Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Posts about gardening,🌱 history, food & art. Occasional rants about the state of the world.
LGBT+ 🏳️⚧️ ally 🏳️🌈 State pensioner so please don’t ask me for money. She/her
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Leicester, UK.
Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH and SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield.
Lapsing academic. Literature, theatre, opera, history. Currently writing a book about Dryden's plays. (Very) Amateur gardener.
Often early modern; always out of time.
🏠 Colchester 💼 Greenwich
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
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
historian of renaissance & em scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of magnificence & spectacle - intermezzi, machines, feasts, gardens.
(2025-7) pivot: msc bweh
Mum. Grandma, Cat Mum, Book Lover. Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Always 🇪🇺
She/Her
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
GenX Bassist trapped in IT. He/him 🌈🤘🏼💙 All photos are mine unless otherwise noted, screenshots and memes may be of unknown provenance.
Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
Blog: corymbus.co.uk
Words. Music. Sound as Signal. Monteverdi fan. Appreciator of rain. I aspire to multitudes. (In the Whitman sense of the word.) Formerly elsewisemedia on the dead bird app. (Lost some vowels along the way.) Continuously pregrieving these days. he/him
Content & Marketing Strategist. Art Historian.
Fan of Bauhaus, Medieval History, and Photography. Metalhead.
Co-founder of E&K Interactive Studio.
Cluj, RO/Bassano DG, IT
Links: https://danielprindii.com/links
🌶️Progressive Christian Author(she/her) | PREORDER Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible @eerdmans.bsky.social
Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2 and I usually post between 9AM and 1PM.
Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out March 2026. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Livery company archivist • PhD student @ihr.bsky.social (apprenticeship in early modern London) • Pen and ink art www.instagram.com/ejb.ink
Master potter specializing in handmade porcelain, stoneware,soda and wood fired pottery
Printmaker and artist in East Anglia. Art, architecture, music & poetry. Borromini and Hawksmoor. Rembrandt and Hepworth. Work in the V&A & other public & private collections.
📜 The largest Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
UC Davis Ph.D. candidate studying early modern English literature and the oceanic, outdoor enthusiast, pet person, coffee relisher
The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Green Party Candidate for Holywell Ward on Oxford City Council💚
Oxford Geography grad & public transport gay
Anti-Capitalist & Anti-Imperialist.
Director @oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social
They/them
Fighting for a fairer, greener Oxford!
Join the new left today.
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Promoted by Oxford City Green Party, 12A Merlin Road, Oxford OX4 6EP.
Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Bougie, valid. ALA's "Most Inspirational Pinata" 2018. "If you ever go into the UVA library remember to be quiet or this guy will kick yer ass." - antifawatch dot net. He/him. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of UVA.
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lancashire.
Avid writer and reader (#crimefiction); guitarist; snooker nut; nature lover (especially cats).
Research Fellow at Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury. Scholar of papyrology, architecture, and early modern manuscripts. Aspiring farmer.
Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP. 🏴
A place to explore beautiful, curious words, reflections on language and literary wisdom past and present.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecuriouswordemporium/p/recondite?r=74brvj&utm_medium=ios
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
www.dorothy-berry.com
Enthusiast. Churches and cathedrals, Modernist architecture, music especially Mozart, birding especially swans. My son is a hospital doctor; I once worked in the NHS in health education/public health.
Professor of English (University of Huelva, Spain), working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry and poetics.
CEO UK Opera Association.
Chair, Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction judges 2026.
Cellist. Also on Substack and Insta.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Oxford-based early modernist (horti/cultural history of late Stuart England, especially late 17th/early 18th century works on fruit/vegetable cultivation). Also, 21st-century community gardens created in abandoned/derelict kitchen gardens/other spaces.
Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook.
Assistant Research Curator, interested in ancient Mediterranean art, particularly Greek vases, provenance research, and digital humanities
I read, I write, I teach, I learn
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things.
‘incrementally annoying’ – Andrew O’Hagan
Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Historian | she/her| clothing| children & youth| material culture | identity| hair| methodology | pedagogy | archives | literature| fibre arts| podcasts| photography| UOttawa
FRHistS SFHEA MHS
Vice President @bars.bsky.social
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, transatlantic networks, MedHums
Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Member @thencps.bsky.social & Registrant @hypnotherapyhelps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
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
AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in early-modern Europe
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
"So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” Bede
Inherently skeptical but trying not to be cynical
I'm a reference librarian at a community college and UoPeople.edu and an instructor at UMGC.edu and I'm an excellent lurker
Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and deal in text and exile
Naturalist, ecologist, writer.
“How pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883.
Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
Curiosity! | Art historian | Designed in Paris, made in London, born in the Netherlands | Estheet | Book & music lover | Musician | European since 1965 | Aardige Amsterdammer & Boskopian | I prefer the absurd
‘Dreamed I was an eskimo’ (FZ).
Toutes les formes d’arts sont un pique-nique pour le cœur. Les moment préférés @francemusique.fr
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
computer geek, book person, Tolkien nerd, history researcher, science, occasional politics. He/Him.
Associate Professor of History at University of Kentucky. Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world, 16th-17th C. Also here to follow climate, safe streets, YIMBY/urbanist, and baseball stuff.
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com
Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Iconoclasm, medieval and contemporary art history. Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
I have Grandkids - so no longer use Airport Departure Lounges.
Natural History has been the unbroken story of my life.
Watching wildlife, mostly under Dorset skies.
Wrens; Greenfinches; Little Owls; Raptors & Adders are a preoccupation.
Misanthropic idiot. Personal assistant to small dog. Manchester. You might have heard me on Radio 4.
Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.
Lifelong socialist and Europhile. Septuagenarian. Atheist. Mrs Smeders. 4 kids. 1 grandson. 3 dogs.
Like ice cream muchly. Opinions are my own. Am I bovvered though. Am I though. Really, am I.
#BlueCrew, retired lawyer, woke, cis/straight, history, arts, friend to animals. Catfishers, don't bother.
U.S. Capitol switchboard number: (202) 224-3121. Operator will connect you to the office you request. Leave your RESIST message.
Finally giving up on Musk’s hellhole. If you’re into pina coladas, Cthulhu and the fall of capitalism, feel free to follow. Married spud.
Trans Rights, Palestinian liberation, nuanced on Ukraine. I donate to organisations, not individuals.
Historien d'art (École du Louvre, Société Française d'Études de la Céramique Orientale), blogueur (www.alaintruong.com) (plus de 51 millions de visites), collectionneur de céramiques et de curiosités
PhD student at Cambridge. 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
Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Early modernist and Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. “Yes I am the metals person”. Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making
Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
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Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
PhD candidate at the University of York, Department for English and Related Literatures. Working on 'weeds' in early modern agriculture, and natural philosophical, theological, and devotional prose.
Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Retired educator keenly interested in manuscript/early printed fragments, 18th C gothic fiction, and Barbara Stanwyck. https://archive.org/details/@msabinus
Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Master Gardener, plant biologist, former volunteer ff/EMT, women are able to make their own decisions, preserve democracy, 🚫 MAGA, 🚫 DM, genealogy, dogs, SCA survivor, anything outdoors, environment, freshwater Conch
Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy. For just the book reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyreviews.bsky.social
New account for a friendly bunch of campaigners looking to expose the Brexit horrors (not hard) & campaigning to rejoin (- bit harder). Come and join us!
Previously at @oxfordforeurope
Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
