MEMSLib
Digital library for researchers of Medieval and Early Modern studies, run by postgraduate students at the University of Kent
https://www.memslib.co.uk/
@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
@canterburyha.bsky.social
The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
@passamezzo.bsky.social
Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA. Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre. Early Modernist. Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project. Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
@emilycorran.bsky.social
Historian of medieval casuistry at UCL. Lover of baroque music and rail travel
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
@hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social
Linguist by training, but I love all things letters, queens, materiality, and Tudor history. Postdoc@NTU. Former MSCA postdoc@UCD. Forthcoming edition of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots with Camden Fifth Series, CUP (August 2025).
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@barootes.bsky.social
Medievalist. Professor of English. Articles on final -e, the Pearl-poet, and monkish burps. Wm Beauchamp fanboy. Cursed by Artemis. (he/him/his) bswbarootes.com
@walkerabroad.bsky.social
Client Services Team Lead, UCC Library, Ireland. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Chair LAI Munster Section; Treasurer LAI Rare Books Group. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2025. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023
@kitmarlowe1564.bsky.social
Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell. Loue@FirstWebsite: https://kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/
@tainonen.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern manuscripts and libraries Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
@lampallib.bsky.social
Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England. https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
@lauraashe.bsky.social
Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused. Never knowingly underdressed. New book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library Parker Library On the Web - medieval and early modern MSS digitised https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
@willjfhoff.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country 🖤💛❤️ Researching Robin Hood, the politics of performance, and early modern medievalism 🌳🏹🎯
@emallis.bsky.social
📍 University of Kent 💻 1/4 of MEMSLib 2023-24 ♥️ Premodern and Early Modern Performance Cultures, Kentish History, English Cathedral Cities
@cbmedieval.bsky.social
📚 PhD researcher at #CKHH @canterburyccuni.bsky.social looking at disputes, peace-making and social negotiation in late medieval urban society. Also work in Education
@malenaratzke.bsky.social
German literature & manuscript culture up until 1650. Likely libraries. @uni-jena.de http://linktr.ee/malenaratzke Banner image: København [Copenhagen], Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 2º, fol. 011r (detail). https://t1p.de/speculum-humanae-salvationis
@healextay.bsky.social
History fanatic and spinach fiend | Doctorate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from @memsunikent.bsky.social | Researching charms and experimenta in late-medieval manuscripts | she/her
@dianahenderson.bsky.social
Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
@zfsaffrette.bsky.social
Artist, European, centre-left politically. A keen follower of posts; not so much a poster.
@sbschliep.bsky.social
Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
@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
@notwithoutmustard.bsky.social
Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Dabbler in antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational stylistics. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and four rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
@ellenwerner.bsky.social
PhD researcher "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Historian of Art & Ideas at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | FSA FRHistS | BBC New Generation Thinker | Host of British Art Matters podcast | Trustee of The Walpole Society | 📗 Tudor Liveliness out with Yale Books now | 🥦👻🎻 views own
@unkarchives.bsky.social
Official account for the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives and Special Collections. All things #archives, especially #HistEd
@elliechan.bsky.social
Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
@crfirvine.bsky.social
Poet, Academic, President past and present at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
@troynovaunt.bsky.social
she/her. English professor, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me, that’s part of academic freedom.
@ashkenazthree.bsky.social
Historian (early modern Jews) Publisher (Blima Books) Freelance Ritualist
@katelaity.bsky.social
Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee&Hudson *Visionary Fuel* https://linktr.ee/katelaity
@lucyelm.bsky.social
medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, historical narratives and legends in 13-14th cent. Wales, Scotland, and England • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her
@britgrad.bsky.social
The Twenty-Sixth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. June 13th-15th 2024. Call for Papers coming soon. #britgrad2024
@sophiewhittle.bsky.social
Linguist & Research Associate @dhishef.bsky.social. PhD in historical syntax & language change. Currently researching machine learning and critical AI for digital/pedagogical editing & medieval studies. She/her. 🏳️🌈
@jcrofts.bsky.social
Researching radicals in the New Model Army, between 1647 and 1649, at Birmingham University.
@memrn.bsky.social
The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network sponsored by CHASE DTP (AHRC). We provide a supportive and relaxed space for academic collaboration between postgraduate students. DM us and join the mailing list! https://memrnchase.wordpress.com
@cristinalalfar.bsky.social
Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
@lukefarrell.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at the University of Kent. Spatio-temporal cultural analysis, Early Modern maps.
@lauraeromain.bsky.social
Doctoral student at the University of Kent. Early modernist. Researcher of Christopher Marlowe, and early modern migration studies. Shark enthusiast 🦈
@segolene.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at the University of Kent. Medievalist. Late medieval devotional cultures. Manuscripts. Digital Humanities. Behind MEMS ukc. https://www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-early-modern-studies/people/4278/gence-ségolène
@liber-ray.bsky.social
Archivist at Lincoln College, Oxford and Support Officer for Academic Engagement at Bodleian Libraries 📖 Medievalist 📜 I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
@callanjd.bsky.social
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
@lvhicks.bsky.social
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
@greenleejw.bsky.social
Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of medieval history, talking’ about eels, history, maps, and the Spaniel. Alt-text artist. I draw custom maps on commission: https://surprisedeelmaps.com/ Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
@gaiacecilia.bsky.social
Professional history geek and all round textiles nerd who probably should be working on her PhD right now. (She/her)