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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & unfree labor & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking 🌄
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃 Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant. Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Dr. Claire Richie @clairerichie.bsky.social PhD in English lit. Early modernist + digital humanist. Passionate about cheese, college basketball, and John Donne. Lady Macbeth did nothing wrong.
Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social History of books, sex/sexuality, & English lit Prof, Northwestern. 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 @pennpress.bsky.social; 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 @cambridgeup.bsky.social Editor: Marlowe's 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐 @Ardenpublisher.bsky.social now available. Denison, @upenn.edu alum 🏳️‍🌈
Kate Shaw @kytchois.bsky.social Independent Researcher who pokes around archives & blithers about women in 16thC & 17thC. HE admin. Also do prancing around on/off stages & cameras. Views my own - except where shamelessly stolen.
Leyton Orient FC reposts @lofc-reposts.bsky.social Reposting Leyton Orient FC tweets from the club. • The link at the top of each post will take you to a proxy site called xcancel, and NOT to X. • Checking X so you don’t have to. #LOFC #UpTheOs #OiOi
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC) Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
iambic.bot @iambic.bot With careful eye I scan the bluesky stream / For metered posts that match my rhyming scheme Tribute to pentametron.com
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/
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive. We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival. Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds Cyclops is so great I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Len @lenm4.bsky.social Orient fan, for my sins. #LOFC
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
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
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
Cricket Research Network @cricketacademic.bsky.social The voice of cricket research. Chaired by Raf Nicholson
Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social A mainly medieval mouse with a passion for history and architecture. Historia, Caseus, Somnum!
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/ Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her. tesswingard.wordpress.com
Precious Recordings of London @precrecs.bsky.social Let's make this precious. The artist formerly known as Nicholas Godfrey releasing lovingly curated BBC sessions on vinyl. Do something pretty while you can.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf 🦻. She/they.
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own. 独立之精神，自由之思想 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs. https://asheeshksi.substack.com/ asheeshks.org/
Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social Spanish Tragedy evangelist | dramaturg, full prof, theatre historian (18thc, celebrity, & Shakespeare) | 📚Carrying All Before Her (2022) | opinions mine https://spanishtragedy.villanova.edu https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/carrying-all-before-her/
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster. Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com Signal - jessicaelgot.51 Always #lufc https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social Writer and theatre type
Dr Karen Downs-Barton SoA @karendownsbarton.bsky.social Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (@poetrybusiness), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow. Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
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.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
@argylesevenzero.bsky.social @argylesevenzero.bsky.social Panacea monger. Up the O's.
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu. linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social https://freakytrigger.co.uk
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Jaime Goodrich @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social Early modern literary and religious history. All things Catholic, #nuntastic, #monkabulous, #friarific.
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social
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.
Mary Bellman @marybellman.bsky.social PhD Candidate in English and Theatre Studies (Early Modern Drama) | University of Melbourne
Izzi Strevens @izzistrevens.bsky.social 📖 PhD Student in Early Modern Drama 🕺🏼@revelsoffice.bsky.social Committee 💙 Research Assistant @ Beyond Shakespeare 🫀weird play enthusiast
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) @londrenaissance.bsky.social A discussion forum examining all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. Based at Birkbeck, University of London.
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
Fabio Ciambella @fabiociambella.bsky.social Early modernist exploring language quirks through corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, culinary linguistics, dance studies and AVT. What else? Let’s find out!
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk. Shakespeare designs.
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images. Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social Content providers added with permission.
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social Cartoonist & author Prints and comic booklets available here! 👉 http://emilyscartoons.myshopify.com
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social Big fan of late 18th to early 20th century Irish history - Researching signal stations on Ireland’s coast, and the removal of Irish paupers from London ☘️
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC 📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
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
Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy. Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
King's English @kingsenglish.bsky.social Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the Department of English in @kingsartshums.bsky.social.
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
@duncansalkeld.bsky.social @duncansalkeld.bsky.social
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history. About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/ Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059
Micheline White @michelinewhite.bsky.social Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
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”
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
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
DORMEME @dormeme16.bsky.social Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe. Funding Body: UKRI ERC. Website: https://t.co/1fc8o0NlOb
Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social book history | digital humanities | early modern Currently a postdoc on DORMEME project at KCL (Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe).
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Ellie Woods @ellie1881.bsky.social Leyton Orient addict & perennial cynic. Lover of wild places, big waves & all creatures, great & small.
Ruth Parkinson @rplancso.bsky.social Allotment, running, cycling, Leyton Orient. Up the Os! Yorkshire lass spreading white rose superiority in Lancashire. Facilitator, coach, poet and writer. @leytonorientear.com
Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social Ghost writer. Corporeal reader. Semi-solid watcher of stuff.
Anglo-American Legal Tradition @aaltnews.bsky.social Updates from the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT) project http://aalt.law.uh.edu and https://waalt.uh.edu/
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social Professional Book Nerd Early Modernist Poetry Fanatic Shakespeare etc https://meganheffernan.net/
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social
Walworth SE17 @walworthse17.bsky.social Local news, events and info for Walworth in the London Borough of Southwark. aka SE17. Tweets from the makers of the @se1.news website.
Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Shakespeare before 1700 Shakespearecensus.org
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
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
Dr. Tamara @tammykm.bsky.social Adjunct Faculty at Kirkwood Community College and Coe College Early Modernist. Research Interests: women, science, book history. { وَقُلْ رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا } 🇯🇴 OSU, Msstate Alum 📍Iowa City, IA