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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
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Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
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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
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (http://bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): http://bit.ly/2rjkbAc
Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2
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Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot
Current Shakespeare on Substack
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸
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Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
1623 theatre company @1623theatre.bsky.social Shaking, shaping and sharing creativity with communities and Shakespeare.
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
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University of Bristol @bristoluni.bsky.social Top 10 UK Uni 📚 Leading research 🔬 World-class teaching 👩🎓 Vibrant city 🙌 Ranked 51st in the 🌍 (World University Rankings 2026) #WeAreBristolUni
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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
Rama Friedlander @ramafri.bsky.social PhD | Independent Researcher in Shakespeare & Holinshed
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
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.
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Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her) @anamsanchezarce.bsky.social Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
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.
Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum, with interests in instruments and material culture. Current research focus on armillary spheres and astrolabes in medieval Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does. 
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
Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social assistant prof college of charleston | early modernist |
DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com Independent online privacy company with browser, search engine, and optional AI.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
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Shakespearean Insult Bot @shakespeareinsults.bsky.social classics straight from the Bard & remixed bangers, every 6 hours.
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iansdonnelly.bsky.social @iansdonnelly.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute. Researching classical tragedy and early modern English drama, particularly Senecan influences on Elizabethan Inns of Court dramas.
MAGNUS BEEFCASTLE @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social 🦅 SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL 🥩 CARNIVORE 🏛️ STUDENT OF ROME ⚔️ I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE LEGITIMACY OF SALES TAX
Exhaust_Fumes @vcp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Early Modernist, WoC, Cat lady, grouch. Was Vim, PhD on Twitter once. Live in one of the 5 boroughs. Teach, read, & write for wages. pro-union. Eat a lot. Complain a […]
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University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors.
Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Jiamiao Chen @jiamiao.bsky.social 
Blaire Krakowitz @blairekay.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University (English literature).
Writing about comic villains, performance, and adaptation. Shakespeare lady, Gothic lit enthusiast.
Romans 5:8
Emily Nicholls @hamletcurrents.bsky.social millennial, itinerant, divided subject, joint-PhD student, KCL/HKU, Hamlet and Neurodiversity
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
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🏴
Kim @professorkhc.bsky.social Theatre Artist/Professor, Shakespeare scholar (early modern performance practices.) Cat 🐈⬛ Dad. Beer 🍺 snob. History geek. New Englander, but really wishing I lived in Old England again.
So very, VERY neurodivergent.
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
gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
EUARTHURS @eu-arthurs.bsky.social EUARTHURS: An #MSCA Doctoral Network exploring Arthurian legend through literature, art and material culture. 6 Universities | 11 PhDs
Funded by @EU_Science @MSCActions.
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at WashU • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • eeps.washu.edu/people/paul-byrne • he/him
Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Shakespeare before 1700
Shakespearecensus.org
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social Engelsberg Ideas is home to great writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays as well as regular podcasts.
https://engelsbergideas.com/
Katherine Harvey @katherineharvey.bsky.social Historian and writer.
https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
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
CJ @cjtm.bsky.social playwright, director, actor | creative director @apricitytheatre.bsky.social staging queer new writing & adaptations | postdoc research fellow, Bath Spa University | Shakespeare, disruptive dramaturgy, trauma-conscious practice & queer identity | they/them
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social Assistant Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Early modern history. Working on early modern criminals, print, and cultures of communication in England and France
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
World Shakespeare Congress 2026 Verona @wsc2026verona.bsky.social 12th World Shakespeare Congress, 20-26 July 2026, Verona. International Shakespeare Association. Local Committee: Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social. Website: https://www.wsc2026.org
Jim Taylor @jltaylor.bsky.social Independent Scholar. Touring Shakespeare, Post-Colonial Shakespeare, Cold War Shakespeare. He/Him.
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ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
Deyasini Dasgupta (Deya) @deyasini.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Toronto | Writing on the intersections of early modern disability, race, gender in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Middleton | Views my own | Mostly here for the pet pictures
@shakespop.bsky.social @shakespop.bsky.social 
Roberta Mazza @robertamazza.bsky.social Papyrologist and Ancient Historian
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https://facesandvoices.wordpress.com/
Dr Kate Maltby @katemaltby.bsky.social weekly at the i newspaper (news column)
monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre)
often at FT & Observer (books, culture)
also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
The British History Podcast @thebritishhistorypodcast.com History with the fun bits left in.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
thebritishhistorypodcast.com
Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social Associate Editor and Lead Critic, Washington Classical Review; Founder of Ionarts; Ph.D. in Historical Musicology; Classical Music Fiend; Opera Addict; Baroqueux agréable and Public Musicologist (all views expressed are my own, not those of my employers)
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
Michael Vaclav @mvaclav.bsky.social PhD in Early Modern British Literature; Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin; researching the intersection of politics and adaptation from late 16th to early 18th c, particularly adapted Shakespeare plays in the Restoration
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.
Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social Shakespeare, theater, history, opera, new work. Pardon gentles - all - opinions are mine own. www.katepitt.com & shakespearenews.com