Early Modern How-to Books
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and printing 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
@mdpowelldavies.bsky.social
Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
@harryspillane.bsky.social
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
@bobmaclean.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
@sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social
Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
@bbienias.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences) History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology; early modern epistemology; history of the book
@ksmcgregor.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in History at the University of St Andrews | 'Foreign policy and diplomacy during the personal rule of James V, King of Scots (1528-1542)'.
@neilbuttery.bsky.social
Award-winning* author, podcaster & cook of British food from the past. *Guild Food Writers Awards: 2023 Best First Book (A Dark History of Sugar); 2024 Best Food Book (Before Mrs Beeton)
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
@barbdrummond.bsky.social
Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. New book The Great Flood of 1607 published on 2 September. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity
@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
@kelsbot.bsky.social
pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
@monikaamsler.bsky.social
Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
@rachelkbright.bsky.social
Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
@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/#
@islayshelbourne.bsky.social
Historian. Currently researching Californian understandings of the 1918-19 Flu. Strolling in St Andrews and finding my future in the past.
@mcfras15.bsky.social
PhD Candidate: Scotland in the Protestant International, 1689-1732 | University of St Andrews | Funded by SGSAH.
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
Professor of Economic History, LSE; Apprenticeship. Health. Pharmacy. Work. Wages. and all kinds of history. Plus a bit of running. New book: market for skill coming out with Princeton in March 2025
@extispex.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer
@bjking.bsky.social
Anthropologist, animal advocate, science writer, caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@hpspodcast.bsky.social
Popular podcast discussing all things history, philosophy and social studies of science. Run by Grad Students at The University of Melbourne. Bluesky posts by Samara and Thomas Season 5 dropping soon! www.hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podcast
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
Writer. (So Very Small, out April 29, 2025, on germ theory, past present and future.) Quondam documentarian (credits at PBS, BBC, etc.) Professing science writing at MIT. Lucky spouse and father, servant to two tuxedo cats. He/him
@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President-elect ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social
Queer history. Queer science. Queer history of science! 📚Agent: @phi11y.bsky.social. He/him. Darwin's Closet: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 Mendel's Closet: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036
@rmathematicus.bsky.social
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
@edouardmachery.bsky.social
History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
@hpsleeds.bsky.social
Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world. View our social media commenting policy here: https://cup.org/38e0Gv2
@rgmemss.bsky.social
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books? Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
@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
@bristolcms.bsky.social
The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
@uofgsmc.bsky.social
Fostering an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection (University of Glasgow Library). https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/clust-centr/smc/
@kajamarczewska.bsky.social
Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020)
@loekzoon.bsky.social
Historian Early modern history Public history Vluchtelingenonderzoek Rampjaar 1672 #yearofdisaster Geschiedenis Hardloper running #earlymodern #skystorian #refugees https://www.linkedin.com/in/loek-zoon-47a425230
@maggiesimon.bsky.social
Interested in early modern literature and culture, book history, recipe studies, and bread, lots of bread.
@hnunn.bsky.social
Teacher, reader, and recipe researcher. Never met an archive I didn't like.
@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
@anzamems.bsky.social
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
@memsunikent.bsky.social
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available. For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
@northernhistory.bsky.social
Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
@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
@emodgral.bsky.social
Project by Research Council of Finland, 2021-25 | Use of graphic devices + development of graphic literacies in England 1473-1800 | PI Matti Peikola, tweets by team members.
@marlowemightyln.bsky.social
The Marlowe Society of America promotes scholarship on poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe's life, works, & crucial role in the early modern theater.
@socrefresearch.bsky.social
Organization promoting the study of the Reformation and early modern religion. Sponsor of the Archive for Reformation History (ARH) Social Media: @kkaelin.bsky.social
@monashcmrs.bsky.social
Community of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Monash University, Australia. The past is not as distant as you imagine. (Banner: Lincoln County Archives, BNLW 1/1/55/1; Profile pic: Monash, Bischoff frag. 002, MS 1821) Skeets by KN.
@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