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/
@smithjj.bsky.social
Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD @ StirUni | RA Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online | Prev on Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/) | Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@elibernstein.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | The Queen's College, Oxford | c16 literary and intellectual culture | Erasmus to Montaigne
@oliviasmith.bsky.social
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding.
@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
@16csociety.bsky.social
Official account. #SCSC2024 Conference will meet in Toronto.
@aucointaylor.bsky.social
British Academy Postdoc Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯 Website and blog: https://ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/
@textilehistorian.bsky.social
Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern) Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison
@daniellefarrier.bsky.social
SGSAH funded PhD student at Uni of St Andrews. Researching scientific grant-making in 19th and early- 20th-century Britain
@maudbelair.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh. All things poverty, food, and state in 19th c. England, Ireland, and Scotland.
@mchapelproject.bsky.social
Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
@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 |
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected. https://www.linnean.org/
@charmianmansell.bsky.social
Historian of women’s work, everyday mobilities and court records, 1500-1700. Lecturer in Early Modern History | University of Sheffield
@teaphaine.bsky.social
PhD student at Cambridge, interested in 17th-18th century Atlantic histories of language and orality. (Profile: Mary Cassatt, 'The Tea,' c. 1880) She/her.
@schrisomalis.bsky.social
Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
@tillyguthrie.bsky.social
C19 tactile alphabet enthusiast, book/disability history, and otherwise doing folky things. PhD candidate in History @sheffielduni and WRoCAH
@ukahn.bsky.social
The UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) promotes the development and advancement of #histnursing through scholarly work and outreach. https://ukahn.org/ Find our yearly journal at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/
@people-plants-2025.bsky.social
8 – 9 July 2025, University of Cambridge. Organised by Zara Kesterton and Lucy Havard. Call for Papers now open! 🌿💐📗
@heatherlwellis.bsky.social
SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk | Co-Editor History of Education
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@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 exchange, environments. Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun. May post cat pics
@melkatrey.bsky.social
History prof at TCU. Thinking about early modern European medicine & science, gender & the body, manuscripts & print. 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: www.folkloringpodcast.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 • Book Reviews Editor for the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (@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.