James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Sheffield Arts & Humanities @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Exploring what makes us human through the study of languages, literatures, cultures, histories and ideas.
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
Dr Adrea Johnson @adrearj.bsky.social Early Modern Historian - poetry, theology, & women’s writing | Teach @UFV & Lecturer @ Regent College | Fond of 📚 & 🐝| @adrearj 🇨🇦
William Hoff @willjfhoff.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country 🖤💛❤️ Researching Robin Hood, the politics of performance, and early modern medievalism 🌳🏹🎯
Creation Theatre @creationtheatre.bsky.social We’re an award winning theatre company, based in Oxford. Most of our work is site specific, and we gather audiences in unusual spaces and places. We also run a thriving education department and youth theatre. Find us at www.creationtheatre.co.uk
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
University of Melbourne @unimelb.edu.au We're a public-spirited institution making distinctive contributions to society in research, learning, teaching and engagement.
CRICOS code: 00116K
National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk 🎭 On Stage on the South Bank
💻 Online with National Theatre at Home
🍿 In Cinemas with National Theatre Live
Mary Bellman @marybellman.bsky.social PhD Candidate in English and Theatre Studies (Early Modern Drama) | University of Melbourne
Eileen A. Horansky @ehxlibris.bsky.social PhD candidate in late medieval/early modern book history @ Ohio State. libraries. book arts. HEMA. nature.
Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social I publish in Adaptation Studies and am co-editor and founder of the journals, Adaptation (OUP) and Shakespeare (Routledge).
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.
Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English @ University of York.
C18-19th Literature and Culture. He/Him
https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
EM animals & their writers @ayyveebee.bsky.social 🌟fan account🌟
In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in #EarlyModern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot
Current Shakespeare on Substack
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
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! ✝️
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
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.
Anna Tarcher Demoux (she/her) @annatarcherdemoux.bsky.social PhD in EM English drama @ucauvergne.bsky.social | Associate Member @ihrim.bsky.social | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social
Amy Tigner @amytigner.bsky.social Artist, Early Modern Scholar, Yogi, Dog mom.
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Sydney J Shep @nzsydney.bsky.social Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Te Whare Tā O Wai-te-ata, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Andie Silva @andiesilva.bsky.social Early modern print culture, book history, digital humanities, (digital) feminist pedagogy. Associate Professor at York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. General Co-Editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of SHARP News.
UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social Makeademic. Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities at Price Lab for Digital Humanities @Penn #DHMakes. she/her
http://emilyfbrooks.com
Tom Langham @probablynottom.bsky.social Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
Alice Leonard @wanderlanderr.bsky.social Book historian and early modernist, thinking about error
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
Octavo (Soon) @octavo.ro Carte rară și de specialitate / Rare, out-of-print, and specialist books
https://octavo.ro/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
@centrechop.bsky.social @centrechop.bsky.social
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
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social Historian of art, science, and knowledge. Postdoc #VisualizingTheUnknown, @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Also a maker.
https://jessieweihsuanchen.com/
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
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre @uvichcmc.bsky.social HCMC develops digital projects in collaboration with researchers and instructors from UVic's Faculty of Humanities.
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
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.
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.
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
Dr. Fabrice Flückiger @fabriceflueckiger.bsky.social Historiker, Dr. phil.
Programmleiter Geschichte beim Schwabe Verlag in Basel.
Hier geht's zu unseren Neuerscheinungen: https://www.schwabe.ch/programmvorschauen-c-95.
Persönliche Homepage: https://fabriceflueckiger.owlstown.net/
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
knight hare-rent @errant-hare.bsky.social late medieval & early modern nonsense | queerness | dungeon synth | they/them
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/
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Carnegie Mellon University Department of English @cmuenglish.bsky.social Passionate about reading, writing, & culture since 1919.
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Zenón Luis-Martínez @zenon-l-m.bsky.social Professor of English (University of Huelva, Spain), working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry and poetics.
Aaron @exlibris451.bsky.social Research Librarian. Reader. Snooker player. Tea drinker. Foot Servant to two Jack Russells. LGBTQ+ Ally. Trump, Musk, and MAGA can all fuck off. No Crypto. No Porn. No DMs. #FuckTrump #Resist
James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️🌈
Rachel Hogan @rnhogan.bsky.social Instruction & Research Librarian for the Arts & Digital Humanities @ William & Mary Libraries. Passionate about dh in and out of the library, arts-based research, academic librarianship, information literacy, medievalisms, arthurian lit, and victorian lit
SCLPostGrad2026 @sclpostgrad2026.bsky.social The Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe. This year's theme is 'Networks'.
Elizabeth Newton-Jackson @lizzienj.bsky.social Avid crafter and PhD student. I write about early modern women, textile history, and material culture. Through textile re-construction and re-creation projects, I explore the possibilities of embodied learning as a way to unlock the past.
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
Sara Schliep @sbschliep.bsky.social Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
Erika Giddens @egiddens.bsky.social rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
Rebecca Hurst @rebeccahurst.bsky.social Writer, opera maker, & illustrator. Researcher at the University of Manchester. Author of The Fox’s Wedding. she/her 🐌🌈🦋
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
shakedsetc @shakedsetc.bsky.social
Jessica Lynn Wolfe @jesslynnwolfe.bsky.social Marcel Bataillon Professor, UNC Chapel Hill. Early modern literary and intellectual history, history of science, classical reception. Native New Yorker, avid traveler, soon to be peripatetic.
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu advancing computational & data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. Publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social.
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a global leader in research, teaching, and innovation at the crossroads of cultural heritage and digital methods.
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
Dorothy Todd @dorothytodd.bsky.social
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
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🏴
Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
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.
John Ladd @jrladd.com Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS
Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds
jrladd.com
Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
CEMERS - Binghamton University @cemersbinghamton.bsky.social Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) is an organized research unit that promotes scholarship in medieval and early modern studies. Find us & Mediaevalia here: https://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/
The Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC) @rcscorg.bsky.social RCSC is a scholarly association dedicated to the advancement of learning in Renaissance Studies (c. 1300–1800). RCSC is an affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).
https://rcsconline.org/annual-conference-2/2022-conference-registration/
SEDERI @sederi.bsky.social The Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
https://www.sederi.org
https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/SEDY
Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva @borderlandsshax.bsky.social Transforming how Shakespeare is taught to reflect the lived realities of La Frontera.
🎭Amplifying Chicanx and Indigenous art.
⤵️Learn more
https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
Nicolas Perreaux @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers @stationerscomms.bsky.social City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries. Broadcasters, Writers, Journalists, Publishing, Printing, Paper, Packaging, Archive, Library & Conservation. Digital Media & Software, Stationery & Greeting cards, Tour Guides
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
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/
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Robert Crighton @robertcrighton.bsky.social Performer, writer, producer - founder of Beyond Shakespeare, but I won't be doing much of that here. Mostly other stuff.
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/
Martha Nell Smith @marthanellsmith.bsky.social Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social
Caroline Bicks @carolinebicks.bsky.social Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, UMaine. Shakespearean. Humorist. Author, MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES: MY YEAR OF FEAR WITH STEPHEN KING (Hogarth, April 2026). Co-host of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast. https://shorturl.at/TE4j7
Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com