Tullia @tulliatulliola.bsky.social Retired librarian.
Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at the Bodleian; Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Hannah Kershaw @hannahkershaw.bsky.social Research Manager at the National Trust. Girl Mum, ginger cat obsessive and Londoner.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Oxfordshire @oxfordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Oxfordshire (Oxon), UK - we originally started this on "the bird app" in 2012
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
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
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Vikki Sands @vikkisands.bsky.social history & archaeology forever | dphil candidate @ ox | monks, women and space | charterhouse lover | (she/her) |
Jordibus @jcuerre.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, economist. PhD candidate at Universitat de València.
Currently researching medieval mints and money plus labour markets. I like rocksteady music and olives, but loathe grapefruits and solemnity.
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@db-jackson.bsky.social @db-jackson.bsky.social
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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@nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social @nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social
Hayley Bassett @bass2961.bsky.social Medieval historian of marriage diplomacy & peacemaking, 10th to 12th century. She/her. Carer. Dog & cat parent. National Trust advocate.
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
All About History @allabouthistory.bsky.social Britain's best independent history magazine, packed with thrilling stories. linktr.ee/AllAboutHistory
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
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.
Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social Paperwork obsessive. Dutch, sorry. Languages | (Board) Games | TTRPG | History (Long 17th C. Dutch/English in particular) | Maps | Books | Trains | He/him | 35 | 🏳️🌈 | Antwerp-based | 📸 ikstillnick
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Matthew Johnson @matthewj.bsky.social Archaeologist at Northwestern University; Norwich City fan. He/him. Dis/Abled. Opinions expressed my own.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Wolfson College Oxford @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social The natural home for graduates at Oxford University
Linton Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6UD
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Craig Spence @cspence.bsky.social Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
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) 🇳🇿
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.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
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.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social Professor of economic and social history at Exeter University. Research on work, gender, households, material culture, rural economy and more. Mostly England 1300-1750.
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
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
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay, #HistoricalGameStudies and #medieval set #TTRPG, idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
FyrDrakken @fyrdrakken.bsky.social I'm into knitting, cats, reading, sci-fi/fantasy, history, archaeology, healthcare, politics, tea, gardening. Deleted my Twitter a few weeks after the Muskrat bought it and went cold turkey on social media for a year or two. She/her.
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
[Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜
https://peripheralmss.org
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @the-herbert.bsky.social 📍Jordan Wl, Coventry CV1 5QP
📚 Stories That Made Us | 14 Nov 2025 - 25 May 2026
🦕 Dippy in Coventry | Until Feb 2026
🔗 linktr.ee/the_herbert_cov_
Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
Stirling City Heritage Trust @stirlingcht.bsky.social Dedicated to maintaining Stirling's Heritage. We Deliver the Traditional Buildings Health Check in Stirling.
West Sussex Record Office @westsussexro.bsky.social Celebrating and sharing the historic archive collections of West Sussex, dating from 780AD to the present.
Website & catalogue - wsro.org.uk
Portland Museum @portlandmuseum.bsky.social We are now closed for the winter period. We look forward to seeing you in Spring 2026!
The Weaver's House @weavershouse.bsky.social Unique restored medieval working man's house and garden in Coventry showing how John Croke the weaver would have lived in 1540.
University of Bath Library Research Services @uniofbathlibraryrs.bsky.social Offering expert guidance on Archives & Research Collections, Open Access, Research Data Management and Research Impact.
https://library.bath.ac.uk/research-services
Edinburgh Libraries @edinburghlibraries.bsky.social Edinburgh Libraries - news about events, activities and services across our 28 community libraries, Central Library, mobile library service and digital library.
Bethlem Museum of the Mind @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social A museum dedicated to the history of mental healthcare. Free admission.
Current exhibition - Kindred 16 January - 27 June 2026
Rural Museums Network @ruralmuseums.bsky.social The Rural Museums Network is a registered charity, aimed at promoting learning and encouraging a wider understanding of the UK’s rural heritage.
Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) @tayoxford.bsky.social Taylor Institution Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford. Covers modern European languages & literatures with a teaching collection and specialist research collection.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/taylor
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
Wollaston Museum @wollastonmuseum.bsky.social Village Museum, operated by Wollaston Heritage Society (est 1970). Site includes the between-the-wars Curiosity Cottage and Beacon Hill, a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society @17sgs10.bsky.social A wondrous place... Founded in 1710, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society is
Britain’s oldest provincial learned society and second-oldest surviving
museum, library and archive.
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social A local museum with a global collection. From stories of dinosaurs dug up by Victorian eggheads, to world treasures gathered by intrepid men and women.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 4.30pm.
https://www.hmag.org.uk
Museum of Gloucester @museumofgloucester.bsky.social Telling the collective story of the city and people of Gloucester from the Romans to now. We've also got shed-loads of amazing clocks.
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social A membership charity founded in 1780 that supports the study and enjoyment of Scotland’s past through publications, lectures, @scarf-scot.bsky.social, @digitscotland.bsky.social, @churchheritage.bsky.social and more | Visit https://www.socantscot.org/
@westhighlandmuseum.bsky.social @westhighlandmuseum.bsky.social
Bowers Museum @bowersmuseum.bsky.social Bringing the World to You
#bowersfestival
Non-profit Museum
Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social The official county archive for the former counties of Gwent and Monmouthshire. Open Tues-Thurs 09:30 - 16:30. What will you discover?
www.gwentarchives.gov.uk
Kent Archives @kentarchives.bsky.social A nationally accredited archive repository for Kent, established in 1933 and based in Maidstone. Get involved and keep up-to-date with the latest news and events from our service.
This account is monitored from Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5pm.
Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social Norfolk Record Office collects and preserves unique archives relating to the history of Norfolk and makes them accessible across the world.
Fry Art Gallery @fryartgallery.bsky.social Home to an important collection of work by 20th and 21st century artists who lived and worked in North West Essex. Find us in Saffron Walden and online at: www.fryartgallery.org
The Oxfordshire Museum Service @oxonmuseumservice.bsky.social The Oxfordshire Museum Service (OMS) cares for and makes accessible the county’s Museum collection across the four sites of The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Bishops Palace in Witney, Swalcliffe Barn near Banbury and the Museum Resource Centre.
Arundel Castle Archive @arundelcarchive.bsky.social The archives at Arundel Castle form one of the largest private collections in the UK, with holdings from the 12th century. All images © The Duke of Norfolk. www.arundelcastle.org/archives/
Modern Art Oxford @modernartoxford.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces. We celebrate the importance of participation in the arts, offering inspiring creative opportunities.
Log Cabin Museum @logcabinmuseum.bsky.social Oldest (1933) purpose-built log cabin museum in BC, on original site and still operating!
Run by npf SaanichPioneerSociety, dedicated to SaanichPeninsula history.
Find us on Saturdays 1-4pm at 7910 Polo Park, Saanichton, 1blk north of the Prairie Inn.
Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster.
🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org
Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social We are part of Oxfordshire County Council - we're the archive and local studies for the county, including photographic collections
Website - http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirehistory
Catalogue - https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/
Freud Museum London @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud
Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Run by artists, for artists.
Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Scottish Museums Federation @scottishmuseums.bsky.social Representing members of Scotland's cultural sector since the 1930s.
🏺 Museums
🎨 Galleries
📜 Archives
🏛️ Heritage sites
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Daniel Bennett Page @danielbennettpage.bsky.social Cultural Historian | Musicologist | Tudor England | Psalmody | Polyphony | Gregorian Chant | Early Printed Materials | Bibliography | Court/Royal Studies | Musician | Educator | MFA | PhD
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography