Felicity Brown @felicityebrown.bsky.social 
Eleanor Swift-Hook @emswifthook.bsky.social Author of Lord's Legacy #HistoricalFiction set in the #EnglishCivilWar and Lord's Learning set in the #30YearsWar.
Find more about it on my website: eleanorswifthook.com
🗃️ #EarlyModern #17thC #17thCentury #History 
Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2026, Southern Imagining 2026. FAHA 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social She/her. Early modernist. Postdoc on @stemma.bsky.social at @uniogalway.bsky.social. PhD on Petition. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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.
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭
17th Century Theatre
Oxford University
Professional Yorkshireman
“The more I learnt the more I learnt to doubt”
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Wakefield Historical Society UK @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social Our Society aims to promote knowledge of the past and preservation of local heritage in Wakefield and beyond
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
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
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.
Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social Lover of early modern drama and of Dorothy Dunnett. Interested in Bess of Hardwick, the literary culture of the Cavendish family, and classic detective fiction.
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
The RSC @the-rsc.bsky.social The Royal Shakespeare Company
🔗 rsc.org.uk
Laura Kolb @laurakolb.bsky.social early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social The Warwick History Postgraduate Work in Progress.
Showcasing talks by PG students across departments on history-related topics.
Every Monday at 5pm during term time.
Run by the history PhD community.
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
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
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
Caminey Kuropatwa @camineyk.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
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
Alice Equestri @draliceqst.bsky.social Early modernist at Padova Uni | ex MSCA Researcher at Sussex Uni | author of 'Lit and Intellectual Disability in EM Lit' (Routledge, 2021) | editor of 'Shaping IDs in EM Culture' (EUP, 2025); current projects on early mod novella translation and law and li
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
George Clay @g-g-clay.bsky.social I’m a historian of the seventeenth-century Caribbean. I write about religion and slavery, and occasionally about emotions.
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social 
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
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
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Meghan Kern @meghankern.bsky.social Early Modernist, postdoc with @stemma.bsky.social, manuscripts, poetry, transmission
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81), poet, biographer, autobiographer, translator of Lucretius, religious writer, republican: first collected edition in progress from Oxford University Press, general editor David Norbrook (posts personal).
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Jasmine Niu @lady99.bsky.social PhD @UofYork, Shakespeare Adaptation, Translation, Rewrites and other fantastic things.
Susan Anderson @susananderson.bsky.social Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.- S @stevelongstaffe.bsky.social @stevelongstaffe.bsky.social
Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social Follow for info on human-bear interactions, from the ice ages to the present day. Home to #BoxOfficeBears news. #archaeology #history
Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social Postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-27) - skin and the senses in early modern drama - women's writing - material culture - history of the book
The Inner Temple @innertemple.org.uk We're an Inn of Court.
innertemple.org.uk
Vladimir Makarov @vmakarov.name Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature
Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Reading Early Plays (REP) @playsrep.bsky.social REP meets regularly online to read & explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. Currently reading through the repertoire of The King’s Men company. Each play is introduced by Dr Martin Wiggins.
www.readingearlyplays.com
Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Kirkwall Tailors Project; Hammermen; Baxters; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social 
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
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
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/
Rob Carson @robcarson.bsky.social Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
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
Kathryn Waters @waters-writes.bsky.social Writer, frustrated lawyer, unapologetic #feminist & wannabe academic - #interdisciplinary researcher of #victorianwomen & #shakespeare Kellogg College, Oxford she/her 🏳️🌈
Matthew Milner @matthewmilner.name Digital & Sensory Late Medieval, Reformation & Early Modern English Historian - Grants Officer, Memorial U of Newfoundland
https://www.nanohistory.org & We're Indigenous Still Here
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🏴
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
Dr. Kurosh Meshkat @kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social Anglo-Persian Relations, Political Thought and the Perso-Arabian Gulf, 1500-1800. Formerly @UiS, @UiO, @QMUL and @UkNatArchives, now @BLQatar @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Shakespeare Company | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social | movement practice | inclusive pedagogies | statues that come to life…
Tanya Caldwell @atlkiwi.bsky.social Professor at GSU. Almost qualify as Atlanta native I’ve been here so long
Vendy Hoppe @vendyhoppe.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, previously University of Warwick. Researching early modern velvets, visual & material cultures.
Joey Crozier @joeycrozier.bsky.social Historian and musician. Research interests: politics and intelligence in the reign of William III. Project Director: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
Céline Magada @celinemagada.bsky.social she/her | PhD Student at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, in Early Modern English Literature, working on the SNSF project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England"
@drjdecamillis.bsky.social @drjdecamillis.bsky.social Associate Director of JLT | PhD in Early Modern English Drama - attention as labor, animation and subjugation | Folger Frequenter 📖⚖️ she/her/hers
Emily Winerock @winerock.bsky.social Dance historian of Renaissance Europe and early modern England ~ Co-director of the Shakespeare and Dance Project ~ Adjunct faculty at Point Park University ~ Blues, Lindy hop, and Argentine tango social dancer ~ https://shakespeareandance.com
James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social Sublunary microcosm
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
You can unfollow me on Twitter @jamesthewallace
CK @pagestostages.bsky.social dramaturg. director. scholar. teacher. photographer.
shakespeare & early modern drama: Gesture | Bodies | Staging
Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London | researching the materials of Nationalism in C17th civic performance | she/her
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
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
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!
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
Dr. Lisa Templin @wher4rtthou.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English
Mount Saint Vincent University
Early modern drama, Shakespeare, female speech & witchcraft
Halifax 🇨🇦 | she/her
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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.
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499
Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social Come to Somerville and learn to change the world 🌍 Proudly different since 1879 👩 One of the first University Colleges of Sanctuary 🧡 Home to @oxindiacentre.bsky.social
Jordan S. Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈