Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
James J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social Writer, translator, reformed publisher in Berlin
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social 
Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her
When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social History of books, sex/sexuality, & English lit Prof, Northwestern. ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด @pennpress.bsky.social; ๐๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Editor: Marlowe's ๐๐ฅ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ @Ardenpublisher.bsky.social now available.
Denison, @upenn.edu alum ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. Fighting for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social Theatre www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor and theartsdesk.com/users/gary-naylor
Films https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/
Cricket www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor
Football https://open.spotify.com/show/2TDgsixzCFC4cfAPdIU0V5
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast๐
Fabio Ciambella @fabiociambella.bsky.social Early modernist exploring language quirks through corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, culinary linguistics, dance studies and AVT. What else? Letโs find out!
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Robert Shaughnessy @robshaughnessy.bsky.social Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Nick Levine @mrnicklevine.bsky.social He/him. Freelance music, pop culture and LGBTQ+ writer for NME, Time Out, Big Issue, AnOther, The i and more. FRSA. mrnicklevine@gmail.com
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editorยฎ
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) โข Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) โข he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Dr Wendy Lennon @shakeracepedagogy.bsky.social Education Initiative & Podcast
Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy
www.shakeracepedagogy.com
Insta: @shakeracepedagogy
https://open.spotify.com/show/13RTb0SeKBcQO6FkV9ZGGc?si=MRUP4M0FSy66PRzr_Vmd-w
Support & fuel Wendy's work: buymeacoffee.com/wendypedagogy
@livesandletters.bsky.social @livesandletters.bsky.social 
Lucy C M M Jackson @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social Academic and theatre fan. Living in Newcastle, working in Durham, Londoner for life. 
Pedro Urbano @pedrourbano.bsky.social 19th century #Historian, #researcher at IHC, Nova FCSH #womenegoproject
He/him
Sarah Neville @effectdefective.bsky.social Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else. 
Oxfraud @oxfraud.com Torpedoing the garbage scow of Shakespeare authorship doubt (SAD) to exclude it from the shores of respectable academic research.
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oxfraud
Prima Facie case: https://prezi.com/view/AUiVej2vpayThpjJtuSS/embed
Historical Fictions Research Network @historicalfic.bsky.social Discussing all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative
https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/
Alice @alicedb89.bsky.social Puck, in Epilogue coming to Brighton fringe in May!!
David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social Historian at LSE
www.davidmotadel.com
๐๐ป Rob for Apples ๐ป๐ @robwillb.bsky.social Writer, copy editor, copy editorial director @bonabooks.bsky.social, Jim Henson expert, actual Muppet, theatre gay, former Disney cast member, Oz fan. Lives in London on a narrowboat. He/him. https://linktr.ee/robwillb https://gofund.me/ffde0bbea
Lucy Cuthbertson @lucystcuth.bsky.social 
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (The Australian National University). Researcher: Shakespeare Reloaded. Author: Shakespeare & Place-Based Learning. Ecocrit, place, blue humanities, health humanities.
Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social Early Modern History network based in Scotland & the North of England, but expanding worldwide - Bringing together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers interested in all things Early Modern.
Join us here: https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com
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 ๐บ๐ธ, occasionally in ๐ฉ๐ช or ๐ฒ๐ฝ.
Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 ๐ โ๏ธ ๐ญ
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, womenโs voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University.
she/her.
Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social Fellow in English @ClareCollege
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www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com
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www.beyondthetrigger.org
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www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters
Richard Delaney FRSA @richardddelaney.bsky.social ๐ผ Programme Leader | BA Acting: Contemporary & Devised | RCSSD
๐ก Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
๐ฅ Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ he/they
๐ linktr.ee/RichardDDelaney
Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://kateheartfield.com
Tom Piper @tompiper.bsky.social Theatre/exhibition/ installation designer #Poppies WW2VE80 installation @HistoricRoyalPalaces #Traviata @OperaGlassworks #Hamlet @eddieIzzard #1984 @CitizensGlasgow #FairyTales @BritishLibrary #Hamnet @RSC USA tour #Meredith @GateTheatreDublin
Matthew Symonds @polybiblion.com 
Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
Evelyn OโMalley @evom.bsky.social theatre music env arts & hums, ma
https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/drama/people/profile/index.php?username=eo230
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
Orange Tree Theatre @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social ๐ An award-winning local theatre with a global reputation - experience world-class classics, rediscoveries and new writing in-the-round.
๐ orangetreetheatre.co.uk โข 020 8940 3633
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 | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, โ4 Genealogies of Careโโฆ all things CARE, really
Philip Teacher @hokemosely.bsky.social English Teacher
The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social Politics, culture, cartoons and more.
Tom Chapman @tomchapman.bsky.social Actor, composer, gooner.
www.bytom.uk
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social Teaching English/theater at Portland State University. Writing in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Zeugmas welcome.
https://www.danielpollackpelzner.com/- J @jmwallace.bsky.social @jmwallace.bsky.social
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music ๐ต ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham. 
Charlotte Humphery @cmiscellany.bsky.social Books books books ๐
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about โMadame Lescombat, the first femme fataleโ.
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
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke ๐ต๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Dickon James Edward Tyrrell @dickon-james.bsky.social 
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
๐James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scotsโ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
David Jays @mrdavidjays.bsky.social Writer and editor on theatre, dance. Guardian, London Standard, Dance Gazette, Why Dance Matters podcast.
Devani Singh @devani.bsky.social Old words and old books: medieval, early modern, digital. she/her
devanisingh.com 
Joseph Sherlock @josephsherlock.bsky.social Artistic Director of Kรธbenhavns Shakespeare Kompagni.
Multilingual theatre based in Copenhagen
Our theatre is The Deer and Rabbits
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
Paul Lay @paullay.bsky.social Senior Editor, Engelsberg Ideas, author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwellโs Protectorate. Opera tragic. Formerly WBCU-C. Who/He.
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universitรคt 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
Elizabeth Fremantle @lizfremantle.bsky.social I wrote a book, QUEENS GAMBIT, they made a film, FIREBRAND
DISOBEDIENT on Artemisia Gentileschi โ HWA Gold Crown winner
SINNERS out now
Rep: Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown
Londoner, dogs, films, Spurs, HWA ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/lizfremantle
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
@katewilliamsme.bsky.social @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoriaโs Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
HistoryExtra @historyextra.bsky.social Posts from HistoryExtra, Britainโs bestselling history magazine and award-winning podcast.
www.historyextra.com
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Kit Marlowe @kitmarlowe1564.co.uk Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell.
Loue@FirstWebsite: https://kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social- M Michael Sexton @minbk.bsky.social Shakespeare - Theater - Politics - Ernst Lubitsch - Preston Sturges - Am I missing anything?
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her โข Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social At Risk of Redundancy Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U โข c18 lit โข disability studies โข cat dad โข gay married to @nyitray โข frequenter of mosh pits and libraries