David Grummitt @davidgrummitt.bsky.social Historian of the late Middle Ages (and of the history of warfare more generally), academic and magazine editor. Very good with children and cats, not too shabby in the kitchen.
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.
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Dr Michele Seah @mlcseah.bsky.social I’ve researched fifteenth-century English queens and their landholdings and affinities. Also interested in women’s histories, royal studies, and way too many other things to list here. Passionate about lifelong learning, by the way. Oh, and Buffy rules!
Natalie Donnell, PhD @nataliedonnell.bsky.social Historian of women in early modern Europe, political power, transregionality, and network analysis.
nataliedonnell.com - feministhistories.substack.com
Digitised Archive @digitisedarchive.bsky.social For academics who need archival research without the travel. We digitise your requested documents from London’s libraries and archives, delivering high-quality scans worldwide.
www.digitisedarchive.co.uk
Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social A public history blog from the Cambridge History Faculty 🪶
Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social Postdoc at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩🎓 Cats 🐈⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her https://linktr.ee/tabithastanmore
Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social Ricardian, Marian, notebook-hoarder, writer of #historicalfiction and #historicalromance
Amazon:
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Substack: https://jennifercwilsonwriter.substack.com/
georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social CHASE & Stuart Hall Foundation doctoral researcher @memsunikent.bsky.social looking at race in chivalric romances across medieval North Atlantic Europe
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Oscar Patton @oscarpatton.bsky.social Elizabethan & Jacobean Chapels Royal | AHRC History DPhil @ Merton College, Oxford
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.
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer @gvb1554.bsky.social Historian of the global Spanish Empire in the early modern period, with particular focus on the Philippines at the University of Bristol. Looking at race, society, marriage, intimacies, religion & politics.
https://www.instagram.com/gonzavelasco1554/
David Santiuste @dbsantiuste.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Britain (especially 15th-century England and Scotland). Lecturer in Humanities at COL, University of Edinburgh. I work with adults of all ages, focusing on lifelong learning and educational transitions.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Multidisciplinary Approach. Experimental and Historical Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Cultural Heritage, Nutrition. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne ✨
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/seminars-reading-groups/early-modern-circle
(acct run by@paigedonaghy.bsky.social)
Heather Dalton Historian @drhg.bsky.social Historian of medieval & early modern world. Merchant networks, with a sideline in cockatoos. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/where-did-that-cockatoo-come-from
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722315/keeping-family-in-an-age-of-long-dis
Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Otford Palace @otfordpalace.bsky.social Archbishop's Palace Conservation Trust: Regenerating a fresh awareness of the iconic Otford Palace, the Tudor residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham. Otford, Kent. Registered charity, number 1173486
https://otfordpalace.org/
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Friends of Nonsuch @fononsuch.bsky.social Preserving Nonsuch Park's history with a Victorian Service Wing Museum & the largest model of Nonsuch Palace. Open on Sundays. Reg. Charity No. 1053923.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Emily Crouch @historypomegranate.bsky.social Historian and writer. Specialising in Early Modern England and France. Bibliophile and proud mum to a doxie
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 •
All About History @all-about-history.bsky.social Derbyshire, England.
A website that is All About History: www.allabouthistory.co.uk.
And translator Medieval Texts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CLKTLTK5
Lucy Menadue @lucymenadue.bsky.social www.notesofatimetraveller.com
A history lover from Australia with a particular interest in Tudor history and women's history.
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
Rosamund Gravelle @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social Writer
Producer
Podcaster (Creator & Co-Host of 'Poets Corner or the Let’s Be Happy Podcast’
Buy Me A Coffee ☕️🥰: buymeacoffee.com/RosamundGravelle
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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/
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis @ciditcharlotte.bsky.social Learning and Research Engagement Officer at Cambridge University Library | Author of two books on Christine de Pizan | Former lecturer in medieval French at Oxford University | Adventurer, pilgrim
Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social Moated historic Tudor manor house in south Suffolk with walled garden & rare breed farm.
Home of world famous historical recreations, Dickensian Christmas, Scaresville & Halloweenies.
This year it’s 1536!
https://www.kentwell.co.uk/
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
Jemma Field @jemmafield.bsky.social Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)
Micheline White @michelinewhite.bsky.social Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Karen Smyth @karensmyth.bsky.social Hon. Professor in Medieval & Early Modern Literature at UEA. Dabbling in literary criticism, critical and applied heritage studies, creative adaptations of the pre-modern, creative-critical writing methods, Creative Health research & autoethnography.
@gbs82.bsky.social @gbs82.bsky.social History writer. Comics enthusiast. Hufflepuff.
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Jon Fitzgibbons @jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
@emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social
Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social Historian, author, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Runs the Just History Posts blog. Specialises in late medieval women and the English court. Find my links: https://lnk.bio/GemmaHAuthor
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Danie Burton @princessburton.bsky.social Historian, history blogger, heritage worker. Anthony Woodville: Sophisticate or Schemer, biography of Anthony Woodville out now. Article Yorkists under Henry VII in September 2017 Ricardian Bulletin.
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
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Elizabeth Beattie @elizabethbeattie.bsky.social Early Modern Historian | Women, Education, and Intellectualism in 17th Century Europe
👩🎓 MA, MLitt, University of St Andrews
📸 https://www.instagram.com/secret_historian/
Jackson van Uden @historywithjackson.bsky.social The Home of Accessible and Digestible History | @historyextra 30 Under 30 2024
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Alice E. Smith @aliceesmith.bsky.social Theatre and Costume Historian and Maker. Photographer and Makeup Artist. Researcher for the podcast Not Just the Tudors. Lover of coffee, cats, books and the natural world.
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
@kclaidenyardley.bsky.social @kclaidenyardley.bsky.social
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
Dr Carly McNamara @medievalcarly.bsky.social PhD in Celtic, focusing on early medieval Irish and Scottish history. Saints, monasteries, monastic networks, and water-based travel. Founder and Managing Director of My Academic Family, a non-profit supporting student success in university.
Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social Architectural historian based in Cambridge (UK). Interested in early modern history, especially Venice, the Veneto, eastern Mediterranean. Gardens, landscape, cultural geography. Venetian painting.
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.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.
Anglotopia @anglotopia.net The website for people who love Britain. Find us at https://anglotopia.net
Susan Branch @dearsusanbranch.bsky.social Happy gene, NY Times bestselling author, watercolor artist, love Joe, girlfriends, cooking, my central coast garden, riding train & QM2 to England❤️ Heart of the Home. www.susanbranch.com
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Jack Beesley @jackbeesley.bsky.social AHRC PhD Candidate @ManMetUni | Historian of LGBTQ+ History 🏳️🌈 | Usually found writing about gay stuff from the past | William II - William III🤴🏻
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
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