Michelle Laughran
Avid historian of Venice, medicine/epidemics/plague, fashion/cosmetics & social/cultural history, teaching with historical video games (she/her)
@nighthawkog.bsky.social
Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic and Night Hawk: America’s First Superhero (forthcoming)
@tychobravo.bsky.social
I like native plants and other interesting things. Usually in the company of Griff the Dog who also enjoys native plants and other interesting things.
@romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
@ainepoland.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast - gender history, networks, digital humanities, transnational history.
@uolhumanities.bsky.social
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
On Mondays Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Thursdays he hosts The Weekly Show. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
@suffolkdeb.bsky.social
Academic background in Early Modern English History. One foot in the UK, one in Canada. Stuck in the States. Lover of theatre, art history, Venice, chocolate, photography, languages, and travel. Hoarder of books. she/her #ElbowsUp
@erinacean.bsky.social
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
@parisnoire.bsky.social
Historian @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact @monidrke.bsky.social for talks! Robinmitchellhistorian.com
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
@earlymodernaf.bsky.social
#EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth @ U Alberta, Founder Alberta Abortion Access Network, Cofounder of Bodies and Being Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
@juliehardwick.bsky.social
Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). Order here: http://bit.ly/2YYXPTn liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/facult…
@victurk.bsky.social
Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
@marcynorton.bsky.social
Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
@sashahandley.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History #18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
@stecd.bsky.social
Enseignante-chercheuse en histoire allemande: genre, femmes et corps Du SERG à la Réforme de la Vie #TeamTGV
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
@mariekehendriksen.bsky.social
Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@sacrobosco.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024)
@tswingard.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @historytcd.bsky.social, researching sex and the Church courts in 14th century England read more about my work: tesswingard.wordpress.com header: bit.ly/3WbQMC5
@amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com Babiesinmuseums.com
@davidmwhitford.bsky.social
European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
@bethlinker.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn bethlinker.com Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
@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
@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
@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.
@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
@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 🐶🐶
@clementfabre.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | PhD @SorbonneParis1 | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
@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.
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@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
@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
@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.
@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 ⛱
@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
@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.
@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.
@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
@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
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@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
@audeberdouticq.bsky.social
History and Social Sciences Medicine, War and Data France, Italy, Great Britain Book: Des hommes pour la guerre. La sélection médicale des soldats, CNRS Éditions, 2025
@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.
@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/