@lizandrynn.bsky.social @lizandrynn.bsky.social
JoJoKC 💙🏳️🌈 | Queertauqua @jpe1974.bsky.social Senior Recruiter @ Tallgrass Freight | Apple geek | LEGO reseller | Politics, history & culture | Proud husband of Queertauqua’s creator—bringing overlooked queer history out of the archives and onto the stage. 🏳️🌈 queertauqua.org
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Morten Øveraas @moveraas.bsky.social Førstekonservator NMF, PhD.
Romsdalsmuseet
WW1 Roll of Honour @ww1rollofhonour.bsky.social Over 5,300 photographs of people in war service from the Hastings and Rother area during World War 1. Full website is: https://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk/.
The posts shared here are reposted content from the website.
Kronisk nynorsk 🏳️⚧️ @kronisknynorsk.bsky.social Journalist med fokus på rus, helse og skeive saker. Skriv tidvis for Blikk
Tips? emilas.53 på Signal
Hen/dei
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Richard Heggland @heggland0.bsky.social Selveste Richard Heggland
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social PhD candidate @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social | Academic Coordinator @ilintelligence.bsky.social | Surveillance law, Privacy, AI regulation and intelligence studies
❌ https://x.com/amircahane
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahane/
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Atrocity & the Conduct of War
Late onset academic
#Dyslexic
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/2IHjNWV
Grey ships, black boats
Once a midship, always a midship!
https://www.midshipnews.org/
HAPI @hapi-conference.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tension-fragmentation-conference-university-of-bristol-17-19-august-tickets-1987831431322?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social Resisting the global rise of Fascism. Social impact writer. PhD in Creative Writing. Sixth book of poetry, Understorey, coming out February 2027 (uHlanga Press). Librettist and amateur artist. LLMs are a scourge. 🇿🇦
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
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
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast (out soon!)
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
@cathbby.bsky.social @cathbby.bsky.social
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth, lecturer @MacEwan U, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Emil Gunnlaugsson @emilgunnlaugsson.bsky.social PhD | Economic & Social History in the North Atlantic & Arctic | Research on chartered companies and Iceland, Greenland, Faroes & Finnmark
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
Eden @edenofthew.bsky.social Nihilist || History, Philosophy, Politics, and Literature enthusiast 📚 ||
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
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/
Anna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social Researcher @ Universiteit Leiden • Early Modern History of Science, the Environment, Capitalism • Book: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
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
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
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.
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean- S Soeren @soerenstephan.bsky.social SoftwareQualityControl, BalconyPowerPlant, Lego, NoAFD
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
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).
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Vagant @vagant1988.bsky.social Kulturtidsskrift grunnlagt i 1988. Ansvarlig redaktør og utgiver: @audunlindholm. Nettredaktør: @snorref. Øvrig redaksjon: Camilla Hougaard, Daniel Ginsby, Emily Birgit Rust, Mats O. Svensson, Andreas Töpfer, Øystein Vidnes.
http://www.vagant.no
Molassacre: Escape the Flood Card Game @molassacregame.bsky.social Molassacre: Escape the Flood is the first card game set during the real-life 1919 Boston Molasses Flood. It combines historical intrigue with a fun and quick family-friendly gameplay.
Grab a copy today!
https://www.pauliewenger.com/store/p/molassacre
Bjarne Benjaminsen @bjarnebenjaminsen.bsky.social Science fiction-forfatter og redaktør av nettidsskriftet nyenova.no, søker å forene romantikk og fornuft etter beste evne. Vær hilset, venner!
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
TheBookDuke @bookduke.bsky.social Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. #AmReading #AmWriting #BookPromo #BookTWT
Twitter: BookDuke
(No DMs please)
Erik Salen @ersa.bsky.social
Eirik Kvindesland @kvindesland.net Writer, historian, Post-doctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Formerly at Oxford.
www.kvindesland.net
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".
Marthe @geitrams.bsky.social Forvirra historiker på jakt etter grønnere gress.
Privatperson. Grønland. Skrotvenstre. Prater mest med meg sjøl.
Edgar P. Grackle @dudiligence.bsky.social We are shadows if we sit and watch. We doom those who need our support. Democracy is under attack. Stop whining. Start acting. I am a foot soldier. Let me help. What can I do for you? Send a chat request. I WILL respond. I block money and sex posts.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Axiom Veritas @axiomveritas.bsky.social Who knows me better suggests that integrity, intellectual curiosity, analytical depth, pragmatism, and vision are my defining characteristics.
Socratic reasoning compels me to challenge assumptions, and uncover the deeper truths that shape our world.
Smart Roxanne @dreamychristie04.bsky.social
Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social I study women's separatist movements in medieval and early modern Europe. Researcher at U. Oslo.
Publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
Editor for hire:
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Orbital Policy Group @druidorbital.bsky.social Viewpoints and opinions on policy issues relating to Low Earth Orbit, including policy, science, governance, and cybersecurity.
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Idunn Victoria Rostøl @ivrostol.bsky.social PhD in Intellectual History at the University of Oslo. Mission history, childhood, antisiganism, children's literature, and history of emotions. https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/history-of-ideas/temporary/idunnvs/index.html
Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social Postdoc in modern history @liu.se, currently working on Scandinavian childhoods and the Cold War.
20th century Scandinavia| Childhood, civil society and political cultures| History education and teacher training
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
@mathbeyer.bsky.social @mathbeyer.bsky.social
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social Lecturing @manmetuni.bsky.social
Grand Tourist myself and Jacobite scholar.
FrHist/ SFHEA / PGCert
"The Jacobites and the Grand Tour" now out with Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179920/
🏳️🌈 & good theatre!
Dr. Anna Brinkman @annakbrinkman.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/balancing-strategy/305960D358172DBCF641320024BFF71D#
@skeivtarkiv.bsky.social @skeivtarkiv.bsky.social
Emilia Maxwell @emiliamaxx.bsky.social Neurospicy🐈⬛Cat Lady; Progressive ;🌈she/her/they; critical reader; Disabled; Breast Cancer/Long Covid; Built Ballet Costumes & worked in costuming @🐀Disney who said Piss-off &
'We don't do accommodations'
I fought them.
I lost.
Fuck Disney!🔥
@hcekroll.bsky.social @hcekroll.bsky.social Nyhetssjef/Deputy News Editor @Aftenposten. Author @aschehoug. Gravejournalistikk med og uten hydraulikk. Nesten fagbrev som fotograf. Vestlending.
johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social @johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.
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)
Annika Frieberg @afrieberg.bsky.social historian of northern and Central Europe. From Sweden/living in San Diego. Aspiring hermit/bog witch. Lover of coffee, oceans, forests, mountains, yoga, in no particular order. Recovering pessimist.
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
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
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Janice Liedl @jliedl.bsky.social Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social The Dem Voice of Missouri with her 258 Substack https://jesspiper.substack.com/ / @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social DMs ok 📚
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
W.R. Judd @wrjudd.bsky.social AZ native and Architecture Hugger. I WILL NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE and the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social A Wellcome Trust funded project at the University of Manchester exploring an environmental approach to the history of sleep care.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/
David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675.
Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
Jenni Merovuo @jmerovuo.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern, #borderlands, #belonging, #power, and #peace.
Teaching #palaeography
Scream like a curler
suomi🇫🇮/ English
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Craig Stafford @craigstafford.bsky.social British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Håvard Jenssen @hbjenssen.bsky.social AI-forsker og radiolog
Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social Historian of medicine, religion, and the supernatural. Joint editor, Irish Historical Studies. Senior Lecturer in History at Ulster University. Research profile: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-sneddon
Co PI Islandmagee Witch Project: w1711.org
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars- A Andreas Skogholt Skjetne @andreassskjetne.bsky.social Human Geographer. Worked with cultural heritage for 17 years, now in planning. Interests in Cold war heritage, supernatural fiction, H.P Lovecraft, M.R James, Arthur Machen ++