Abigail Mitchell
hextorian / soton english postgrad researcher queering the history of the 1645 tendring witch trials. occasional writer and editor for dk, scholastic, and more. poet: THE YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY (write bloody uk, 2023)
@rebeccajennings.bsky.social
Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
@oldenoughtosay.bsky.social
chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)
@lhlindgaard.bsky.social
Danish #earlymodern historian. #witchtrials | #digitalhumanities. One of the people behind HEX! Museum in Ribe. PhD fellow at University of Southern Denmark, researching the nobility's role and agency in Danish witch trials (1584-1660). #skystorian
@patrickauden.bsky.social
author of THOUGHTS BE BLOODY (DAW, 2026) • I write about fear, love, and monsters • rep: Shannon Lechon at Azantian Literary Agency • he/him 🏳️⚧️ 🔗 audenpatrick.com
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@marloavidon.bsky.social
Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
@nelbetancur.bsky.social
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
@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.
@liviagt.bsky.social
Early Modern historian. Witchcraft, Demonology, Folklore 🐐📚 French Teacher Historiadora e pesquiso umas bruxarias aí 📚🐐👹 Profa de francês
@notrockyhorror.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
@fibowler.bsky.social
Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
@historyatsoton.bsky.social
History at the University of Southampton, where staff and students, past, present and future discuss history. southampton.ac.uk/study/subjects/history
@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.
@rmkarras.bsky.social
Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
@annetheriault.bsky.social
Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@nicolaz.bsky.social
PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚 AND NOW: FIGHTING 👊 nicolagriffith.com Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
@crems-york.bsky.social
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York is a welcoming interdisciplinary community devoted to the study of the long 16th and 17th centuries. http://york.ac.uk/crems/
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@tricksterprince.bsky.social
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, 20s30s. Out Oct 2025 - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP) Now - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@ianm70.bsky.social
computer geek, book person, Tolkien nerd, history researcher, science, occasional politics. He/Him.
@euphanerops.bsky.social
Fan of fossil fishes. Postdoc at University of Birmingham. Interested in using fossil and living taxa to understand the evolution of sharks, rays, and chimaeras. Also partial to a jawless fish now and then.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Gothic lit and theology. Gothic romance. Queer Gothic. Teaching Fellow in Romanticism. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'.
@double-a-larsen.bsky.social
DPhil student in History, Oxford. UNBC alumnus and educator. Exploring the links between space, place, and the past through witch trials. He/him. All views my own
@witchhunt.bsky.social
The nonprofit podcast that covers the past, present, and future of witch hunts. We talk about the witch trials of the past and the modern crisis of extrajudicial violence against persons suspected of witchcraft.
@catsfstiles.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at University of Bristol working on female and gender nonconforming monstrous bodies in early modern literature. Based in West Yorkshire.
@drgillhistory.bsky.social
Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.
@restingwitches.bsky.social
Sarah Jack co-host of @witchhunt and co-founder of End Witch Hunts Nonprofit
@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).
@chloec.bsky.social
PhD student 📚 Researching witch-wives, mid-century witches, and Suburban Gothic in lit, film & TV 🔮🪄 Commissioning Editor in academic publishing 📖 she/her🌛
@hannahva390.bsky.social
PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
@drlauravarnam.bsky.social
Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers Volume Seven: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Writing a book on Du Maurier.
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@cathamclarke.bsky.social
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25. https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
@piratebeckalex.bsky.social
Historian: Public Executions & Piracy | PhD King’s College London | Seen on History Channel, Discovery Channel, Netflix, BBC | New Book: Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship Find my work and more about me here: https://linktr.ee/piratebeckalex
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥
@helleborezine.bsky.social
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social. 🌍 Now shipping worldwide from www.helleborezine.com
@folklorepod.bsky.social
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History. Generally warm, welcoming and inclusive space to hang out in. With tea room too. Open Wed-Sat. Events Sat.
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/JoanPassey
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.