Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen
Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present
Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
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.
Christa Lundberg @christalund.bsky.social Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities. Keen on C16th letters & archives and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Nikolas Funke @nikolasfunke.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Münster.
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments
Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell)
Coined #HerBook
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
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
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.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social I live in the past. I write for the present. 16th and 17th c. English Lit. Critical Race Studies.
If we have sense, we're outlaws in TX.
Bad Humor: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812298352/bad-humor/
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social Mixed Chahta on Anishinaabe Land. Food sovereignty. Bibliographer. 18C lit. Women Writers. DH. Periodicals. Mother of dachshunds, first of her name. She/her
Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social Historian of 17thC & 18thC British Atlantic. Author of Female Friends and Transatlantic Quakerism, working on solitude in early modern Britain. Reader @warwickhistory
Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors.
Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; books - Shakespeare in the Kitchen 2026, Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play 2023, Making Milton ed. 2021 https://marissanicosia.wordpress.com
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Evan Bourke @evanbourke.bsky.social Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS. 
MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social Director, IUB WTS | CITL, Writing Studies, Writing Centers, & Writing Pedagogy | WAC/WID | SoTL | Renaissance woman | Early Modern women's writing | Genre studies | Teacher |Professional Fangirl | Bibliophile 📚
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Lieke van Deinsen @liekevdeinsen.bsky.social 
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
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
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
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
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Lover of early modern history, nuns, cats, French fries, and the Nats. Hater of fascism and anything diminishing the humanity of those around us. 
Amy Froide @afroide.bsky.social History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man & Cortés a sociopath on the BBC
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
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)
Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social Writer, academic, medievalist, queer
Sandra Suárez García @sandrasg.bsky.social Late Medieval-Early Modern historian. Women in war and their experiences with/in the spanish armies in the 16th century. Postdoc University of Murcia.
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social Scholar of Women’s Intellectual History | Multilingual Communication | Research Evaluation | Public Engagement
https://www.respublicalitteraria.com
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
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.
Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ Ohio State | writing about Shakespeare, masques, women writers, disability | Book reviews editor @ Shakespeare Bulletin | spreading the good word about Hester Pulter
elizabethkolkovich.com
Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social Erfgoeddeskundige en cultuurhistorica voor religieus erfgoed met een passie voor (devotie)prenten, devotionalia, sterke vrouwen, kerken, Leiden (en 🇪🇸 😉).
Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp
Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social Project Manager for Open Book Futures, a
@copim.bsky.social project [but currently on maternity leave].
Researcher of 17th-C women's writing, book history, & DH. Copy editor & indexer.
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Patricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social Historian of France/labor/gender/sex, history prof and chair. Author, _Working Girls_ on sexual politics of 19c-20c Parisian garment trades; & _Colette’s Republic_ on belle epoque popular culture. she/her https://patriciatilburg.com/
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine. 
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Heidi Keller-Lapp, Ph.D. @heidikl.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc France, colonies, nuns, religious texts, med recipes, gender/sex. I teach teachers, writers, voyagers, & other curious minds. I hang out with beagles, sons, sisters (blood and soul), & my first love. #earlymodernwomen #nuntastic
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/
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
Ann-Maria Walsh @annmariawalsh.bsky.social Early modernist, UCD; currently editing 17th-century Boyle women’s letters; interested in epistolary culture, women’s manuscript writings - diaries, accounts, wills, and also book ownership.
Book: Four Courts Press. Views own. She/her. 
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 🌈
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social early modern history, popular medicine, petitioning, women’s narratives in manuscripts, customary knowledge, colonialism, sovereignty
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441 book
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
Lauren Cantos @drcantos.bsky.social Working in research integrity at UCL; PhD on early modern breastfeeding, motherhood, and shakespeare
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Amy Sopcak-Joseph @amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social XV s. France #medievalist, women's libraries. #editrice, #feminist, #reader, #foodie she/her/hers http://mftranscriptions.wordpress.com https://sckaplan.com
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.
Norma Owens @normaowens.bsky.social PhD Research Historian | University of Galway College of Arts Fellowship | 2024 MacCurtain/Cullen Prize | Social Network Analysis | Lace & Textiles | Long 18th Century | Gaeilge is fáilte
Lara Dodds @laradodds.bsky.social English Prof and Department Head at a University in the South -- Early Modern Lit -- Cavendishista -- she/her/ hers