Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details!
society-for-affective-science.org
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Dave Benson @dbenson.bsky.social Singer, software developer, four-season cyclist
Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social Occasional posts about language, writing and the arts. More frequent posts about active and public transportation, my small contribution to climate change mitigation and our own well-being.
Isabelle Cote @isaluciecote.bsky.social Polisci prof at Memorial University of Newfoundland working on nativism, internal migration, resettlement and conflict.
MUNL Geography @munlgeog.bsky.social Geography Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Scott Matthews @jsmatthews99.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, Memorial University; retrospective voting, mass pols of economic inequality, campaign FX, experimental methods
https://sites.google.com/view/jsmatthews/home
Liam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social Sociologist @AcadiaSociology.bsky.social. Global development; globalization; gender; security; foreign aid. www.liamswiss.com
Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social Blobologist on the edge of North America. Fan of Futurama and Post-Punk. He/Him.
Maggie Burton @mmburton.bsky.social Writer of Chores (Breakwater Books), winner of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize. Musician, mom of 4. City Councillor. Soon-to-be med student. St. John’s, NL. Maggieburton.ca
@lynngambin.bsky.social @lynngambin.bsky.social
MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social Trade union representing faculty, librarians, counsellors, co-operative and field educators at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Contact: munfa@mun.ca
Links: https://linktr.ee/munfaculty
Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social Cyclist
Anthropologist
Trade unionist
Malcontent
Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social Professor, Memorial University
- I'm not here representing my employer, so my views may or may not reflect my employer's views.
“I count false words the foulest plague of all.” - Prometheus Bound
Josh Smee @joshsmee.bsky.social Community development pro, public space nerd, fresh air addict. CEO of Food First NL, involved in lots of other projects. Posts my own. He/Him.
Steve Piercey @stevepiercey.bsky.social Geology prof. Economic Geology. Sox and Celtics fan. 2024 President of Society of Economic Geologists (www.segweb.org).
Kelly Blidook @kblidook.bsky.social Just trying to learn things & collect good data.
Employed studying the politics.
Passions: baseball, dogs, space, time
(He/him)
https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/kelly-blidook/
Gordon Little @gord.games Chaotic Good University IT Wizard by day, bumbling #gamedev by night. Made Moving Houses and Ayre. Lucky Dad of 3. (He/Him). Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 🍁. http://gord.games
Rhea Rollmann @howrhearolls.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor, activist, scholar, radio producer. Author: A QUEER HISTORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (2023). She/her. Views are those of me and my droid army.
Queen Elizabeth II Library @munqeii.bsky.social 📖 Official Bluesky of the QEII Library, Memorial University
📍 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
https://library.mun.ca/
#MUNLibraries
Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social Purveyor of fine international relations. The history of international thought a speciality. Just don't ask where I'm from (it's complicated). professor @ MUNL
Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Price-of-Gold
MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social MMaP is the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at Memorial University.
Publisher of Music Research Annual and the Back-on-Track Audio Publication Series.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Lisa Rankin @lbugrankin.bsky.social Archaeologist, academic and community-based researcher, Arctic, North Atlantic
History of Emotions (NACHE) @nachemotion.bsky.social The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Fiona Polack @fmpolack.bsky.social Oceans, islands, oil. English prof at Memorial U. Academic Editor Memorial University Press. Tasmanian/Newfoundlander.
Jennifer Selby @jselby.bsky.social Professor of Religion & Politics @ MemorialU |Scholar of secularism | Director of “Secularism on the Move” | Author of *Secular Sensibilities* (Where Religion Lives, UNC Press, 2025). ☀️☕️🥾🌲
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social I like data, dogs, and my dog named Data. Have I mentioned I like data? I study & teach political science. I live to traipse around the wilds of Newfoundland. www.amandabittner.com
NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social The Network in Canadian History & Environment.
NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.
niche-canada.org
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
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)
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social In the Woods, & online. #humansecurity, #archaeology, #culture, #Newfoundland, #WPS, #chickens, #navy, #metal, #GenX, #gardens, #books, #food, & #nature, not necessarily in that order.
LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social Perusing archives for LGBTQ+ History. Forever #LGBWithTheT.
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
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Yolande Pottie-Sherman @ypsherm.bsky.social Geographer focused on international migration, immigrant receptivity, & housing justice in Canadian/US cities esp. less favoured regions, small & mid-sized cities. Prof at Memorial U., St. John’s | Mom. Child Care advocate.
Sasha Mullally @sashamlly.bsky.social History Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Specializing in the social history of medicine, spatial humanities. Love to garden. 🪴🌸🌳 Striving to be a good scholar, mentor, friend out here under the blue skies.
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/
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Kris @ksluice.bsky.social Lives in Victoria, B.C. Thinks, teaches and writes about architectural creativity and sustainability: its histories, technologies and theories. Also cuts smol colorful crystals into sparkly objects to wear.
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.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) Professor at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats.
Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
Journal of Digital History @jdighist.bsky.social The JDH serves as a forum for critical debate and discussion in the field of digital history by offering an innovative publication platform and promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences.
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @gmhamelin.bsky.social, media manager.
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
Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London works to promote DH approaches, support the national DH community, and connect with DH practitioners around the world.
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.
Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social The Warwick History ‘Post-Doc’ club is an informal social/discussion group of former History Research Students meeting online to maintain contact and encourage mutual support for ongoing research and careers. All welcome - not restricted to Warwick alumni.
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
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
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
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social At Risk of Redundancy Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
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)
Dr James Brown @drjamesbrown.bsky.social Erstwhile early modern historian, now professional services at the Uni of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants; the supernatural, folklore, folk horror; KE/impact; project management; 📸; 🥾; 🏋️. My photography portfolio and blog: https://darkframes.uk/
Dr Kit French1348 @kitfrench1348.bsky.social Medieval Historian; dog and cat lover. Looking for order, finding chaos.
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
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
Global Recipes in the Early Modern World @globalrecipes2024.bsky.social ECR Conference | May 2024 | University of Cambridge | Support: SSHMedicine, BSHScience, @camhistory.bsky.social, @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social Historian of early modern science and art |
max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
#VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions |
Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
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.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Amy Froide @afroide.bsky.social History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
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.
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.