Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social She/her. Temporary Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at Uppsala University. PhD in Library & Information Science. Study GLAM digitization, heritage science, HPS, textual scholarship. Here for jokes & genuine community. Views my own.
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
My views are my own.
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
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.
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Charles Keenan, Ph.D. @charlesrkeenan.bsky.social
Helping build new programs in higher ed.
Sometime historian of early modern Europe, Catholicism, the Jesuits, ...
Giovanni Gellera @giovannigellera.bsky.social Professor at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. Swiss National Science Foundation Consolidator Grant recipient. Early modern philosophy. John Mair, James Dundas @ihr-geneva.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social
Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
Maartje van Gelder @maartjegelder.bsky.social Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam
Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Alan Stewart @alanstewart50.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
Dr Nicola Tallis @nicolatallis.bsky.social Historian. Author. Contributor.
Dr Lauren Mackay @regina-saba.bsky.social Historian & Author with Bloomsbury Academic, Consultant, FRHistS
📺The Boleyns, Blood,Sex & Royalty
Tour Leader & podcast host with Academy Travel | Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Beverley Adams @writerbeverleya.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Proof Reader | Editor | Lancastrian | Stationery Obsessive | Elizabeth of York & the Birth of the Tudor Dynasty due Nov 24
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Tommaso Sabbatini @tommsabb.bsky.social Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social Looking awry at global and local politics. Trauma | Memory | Missing Persons | Disappearance | Hunger | Disasters. Poetry and story-telling as method. Grenfell 💚
Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini.
https://tinyurl.com/2krunykv
Matthew Symonds @polybiblion.com
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Gary Stringer @gbstringer.bsky.social Technical Manager and Digital Humanities Researcher at the University of Exeter, UK. Occasional railway historian and lacemaker, Mostly reflected posts, own opinions.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org- S Susan Wilkin @susanwilkin.bsky.social Oxford-based linguist/early modernist into (horti/cultural history of late Stuart England, works on fruit/vegetable cultivation). Reviving Dutch language skills to extend research across North Sea.
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval)
She/her/ella
Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social Legal academic with a cat. Legal theory|philosophy of history|memory and archaeology
- UCU rep for OULS
- Web content for Legal Humanities Association legalhumanities.com
- feminists@law
- criticallegalthinking.com
Views my own
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Library Juice Press @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social We specialize in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science.
Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social ✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social Medievalist, #Digital humanist, Digital Medievalist executive board member. #Medieval Francophonie enthusiast.
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
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.
Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
@diana180.bsky.social @diana180.bsky.social Editor of complicated things. Dr of languagey things. Previously: HY, TaY, UoS (UCS), QMUL, UoR, Bloomberg, Dublin Worldcon press. I make you smarter. Myös suomeksi.
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot 🏳️🌈 activist in 🏴
Views entirely my own
Co-founder @endconversiontherapy.scot
Serial political policy author
(he/they) ↙︎↙︎↙︎
Neil Fitzgerald @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy Head of #DigitalResearch #BritishLibrary #DigitalScholarship | Executive Committee member: #iiif | #impactocr | #ai4lam | opinions my own.
[bridged from https://glammr.us/@nfitzger on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style
Scholars & Writers @scholarsandwriters.com We help academics write better, think bigger, and reach further. Occasional thoughts on writing, research, and the academic life from Anne (early modern lit) and Daniela (20th c. history). At home in #academicsky and #publicscholarship.
The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
👤 @gildersleve.uk
👤 @andreamedrado.bsky.social
👤 Brett Zehner
🌐 https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/communications/research/centres/craic/
✉️ craic@exeter.ac.uk
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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
Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD at UEA working on the medieval literary genealogies of 16th c. Spanish conquest narratives. Co-Founder & President of @memrn.bsky.social Fiercely enthusiastic about museums & public engagement 🏰
https://linktr.ee/clarabchamberlain
Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social Live-posting events in the German Peasants’ War for their 500th anniversary. Account run by the Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants’ War Project at Oxford and Royal Holloway: https://germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
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
Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social
Evan Bourke @evanbourke.bsky.social Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
Sian Hibbert @sianhibbert.bsky.social PhD University of York: early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social music + art in early modern England | Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | creative industries | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her