Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
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Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social Green Oxford City Councillor. Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Criminology and Social Justice Research at Oxford Brookes University. Views my own. They/them.
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
Email newsletter twice a week: https://oxfordclarion.uk
For stories: news@oxfordclarion.uk
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
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.
Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social This account charts the activities of the Skenè Research Centre including Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS) and its supplements
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Joanna Cooksey @msfennybentley.bsky.social Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social Professor of English at Xiamen University. Author of 3 books, most recently 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘐𝘐𝘐 (forthcoming, Boydell). Tudor political/administrative history & early modern literature, inc. Shakespeare.
propter se ipsam appetenda scientia
Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern book history and history of knowledge in the Spanish monarchy. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo.
Hannah Merlander @hannahmerlander.bsky.social PhD student researching the early modern tiring house at KCL
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.
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education @aldinhe.bsky.social Association for Learning Development in Higher Education #ALDinHE is committed to representing & supporting all those employed in the field of learning development & those with an interest in the field. Our journal: @jldhe.bsky.social #AcademicSky #LoveLD
Lori Delaney Robertson @loridelrob.bsky.social Theatre Maker, Watcher, Mummy. Doctoral Researcher @SGSAH @ahrcpress @UofGArts challenging BC narratives through performance. She/Her
Creative Disruptors Edu @creativedisruptors.bsky.social 3 teachers exploring ways to redefine education through inquiry based learning and design thinking frameworks creativedisruptorsedu.com
Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social News and events from the Theatre Studies team: https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Think Human @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social Promoting engagement with the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-human-festival-2026-4810811
Restless Theatre CIC @restlesstheatre.bsky.social Formed in 2008 Restless Theatre CIC is a community of artists who use a playful blend of sound, visuals, movement and text to bring people together through stories. Together we create funny, poignant and heart-warming stories.
Linked Early Modern Drama Online @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
Plant Frens @plantfrens.bsky.social Plants. Frens. We're plant frens. 🌱🌿🍅🍓🍋🥕🍆🥔🫛🌽💚
500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social We aim to serve society by making science open, inclusive, and accessible. Also @500womensci on Instagram and Facebook. Find out more: https://500womenscientists.org/
https://linktr.ee/500womenscientists
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social The Guild of Queer Early Modernists is dedicated to the support and advancement of queer scholars and scholarship in early modern studies. Join us! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Logo by Jasmine Kular, cover image from Art Institute of Chicago. gqem.org
Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social 
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social Writer & professional nerd putting the A in LGBTQIA+
PhD in representations of AIDS through theatre.
Much queer theatre and TV research.
Also, a lot of Hockey.
She/Her
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.
Louise Schwarz @louisenyc.bsky.social Playwright Person
Higher Ed Person
Theatre Nerd
louiseschwarz.org
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/
Sarah Neville @effectdefective.bsky.social Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else. 
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court @mappinginns.bsky.social For researchers of all things Inns of Court in the 16th and 17th centuries. https://mappinginns.wordpress.com/
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
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Lori Topper @lipsticklori.bsky.social Midlife work-in-progress human. Writer in search of a new project. Works in HE. Attempting to navigate perimenopause in style (51, bi, polyam, agender, she/they)
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Jennifer Topale @faerietnk.bsky.social Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist, lecturer needing work; some Oxford Conted, IES & AIFS lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. London, suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Dr. Lisa Templin @wher4rtthou.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English
Mount Saint Vincent University
Early modern drama, Shakespeare, female speech & witchcraft
Halifax 🇨🇦 | she/her
DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Retired Special Ed Teacher
Former Geologist &
Marketing Manager
Fur Trade Indigenous Ancestry
Dyslexic Author
https://westoka.com/books/
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Chloë Houston @chloehouston.bsky.social Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise.
https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
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
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
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.
Nikolas Funke @nikolasfunke.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Münster.
Joseph Sherlock @josephsherlock.bsky.social Artistic Director of Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni.
Multilingual theatre based in Copenhagen
Our theatre is The Deer and Rabbits
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social Hard copy: https://amazon.com/Who-Will-Believe-Verse-Shakespeares/dp/192558867X
eBook (free): https://www.academia.edu/125775909/The_Most_Intricate_Mechanism_in_Literature
Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/jamesleyland/
Katherine Scheil @kscheil.bsky.social English prof at U of Minnesota, fan of dogs, cats, books, theatre, wine, Anne Shakespeare and her husband, all the good stuff in life.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social teaching, writing, and litigating about courts, civil justice, housing, & eviction • working on Courts & Capital (under contract with Cambridge) • prior writing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1537444 LPE Blog, the Appeal & others
Clara Bolton @clarab.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at CEREGE, palaeoceanographer, acamama, ocean lover, microfossil stargazer…
Dr. Lori @shakespregrl.bsky.social Lover of dogs, children, education, warm beverages, books and bookish places, chocolate and daydreaming. All this time and I still can't fold the bottom sheet.
Brent Rosenstein @bmrosenstein.bsky.social PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
Eliot Benbow @ebenbow.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research working on the Late Medieval London Customs Accounts. Formerly at MoLA. Researching Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.
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/
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
William Kramer @witchhunthistorian.bsky.social Historian of Religion and Culture in 16th Century Ireland, the Witch-Hunts, and the Reformations. D&D/TTRPG nerd. Views are my own.
Peter L Larson @medievalhistorian.bsky.social Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Historian Around Town @kellyms.bsky.social Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
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
Dan Knorr @dknorr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social Maître de Conférences Sorbonne Université. Histoire du Saint-Empire XVe-XVIe siècle, histoire urbaine, arbalètes, baptêmes, et quelques calembours. Urban History of the Holy Roman Empire: between crossbows, Lutheran godparents and angry pastors
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social Former philosophy professor and attorney, nascent historian and writer on Tudor intellectual history.
Chapel Hill, Oxford, Charlottesville, God only knows where next. Would very much like to live in a P. G. Wodehouse novel if that can be arranged.
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Astrid Wendel-Hansen @wendelhansen.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ Tallinn University
moneymakingempire.se
Economic history/material culture/alternative currencies
Caroline Marris (she/her) @cazmarris.bsky.social Research Program Administrator at Drexel University. PhD in early modern European maritime history, Columbia University. Co-Editor of the H-Maritime network. Mum of twins, occasional musician (gamba, violin), baker, aspiring fiction writer. Views my own.
Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
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 
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
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Planning a new project on emotions and the environment. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Andrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
Carolyn Eastman @carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s. 
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Jane Stevens Crawshaw @jlschist.bsky.social Social and Cultural Historian at Oxford Brookes. Interested in environments (built and natural), health, and memory - past and present.
Raisa Toivo @raisatoivo.bsky.social Professor of the history of early modern society. I work on history of experience, faith and religion, family and gender and withchcraft on particular. I am a person.
Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social early modern Iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan
Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social Author of Sovereign Joy:Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1540 #earlymodern #skyhistorians
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social PhD candidate @Radboud University studying the history of human-insect relations 🐜🦗🪰 | Editor for the Yearbook of Women's History (AUP)| #envhist #entomology
Nederlands & English