Austin Tichenor @austintichenor.bsky.social Actor/Author. PURITANS; FOOL (stage adaptation); COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel); DAISY THE LITTLEST ZOMBIE. Writer @folger.edu. A.D. @reduced.bsky.social + host of world's longest-running theatre podcast.
TheShakespeareance.com
ReducedShakespeare.com
Hopeful News @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social The newsletter full of good news. Start your day with a smile!
@ancient-history.bsky.social @ancient-history.bsky.social 
Notes from the cheap seats @cheapseatcritic.bsky.social 
Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot
Current Shakespeare on Substack
Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social Writer, Science Communicator and Vampirologist
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September!
https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Marc Berley @marcberley.bsky.social Writer: SHAKESPEARE ON SEX - pub May 2026 (big book!)
Editor: LitMag - litmag.com (print literary magazine)
Rocker: Charted on college radio (listen on Spotify, Apple, etc.)
marcberley.com
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/
neo-gothic skyscraper @rachelreuben6.bsky.social Charred oak, burnt caramel, vanilla, salty butter, nut oil.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Lydia Gray @lydiajgray.bsky.social Historian of the British empire, political activism and the Cold War. PhD researcher, University of Southampton.
💛 Thia Stephan 💛 @thiapax.bsky.social Fighting for a world more just and inclusive, creating art that has meaning, and honoring true love in *all* its forms?! You're just my type!
Actor - Director - Activist - Shakespearean - Champagne Socialist
Equity (UK) • AEA (US) • SAG-AFTRA • SDC
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
Theatre Muse UK @theatremuseuk.bsky.social Community platform in support of theatre-makers. Improv/Fringe/Festivals/Education/Features
*Recruiting reviewers - email: caroline.worswick@theatremuseuk.org*
https://linktr.ee/theatremuseuk
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Instant Classics @instantclassicspod.bsky.social A podcast hosted by Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins.
Ancient stories, modern twists… and no degree in Classics required.
Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author in multiple genres. West Point grad. Special Forces disabled veteran. Science & empathy over ignorance & hate. 1 day at a time. Be nice. Bronx born, now on Maggie's Farm www.bobmayer.com
Rob Eastaway @robeastaway.bsky.social Author, speaker, Director of www.mathsinspiration.com, cricket-lover, dad. Friend of BBC R4's podcast More or Less. 
Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social Prize-winning author specialising in the gothic, weird history, folklore, graveyards, myth. My new book 'Atlas Gothica: An Alternative Guide to the World's Most Curious Destinations' (Hachette) is out now. Grab it here: https://mybook.to/atlasgothica- M Michael Sexton @minbk.bsky.social Shakespeare - Theater - Politics - Ernst Lubitsch - Preston Sturges - Am I missing anything?
Tom Rank @tomrank.bsky.social Reflections on literature, education - and other ramblings. Was @literaryconnect in the other place 😀
http://www.literaryconnections.co.uk/
Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social Historical consultant: helenemaloigne.wordpress.com
Curator @ British Museum
Represented by Past Preservers: www.pastpreservers.com
Good chocolate, disco and houseplants
They/them 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️🌈
Lurig Drama Cushendall @lurigdrama.bsky.social Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
frankrberger @frankrberger.bsky.social Ballet/dance, opera, theatre
Ballethistory, theatrehistory
Photography
Fine arts
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
https://kateheartfield.com
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Ilinca Todoruț @ilincatodorut.bsky.social Theatre writer and worker at Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
GillO @gillo.bsky.social Retired, escaped English/Drama teacher in the English Midlands. Now studying for the heck of it. EM drama, kidlit, Buffy, Rejoin. Cymraeg am byth!
I follow back if I think I have something in common - if your bio's empty I probably won't follow you
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Dr Ruby Rutter @rubyrutter.bsky.social Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’.
Views are my own 🫧
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Silvana Pérez Meix @silvanapeix.bsky.social Dramaturga i guia de turisme oficial de Catalunya. Escric, explico i viatjo. A Barcelona.
Playwright and official tour guide in Catalonia. Storytelling and traveling. Based in Barcelona.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Cassandra @historycass.bsky.social She/Her
HIST/PHIL faculty at a Texas CC. Lover of old garden roses, Austen, Tolkien, sci-fi, romance, history, and philosophy. Ed.D in Educational Technology. I read a lot. 💙📚🍎🏛️🗃️
Tucker’sLap @tuckerslap.bsky.social 8647 and his whole FUCKING MOB Shakespeare(anti-Oxfordian)/Science(evolution-yepcreation-nope)/Books/MMMS(ifunouno)/LSD/Ale/Trekker
Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Coldhotel @coldhotel.bsky.social Lifelong Democrat. Retired, former union member. Rabbit parent. Cat foster parent. Ballroom dancer. Equal protection under the law for all. For all!
Pen and Sword Books @penandswordbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of military, aviation, maritime, family history, transport, social & local history, true crime & more!
Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social dennismccarthy.substack.com; Author of “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Plays” & “Here Be Dragons,” a book on biogeography
Sam Bilton @mrssbilton.bsky.social Food Historian, Writer & Presenter of the award winning Comfortably Hungry podcast & also the A is for Apple https://linktr.ee/sambilton
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
@lightshadowlight.bsky.social @lightshadowlight.bsky.social Music | Bob Dylan | Books | Film | Wim Wenders | Travel | Central Europe | History | Yorkshire | Photography |
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Adamantis @tempodelte.bsky.social So far down the rabbit hole, I’m at risk of growing floppy ears. Currently addicted to Thomas Lupton, but always dreaming of Measure - before, after, forever. Not an academic, life got in the way. Maybe I’ll find a way back, one day.
Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval)
She/her/ella
Kit Morley @gavestonsfrolic.bsky.social Queer trans nerd (he/him). Ex-academic with the student loan debt to prove it. Fannish, sometimes on main.
Swompp Witch @sheshewo.bsky.social Slowly going crazy in my 60s. What the fuck is happening?
Anne @deweycat.bsky.social "...The public will not forgive a President who withheld information that could have helped them or saved lives."
@StormInMyHeart on the other place
#Leguminati
Sarah Peterson @slamather.bsky.social Tag line: "that's so interesting"
Allan Batchelder @bookbatch.bsky.social Author, actor, comedian, educator, old dude. WOKE AF.
NO marketing folks, please!
https://linktr.ee/AllanBatchelder
https://bookbatch.net/
Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social Vancouver writer/reader/poet/baker
Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social Composition professor, writer, editor, author and all around troublemaker. Ask me about my amazing stand-up show about grammar: Stammer! Conjugation celebration!
Gill Kirk @gillkirk.bsky.social A constellation: pol comms strategist (restricted), playwright/screenwriter & tutor, media law & Norsk student, on/off French horn player & proud Glaswegian. Ex SW1, now Trumpton (Bath). All fab. www.gillkirk.com
Emma Stott @stottemma.bsky.social Lead Practitioner of English, Author of Speedy Reading (John Catt) and Jimi Hendrix On Track; The Zombies On Track (Sonicbond). Love On Track out now.
Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social Queer Christian (Agnostic)🏳️🌈✝️ Father👴 Gaymer🎮 Geek🐲 Aspiring Trans ally🏳️⚧️ Lefty⬅️ Occasional Writer and Poet✒️ #poetry #microfiction Singer🎤 Hyperromantic🌹 Demisexual-ish🍆 He/him♂️ Occasionally NSFW (but always tagged or labelled)🔞
📍Somerset, UK.
Jack Morgan Grundy (Tolibritánico) 🇨🇴🇬🇧 @grundy49.bsky.social 🚴♂️🚈🌴⛈️🌋⛑️
Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres, Ordenamiento Territorial, Sostenibilidad, Cambio Climático, Desarrollo Rural, Planificación, GIS
Disaster Risk Management, Land Use Planning, Sustainability, Rural Development, Climate Change, Planning, SIG
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Jamie Purdie @jamiepurdie.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
Interested in education, literature, film and culture.
Dr Alexandra Hardwick @alexandrahardwick.bsky.social Classicist, Ancient Greek lecturer at Oxford University. she/her. "Tactically cultured". Classics, academia, quiz, chess.
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
EU's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoydoteu.bsky.social Discover joy in EU events, music, press, tech, tourism, travel, wine, etc., on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyDotEU. Unleash fun, from villages in Europe to European cities & tourist hotspots. Embrace essence of union via lens of 27 countries | NGO | HowToEnjoy.eu
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
ckirschstein @kirschstein.bsky.social Theaterwissenschaft | Theatre Studies
Aktuell: Formationsprozesse von Theater im deutschsprachigen Raum
Lehrende (Theaterwissenschaft) und Lernende (Theorbe, Tai Chi) | Balkongärtnerin | 🐢
Future Moments @futuremoments.bsky.social Apps for Creators! 💥🎤🤔🎥www.Future-Moments.com 📲📱(Video & Audio Stem Splitters, MicSwap, Jam Recorder, VideoVerb, AudioMaster, MAIVE, AudioFix, VideoMaster, AudioVerb, MicSwap Video, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc…)
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
knight hare-rent @errant-hare.bsky.social late medieval & early modern nonsense | queerness | dungeon synth | they/them
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social A Journal Associated with the Records of English Drama
earlytheatre.org
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social English PhD at Rutgers, studying transness on the early modern English stage. Plus I work on comics, pulp, superheroes, whatever. Sometimes a freelance writing person. She/her.
Trans rights are human rights.
She/her. Trans rights are human rights.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Clear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social Akiva Fox takes you through Shakespeare's plays, word by word. A read-along podcast for students, readers, and performers.
https://clearshakespeare.com/
Anna Tarcher Demoux (she/her) @annatarcherdemoux.bsky.social PhD in EM English drama @ucauvergne.bsky.social | Associate Member @ihrim.bsky.social | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social
@themidge75.bsky.social @themidge75.bsky.social 
EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social Once a Beatles podcast. Now a jaunty stroll through 1960s music magazines with a pot pourri of delicious guests. (But probably mostly a Beatles podcast to be honest)
Hosted by @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social
iamtheeggpod.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/
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social Evie | "The greatest journey begins with a single hoofbeat.” Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Ecopoetry. Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mountain, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com
S @deviousmeans.bsky.social York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
@allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Kim @professorkhc.bsky.social Theatre Artist/Professor, Shakespeare scholar (early modern performance practices.) Cat 🐈⬛ Dad. Beer 🍺 snob. History geek. New Englander, but really wishing I lived in Old England again.
So very, VERY neurodivergent.
Simon Sandys-Winsch @simonsandys-winsch.bsky.social Author of the Illustrated Tudor Dictionary and history enthusiast