Isabel Davis
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
@willtullett.bsky.social
He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
@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
@kateimy.bsky.social
Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab 2022. WGF Veterans Writing Project 2023-2024. AFF Josephson fellow. TWU Prof.
@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
@willemijnruberg.bsky.social
associate professor in Cultural History at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social).
@vedaniel.bsky.social
she/her Historian of death, the body, and visual culture - Lecturer at CWRU - Editor at Nursing Clio - President, Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science ❤️immigrants, LGBTQ+, climate protections, free speech, academic freedom
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
@historynerdess.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Book Reviews Editor for Medical History. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
@drjuliamartins.bsky.social
History of the Body, Medicine, and Gender. Host of My Body, My Book Club (she/her)
@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
Junior research fellow at St John's College Cambridge. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
@finolafinn.bsky.social
Historian of early modern health, religion, and emotions | Digital history and AI Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
@boddice.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket. Montreal and Tampere. https://www.robboddice.com/
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@catrionacooper.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities @cccuartshumsed Heritage, medieval buildings (castles), food, sensory pasts. Dog person.
@philiphahn.bsky.social
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
@hattiesoper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
@paulinemortas.bsky.social
PhD in History. Sexuality, gender, contraception, sex market (19th-20th centuries, France). Postdoctoral researcher @Cermes3. Current research: history of vaginismus.
@audeberdouticq.bsky.social
History and Social Sciences Medicine, War and Data France, Italy, Great Britain 📖 Des hommes pour la guerre. La sélection médicale des soldats, CNRS Éditions, 2025
@bethrwilson.bsky.social
Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
@katiesnow.bsky.social
Researching bodies and bodily experiences across the medical humanities. Book on breasts in Georgian satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers ✨🍈🍈 Wellcome postdoc in English @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures 🥃
@mouseemperor.bsky.social
Early Modern History. Caribbeanist. Uppsala University. Gently obsessing over the church records of Saint-Barthélemy.
@lenaferriday.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment @ King's College London. Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
@karinsennefelt.bsky.social
Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
@jemimahubberstey.bsky.social
Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
@clementfabre.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | PhD @SorbonneParis1 | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
@debsadac.bsky.social
PhD student at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900🩸 History of medicine: antiquity & early modern Powered by coffee ☕️ | Owned by dogs 🐶🐶
@roslynpotter.bsky.social
Scottish Lit PhD (SGSAH) and GTA at UofGlasgow // early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻 https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social
PhD • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" forthcoming at U. Chicago Press
@khollewand.bsky.social
Historian, studying the early modern history of sexuality, science, gender, female bodies, cultural heritage. Books on Beverland. Articles on the clitoris, female bodies in anatomy, sex and the classics. Assistent Professor at the University of Groningen.
@davidmwhitford.bsky.social
European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
@lindazampol.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher (Ca' Foscari Venice). History of Europe-Asia relations, religions in Asia, history of emotions. https://lzdo.carrd.co https://unive.academia.edu/LindaZampolDOrtia
@ericasteiner.bsky.social
Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing. Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible! Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
@amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com Babiesinmuseums.com
@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
@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social
Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments. Postdoc, 'Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World', University of Manchester. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/holly.fletcher
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at @ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
@christinefertig.bsky.social
History of Consumption & Material Culture in Early Modern Germany, of Household & Family, Historical Social Network Research, Rural Society, Drug Trade and Medicine, 17th-19th century https://sites.google.com/view/christinefertig/start?authuser=0
@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History #18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
@sashahandley.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
@marcynorton.bsky.social
Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
@victurk.bsky.social
Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
@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)
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.