Hans De Backer @hdbacker.bsky.social Volgtips? Zie vastgepinde post 👇
(en check ook mijn andere starterpacks)
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
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 📚
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
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MrWtr0102.bsky.social @mrwtr0102.bsky.social Read and understand the US Constitution before you discuss it. #NAFO. #Fella. Also on #Mastadon: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@MrWtr0102
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
daedalus1973 @daedalus1873.bsky.social 
Karulliny Siqueira @karulliny.bsky.social historian specializing in the written and printed culture of Brazil. I teach in the Archival Science program at the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Marcelle de Vries @mdvries.bsky.social Love art, hate inequality
Here to read and think about art history and democracy and post the occasional picture
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
ResearchActual @smithhilaryc.bsky.social Human Person. Academic Libraries. Special Collections. Chaos.
Simon Pulleyn @simonpulleyn.bsky.social Read LitHum at Balliol, Oxford. Sometime Lecturer in Classics at Merton, Oxford. Honorary Research Fellow at Dept of Greek and Latin, UCL. Retired solicitor, non-practising. Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. 🏳️🌈
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Old Paper Collector @oldpapercollector.bsky.social I am a hobby collector (+25 years) of early modern books (1500-1800) printed in Antwerp and books with recycled manuscripts. I live in the Netherlands. https://sites.google.com/view/oldpapercollector
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️🌈
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.)
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
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/
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
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/
Nil Grebster @screator.bsky.social Nimis utique curiosus est, et sui negligens, qui aliena miratur, et propria non attendit.
bit.ly/ITvhMy
"I am antifa"
Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
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
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)
@mososomo.bsky.social @mososomo.bsky.social Bottom twink for daddies, satanist, motherfucker
Julianne Simpson @juliannesimpson.bsky.social Librarian, Chetham's Library Manchester
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
• Views here my own
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
ICHRPI @ichrpi.bsky.social The International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions promotes parliamentary, constitutional, legal & political history
ICHRPI website: https://ichrpi.info
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Scilicet - History of Knowledge @scilicetblog.bsky.social 📖 A History of Knowledge magazine by Guy Fassler, James Fox, and Natalie Smith.
⌛️ Middle Ages to Modernity
👉 Check out our website: https://scilicet.org.uk
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social CrowdsourceHerBook is a research project about women's history, old books, and participatory science based at the University of Southern Denmark.
Project blog: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/
Posts by Charlotte Epple
MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU
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
Sofie Moors @sofiemoors.bsky.social PhD student @uantwerpen @fwo Instagram: @phdofsofie
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Luis Inclán @luisinclan.bsky.social Libros antiguos y raros en la Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero de la IBERO CDMX. Publicaciones a título personal.
James Fox @jamesafox.bsky.social Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Yvette Campbell @rarebookyvette.bsky.social 
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
FID Benelux / Low Countries Studies @fid-benelux.bsky.social Fachportal und Services für die Niederlandistik, Niederlande-, Belgien- und Luxemburgforschung | ein Projekt der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster | DFG-gefördert | #FID = #Fachinformationsdienst für die Wissenschaft | https://www.fid-benelux.de
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Fasol.nl ~ Genealogie.nu @genealogienu.bsky.social Dagelijkse updates over stamboomonderzoek uit Nederland, Vlaanderen en daarbuiten.
Mastodon: genealogie_nu@fasol.org
Bluesky: genealogienu.bsky.social
Threads: genealogie.nu@threads.net
Website: www.fasol.nl/tng
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Joseph Henderson @jchenderson.bsky.social Writer and podcaster living in New Mexico.
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂 ☆𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻☆ 𝑩𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒂-𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒌𝒚 🤝💙💗 @bevilacquapalesky.bsky.social I'd rather be excluded for who I include than be included for who I exclude. I believe in a United America. Passionate about my 1,000+ indoor plants. Resist & Stay Safe! #YouDeserveBetter #Pinks #BlueCrew #50501Movement #Indivisible #GrowWithMe
Brandon Moblo @brandonmoblo.bsky.social Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Joëlle Daems @jodaems.bsky.social kunsthistoricus, vaak met hond petja, gespecialiseerd in fotografie, werkt bij de rijksmuseum research library en zij/haar (en verwijdert zo nu en dan persoonlijke berichten)
Remco Sleiderink @remcosleiderink.bsky.social Hoogleraar Nederlandse literatuur tot 1800
Professor of Dutch literature up to 1800
UAntwerpen
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
American Printing History Association @printinghistory.bsky.social To encourage the study of printing history.
printinghistory.org
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) @cerl-community.bsky.social A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts.
www.cerl.org
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Annie Fisher @affisher.bsky.social Resident wound care expert, chauffeur, cat feeder. Married to the inimitable Derek Mong. Translator of Olena Stiazhkina, AIex Averbuch, Ilf and Petrov, Ksenia Buksha, Ilya Danishevsky, Shura Burtin, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky... read more at anneofisher.com
Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social Historian and translator
Book Culture & Archive Records @earlybookarch.bsky.social Early books & documents▪️The common history of Spain, the British Isles, and the US through Spanish special collections▪️Profile ©Szépmûvészeti Múzeum.
patrizia b. @bibliologia.bsky.social grad student & book historian in training • they/them pls • [eng/ita/hun]
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @drgsespinosa.bsky.social ¶ Professor of Spanish literature at QUB, specialising in the Spanish Enlightenment –el Siglo de las Luces–, and book history. ¶ Enjoys jazz and used to like baseball
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social For the curious and cunning. Reinstalling MediciOS. Ideas reborn. Influence retooled. Principles reprogrammed. Digital age insight restoring civilization’s civic software—to dispel a new Dark Age. reboottherenaissance.substack.com | #bskystorians
StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social Tech writer by day, amateur fiction writer and comics artist by night. Cursed with the Elephant Child’s “‘satiable curtiosity”. Pronounced Ess Tee Ell Orca.
All views expressed are my own.
Keith White @keithwhite832.bsky.social HTX Age 44, a huge sports fan, political nerd, Anti Trump, Anti Racist, pro freedom, pro women's rights and pro porn at times. #BLM #BIPOC African American, Native American and Afro Latino. x.com/keithwhite346
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Socials Post and Cover Designer): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
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. 
Akshat Seth @akshatseth.bsky.social Assistant Profesor of English at Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Early Career Researcher. Interested in Booking History (Readership in particular), Translation, Popular Culture and IR.
Love listening to off beat music. 
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
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 📚🦋
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College.
利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所.
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/ricci.html
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
To sign up for newsletters, please visit leocadogan.com- J @jijiazhen.bsky.social @jijiazhen.bsky.social
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Tamara Bhalla @tamara2727.bsky.social Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC