Early Modern How-to Books
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Technology & Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Rheinländer. Cyclist. Gen X. Owned by dog. Unhealthily online. Posts personal. He/him. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@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.
@erikkwakkel.bsky.social
Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes. “There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
@petertarras.bsky.social
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | Oriens Christianus | Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/PeterTarras
@speriola.bsky.social
Historikerin und Mediävistin an der Universität Potsdam, forscht zur mittelalterlichen Kultur-, Geschlechter- und Stadtgeschichte sowie der Geschichte religiöser Gemeinschaften
@rachelstein.bsky.social
Librarian, PhD/diss in book history and early modern Iberian worlds.
@sjlahey.bsky.social
Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social
lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london. Rep'd RCW Literary Agency THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024) co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text president Oxford Bibliographical Society micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
@lbrockey.bsky.social
Historian, early modernist (mostly things Portuguese), book lover, Schnauzer owner
@tinasmussen.bsky.social
historian of early modern science and culture | past, present and future of publishing
@zibaldoni.bsky.social
山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
@nialloddy.bsky.social
Early modernist. Interested in travel, cross-cultural encounter, environments. Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun. May post cat pics
@melkatrey.bsky.social
Asst prof of history at TCU | Writing about environment, bodies, books, & medicine in early modern Europe | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@voxcanis.bsky.social
I work in both history and philosophy of science. Current projects: the reality of celestial orbs before Tycho Brahe; the afterlife of Tychonism; women in the Scientific Revolution (with @sacrobosco.bsky.social)
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
@folkloringpodcast.bsky.social
Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
@oxford-esh.bsky.social
Centre for Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. Posting our research and seminars and #econhist updates.
@christophersmith.bsky.social
University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation All views my own, but none of the poetry.
@dgtarbuck.bsky.social
History of Science, Intellectual History, Eighteenth Century, History of Sociability.
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science | Commerce and Science -Practical Maths -Natural History Uni. of Tennessee | PhD Cambridge HPS
@rebootrenaissance.bsky.social
Welcome to Reboot the Renaissance by HumanistFreeAudio for the curious, the cunning, and the culturally caffeinated. We’re restoring MediciOS. Ideas reborn. Influence retooled. Principles reprogrammed. reboottherenaissance.substack.com | #bskystorians
@alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven (@theramseylab.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
@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 👩🏼🦰 📝 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 witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c ass. ed. French History ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic also #CreativeHistories not *literally* a birb
@bjking.bsky.social
Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; 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