors | Visiting professor | Ex-ambassador | Enthusiast for Yorkshire
Niall Oddy @nialloddy.bsky.social Early modernist at the Open University, interested in travel and cross-cultural encounters.
Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun.
May post cat pics
Aurelia Eburne @aureliaeburne.bsky.social PhD researcher on Catholic gardening in early modern England in Durham University’s Centre for Catholic Studies | Classics Graduate
Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/default/files/documents/cv/ALH%20CV%202025%20short%20version.pdf
Max Foley-Keene @maxfoleykeene.bsky.social No chops. Catholic. Socialist. Digital Editor @commonwealmagazine.org. PhD in political theory @brownupolisci.bsky.social.
Chelsea Reutcke, PhD @creutcke.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies, Univ of Utah
She/Her
Clandestine Catholic print in the Restoration!
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 🌈
Nick Tufaro 🎸 🦮 @nickt1023.bsky.social Since: 11/15/24
Retired IT Professional (from Data Center Ops to Project Mgmt) after 45 years
Masters in IT
Blues/Jazz/R&R Guitarist & Bassist
Amateur Photographer & Philosopher
Lifelong learner
Left leaning Centrist
#IAmAntifa
Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social Runs Webster Research & Consulting, helping #GLAM make better services for digital research: understand, plan, design, build, evaluate.
Outgoing Head of Digital Scholarship & Innovation, Southampton uni library.
Historian of 20th c. British Christianity.
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson @john-y-wilson.bsky.social Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei).
Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
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.
Rebecca Leong @drrleong.bsky.social Theological ethicist. PhD @ Durham. Former lawyer. Busy mum of 2.
Author of 'Living More Human(e)ly?'
https://wipfandstock.com/9798385201938/living-more-humanely/
Anglican. SSCE. Grateful.
(Please refrain from foul language. Thank you.)
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Miguel Ángel López Muñoz @desdelaos.bsky.social PhD en Filosofía y PhD en Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas.
Profesor de Filosofía.
Autor de: El desafío ateo de Puente Ojea.
https://www.libertaddeconciencia.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-0579
Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social A research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all, changing lives regionally, nationally and internationally. #TakeOnTomorrow
David Warden @oldgrudge.bsky.social Postgrad studies in Christian mysticism, apophaticism, esotericism.
Patiently learning classical Greek.
Arpeggiating sawtooths in spare time.
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social History at Northumbria University combines quality teaching with a vibrant research culture. #TakeOnYesterday
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
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social Open access manager at Bloomsbury. Big fan of cats, equity in publishing, unions, and independent cinema. All views my own.
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
Lucy Michael @lucymichael.bsky.social Sociologist.
Research, consultancy and training on equality, inclusion and justice at http://lucymichael.ie
She/Her. Ireland.
Ag foghlaim Gaeile arís - comhrá liom!
Alejandra González-Jiménez 🫒🌿 @heliconide.bsky.social Classical Studies, UNAM | Digital Humanities | Admin of Desde Themyscira: desdethemysciraffyl.mx | Admin of EPN, UNAM: iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano | https://alejandragj.com/
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Harvington Hall @harvingtonhall.bsky.social A unique Elizabethan house with 7 remaining priest hides! Enthralling tales of devotion and Catholic persecution. Discover the House of Secrets!
Athina Dimitriou @athinadimitriou.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor | De Gruyter Brill
Early Christianity ✉️athina.dimitriou[at]degruyterbrill.com
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Maddy Keightley-Phillipps @maddyphillipps.bsky.social PhD Researcher. Durham University.
Studying the readership of early modern English Catholic women, lay and religious, and their book networks. 📚
Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social Leo transcribes handwritten historical documents instantly, helping you turn your unwieldy manuscripts into an organized, searchable digital library. Try it for free with 10 credits every month at http://tryleo.ai
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.
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Durham Theology and Religion @durhamtheology.bsky.social Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/theology-religion/
Anna Blackman @annapcblackman.bsky.social Lecturer in Catholic Religious Ed., Uni of Glasgow. Co-facilitator @ Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. Catholic social thought & practice. Gospel nonviolence. Grassroots activism. Catholic Worker movement. Christian anarchism.
Gerard Loughlin @gerardpatrick.bsky.social 
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Claire Schiano-Locurcio @claireschiano.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher | Early Modern England & France | Catholicism & Female Spirituality | Poor Clares & Benedictines Nuns
Working on the ANR Project "Abbesses et Seigneuresses: Une autre histoire de la Réforme Catholique (XVIIe)".
Seán Henry @seandahenry.bsky.social Principal Lecturer in Education Studies. Research explores education, gender, sexuality, religion, and culture. Views personal 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
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.
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
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 
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Nazeea Elahi @ntelahi.bsky.social Work in collections management in a London museum.
Love books and tea.
Views are my own.
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, Mondays fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK
www.cromwellmuseum.org
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
More at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary
Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past!
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage @uolhumanities.bsky.social 
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Dr Johanna Strong @johannastrong.bsky.social PhD on Mary I’s legacy. History Teacher and Resident Tutor. Routledge author. Queen’s University alumna. Views my own. www.drjohannastrong.ca. 🇨🇦
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
Amelia Rosch @ameliarosch.bsky.social PhD student of post-1688 queens, gender and political power (sometimes coffee too). American in Canada. Consumer of tasteful reality television.
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025. 
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
History Hack @historyhack.bsky.social Fun history podcast recommended by the BBC.
Linda Porter @drlindaporter.bsky.social Tudor and Stuart historian. Author of six books, most recent a biography of Henry VIII's misunderstood and maligned elder sister, Margaret Tudor. Historical consultant and broadcaster. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
Dr Lacey Bonar Hull @laceybonarhull.bsky.social Medieval/Tudor historian 🏰 Offering virtual courses on medieval history at http://medievalhistoryacademy.com
https://thehistoriansdesk.substack.com
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Stuart Hunt @librarystuart.bsky.social Director of University Library & Collections and University Librarian, Durham University. All views or opinions expressed my own. “Non minima pars eruditionis est bonos nosse libros.”
Bryan Shortall @frbryanshortall.bsky.social Dubliner. Capuchin Franciscan. Priest. Author. Parish Priest. Avgeek. Views my own. (and Matt, Mark, Luke, and John)
Matthew J Mills @matthewjmills.bsky.social Vice-Principal, St Cuthbert’s Society, and Hon. Fellow in Theology & Religion @durham.ac.uk.
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
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
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Maths and Science, and philosophy of parenthood. Mariah-Carey/Denis-Irwin-admirer. UCD Philosophy & National Library of Ireland
-she- 🏊♀️
Ramblings &c. : claremoriarty.com
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth, lecturer @MacEwan U, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social 
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/
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 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.
Emily Michelson @emilymichelson.bsky.social Historian of early modern Italy, religious culture, minorities, and cool stuff.
Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair
Dr Dustin M. Neighbors @historyboy30.bsky.social University of Gothenburg; @horizoneu.bsky.social #MSCA fellow; #HERLAND project; FRHistS; #earlymodernwomen, landscapes & human-animal relations; #historynerd #southerngentleman #castlelover #musicfanatic #neurodivergent