The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
IRANZYE ART @iranzye.bsky.social Landscape Artist / writer
More curated artworks on Instagram 👆🏽👇🏽
Instagram.com/Iranzyee
Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk 🎧🎙 Award-winning presenter: Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast (independent - arts/science) | Event host | Podcaster | Broadcaster | Love theatre, history, space
🌐 https://jodurrant.co.uk/
🌐 https://jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/
Emily K Michael, Writer @emilythepoet.bsky.social Poet, musician, and writing teacher. TEDx speaker. My work focuses on embodiment, music, feminism, and ecology. I love singing, medieval history, cooking, and birds #NeotenyPoems out from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social.
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social Dating back to 1830, UCL History sits in the heart of London and welcomes the best researchers and students from around the world 🌎
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social Archaeologist, ancient historian, author of 1177 BC, After 1177 BC, Three Stones Make a Wall, and other books
https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline
Society of Australian Genealogists @socaustgen.bsky.social Educating family historians since 1932: courses, events, library, community & more www.sag.org.au #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #findyourfamily
Lady Jane Grey Info @janegreyinfo.bsky.social 25 years of news and information about the 9 days queen.
ladyjanegrey.info
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social Energetic & colorful landscape paintings for those building a contemporary collection capturing all the best feelings of travel.
Purchase originals here: Chrislongpainter.com
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social 
Ian Churchward @legendaryten.bsky.social Retired bank clerk who is a singer songwriter
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Notes on Philanthropy @jaynelacny.bsky.social Consultant researching/writing on charity sector, past and present. Advisor on preserving philanthropic archives. Oxford, England. Ex-charity CEO. #UnivofKent.
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Cathleen Sarti @cathleen-sarti.bsky.social On the surface, I am all about early modern European History, Scandinavian and Baltic History, or History of War, but deep down, I just want to read books and eat chocolate!
Ruth Graham @ruthjots.bsky.social Education & Research Manager, Family Historian, Coffee drinker, Plate Spinner, CEO @socaustgen.bsky.social
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Building Conservation @cathedralcomms.bsky.social BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social Early modern history - food, domestic spaces, health, hospitality and socialising, landscape. Where history intersects heritage, creativity, and wellbeing
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Patricia Bracewell @patbracewell.bsky.social Author of the Emma of Normandy Series: Shadow on the Crown, The Price of Blood, The Steel Beneath the Silk. Writer, reader, scholar, medievalist, traveler, gardener, occasional tennis player.
www.PatriciaBracewell.com
Society for Court Studies @courtstudies.bsky.social Founded in September 1995, the Society for Court Studies is the leading international academic society for the examination of royal and princely courts and households from antiquity to the present. https://courtstudies.org/
https://linktr.ee/courtstudies
Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social Professor of English at Xiamen University. Author of 3 books, most recently 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘐𝘐𝘐 (forthcoming, Boydell). Tudor political/administrative history & early modern literature, inc. Shakespeare.
propter se ipsam appetenda scientia
LanaGoesArt @lanaarts.bsky.social Passionate watercolor artist with a love for animals and nature.
You can view some of my works here: https://lanagoesart.com/
I also run the watercolor database: https://sunandcolors.com/
David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social Academic librarian, PhD in philosophy. Critical librarianship, phenomenology, synths, tabletop & video games, sci-fi. Settler on Treaty 7 land. He/him. All opinions my own. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Loren Easterday Lee Cantrell @loren325.bsky.social Medievalist 📜🪶 @mmapod.bsky.social Producer 🎙️ | @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Exec Asst 📠 | former @gsc-maa.bsky.social 🪑 | '24-'25 @scholarslab.bsky.social DH Fellow 💻 | '23-'24 at ENS Ulm ⛲️ | UVA 🇫🇷 PhD 📚 | UT-Knox alumna 🍊
Bernie Taylor @bernietaylor.bsky.social Art History, Astronomy & Prehistory. http://beforeorion.com, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernie-Taylor & https://youtube.com/beforeoriondotcom
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
MAA Graduate Student Committee @gsc-maa.bsky.social The Grad Student Committee of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social of America offers programming and opportunities for grads across disciplines of medieval studies. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Graduate_Students
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.
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 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Oscar Patton @oscarpatton.bsky.social Elizabethan & Jacobean Chapels Royal | AHRC History DPhil @ Merton College, Oxford 
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
Fabrice aka Curious Crocodile @curiouscrocodile.bsky.social Historian, PhD. Reformation & Republics in Early Modern Times. Book lover, crocodile friend & whisky enthusiast.
Private account, opinions my own.
Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Lover of early modern history, nuns, cats, French fries, and the Nats. Hater of fascism and anything diminishing the humanity of those around us. 
Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
Plants and Plantagenets @andplantagenets.bsky.social Becky Stockton, J.D. Historian & researcher; herbs, history & how they combine. Jacquetta of Luxembourg stan. Cat mom. She/her/hers
plantsandplantagenets.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
Mors et Amor @mors-amor.bsky.social Exploring art, faith, economy and politics of the Low Countries during the renaissance era. Explorando las artes, la fe, la economía y la política en Flandes en la época del Renacimiento
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.
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/
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
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
Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern East Central Europe, Czech and Polish, Global Renaissances, Utopia, History of the Future, World History, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market
John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social Research institute for the history of the 16th century reformations, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Posts by @uelizahnd.bsky.social and Jéromine Roth; unige.ch/ihr
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
Guillaume Coatalen @gcoatalen.bsky.social Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
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).
Eli Bernstein @elibernstein.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | The Queen's College, Oxford | c16 literary and intellectual culture | Erasmus to Montaigne
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 ✝️
Bernhard Huss @bernhardhuss.bsky.social Prof FU Berlin, Director of Center for Italian Studies. Italian literature, early modern, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Quattro and Cinquecento. Socio straniero dell‘Accademia dell‘Arcadia, Accademico corrispondente estero dell‘Accademia della Crusca
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
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
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.
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.
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w- A Anne Coldiron anniebherenow @anniebherenow.bsky.social Recently retired professor of renaissance/early modern and late-medieval lit; and book history. Exhausted. Relaxing. Reading. Playing piano. Gardening. More to follow.
David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
@jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social Historian @Ghent University: medieval & EM gender history.
Art Enthusiast
Recent books:
Citizens & Sodomites https://brill.com/display/title/69308
De onuitspreekbare zonde
Middeleeuwse medemensen https://ertsberg.be/boek/middeleeuwse-medemensen/
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.
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social Historian of early modern France, peacebuilding and religious conflict at Groningen University. Managing editor of Early Modern Low Countries journal.🇳🇱🇫🇷🏳️🌈
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
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social Roman history with the potential to be quite interesting. Subscribe for updates 👇
Substack - https://jamescoverley.substack.com
Tip Jar - https://ko-fi.com/jamescoverley
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social Your daily dose of science, tech, and cosmic wonder. Please turn on notifications, so you don’t miss a post. 🚀🛰️
#Science #Nature #Technology #Space
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
Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Modern Landscape Painter
JimMusil.com
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
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.
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 | 🇱🇧
Miklós Cseszneky (Cseszneky Miklós) @csesznekymiklos.bsky.social Hungarian philosopher and writer with a background in law, political science, history, linguistics, psychology and education. I write essays, fiction and poetry in multiple languages.
https://csesznekymiklos.substack.com/
https://solo.to/csesznekymiklos