Laura Gisseleire @lgisseleire.bsky.social PhD candidate @ University of Kent with Knowledge Orders before Modernity
(formerly) Medieval Studies @ Birkbeck 🦉
mortuary rolls, commemoration, gender & monastic culture, manuscripts galore.
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27)
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
views my own
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Mingcan Rong @mingcan-rong.bsky.social PhDing @bristoluni.bsky.social, interested in vegetal geography, STS, plant humanities, botanic garden, rhododendron 🌺 (she/her)
Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities.
Brazilian. She/Ela
https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/
📚 🌱 🌈
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
Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social Archaeologist, social value, fieldwork, developer-funded, Roman London. SE London and Dorset. she/her. 🏺🏛️👷♀️My views. Cyclist. Cats and daughters.
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Islay Shelbourne @islayshelbourne.bsky.social Historian. Currently researching Californian understandings of the 1918-19 Flu. Strolling in St Andrews and finding my future in the past.
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.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Tudor food & garden historian 👩🌾 Author of 📕Eating with the Tudors. PGR @ University of East Anglia. Working on becoming *the* authority on the Chamberlyns of BB.
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/
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social 
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
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
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)
Beau Cleland @bclelandgt.bsky.social Historian. Here for sports, dumb stuff, wild fish and game. Used to be in the Army. Author of the prize-winning book "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (UGA Press 2025)
Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern Anglo Atlantic World
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
Zhang Jie @zjarthistory.bsky.social Art History PhD candidate. John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellow, The Huntington. Erhu player for Teochew opera.
Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social Dr of poetry | Publishing tips | Disability Studies | Early Modern literature | He/him | Opinions are my own
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
Nathan Cornish @njcornish.bsky.social Environmental History and Digital Humanities PhD student. Working on early 19th century plant exchange in the British empire in the archives at Kew Gardens.
University of Southampton, Kew Gardens, Exeter University, SWWDTP
🦋🌻🪴
Anna Lillie Svensson @annalsvensson.bsky.social Plants, books and plants-in-books, including histories of the herbarium.
Occasional florist and perennial textiles enthusiast.
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
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
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social- G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Dr Serin Quinn @serinquinn.bsky.social Early modern historian working on food, horticulture and global connectivity | Research Fellow with the Society for Renaissance Studies | Associate Fellow RHS | PhD on the history of the tomato 🍅 | she/her
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
Vanille Reintjes @vanillepr.bsky.social PhD student in early modern literature at SEARCH (University of Strasbourg @unistra.fr) & @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social (Université Paris Cité) | Exploring portrayals of ugliness in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 🌈🪞
James Fox @jamesafox.bsky.social Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social 🌱 Grow Food 🌎 Heal the Planet
🐝 For gardeners learning to grow regeneratively ♻️
📚 FREE knowledge + community on our website! ↙️
https://learndirt.com/
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
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social • HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) • @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social Historian of Catholicism, Italy, and environments | Leverhulme ECR Fellow at Uni of Manchester | Reviews Editor at Journal of Religious History. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joshua-rushton/
London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) @londrenaissance.bsky.social A discussion forum examining all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. Based at Birkbeck, University of London.
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
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.
Murray Gove @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social AHRC Northern Bridge DTP funded PhD student at Newcastle University researching texts of travelling women prophets in the seventeenth-century - he/him 🏳️🌈🏴
Leonie Hannan @leoniehannan.bsky.social Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture.
Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
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 | 🇱🇧
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
Mel @earlymodernmel.bsky.social ECR researching early modern drama, disability, and 'dangerous' women. She/Her.
Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/teaching_staff/knox/
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
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
Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
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. 
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities. Keen on C16th letters & archives and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England. 
Barbara Bienias @bbienias.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences)
History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology;
early modern epistemology; history of the book
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.
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.
Amelia Hutchinson (she/her) @ameliahutchinson.bsky.social materiality, health, environment, and networks of extraction in the early modern kingdom of hungary | deutsches bergbau museum / leibniz association
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
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Olivia Langford @emwombstuff.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD student at The University of Birmingham, studying Shakespeare’s non-English mothers. Auntie and dog mom.
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
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.
Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
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.)
Alicia Smith @timekeptcity.bsky.social Researcher & teacher in medieval studies. Currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, researching sex, money, & power in the story of the 'harlot saint' Thais: see @thaisisproject.bsky.social for more!
Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social 8 – 9 July 2025, University of Cambridge. Organised by Zara Kesterton and Lucy Havard.
https://sites.google.com/view/plants-and-people/home
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/
@lucyjhavard.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social 
Zara Kesterton @zarakesterton.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge studying flowers in 18th century French fashion 🌸 
Whipple Museum @whipplemuseum.bsky.social We're Cambridge University's home for the history of science.
Open Mon-Fri, 13.00-17.00 & Sat, 10.00-17.00.
Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social climate fictions 1500-1800 & speculation, postdoc at oxford. first book project on "writing performance: early modern drama and the work of interpretation." other things on intention, non-performance, plot, mistakes, pig bladders.
https://patrickdurdel.org
Max Riviera @maxriviera.bsky.social PhD on Richard Barnfield at UCL
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current