Iberian History at Oxford @iberiahistoryox.bsky.social Promoting the study of premodern Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world at the University of Oxford. https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture @proverbialculture.bsky.social Account for the AHRC-funded project, Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture.
https://earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham. c18th history, letters, body and Mary Toft (the woman who gave birth to rabbits). PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Impact Officer @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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
Olivia Weisser @oliviaweisser.bsky.social Historian of early modern medicine, health, healing, sexuality, gender Author of The Dreaded Pox (CUP), Ill Composed (Yale)
Kathleen McGowan @coffeecantata.bsky.social Musicologist. Historian. Trombonist. Arts critic. Caffeine enthusiast. Ink drinker.
https://curatorsear.com
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@amywok1.bsky.social @amywok1.bsky.social 
Dr. Elisabeth Natour @elisabethnatour.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern culture, politics, political theory and MUSIC, based at the University of Mainz
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
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
Historical Association Canterbury @canterburyha.bsky.social The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
Nicole Greenspan @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Britain. Studied at Toronto, Professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. Works on news and media, and also royalist exiles.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social Restoration is a peer-reviewed journal open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700.
https://blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/
Càtedra UB d'Estudis del Renaixement Molins de Rei @crmrub.bsky.social BlueSky oficial de la Càtedra de la Universitat de Barcelona d'Estudis del Renaixement de Molins de Rei.
#earlymodern #Renaissance
📩catedra.renaixement@ub.edu
https://instagram.com/crmrub/
https://www.ub.edu/catedres/ca/catedres/catedra-ub-destudi
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
DanH @aledus.bsky.social History teacher, choral singer, girl dad, board gamer, D&D DM.
David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social Associate Professor, UCL Laws. Legal History, Trusts & Property Law
Maya 🌻 @mayakt.bsky.social Tree-hugger from Sussex, England. Love art, books, music, satire, birds, dogs and my 4 foxes.
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Dr Amy Saunders @amysaunders.bsky.social Independent researcher exploring representations of the Stuart monarchy in heritage sites.
All things museums, books, cats, baking, and lego. Team Saunders-Green ❤️
Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
Stephanie G @stephanieg.bsky.social Former educator. Love learning from people on social media.
Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy.
Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social Historian of the English Revolution; Labour Councillor Lichfield City and Lichfield District Councils. Deputy leader of Lichfield City Council 2025-. Professor Emerita Keele University, UK.
Hanna de Lange @hanna1.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern Books, News, Print & Manuscript.
Research fellow WidowsPrint, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
Historian Around Town @kellyms.bsky.social Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social Writer in early modernity, atheism, historical fiction, poems, songs (with The Mighty Ways). Sinophile. Freelance academic.
Laura Burnett @tokeneffort.bsky.social Archaeologist. Mainly metal objects, coins, and coin like things. Fascinated by money and society in all periods. Researching 17th century trade tokens at Exeter. Former FLO.
Author: 50 finds from Somerset and 50 Post Medieval and Modern finds
Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social Chartered Teacher (CTeach) 2023. #HistoryTeacher
Former #HeadofDept, current #Headofyear. Mark scheme enjoyer.
I work in a busy #Boardingschool in SE England (Boarding Practitioner Level 3). Keen to learn new pedagogical ideas.
#Educator #UKTeaching #UKEd
Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social Historian by training; textile artist by preference. Usually stitching something inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy. European.
Scott Trudell @scotttrudell.bsky.social my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
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
Jennifer Topale @faerietnk.bsky.social Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
Rob Carson @robcarson.bsky.social Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
Oscar Patton @oscarpatton.bsky.social Historian of religion, politics, and culture in post-Reformation Britain/Europe. Lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford
Laura S. DeLuca @laurasdeluca.bsky.social Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑 📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate @CarnegieMellon
Stephanie Elsky @selsky.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College. Studying and teaching Renaissance lit, law and lit, women writers. Author of /Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature/ (OUP 2020). 
Birgitte Breemerkamp 🌈 (she/her) @thebirg.bsky.social The Birg is the word.
Harp & a Monkey Folk Music Club @harpmonkey.bsky.social Modern folk song and storytelling. “Fascinating” (Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2), “Inventive” (Mojo), “Excellent” (The Guardian), “Bold and brilliant” (The Observer), “Consistently charming” (Uncut). www.harpandamonkey.com
Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Steph Wright @estefwright.bsky.social Historian of modern Spain in Lancaster. Interests: gender, sexual violence, #dishist, mental health, medical humanities. Currently working on the history of thalidomide in Spain.
Emilie Luther Valentin @eluthervalentin.bsky.social Social and cultural historian at University of Southern Denmark with an interest in crime and punishment in the early modern period. Currently working on digital history, witchcraft and court records in early modern Denmark.
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Will Garbett @willgarbett.bsky.social Cultural History | PhD Candidate, Lancaster University | Blog: http://contemporaryhistory.substack.com | Editor at @chalk-magazine.bsky.social | Formerly at @epoch-history.bsky.social 2022-2024.
Amy Louise @amylouhistory.bsky.social PhD Candidate (social history of defamation) at Lancaster University 🌹 Assistant Editor at History Today 📖 Co-founder and former Art Director of EPOCH Magazine
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.- J @jwilli7.bsky.social @jwilli7.bsky.social
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Esme (she/her) @esmegrace31.bsky.social Archives MA student
Broadside ballad and trad folk enthusiast
Big fan of the sea!
Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
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
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Paul Schoon @paulschoon.bsky.social Moderately crumbly English local history freak. A Yorkshireman researching early modern social structures and networks in Bedfordshire. Kellogg College, Oxford. I’m here for fun, knowledge and respectful debate, so be nice. Keyboard warriors get blocked.
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Scottish Lute @scottishlute.bsky.social Keeping music free for everyone. CoDirector Voices of Music, music director, musicologist, videographer, audio engineer and data sets.
www.voicesofmusic.org
Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre at School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. Working out what I want to be when I grow up.
Gabrielle Robilliard @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social Science & Medicine Historian @ Lancaster University. Author of Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London http://tinyurl.com/yy4nhqn7
Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Aaron Manning @warwick-historian.bsky.social 👑Interpretation Manager at Historic Royal Palaces
🏰Historian of Warwick Castle and the House of Warwick
📚Director of Warwick Words History Festival
Follow for history, heritage, architecture, art, Warwick, Christmas
Instagram: warwick_historian
Conor Byrne @executedqueens.bsky.social PhD on executions of C16 queens (Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Jane Grey and Mary Queen of Scots); author of books incl. biographies of Queen Katherine Howard and Lady Katherine Grey. Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society. conorbyrnex.blogspot.co.uk
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social Accredited archives for the county of Northumberland and Diocese of Newcastle. Housed at Woodhorn, near Ashington, and at Berwick Library. northumberlandarchives.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- K @kevinkilleen.bsky.social @kevinkilleen.bsky.social
Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
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/
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com