Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social Official account of the CSM / SCM -- join us at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/.
Banner image: University of Victoria Library, MS Doc.Brown, https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/doc-brown-2.php
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social PhD from @cwru. Historian of Medicine, Modern US, and birth. Writing on natural birth and the use of induction drugs. Posts are my own.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social Author - 'THE INVENTION OF AMSTERDAM' out now! (https://amzn.to/2QJx3bh). Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory. Columnist @ADnl; articles NYT, Telegraph, New Statesman, Groene Amsterdammer etc. Buy my new book, it’s good!
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
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/
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
LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land
Pontifacts: Ranking the Popes @pontifactspod.bsky.social Bry and Fry host a slightly blasphemous papal history podcast, ranking the Popes from Peter to LEO XIV. #Rexypod
Pontifacts Tour of Italy, Jan 30-Feb 7 2027
9 days across Rome Viterbo Orvieto and Florence! tinyurl.com/pontifactstour
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a must-visit for art lovers, showcasing over 8,000 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt & Vermeer. ❤️
This is the official account of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
www.rijksmuseum.nl
Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalía follows me on TikTok
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social Postdoc at the KITLV | Editorial Assistant of the NWIG | Editorial Board Member of the EMLC | Editor of Holland Historisch Tijdschrift | Historian of Empire, Maritime History, Slavery
https://ramonanegron.nl
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
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Doopsgezind Amsterdam @doopsgezindadam.bsky.social Zingeving & spiritualiteit, vrijheid van geloofsbeleving, gemeenschap & verbondenheid, verdieping & ontmoeting, oecumene & samenwerking, vrede & gerechtigheid, geschiedenis & erfgoed, cultuur & kunst, duurzaamheid & milieu, groene kerk
Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social Historian. I summon the spirits from #earlymodern taverns
PhD in history (European University Institute)
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/JanBlonski
#NaborowskiLetters Project
Emily Price @dremilyprice.bsky.social Early modern historian looking at travel, hospitality, and interfaith conversations held over shared meals. Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle. Kitsch aficionado, ruin-bibber, immigrant. She/her.
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Ariane Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social Postdoc @ucph.bsky.social. Habilitation candidate @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Working on the intersection of religion and politics in the history of ideas with a special focus on liberal theory. She/her.
Serena Di Nepi @serenadinepi.bsky.social Historian of religious minorities and/plus jewish history in Early Modern Italy
Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025. 
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
Genji Yasuhira @genjiyasuhira.bsky.social 安平弦司 Ph.D. | 京都大学准教授 Associatie Professor at Kyoto University | 近世オランダ宗教社会史 #earlymodern Dutch Religio-Social History | author of Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social Historian and translator
Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld @ajbijsterveld.bsky.social 🟥 Public historian, professor emeritus at Tilburg University 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🇳🇱
Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social intellectual historian • citizen -'old' republican • inspired by erasmus and grotius • member of the academia europaea • erasmianmartin.world
Maartje van Gelder @maartjegelder.bsky.social Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam 
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Streekarchief Midden-Holland @streekarchiefmh.bsky.social Streekarchief Midden-Holland. Voor de geschiedenis, archieven en collecties van de gemeentes Gouda, Krimpen a/d IJssel, Krimpenerwaard, Waddinxveen, Zuidplas.
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/ 🗃⚱️📜
Matt Sutton @matt-avery-sutton.bsky.social historian, writer, https://www.matthew-a-sutton.com/
Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org Evidence. Action. Hope.
CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social
UMN Center for Premodern Studies @umnpremodern.bsky.social Multidisciplinary center at the University of Minnesota supporting innovative research in early modernity, and the medieval and ancient worlds.
https://campsite.bio/umn_premod
Ons Amsterdam @onsamsterdam.bsky.social Hét tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de stad voor iedereen die van Amsterdam houdt.
Volg ons ook op Instagram en Facebook.
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
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 
Leanne Smith @leanneks.bsky.social PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair
Joris van den Tol @jorisvdt.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economic History @ Radboud University | #petitions #AtlanticHistory #EarlyModern
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
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social Husband to nine
father to a beautiful Christian marine
son to a wife
father (all that matters)
marine to a beautiful son
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Vanessa R Barcelos @vanessabcs.bsky.social English PhD candidate, University of Miami
Renaissance literature, witchcraft, gender, and Critical Race Studies
Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social 💙 Stream Jeopardy! on Peacock & Hulu
⚔️ Jeopardy! Masters is now on Hulu
🏈 ESPN Jeopardy! now on Disney+, Hulu and the ESPN App
🍿 Watch Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Netflix
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
REFORC @reforc.bsky.social The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social Journalist in DC, previously Kenya. Co-founder and Managing Editor of @51stnews.bsky.social. Covering inequality, gender, labor for the Washington Post, The Nation, Lux, etc. Organizing with The National Writers Union.
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social Political theorist at DePaul and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024). Essays in NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Bloomberg, etc. Jazz Guitar, New York Mets.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Janneken @janneken.org historian, author, Philadelphia committeeperson in Ward 18. janneken.org. A New Deal for Quilts https://linktr.ee/janneken
John Exalto @johnexalto.bsky.social Historische Pedagogiek - History of Education | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - Comenius Museum Naarden
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Natalie Donnell, PhD @nataliedonnell.bsky.social Historian of women in early modern Europe, political power, transregionality, and network analysis.
nataliedonnell.com - feministhistories.substack.com
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
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
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
Author:
-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
Supreme Executive Council Of Posting @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Leo van Snippenburg @leo.vansnippenburg.nl PhD candidate Radboud University | migrants and identity in early modern Livorno | 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 | https://vansnippenburg.nl
Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social Executive Director, Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. Views are mine alone. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. Adjunct history instructor. Author of “The Last Lincoln Republican” (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020). #ParkChat Hall of Famer. Pittsburgh sports fan.
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social Educator & advocate for little ones!
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social “Lesbian consultant.” “Your favorite poster’s favorite poster.” “A good argument, just miles outside the scope.” Union girlie powered by iced tea and Carly Rae. I will never watch a video. Please be normal in my mentions.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social The name says it all really 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
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.
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian