Dr. Barry Torch
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
@imaginaryhistories.bsky.social
"You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?" "Yeah, and nothing did. So what?" Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
@paysonrharris.bsky.social
Canada’s premier bigendered, autistic, queer, polyamorous writer—as far as they know. If you know of another, please let them know so they can form a support group, then battle it out, Highlander-style. http://paysonrharris.com
@leuvenup.bsky.social
Turning Inspiring Scholarship into Outstanding Publications
@histphilosophy.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
@analulopez.bsky.social
Indigenous Studies Librarian/Assistant Curator (Newberry), writer, book nerd. Materials from library & personal collection with an occasional meme 🪶💚🇵🇸 *views own* https://linktr.ee/Analumlopez
@noraepstein.bsky.social
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian ❧ Postdoc fellow with @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social ❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles ❧ she/her ❧ all opinions my own
@allylouks.bsky.social
Working on olfactory ethics and teaching at Cambridge. ‘One of those academic types who turn to books as a substitute for social interaction’.
@jdepstein.bsky.social
going to try and keep this one unlocked. will be lots of sports/music/toronto/kamloops stuff on here. he/him/il/הוא
@cynthiabertelsen.bsky.social
Award-winning author/historian/librarian. 3 Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Culinary history, Europe, reading, cooking, travel, politics, oceans, Ormond Beach, Orwell. More at medium.com/@gherkinstomato and gherkinstomatoes.com
@ecurrie.bsky.social
Dress and textile historian. New book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' out Sept 2025. Joint Series Editor MUP Studies in Design and Material Culture. Lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
@tannerritchie.bsky.social
Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers. www.tannerritchie.com
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Posts in EN & NL.
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
educator passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) HE prof NW England Anywhere near Books and Music #SurfaceStudies #Soil_Imaginaries Green Party Member Adores Snails 🐌 My personal views - not my employer's Reposts &c not endorsements
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi.baker
@bibsoc.bsky.social
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
@michelinewhite.bsky.social
Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
@drlindaporter.bsky.social
Tudor and Stuart historian. Author of six books, most recent a biography of Henry VIII's misunderstood and maligned elder sister, Margaret Tudor. Historical consultant and broadcaster. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
@misswalsingham.bsky.social
Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@ewoodacre.bsky.social
Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
@drrosalindwhite.bsky.social
Aspiring Time-traveller⏳ #SloaneLab 🔬🌿 Community Research Fellow @UCL, & Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House 🏰
@drlizlestrange.bsky.social
Medieval/Early Modern MSS and books, art history, material culture, gender studies, SL at Birmingham Uni, nomad, good wine, views mine
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, PhD from UofT. maryjomacdonald.com
@drkirky.bsky.social
Academic library manager-researcher, bi mum, singer, Quaker, European; #DH, languages & linguistics, #QuakerStudies #EarlyModern stuff #metaphor #GoodOmens #DoctorWho #SpeculativeLiterature
@earlymodernaf.bsky.social
#EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth @ U Alberta, Founder Alberta Abortion Access Network, Cofounder of Bodies and Being Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
@cheeseandpeople.bsky.social
CHASE-funded doctoral student at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
@faerietnk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
@emnk.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ Howard Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them. I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
@crevans.bsky.social
Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social Interested in books, beads, birds and baking.
@emilyhay.bsky.social
PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 SGSAH Digital Curator 2024-2025 🖥️ She/her https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
@catmcm.bsky.social
Early modern historian. PhD (Edinburgh) on Reformation in NE Scotland. New projects on British humanitarianism, Mediterranean captives, & African presence. Clergy in Early Modern Scotland: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276196/the-clergy-in-early-
@naomimca.bsky.social
Lecturer, English, University College Dublin, early modern women’s writing, University for All
@lizlgenealogy.bsky.social
Historian & pro genealogist originally trained in anthropology & archaeology. New M.A. in History of the Family. A few of my many research interests: slavery in the northern colonies/US, early modern era, women's history, African-American history, genocide
@triciamatthew.bsky.social
Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@kathylubey.bsky.social
i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
@rscar.bsky.social
18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Assoc. Prof., UCSB English
@lmaruca.bsky.social
C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
@historianjen.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories and pregnancy loss. SHS committee member Also likes baking cakes
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery.
@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)
@dspring.bsky.social
Writing about women’s history, garden history; love unruly gardens, singing, walking. New book ‘Lady Anne Bacon: a woman of learning at the Tudor court’, UH Press.
@dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social
PhD | Medieval and Early Modern Dutch (religious) literature @UAntwerpen | History of women's intellectual, literary, and religious culture | Book history | Sermon studies
@chloeireton.bsky.social
Historian / writer / university lecturer. Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) https://cambridge.org/core_title/gb/613004 & lecturer @uclhistory
@margaretboyle.bsky.social
Hispanic Studies/ Latinx Studies @ Bowdoin College. Writes on language, food, plays, early modern gender + health. 🇲🇽 from LA. #Fulbright for 🇪🇸. Views Mine.
@juanmaramive.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ColgateUniv | Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Atlantic World | He/him