Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
Eli Bernstein @elibernstein.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | The Queen's College, Oxford | c16 literary and intellectual culture | Erasmus to Montaigne
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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
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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!
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
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
Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social Writer and researcher. DPhil @ Oxford researching early modern eating disorders. Funded by AHRC & Clarendon Scholarships. Writing in Tribune, LARB, London Mag, History Today, etc.
https://www.helenaaeberli.co.uk
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social Historian of the English Revolution; Labour Councillor Lichfield City and Lichfield District Councils. Deputy leader of Lichfield City Council 2025-. Professor Emerita Keele University, UK.
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.
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social EMLC is a leading open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries. We publish multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art scholarship on any aspect of the turbulent history of this region from 1500-1850
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social MEMSA is made up of postgraduate students from all disciplines working on the Medieval or Early Modern period at Durham University. ALL welcome at our events.
MEMSLib @memslibukc.bsky.social Digital library for researchers of Medieval and Early Modern studies, run by postgraduate students at the University of Kent
https://www.memslib.co.uk/ 
Society for Reformation Research (SRR) @socrefresearch.bsky.social Organization promoting the study of the Reformation and early modern religion.
Sponsor of the Archive for Reformation History (ARH)
Social Media: @kkaelin.bsky.social
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England. 
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social Historian of France and the Early Modern World, Indian Ocean Colonialism, Notaries, and Urban Social History in Texas.
Often professional, sometimes a silly goose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
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
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.
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
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors.
Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
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 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Emma Nelson @emma-nelson.bsky.social PhD candidate working on the medieval library of Lincoln Cathedral & assistant at Chetham's Library 📚📚📚
History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social Updates and events from the History of Catholicism research cluster in the Centre for Catholic Studies at @durham-university.bsky.social
Liam Temple @liamtemple.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham University. Lover of all things Catholic, mystical and Franciscan! First gen academic. More: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/liam-p-temple/
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social 
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
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
@vchgloucester.bsky.social @vchgloucester.bsky.social 
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Kate McGregor @ksmcgregor.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of St Andrews | 'Foreign policy and diplomacy during the personal rule of James V, King of Scots (1528-1542)'.
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.
Lincoln College, University of Oxford @lincoln.ox.ac.uk The official account of Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Dr. Elisabeth Natour @elisabethnatour.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern culture, politics, political theory and MUSIC, based at the University of Mainz
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social
Views my own.
mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk
Roman Lüttin @kontrapunkt.bsky.social musicologist @uniheidelberg.bsky.social •
collaboration, co-creativity and authorship in early modern music 📚
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
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.
Amilia Gillies @amiliagillies.bsky.social CHASE-funded Ph.D researcher @memsunikent.bsky.social | Court scandal and corruption, c.1614-21 | Branch Secretary @canterburyha.bsky.social | Administrator @memslibukc.bsky.social
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, Mondays fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
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
Emma Arthur (sí/í) @emmaarthur.bsky.social 3rd year DPhil Candidate in Music, University of Oxford | women, amateur music-making, 19thc. Ireland | funded by the AHRC OOC DTP | Soprano
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
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/
Ellen Werner @ellenwerner.bsky.social Research associate in environmental histories at the University of Manchester | PhD research on "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at the University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
Patrik Pastrnak @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social DPhil (Oxon). Medievalist&Early Modernist, associate prof at
Palacky Uni, Olomouc (Czechia)
Rulership, travel, narrativity, gender. And wedding journeys.
https://reginalita.ff.upol.cz/en/reginalita-uvod-english/
Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European.
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat
Pasadena CA & Washington DC
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Amber Burbidge @amberburbidge.bsky.social Early Modern PhD researcher | EUI History | premodern race-making in material culture | Erasmus at EHESS | decolonisation | race | gender | intersectional | global history | 17c | 18c |heritage | Uni of York alumni 🏳️🌈
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
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 • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮) @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • France and the Netherlands • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts • https://linktr.ee/bramvanleuveren
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social Singing researcher into #earlymodern ballads at Liverpool Hope University and Social History Society Administrator
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him. 
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Mark McKibbin @markmmckibbin.bsky.social ✝️🏳️🌈. Political Historian. Pragmatic Progressive. Sustainable Optimist. https://linktr.ee/markmckibbin.
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
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Waseem Ahmed @waseemahmed98.bsky.social UCL History PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA UCL Institute of Americas and EISPS, KCL History, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions 
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
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
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/