HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science @hkustshss.bsky.social The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
School of Humanities and Social Science
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Website: https://shss.hkust.edu.hk/
Digital Humanities Initiative: https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/
Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English literature, The Open University, UK
Iberian History at Oxford @iberiahistoryox.bsky.social Promoting the study of premodern Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world at the University of Oxford. https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social 
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Mónica Morado Vázquez @monicamoradov.bsky.social (she/her) 💅 el Lecturas barroco 💅 || early modern sexual (in)determinacy @eui-eu.bsky.social || comité Mes Historia LGBTIAQ+
The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social The AHGBI is a professional association of academics and researchers working in all areas of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social Catholicisms, c.1450-c. 1800 is a book series of @imems.bsky.social Press, an imprint of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Details can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/catholicisms-c-1450-c-1800/
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
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.
Dr Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social I'm an author and historian, and editor of Tudor Times. I love history, books, gardens, walking in the countryside, the sea, and interacting with interesting people on social media. Not forgetting art and cats, of course!
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/
Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social 🔶Liberal Dem 🔶 Spokesperson on Energy & Climate Change. House of Lords Life Peer. Photographer. Environment and Social Justice. Walker & Mountain Biker. 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson @john-y-wilson.bsky.social Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei).
Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social historian of early modern things, Home News remembrancer, biggie lyric, personherd, board certified vin diesel lookalike
LA Escena (Diversifying the Classics) @laescena.bsky.social Diversifying the Classics Project At UCLA - Founded in 2014
Our website: https://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/
We run LA Escena: Los Angeles' first festival of Hispanic classical theater.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social Director, NYU Prague. Honorary professor, UCL-SSEES. Czech, German and Comparative Literature. Verbal and visual modernisms. Kafka. Mushrooms. Cats (or, at least, one particular cat). Opinions here are my own (re-post ≠ necessarily endorsement).
Humanities Division @oxhumanities.bsky.social Oxford offers research & teaching in arts & humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects backed by superb libraries and collections.
https://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
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/
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social News/media from UCL (University College London), updated by UCL Media Relations. Follow @ucl.ac.uk for highlights of UCL life.
ucl.ac.uk/news/
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Gabriele Neher @gabrieleneher.bsky.social Runs, teaches, is magnetically attracted to trig points and the Pennine Way
UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a global leader in research, teaching, and innovation at the crossroads of cultural heritage and digital methods.
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Queen Mary University of London: & The Alan Turing Institute, UK. She/her
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 Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
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
Alan Stewart @alanstewart50.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Benjamin Breen @resobscura.bsky.social Associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, father of a 3 year old and 1 year old. History of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and empire.
Book: https://benjaminpbreen.com/books/tripping/
Writing at https://resobscura.substack.com
@tuzzer.bsky.social @tuzzer.bsky.social 
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
Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
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.
John Russell @johnruss28.bsky.social Associate librarian at Penn State, associate director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies
Rachel Scott @rachellunabrush.bsky.social I have autism, ADHD and OCD and I like anime, manga, horror movies, video games, reading and writing.
LGBTQIA+ friendly ❤️🏳️🌈
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social Singing researcher into #earlymodern ballads at Liverpool Hope University and Social History Society Administrator
Robyn Adams @robynredress.bsky.social DorisFish.com
CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social University of Exeter Centre for Early Modern Studies - a place for interdisciplinary exchange among staff and students and engagement with the wider academic world.
(Posts by Lucy Hurst).
William Hasty @williamhasty.bsky.social Education Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in assessment and feedback, Gen-AI in education, and quality assurance and enhancement. 
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Juan Cobo Betancourt @juancobo.bsky.social Historian of religion, law, and language in colonial Latin America. Digital and public history. Assoc. Prof. at UC Santa Barbara. https://ampl.clair.ucsb.edu
Co-fundador de @neogranadina.org
https://neogranadina.org
Alice Bell @alicebell.bsky.social Erstwhile actress. Partwhile Registrar.
Always comedic and your favourite quiz host.
Never happier than with a dog, a bird or by a waterfall. 
Prof Anna Whitelock @profannawhitelock.bsky.social Dean of School of Communication & Creativity @CityUniLondon ; prof of history of modern monarchy; broadcaster. Distinguishing features: curly hair, red shoes.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
Thomas Rath @thomasrath.bsky.social Ikke voksen nok til, at lade være med at blande mig i debatter på internettet.
Ønsker rimelighed i samfundet.
Brøndby-fan....altså en slags masochist.
Sara Read @saralread.bsky.social Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Sue Jones @suejonze.bsky.social
Usually lurking by the water. Knows some stuff about early modern piracy, among other things.
Thames or Humber
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
Instituto Cervantes London @cervanteslondon.bsky.social Instituto Cervantes is an official language body created by the Spanish government. It is responsible for teaching and promoting the Spanish language, the co-official languages of Spain and the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries.
Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
Sara Torres @svtorres.bsky.social Editor in public interest technology and higher ed. Medievalist, writer, educator, boricua. Interested in books that cross borders, whether of place, time, or language.
saravtorres.com
saratorres.substack.com
@alexralee.bsky.social @alexralee.bsky.social 
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato. 
Stefan Simanowitz @stefsimanowitz.bsky.social "Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte
Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… TV & Podcast producer / writer / host. Director of HistFest.
History Today @handle.invalid 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
David Price @dprice.bsky.social Author of Lightbringers, a myth-based fantasy world
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Elaine Canning @elaine-canning.bsky.social Literary prize director; writer and editor.
Belfast, Ireland and Swansea, Wales.
Books ~ travel ~ languages.
The Sandstone City (novel, Aderyn Press) and Maggie O’Farrell essays (Bloomsbury)
https://www.elainecanning.co.uk
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Tim Beasley-Murray @timb-m.bsky.social "You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind."
Professor of Humanities, UCL; games that get out of hand.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/4327
Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own. 
@ngadc.bsky.social @ngadc.bsky.social 
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
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
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
@gcdh.bsky.social @gcdh.bsky.social 
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Joe Wicks // The Body Coach @thebodycoach.bsky.social 
Dipesh Patel @dipthegeezer.bsky.social Software Engineer by day. Rubbernecker by night. Insect Glaive is my main. Never used a Master Ball. Xenoblade stan.
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Teatro Madrid @teatromadrid.com La cartelera teatral de referencia de #Madrid. Promociones, recomendaciones, concursos, noticias, entrevistas… ¡Todo lo que necesitas para ir al #teatro!
Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social Early modernist, perpetual reviser. Career Development Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/amy-lidster 
Stephanie Elsky @selsky.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College. Studying and teaching Renaissance lit, law and lit, women writers. Author of /Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature/ (OUP 2020). 
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | @thebartlettucl.bsky.social | Website: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa
Jim Collins @jimcollins.bsky.social Interested in all the good stuff - civic engagement & the social value, purpose and impact of Education and Research.
Director of Strategy & Operations (International, Engagement and Service) at King’s College London. 
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/