Karen Hollewand
Historian, studying the early modern history of sexuality, science, gender, female bodies, cultural heritage. Books on Beverland. Articles on the clitoris, female bodies in anatomy, sex and the classics.
Assistent Professor at the University of Groningen.
@willtullett.bsky.social
He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@kateimy.bsky.social
Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab 2022. WGF Veterans Writing Project 2023-2024. AFF Josephson fellow. TWU Prof.
@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
@cdanby.bsky.social
Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home 2017: _The Known Economy_
@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
@vedaniel.bsky.social
she/her Historian of death, the body, and visual culture - Lecturer at CWRU - Editor at Nursing Clio - President, Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science ❤️immigrants, LGBTQ+, climate protections, free speech, academic freedom
@historynerdess.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Book Reviews Editor for Medical History. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
Junior research fellow at St John's College Cambridge. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
@boddice.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket. Montreal and Tampere. https://www.robboddice.com/
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
@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
@catrionacooper.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities @cccuartshumsed Heritage, medieval buildings (castles), food, sensory pasts. Dog person.
@philiphahn.bsky.social
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
@rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety,distant communications and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
@hattiesoper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
@paulinemortas.bsky.social
PhD in History. Sexuality, gender, contraception, sex market (19th-20th centuries, France). Postdoctoral researcher @Cermes3. Current research: history of vaginismus.
@audeberdouticq.bsky.social
History and Social Sciences Medicine, War and Data France, Italy, Great Britain 📖 Des hommes pour la guerre. La sélection médicale des soldats, CNRS Éditions, 2025
@bethrwilson.bsky.social
Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi.baker
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@norellehan.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Stanford thinking about gender, sexuality, & labor in #earlymodern Italy. Researcher and writer for "Noble Blood" from iHeartMedia. Incurable gossip, dog park regular, proud union member (x2). they/she linktr.ee/norellehan
@carorusterholz.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva Prof Social History, Fribourg University History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics She/her. Breast cancer survivor
@rouge1767.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, forensic expertise, bodies, and gender in early modern France
@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.
@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.
@katiesnow.bsky.social
Researching bodies and bodily experiences across the medical humanities. Book on breasts in Georgian satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers ✨🍈🍈 Wellcome postdoc in English @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures 🥃
@carolynaday.bsky.social
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net) https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
@reinarz.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
@leticiafontecha.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, childhood, pain. Writer. Poet. Book: Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History (CUP soon!). Current project: Infants: A Medical History of Early Life
@mouseemperor.bsky.social
Early Modern History. Caribbeanist. Uppsala University. Gently obsessing over the church records of Saint-Barthélemy.
@lenaferriday.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment @ King's College London. Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@daphnao.bsky.social
Historian of women and the family in early modern Britian. Working on a book on EM sisters. Program manager for the Dan David Prize. Mom. Geek. Dnd player. Crafter (knitting, quilting, cross-stitch). Posts are my own opinions. She/her.
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@jemimahubberstey.bsky.social
Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
@clementfabre.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | PhD @SorbonneParis1 | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
@debsadac.bsky.social
PhD student at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900🩸 History of medicine: antiquity & early modern Powered by coffee ☕️ | Owned by dogs 🐶🐶
@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
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
@mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social
PhD • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" forthcoming at U. Chicago Press
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy | Think Tanks / Academia | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her