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. 
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
𝕽𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖘 𝖔𝖗 𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖘 (Will Phillips) @rebelsorbeggars.bsky.social 📖 History, 🎨 art, 🎲 gaming, & 👕 swag from the Renaissance Netherlands & Europe's long, late 16th century: 1549-1619 | RebelsOrBeggars.com
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
Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Sarah Mesle @sunsetandecho.bsky.social Editing, Writing, Teaching, Muttering, not in that order. LA and CT currently but Iowa originally. USC; Avidly; #hairstudies; with intense eagerness. 
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
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
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
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 •
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
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
Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente»
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
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
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...
Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social Historian of 16th century French natural history focusing on three-toed sloths (Bradypus sp.). Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Gaelgeoir. All opinions are my own.
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Sehr Sorg @notedhobo.bsky.social exactly the kind of person who has an existential crisis trying to fill out a bio
** FIXME (later)
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
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.
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
History Sister @annashi.bsky.social Music maker, historian of 17th century popular culture, print, astrology, magic and politics. Sometime modern politics and culture too. I’m an eclectic person. Australia.Living outside my timeline and ancestry.
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
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 Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
@andrach.bsky.social @andrach.bsky.social 
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Mattia Corso @mcorso7.bsky.social Early modern historian | Material culture & religious studies enthusiast | Member of ERC HolyLab (https://holylab-erc.uniroma3.it/)
https://uniromatre.academia.edu/MattiaCorso
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Jean-Marie Coquard @jmcoquard.bsky.social E.S.T. Paris Saclay
History of science, mathematics, arts of thinking and technologies of the intellect, Simon Stevin and XVIth century Netherlands.
Reading a book and drinking tea right now (most likely)
Lisa Kattenberg @lisakattenberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Early Modern Intellectual History @University of Amsterdam
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory at Oxford & author of Mere Civility (Harvard 2017). Essays @ NYT, The Atlantic, New Statesman, Boston Review, WaPo, &c.
Writing on equality.
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
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.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
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
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 Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
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.
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
Helen Gair @helengair.bsky.social Research Associate @criminologyuom.bsky.social
History PhD working in Crim, researching life imprisonment, right to hope, ageing in prison. Interested in all things punishment, resettlement & desistance, then and now.
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
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
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September!
https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
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
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen. 
Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
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
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
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. 
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
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Studies at RHUL. The Dark Bible (OUP, 2022). She/her
Emma Rhatigan @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social Early modernist at Sheffield.
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
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
Dr Anna Wall @walla7437.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at the University of York. Often found writing about nonconformist women’s writing/ material texts. Occasionally found drinking beer.
The Journal of Marlowe Studies @marlowestudies.bsky.social Annual, online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to research on Christopher Marlowe.
https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Marlstud/index
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.
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social 
Michael Powell-Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks, the global stage 🌍 | Always on a train somewhere 🚆 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social Culture and politics. Views my own.🍉
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
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
Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
MJG @mjgnorte.bsky.social Historiadora del nuevo mundo de las cuatro partes | Con Iggers: la alternativa a la Ilustración es la barbarie | 👉 https://sigloxxieditores.com.ar/libro/quienes-construyeron-el-rio-de-la-plata/
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems