Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Alice Leonard @wanderlanderr.bsky.social Book historian and early modernist, thinking about error
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
Tom Langham @probablynottom.bsky.social Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social We are the Arts & Humanities Research Council programme working to enable a healthy Responsible AI ecosystem in the UK.
You can also keep up to date via our newsletter: https://braiduk.org/#newsletter
Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Charlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
@pangurdubh.bsky.social @pangurdubh.bsky.social I'm a librarian who sings, keeps cats, fish, geckos and a husband, has a wild garden and cycles to work
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
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)_/¯
Alfred So @alfredso.bsky.social Med Onc SpR @Barts | Thoracic Onc | Radiological Biomarkers | AI in Medicine | NOTCH Chair | He/Him | All Views My Own
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
Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social Heraldist by night, web developer by day. Lapsed particle physicist. Occasional palaeographer. Accidental digital humanist. He/him
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
Julianne Simpson @juliannesimpson.bsky.social Librarian, Chetham's Library Manchester
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
Chetham's Library @chethamslibrary.bsky.social Founded in 1653, we are the oldest public library in the English speaking world. This Bluesky account is for connecting with researchers and institutions.
Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social Heritage at @nenature.bsky.social
'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Writing stuff is over here: @pdkmitchell.bsky.social
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/
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social Scholar of Women’s Intellectual History | Multilingual Communication | Research Evaluation | Public Engagement
https://www.respublicalitteraria.com
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk tales + music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social • HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) • @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
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.
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Haringey Community Press @haringeycp.bsky.social An online news publication covering news in the London borough of Haringey. Published by Social Spider Community News. Nine years in print, now online only. Follow for daily Haringey news. Haringeycommunitypress.co.uk
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller @keelrowbooks /Visiting Fellow of Bibliography and Book History @newcastleuni / fan of weird books/ she/they
Kathleen Tonry @ktonry.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at UConn, medievalist, book historian, parent of 3 lovely creatures. Current academic project on material expressions of time; experimenting with microfiction and notions of leisure (or idleness?) 
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
Matilda Houston-Brown @matildah-b.bsky.social DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Working on Cathedral libraries & mid-17th century biblioclasm. Also interested in widows, book donation, pamphlet culture and (non-academically) Dungeons & Dragons.
Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza | Honorary Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
StModerna @stmoderna.bsky.social Bluesky account of Storia Moderna – www.stmoderna.it
An online hub for scholars, research, publications, and opportunities to explore and deepen your knowledge of the early modern period.
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
William Owen @wdowen.bsky.social Advisor on digital transformation & conservation in the cultural sector @ wdowen.substack.com & @ Factum Foundation. Writing about material culture, design history & East India Co networks in art & industry @ eaho.substack.com
Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Our free archive of more than 900 documentaries is available at -
www.fallingtree.co.uk
Good Funeral Guide CIC @goodfuneralguide.bsky.social The UK’s not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to supporting, empowering & representing the interests of dying and bereaved people living in the UK
We champion brilliant progressive independent undertakers and keep a close eye on the corporate FDs.
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Josef Ženka @mozkyt.bsky.social Historian: Nasrid Granada, Manuscripts and Documents.
Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social Historian at the University of St Andrews exploring early modern statesman, readers and copyright. Deputy Director of @universalstc.bsky.social
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social A. Giménez, profesor @um.es y traductor jurado de árabe
أستاذ ومترجم محلف للغة العربية
Edmund Brumfitt @ebrumfitt.bsky.social Dealer in rare books, mainly before 1820, mainly European. Plus other distractions.
Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Europe and the World @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Formerly SNSF PostDoc @Zurich|Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr| EUI PhD
Iberian & North African Empires, Material culture, Mobility in the EM World 🌊
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)
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
History Hit 💥 @history-hit.bsky.social Online history channel and podcast network 🏛️
Palmers Green Community @pgweb.uk News, events and discussions for Palmers Green and nearby places
Bambos Charalambous @bambosmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Southgate and Wood Green
All enquiries to bambos.charalambous.mp@parliament.uk
🖥️ bambos.org.uk
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social historian of early modern things, Home News remembrancer, biggie lyric, personherd, board certified vin diesel lookalike
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
Meghan Constantinou @mrconstan.bsky.social Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid. 
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social 
Luna Silvestri @luvestri.bsky.social Heritage practitioner, Provenance researcher
@ecoledulouvre.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
@museeguimet.bsky.social 
Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen. 
Cameron Whiteside @whitesidious.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Sheffield, researching the Commission on Fees and Monarchical Paternalism in early modern England.
Marika Keblusek @feinzeit.bsky.social feinzeit
early modernist / book & art historian / lover of libraries, archives, gardens & museums / associate prof Leiden University / PI NWO-OC Large project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks, 1550-1700" / she-her
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social Tweets @recirc_
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.