Sarah JS Parker @astra-alfredi.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies • How DID human beings imagine outer space between the fall* of Rome and the 12th century? • Views my own.
Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social PhD Student at St Andrews, focused on historicising environmental thought in high medieval Britain.
SGSAH funded, thoughts are my own
She/her
Samuel Kramer @samkra.bsky.social St Andrews History PhD. Researches #Baltic #CEE ethnopolitics. Views my own. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
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
Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social Rare books at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, frogs in my garden, medieval nuns. These are a few of my favourite things. Went viral with a biscuit found in a copy of Augustine.
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神，自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
Maddy Keightley-Phillipps @maddyphillipps.bsky.social PhD Researcher. Durham University.
Studying the readership of early modern English Catholic women, lay and religious, and their book networks. 📚
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
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.
Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne @biblio-fil-guyenne.bsky.social Société savante dédiée à l'histoire du livre et à l'histoire de la Guyenne
Fondée en 1866 à Bordeaux. Activités scientifiques de la société et nouvelles de l'histoire du livre.
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Hannah Fox @hannah-sakura.bsky.social PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship.
Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
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’.
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Program chair for the Aldus Society, book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL.
https://joliebraun.com/
Amy Blair @amyblair.bsky.social Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Abigail Moreshead @amoreshead.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Mexican in the US.
Posts in Spanglish.
https://elikaortega.net
Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social 🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University
📋 Director, MA in English Literary Studies
📚Author of Codex Poetics (2026) & Modernity's Mist (2016)
💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social North America's 1st PhD in Publishing
Sessional at Simon Fraser University
Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
EA at SHARP
Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire
Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Amy Sopcak-Joseph @amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
dr.ddrs @dr-ddrs.bsky.social Teacher. Researcher. Alive.
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Cecile de Morree @morree.bsky.social Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social Law library for members & current students of @kingsinns.bsky.social
Current law collection, legal history & heritage collection, archive collection.
www.kingsinns.ie 
Catholic University Special Collections @catholicuarchives.bsky.social Special Collections at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. We collect, preserve, and make accessible the records of the American Catholic people, CatholicU, and the campus Rare Books and Museum. Open to all!
Massimo Rospocher @massimorospocher.bsky.social Historian of early modern ordinary politics, communication, and public spaces | Director of the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento https://isig.fbk.eu/en/
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Maria Gorbunova @waypastnoon.bsky.social Rare books cataloger at Cotsen Children’s Library (Princeton)
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social Rare books librarian & cataloguer | library & book history | moderately early modern
Raphaële Mouren @rmourr.bsky.social Bibliothèques, histoire, compte personnel en 3 langues
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
@livesandletters.bsky.social @livesandletters.bsky.social 
Séléné BM Bordeaux @selenebordeaux.bsky.social Les collections rares et précieuses de la Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux : infos, coups de cœur et nouveautés numériques #teampat #montaigne #montesquieu #mauriac
https://selene.bordeaux.fr/
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Vassar @vassar.bsky.social Fearlessly consequential liberal arts school in the Hudson Valley with inspiring students and alums.
www.vassar.edu | linkin.bio/vassarcollege
Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Wojciech Kordyzon @wkordyzon.bsky.social PhD | Book and literature historian | Early modernist | Assistant Professor @University of Warsaw
https://uw.academia.edu/wkordyzon
Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
araireland @araireland.bsky.social Official account for Archives and Records Association, Ireland. Cuntas oifigiúil Cumainn Cartlann agus Taifead, Éire.
Ireland / Northern Ireland
#IrishArchives #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann
https://araireland.ie/
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. We collect, preserve, and share the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
medicalarchives.jhmi.edu
News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social Promoting & preserving historic archival content from our seminal press publications.
To licence available images, contact http://newssyndication.com
medium.com/@NewsUKArchives
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Salisbury Healthcare History @salisbury-history.bsky.social Caring and sharing the archives and historical collections at Salisbury District Hospital salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk
Bexley Archives @bexleyarchives.bsky.social Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds historic materials for the London Borough of Bexley
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social A unique collection of Baptist and nonconformist history from across the world, including China, India, Jamaica, Africa and the UK. Our collection contains printed texts, manuscripts, photographs, slides and more!
https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/ 
RAS Library and Archives @astrolibrarian.bsky.social We look after the astronomy and geophysics collections in the library and archive of the Royal Astronomical Society.
https://ras.ac.uk/library
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.
ITMA - Irish Traditional Music Archive @itmadublin.bsky.social ITMA is home to the largest, most comprehensive collection of Irish traditional music, song, and dance in the world.
Stadtarchiv München @stadtamuenchen.bsky.social Wir sind das Gedächtnis der Stadt München.
Katalog: https://stadtarchiv.muenchen.de
Webseite: https://www.muenchen.de/stadtarchiv.html
Blog: https://stadtarchiv-blog.muenchen.de/
Impressum: https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/impressum-datenschutz.html
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Stadtarchiv Münster @stadtarchivms.bsky.social Wir machen die historischen Unterlagen von Rat und Verwaltung der Stadt zugänglich - Kommt vorbei, wenn Ihr Euch für die Geschichte Münsters interessiert!
https://www.stadt-muenster.de/archiv/
Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social southampton.ac.uk/archives
Based in the University of Southampton Hartley Library.
With around 7 million manuscript items and 50,000 printed books, the Special Collections provide a resource of remarkable richness and depth. 
Arkivforbundet @arkivforbundet.bsky.social The Norwegian association of archives (Arkivforbundet) is a nationwide Norwegian organization for institutions within the field of preserving and dissemination of archives according from private and public legal entities.
Red de Bibliotecas y Archivos del CSIC @bibliotecascsic.bsky.social Noticias e información de la Red de Bibliotecas y Archivos del CSIC - Spanish National Research Council's Library and Archive Network
Más información en: https://bibliotecas.csic.es
Archivo de la Fundación Pablo Iglesias @archivofpi.bsky.social Archivo y biblioteca. Conservamos, estudiamos y difundimos el legado del PSOE y del movimiento obrero.
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
📜Special Collections and Archives
🖼️University Heritage Collection
📚University Archives
tinyurl.com/unisheffSCHA
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
UND Special Collections @ebrspecial.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
https://library.und.edu/branches-departments/special-collections/index.html
Archives départementales de la Seine-Maritime @archives76.bsky.social Plus de 70 kilomètres d'archives accessibles à tous gratuitement.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social Preserving and providing access to more than 16 million manuscripts, archival records, rare books, maps, broadsides, photographs, audio and video recordings at the University of Virginia. 
BAnQ @banq-officiel.bsky.social Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
La culture accessible à tous et à toutes, gratuitement 
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
Jane Cameron National Archives @jcnarchives.bsky.social The Jane Cameron National Archives are the National Archives of the Falkland Islands, ensuring the long-term survival and easy accessibility of all those records most important to the history and administration of the Islands.
📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, built 1687 from bequest of 17th century Robert Leighton, Principal of University of Edinburgh, Chancellor of University of Glasgow, Bishop of Dunblane Cathedral
https://www.leightonlibrary.org.uk
Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social Museum of the Chemical Industry in Widnes, Cheshire and home of the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) archives - well, some of them at least ... and much more
From Judith Wilde @heyjudewilde.bsky.social
and Charlie Linton @charlie-linton.bsky.social
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre @heritagewshc.bsky.social Home to 11 miles of archives & local studies collections, charting the history of people, places and events across Wiltshire & Swindon.
Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives is an Accredited Archive Service, home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
Find out more: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/