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Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
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
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la BnF et de ses partenaires. 📚 Accès libre et gratuit à des millions de documents numérisés ➡ gallica.bnf.fr
@nicholowry.bsky.social @nicholowry.bsky.social
Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social NYC-based 18th-century porcelain and decorative art collector showing photos of the crazy stuff he's bought over the years. Runner, too.
Amandine Jelen @msshhl3.bsky.social Moderniste • Histoire du cheval • Histoire du livre • XVIe-XVIIIe s.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social. More at https://www.pepysdiary.com Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker. I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts. See also @sims-mss.bsky.social I speak for myself and not for my employer
UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@srhlf.bsky.social @srhlf.bsky.social
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/
Simon Dolet @simondolet.bsky.social ATER à l'université Mont-Blanc, doctorant à l'université Côte d'Azur. Histoire des prévisions météorologiques au XVIIIe siècle (climat, environnement, savoirs) https://cmmc-nice.academia.edu/SimonDolet
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about “Madame Lescombat, the first femme fatale”.
Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social Comparativist who fell into the long 18th-c and decided to stick around. I’m Bartleby-the-scrivner-ing LLMs and their inevitability. Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections (New Histories of Philosophy @OUP). Views expressed are mine alone.
Fabula, la recherche en littérature @fabula.org Fabula est la plateforme française de référence pour la recherche en littérature : https://www.fabula.org
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london Rep'd RCW Literary Agency THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024) co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text adamsmyth.substack.com
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Philippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social Professeur d'histoire des arts en HK et K au Lycée Condorcet (Paris 9ème), docteur en histoire moderne, chercheur (voyage des Britanniques en Italie, marché de l'art à Rome au XVIIIe siècle). Veille expos.
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/ Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System https://www.rmfrt.com/
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Dr. Flora Amann @floraamann.bsky.social Bostonian eighteenth-centuryist PhD Sorbonne Université/U. de Montréal French prof Alliance française de #Boston et #Cambridge #Lumières & culture #numérique
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK 👩‍💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social 🧑‍🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts 📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA 🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all york.ac.uk/crems
Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based English professor and writer
Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social Professor of Romantic & 19C literature & visual culture @BirkbeckUoL. author of The Book Unbound (CUP, 2025): cultures of reading, collecting, altered books; exhibitions editor @BlakeQuarterly, associate editor at Word&Image.
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Rose A. McCandless @rosemccandless.bsky.social Bibliographer, rare book enthusiast, and special collections instruction librarian. I post about rare books & manuscripts, fine/small press, book arts, digital humanities, etc. MPhil, MLIS. Leftist. Silly goose. she/her
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/
Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com The official account of https://eveninglandbooks.com We’re a rare and collectible bookshop operated by Matthew Kollmer and Kristina Intinarelli.
Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv Weimar @gsa-weimar.bsky.social @klassikstiftung.bsky.social | #Goethe | #Schiller | #Wieland | #Liszt | #Nietzsche | #LitWiss | #DH | #GSAWeimar Es schreiben Gabriele Klunkert, Yvonne Pietsch und Pauline Herms. https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/goethe-und-schiller-archiv/
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell) Coined #HerBook
Dr Caroline Archer-Parré @typetweets.bsky.social Typographic historian. Investigator on AHRC-funded 'Small Performances'. Books: Pen+Print; John Baskerville; James Watt; Paris Underground; Tart Cards; Kynoch Press. cphc.org.uk / baskervillepunches.org
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social Historian of medieval women, especially the nuntastic kind; lover of tea; associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo. yvonneseale.org
Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project (2023-25) http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) @iobabooks.bsky.social The official account of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Visit IOBA.org to learn more.
Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
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.
David Avrom Bell @davidavrombell.bsky.social Historian, writer, New Yorker
Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohi.bsky.social English & African American Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton.
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.
Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek @haab-weimar.bsky.social Sammlungsforschung | Bestandserhaltung | Digitales | #HAABWeimar | @klassikstiftung.bsky.social‬ | @gsa-weimar.bsky.social Es schreibt das Team der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek: https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/haab/
Vincent Berthelier @vincent-berthelier.bsky.social Maître de conférences @upcite.bsky.social (UFR LAC). Littérature, style & politique, écrivains de droite, théorie littéraire, marxisme. 📖Le Style de Marx (Les éditions sociales) 📖Le Style réactionnaire (éd. Amsterdam)
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 views my own
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Early Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖 Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) @cerl-community.bsky.social A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts. www.cerl.org
Martine Sonnet @msonnet.bsky.social Ecrit parfois, notamment sur le blog L'employée aux écritures http://www.martinesonnet.fr/blogwp/
David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime. https://linktr.ee/davidhheadley
MEMSLib @memslibukc.bsky.social Digital library for researchers of Medieval and Early Modern studies, run by postgraduate students at the University of Kent https://www.memslib.co.uk/
Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social Spies and the archives. Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including the New York Times bestseller BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, 2024).
Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social Geisteswissenschaften und Feuilleton
Hervé Bienvault @aldus.bsky.social Blog ex-Typepad. Aldus, tout sur le livre numérique entre 2006 et 2025. Pas de suite prévue pour l'instant, ma veille continue ici. [Pas d'IA dans les livres et nos métiers.] #livrenumérique #édition #librairie #bibliothèque #ebook #liseuse
Forum Rare Books @forumrarebooks.bsky.social Rare book dealers from the Netherlands, specializing in books, manuscripts, prints, maps & other works on paper concerning Travel & Exploration, Islamic World, Natural History, Early Printing, Cartography, Science & Medicine, etc. www.forumrarebooks.com
SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought. IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture. Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social Nonprofit organization Sharing America’s stories for more than 200 years. 185 Salisbury St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
Lichess @lichess.org https://lichess.org The free chess server. No paywall, no tracking, no ads. Just the good stuff. User support requests should be directed to https://lichess.org/contact
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Ruthann @curatingdragons.bsky.social Special Collections Curator 💚 Opinions are my own🌈
Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social intellectual historian • citizen -'old' republican • inspired by erasmus and grotius • member of the academia europaea • erasmianmartin.world
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Sandrine Parageau @sparageau.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern British History @sorbonne-universite.fr @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social Author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance (2023) @stanfordpress.bsky.social Director of @hdeasorbonne.bsky.social
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Mareile Pfannebecker @mareilep.bsky.social Renaissance literature and history of thought. Book on the way: Travel Humanism in C17 Literature (MUP)
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Elodie Conti @elodiec.bsky.social Doctorante en histoire moderne au LARHRA et Univ. Lyon 3. Thèse en cours sur les 3 filles d'Henri IV -princesses, pouvoirs et réseaux- France/Espagne/Savoie/Angleterre
Fanny Cohen Moreau @fannycomo.bsky.social Parle podcast et Moyen Âge, parfois les deux en même temps (et aime poser des questions) / Créatrice de @passionmedievistes.fr & co https://passionmedievistes.fr/ Aussi @catchadeux.bsky.social From Casablanca, now entre Paris et Dijon City
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston. My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Hélène Leblanc @heleneleblanc.bsky.social Researcher in history of philosophy | Posts about signs, scholastics, swords, and nerdy things
Fabian Jonietz @ikonotaph.bsky.social Art historian (Basel/Florence/Munich) studying artistic clandestinity, early modern art theft, and memorials for animals
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social CrowdsourceHerBook is a research project about women's history, old books, and participatory science based at the University of Southern Denmark. Project blog: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/ Posts by Charlotte Epple MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU
Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social PhD Candidate - University of St Andrews - Printing, bookselling, and library culture in 17th c. Swiss Confederacy ✧ Research Assistant - Universal Short Title Catalogue
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in English Studies at Durham. Opinions are mine alone but probably should also be those of my employer. Dad account.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/