Basil Bowdler

@wadehistory.bsky.social

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Leiden | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️‍🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17

@plymprivateer.bsky.social

17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. Still figuring this site out - interested in all things early modern and boaty.

@juliettedesportes.bsky.social

Historian of 18th century Scotland. Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands. PhD from University of Glasgow.

@brodiewaddell.bsky.social

Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell

@lloydbowen.bsky.social

Early modern historian of Wales and Britain (esp. British Civil Wars) at Cardiff University. Also work on petitioning, duelling, political cultures. Edward Vaughan book free to download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-trials-of-edward-vaughan/

@leafyhistory.bsky.social

Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants. Author: #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹

@serenaj1642.bsky.social

🇬🇧 Author, publisher, independent historian | British Civil Wars: biographer of Col Sir George Lisle | transcribing & publishing the 1640s English newsbooks | 🦋 Est. Sep 2023 Taking a break from social media as of 24 Apr 2025

@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social

We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

@kristelvansoeren.bsky.social

Musicologist | Jacobite songs, British Isles, politics, and (national) identities in 17th and 18th c. popular music.

@lownesandtheifis.bsky.social

Deaf social historian, EM Scotland, marginality, crime, poverty, vagrancy. Random posts on darker side of life in early modern Edinburgh and Canongate

@elegantfowl.bsky.social

Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com

@jemmafield.bsky.social

Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)

@ollibackstrom.bsky.social

Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/

@callanjd.bsky.social

early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton

@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social

Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg

@csschmitt.bsky.social

Historian of early America and the Caribbean at Cornell U, avid Philadelphia Phillies fan, sometimes gardener.

@tryntje.bsky.social

Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.

@beadnell-miller.bsky.social

Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.

@richardjansell.bsky.social

Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/

@mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social

Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis. Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire

@huntingrebels.bsky.social

Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 | Affiliate UofGlasgow History | Lit Agent The Viney Agency https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464 Also: dogs, horses, books

@bridmcgrath.bsky.social

Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499

@mikkibrock.bsky.social

historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor at W&L | views mine | she/her.

@markshearwood.bsky.social

Early Modern Historian, looking at loyalty, Identity, and Religion in the late 17th century. Glorious Revolution, Monmouth Rebellion tour guide, Golden Retriever owner,

@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social

PhD in Early Modern History @ Cambridge | Working on therapeutic knowledge and practice in the networks of Philipp Hainhofer, c.1600-50 | she/her | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/amelia-hutchinson

@finolafinn.bsky.social

Historian of early modern health, religion, and emotions | Digital history and AI Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg

@siavush.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Iran, Senior Lecturer [Associate Professor] in Modern Middle Eastern History @standrewshist.bsky.social Currently based in Edinburgh. http://www.siavush.com . Full-time Western Classical Music devotee.

@watson950.bsky.social

Historian, Emeritus Professor, Waratahs, Blue Jays, Winchester Cathedral

@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

@johnevigar.bsky.social

Ecclesiastical Historian. Arts Society Accredited Lecturer. Author of 16 books. Trustee of Friends of Friendless Churches and Francis Coales Charitable Foundation. Member of the Advisory Council of the Norfolk Churches Trust. Unashamedly woke. 🏳️‍🌈

@standrewshist.bsky.social

School of History @uniofstandrews.bsky.social World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/

@aberjack.bsky.social

| Early Modern Maritime and Military Historian, Britain and the Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648 | Admin & Editor, SSNE Database | Reviews Editor, 'Mariner's Mirror' | Research Assistant, 'The European Fiscal-Military System,' Oxford |

@jamesrowland.bsky.social

Historian and Postdoctoral Researcher exploring the influence of America on 19th century British reform debates | PhD King’s College London | Currently coordinating peer review and research funding at the British Academy

@laurasdeluca.bsky.social

Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon

@omdunderdale.bsky.social

SGSAH-funded PhD Student at University of St Andrews, researching gender & popular politics in 16th century northern Scottish burghs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/olivia-mary-dunderdale

@maudbelair.bsky.social

PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh. All things poverty, food, and state in 19th c. England, Ireland, and Scotland.

@enbycriphistorian.bsky.social

Disabled neurodivergent antifascist queer nonbinary historian&writer. Husky and cat pawrent. Chronically ill. Social Justice Druid. Disabled Not Disposable. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine (They/them) https://enbycriptid.wordpress.com

@maximemorel.bsky.social

French PhD Researcher in history at the EUI (Florence) Early Modern Mediterranean | Naval Ceremony | Diplomatic History Coordinator of the Diplomatic and International History working group Alumnus Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and ENS Paris-Saclay

@thomlga.bsky.social

@chloehouston.bsky.social

Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise. https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author

@huygensknaw.bsky.social

The Huygens Institute of History and Culture of the Netherlands opens up historical sources and keeps them digitally accessible. We study historical sources and literary texts in innovative ways in an international perspective.

@janblo.bsky.social

Historian. I summon the spirits from #earlymodern taverns PhD Researcher at the European University Institute https://eui.academia.edu/JanBlonski #NaborowskiLetters Project

@emilyvcole.bsky.social

Senior architectural historian at Historic England. Expert in early modern country houses, C20 pubs and various things in between. FSA. Book on the Woolwich Rotunda forthcoming. Own views.

@sophiebwaterman.bsky.social

Late medieval and Tudor historian. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Special Collections Photographer at St John's College, Oxford. Book History MA graduate from the Institute of English Studies. Writing a book on Elizabeth Boleyn.

@matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social

PhD student, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin—State building with early modern investigative commissions; governing the Danish Oldenburg Empire across the Atlantic World and Asia

@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

@saralread.bsky.social

Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer. www.sararead.co.uk

@akilnawan.bsky.social

Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent

@kristofselle.bsky.social

Curator of Archives at Museum Plantin-Moretus • Self-funded PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam • Posts about the printing staff of the Plantin Press

@msousaoliveira.bsky.social

PhD candidate | lit | ethics | utopia | environment he/they https://up-pt.academia.edu/ManuelSOUSAOLIVEIRA