April Girling
PhD Student (University of Worcester). Researching heterotopias in the work of John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson.
@medrenliza.bsky.social
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
@stefanovil.bsky.social
Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
@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
@gyzyby.bsky.social
early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
@faerietnk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
@cmburlinson.bsky.social
A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
@historicaljnl.bsky.social
The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
@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.
@dnmcinnis.bsky.social
Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne). | Co-Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr). | Lost plays. | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social
The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
@emwjournal.bsky.social
The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
@stemma.bsky.social
An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie
@lauragowing.bsky.social
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
@mcculloughp.bsky.social
UK prof. of English. Mostly post about things I like, make, or grow. 🌱🪡🏳️🌈 Major academic projects: biography of Lancelot Andrewes (OUP); Gen. Ed., the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.
@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
@annacusack.bsky.social
Early modernist. Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste & Uni of Essex. Tutor at Oxford Conted & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800', London, suicides, crime & punishment, dead, burial, religious outsiders. Co-editor How-to History
@jackieeales.bsky.social
President of the British Association for Local History and Professor Emerita at Canterbury Christ Church University. Historian of English Civil Wars, Puritanism, Early Modern Women and Kent. Former President of the Historical Association
@joesaunders1.bsky.social
Freelance Historian | Part-time PhD English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Vice-Chair, British Association for Local History 📜 Co-editor How-to History. www.josephsaundershistory.co.uk
@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)
@ruthatherton.bsky.social
Lecturer in #Earlymodern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C German religion, education and culture. Writing a book on early modern catechisms. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
@gemms-sermons.bsky.social
GEMMS is the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons. SSHRC project creating open-access, searchable, online bibliographical database of early modern sermons, 1530-1715. Find us at gemms.usask.ca.
@rmonsey.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston University 🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory 1680s-1820s | Britain
@elizabethstjohn.bsky.social
Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started. #17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes. www.elizabethjstjohn.com https://www.thelydiardarchives.org.uk
@cromwellmuseum.bsky.social
World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK www.cromwellmuseum.org
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
@mabelwinter.bsky.social
Socio-economic historian of early modern England Everyday history of provisioning | banking and finance | urban and civic politics | projecting and improvement | Postdoc on https://politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/
@1642author.bsky.social
British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. Associate Fellow - Royal Hist Soc. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham. 📕Biography: Charles I's Private Life 🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
@racheljwillie.bsky.social
Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture http://bit.ly/2dvki2o
@arifriedlander.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
@eoinprice.bsky.social
Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
@emodcam.bsky.social
The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
@memps2.bsky.social
Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell) Coined #HerBook
@tntwining.bsky.social
Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. Post-doc at KU Leuven. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Social media manager @emodir.bsky.social.
@ellenwerner.bsky.social
PhD researcher "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
@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
@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
@lsangha.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English history 1480-1700 | CI: Material Culture in English Wills | reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brown-ish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
@tedvallance.bsky.social
Historian writing a book about regicide. Occasional and enthusiastic scuba diver and guitar player. Accomplished chef. Personal account, own views etc. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ted-vallance
@annabeerauthor.bsky.social
Author of 'Eve Bites Back' and 'Sounds' and, new crime fiction, April 2025, 'Death of an Englishman'. https://www.annabeerauthor.com/ https://thespeakersagency.com/speakers/anna-beer/
@profastreete.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; oh, and our cat. My views. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
@drwillgreen.bsky.social
Academic and heritage professional • Currently working on a travelling players project with Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon • Early modern drama, politics, religion specialist • PhD, Shakespeare Institute • FHEA • Views own etc.
@emodir.bsky.social
International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @tntwining.bsky.social, media manager.
@digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in history @UofT | early modern festivals | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | Junior Fellow at Victoria College | She/her
@stefanbauer.bsky.social
Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23