Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
Roel Hendriks @roelhendriks.bsky.social PhD candidate KU Leuven
Medieval and early modern history
Annika Raapke Öberg @mouseemperor.bsky.social Early Modern History. Caribbeanist. Uppsala University.
Gently obsessing over the church records of Saint-Barthélemy.
Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social Professor of Maritime History at The University of Southampton https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x9xmp/professor-craig-lambert
Tom Chidwick @tomchidwick.bsky.social Historian | Author of "Now or Never! A History of the First Scottish Devolution Referendum" | Manager of @mileendinstitute.bsky.social
Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian @Queen Mary University of London. Real expertise: James Bond and shoes.
In English e italiano.
Maarten Langhendries @mlanghendries.bsky.social
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
Haley Bowen @haleyebowen.bsky.social assistant professor of history at northwestern | early modern france
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).
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
Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/46350-alexander-hibberts/about
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social
ERC PARISH @erc-parish.bsky.social Parish Politics in Early Modern East-Central Europe, 1650–1800.
ERC-CoG-2025 PARISH GA No. 101229540 –– Funded by the European Union. Views own.
Thomas C Jones @thomas-c-jones.bsky.social Historian | Senior Lecturer at University of Buckingham | British Academy Mid-Career Fellow | Interested in Asylum & Refugees, Political Thought, Transnationalism
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Ruairí Cullen @ruairicullen.bsky.social HE policy @ The British Academy.
Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social Animal historian working with rats 🐀 in early modern cities
University of York
I try to be creative too: artist, writer, videomaker and more
Clodagh Murphy @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social early modern letters ~ royal authorship ~ collaboration ~ manuscripts ~ scribal culture
Rachael Maskell MP @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative MP for York Central. Working hard for you and York. To contact me Rachael.Maskell.mp@parliament.uk or call 01904 623713
Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social Interested in the early modern Iberian Atlantic, Lecturer at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, UCL
Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, specialising in the cultural history of early America. Writing Edible Empire, a book on foodways and the making/breaking of Anglo-America. Indigenous knowledge, colonial appetites.
Ninon Dubourg @ninondubourg.bsky.social Postdoc on Medieval Disability and Old Age (13-16 c.), currently fellow A. Von Humboldt at Uni Köln.
Searching for a permanent position 😊
My book is OUT with Amsterdam UP!
Blog: http://dishist.hypotheses.org
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
José Miguel Ferreira @joseferreira.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow @eui-eu.bsky.social | Goa, Portugal, Environmental History and Colonialism | chief editor @pdh-journal.bsky.social
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social Lecturer at QMUL • editor at Historical Materialism • author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025)
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @hssqmul.bsky.social Explaining the past, understanding the present, and imagining the future
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
@davisqmw.bsky.social @davisqmw.bsky.social
Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social Historian of Knowledge, Encounters, and the Mediterranean | Working on migrant artisans and cross-cultural intermarriage, 1500-1800 | Warburg Yates Fellow 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Bern 2026
British Jesuit Archives @jesuitarchives.bsky.social The Archives collect, preserve and make available records concerning the Jesuits in Britain. For enquiries contact us: archives@jesuit.org.uk
Louis James Henry @louisjameshenry.bsky.social He/him
PhD Candidate at Greenhouse Research Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger
Researching waste, sanitation, and authority in late medieval England
Gustav Zamore @gzamore.bsky.social DPhil. (Oxon.) Academy Research Fellow and medieval historian at Uppsala University, working on disruptions of sacred space, ca. 1100-1450. Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at University of Cambridge. Associate Research Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge.
Wouter Ryckbosch @wryckbosch.bsky.social Economic historian at Ghent University
https://users.ugent.be/~wryckbos/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Euan Huey @euan-huey.bsky.social DPhil student Oxford Uni researching the Iberian empires in Southeast Asia.
Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social caregiver
header: painted birdhouses mounted on top of a wooden swingset, backgrounded by a very blue sky
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social Research fellow, policy analyst, grant writer, & editor from Tsilhqot’in Nen, working in Cataraqui (Kingston, Ontario); PhD in Indigenous & global history from Queen’s University; Italo-Canadian, Irish (il/he/him)
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
alisha 马 @alisha-ma.bsky.social she/her | phd historian at @lsehy.bsky.social | researching mary ii’s collections spaces at hampton court & kensington | interested in global material cultures, aesthetics of otherness, and colonial objectscapes c.1600-1800
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.
Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social PhD candidate Binghamton University • Editor @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social • News Editor, @memorients.bsky.social • Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Hannah Rose Cascio @hannahrosecascio.bsky.social Historian, PhD candidate and researcher at QMUL. | 18th century/Georgian Britain esp. women/gender and queenship/court, developing the relational biography
She/Her | American in UK | 🏳️🌈
I am truly terrible at social media so let's see how this goes! 😅
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺- E Emma Hunter @emma-edin.bsky.social
Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social Postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
Thomas H Kaal @thomashkaal.bsky.social Research Fellow in Medieval History at GHIL @ghilondon.bsky.social I Passionate about History, Music and Teaching I German, Londoner & Hispanist
https://www.ghil.ac.uk/team/our-team/thomas-kaal
Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, Africa, genocide, postcolonial memory; Prof Global History
Founding president INoGS. Personal views
Freeke De Meyer @freekedm.bsky.social Historica en auteur van Hoog geboren, ambitieus en eigenzinnig.
Maker van podcast Vrouwen des Huizes.
https://link.deezer.com/s/32Ik9dHl3O65MZOWp8zb7
Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry @icxicoatl.bsky.social scholar of mesoamerica, religious studies, and medical humanities. assistant professor @ loyola chicago. Incense and Performance (University of Arizona Press 2026).
Ryan Asquez @ryanasquez.bsky.social Adjunct Researcher at the University of Gibraltar. DPhil History, Keble College, Oxford. Researching 17th-18th century Gibraltar and medieval/EM images of the suffering Christ.
@chris-smyth.bsky.social @chris-smyth.bsky.social
Michael McKinnie @michaelmckinnie.bsky.social Professor of Theatre. Secretly Canadian.
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand” All the President’s Men
Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social BYU Law student (class of '29). BYU grad (Political Science '21). QMUL (History MA '25). Latter-day Saint. Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah Mammoth. I love politics (moderate), history, sports, aviation.
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social First novel PRACTICE out now (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Blessing Verlag; Plon). Represented by Tracy Bohan at the Wylie Agency. Most recent work in The Paris Review and Harper's.
rosalindbrown.com
Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1550-1800 | researching a new one on uranium and energy futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl
Jean-Marie Coquard @jmcoquard.bsky.social E.S.T. Paris Saclay
History of science, mathematics, arts of thinking and technologies of the intellect, Simon Stevin and XVIth century Netherlands.
Reading a book and drinking tea right now (most likely)
David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social Him off of @Wonkhe. Sky Cards Rare Master.
Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social
Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social Philhellenic Neo-Latinist
Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
ERC-StG holder: ERASMOS
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
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.
Karl Peeter Valk @karlvalk.bsky.social Medievalist, research fellow at Tallinn University School of Humanities. Interested in the intellectual, cultural, and social history of the late Middle Ages and its contemporary relevance. Currently thinking about mechanical clocks.
Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & unfree labor & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking 🌄
Daria Kohler @dareiadareia.bsky.social • Classics (Greek and Roman book culture)
• Digital Humanities (dabbling in things)
• Research management (currently at KU Leuven)
A little book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009545327
Chanelle Delameillieure @chanelled.bsky.social Historian.
Tayyiba Nasir @tayyibanasir.bsky.social Head of History in South London| History PGCE @IOE_London| History BA @qmhistory #edusky #historyeducation
Love teaching imperial and colonial history, forced to teach the National Curriculum
LECTIO Institute @lectio-institute.bsky.social KU Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts,
Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance
(posts mainly by @dareiadareia.bsky.social)
Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social PhD Candidate - University of St Andrews - Printing, bookselling, and library culture in 17th c. Swiss Confederacy ✧ Research Assistant - Universal Short Title Catalogue
The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social ~ all about the archives ~
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Lukas Koster @lukask.bsky.social Mainly on Mastodon: https://masto.ai/@lukask
Self funded PhD candidate University of Amsterdam, researching reuse of confiscated urban convents and monasteries in Holland during 16th century Dutch Revolt.
Retired from digital library work linked open data
Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social Global Historian of early modern Europe. PI UKRI FLF “Migration, Adaptation, Innovation, 1500-1800”. East India Companies, Capitalism, Global Trade, Enlightenment, Political Economy. Trying to be a half decent human being. Sometimes. Starting tomorrow.
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.
Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social Historian. I summon the spirits from #earlymodern taverns
PhD in history (European University Institute)
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/JanBlonski
#NaborowskiLetters Project
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.
Mads Langballe Jensen @madslang.bsky.social Early modern intellectual historian. MSCA fellow & Docent, History, Lund University. Wiss. Mitarbeiter, IZEA, Uni Halle-Wittenberg.
Melanchthon; Natural law; Danish colonialism.
🇩🇰 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇸🇪
madslangballejensen.com
John Freeman @johnffree.bsky.social Historian with an interest in all things Baltic, as well as early modern maritime, colonial and global history. Cutting down words is my vocation. Gets excited at football and fun maps.
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
REFORC @reforc.bsky.social The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
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
Katie Urquhart @katie-urquhart.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Yale University Press London. Commissioning medieval and early modern history. (views my own)
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
André Jockyman Roithmann @aroithmann.bsky.social Brazilian historian of Latin America and political thought, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/history/people/postdoctoral-researchers-/profiles/jockyman-roithmannandre.html
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)|Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw|Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
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.
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
@kvab-be.bsky.social @kvab-be.bsky.social Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
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