DraCor @dracor.org 🎭 #DraCor: The Drama Corpora Platform
🔗 https://dracor.org/
Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social Ottakringerin & Historian of late Habsburg Monarchy * University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna * https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/scheer/
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
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/
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
Elizabeth Crawford @womanssphere.bsky.social Historian. Researcher and writer. In the past sold books by and about women. European. FRHistS. OBE.
Website womanandhersphere.com
New book - https://tinyurl.com/5cdn7dw9 (Bloomsbury) or https://amzn.eu/d/0j4JlLyR (Amazon)
Sarah Biskowitz @sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social Yiddishist. Feminist. Jewish cultural activist & educator. She/her.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social Writing about myth&YA@ NU& thinking about Catullus,too. Always a coauthor. Chicagoan since 1976. Self-styled TomJoad of Latin teachers. Immoderata mulier, proud of my alumnx, #confelicity. Reminding you to💉NOW. I salt all vibes😷
https://linktr.ee/navacohen
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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Jewish Literary Foundation @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk The UK’s Jewish literary platform, presenting the best in contemporary literature and ideas.
Hosts Jewish Book Week, London’s longest-running literary festival:
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week
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.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
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
Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social PhD in history @utoronto.ca | early modern festivals and military history |Sound Studies and DH | Singer | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | She/her
Website: https://heathernsmith.com/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Katie Stone @katherinestone.bsky.social AssocProf @warwicksmlc Researching gender, motherhood & memories of conflict-related sexual violence in 🇩🇪 and beyond. Interested in memorial art and institutions
Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor for Language, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Oxford
Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
Luisa Banki @luisabanki.bsky.social Literatur & Wissenschaft
Felix Schmidt @bookschmied.bsky.social wiss. MA HU-Berlin │ Queer Theory in Transit │ Lit.-wiss. │ Anthropozän │ Queer Temporalities │ He/They
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University & Assistant Research Professor at UNC Charlotte’s Violence Prevention Center • Research Fellow @ the Kinsey Institute • Focused on gender, sexuality, and body image
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social Avid fan of cakes, Nottingham Forest, and Wagner, and dedicated to a range of gloomy research topics
Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Irish emigrant. I write about emergencies, terrorism, constitutional theory, and human rights.
Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | working on Archetype 3.0 | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Seth Flaxman @flaxter.bsky.social Associate professor of Computer Science
University of Oxford
he/him
רעדט מיט מיר ייִדיש
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
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
The Wingate Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social The only UK literary award to recognise authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Established in 1977.
http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php
Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social History postdoc in Gotha (FZG) and Turin (THP), soon Halle (IZEA).
Working on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment (and beyond). Interested in all things early modern. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
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/
Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
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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)
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
David Zvi Kalman @dzkalman.bsky.social I write about religion and tech. I also design dreidels.
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
UCL Grand Challenges @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social UCL Grand Challenges convenes cross-disciplinary collaborations to explore interconnected solutions to a range of societal issues.
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Jewish Book Council @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
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🎉 #NationalJewishBookAwards
🗣JBC Network—platform for authors to connect with programmers
📘PAPER BRIGADE—annual print #litmag
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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
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
Anna Ezekiel @annaezekiel.bsky.social Feminist historian of philosophy & translator of work by historical women philosophers. Parami University (Myanmar) ACEzekiel.com 🏴🇨🇦🇭🇰
Judith Pascoe @judithmpascoe.bsky.social Books: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, THE SARAH SIDDONS AUDIO FILES, THE HUMMINGBIRD CABINET
www.judithpascoe.com
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is a centre of advanced research, debate and dialogue across any kind of boundary, intellectual or institutional.
@drjoshmeyers.bsky.social @drjoshmeyers.bsky.social Recovering Academic and Sci-Fi connoisseur reporting from the North Shore
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social Conflict archaeologist, historian, Holocaust heritage expert, IHRA delegate, and Cambridge professor. All posts are my own and not necessarily institutional opinions.
https://www.pace.cam.ac.uk/professor-gilly-carr
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in Religion, Magic, and Healing in Late Antiquity at UT Austin
Human, cat, and chicken mom