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/
@adendros.bsky.social
Philhellenic Neo-Latinist Assistant Professor at KU Leuven ERC-StG holder: ERASMOS
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News. W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
@forumrarebooks.bsky.social
Rare book dealers from the Netherlands, specializing in books, manuscripts, prints, maps & other works on paper concerning Travel & Exploration, Islamic World, Natural History, Early Printing, Cartography, Science & Medicine, etc. www.forumrarebooks.com
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
@jennyrlee.bsky.social
Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication. Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life. AuDHD. Views my own.
@petemaw.bsky.social
Associate Prof 18th-Century History at The University of Leeds;Atlantic trade, merchants and infrastructure; economic history; cotton; co-editor of Northern History
@visithmml.bsky.social
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 800 libraries to preserve & share handwritten history worldwide. Learn more: hmml.org
@uclhistory.bsky.social
Dating back to 1830, UCL History sits in the heart of London and welcomes the best researchers and students from around the world 🌎
@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
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Incoming Frances Yates Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social • #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
@katherinefirth.bsky.social
Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
@closereadingie.bsky.social
Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Co-president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
@nullnullsjo.bsky.social
Ord-ordnar i Ordbøkene (UiB), med ekstra entusiasme for rare ord, små språk og tricolon. Opphaveleg latinist. Innbitt fotgjengar. Luskar meir enn eg skriv.
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@bemccollective.bsky.social
This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past! https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
@ciaokatet.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern Italian material culture, #materialtext & devotion | Research Assistant on the Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social (www.ustc.ac.uk) at the University of St Andrews https://katherinetycz.com/
@mariajuko.bsky.social
18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
@oliviahvero.bsky.social
(i know, the last name's a mouthful) | phd candidate/pre doc @ uni vienna | researching working class representations, autofictional modes in television, contemporary situation comedies
@womenshistscot.bsky.social
Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes. https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
@profmurdoch.bsky.social
Professor of History @mhafhs.bsky.social Research & Teaching: - The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) - British Civil Wars (1639-1660) - Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713) - History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD 🗃 #Dyslexic in several languages.
@weegiegraeme.bsky.social
Glaswegian 🏴 Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Tutor @ University of Dundee. Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱 All views my own.
@schottemargaret.bsky.social
Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean @ YorkU. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ She/her 🌈
@tedmccormick.bsky.social
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him
@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. https://sites.google.com/view/plants-and-people/home
@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.