Rachel Midura
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
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Italian History
Scholars with interest in medieval, early modern, and modern Italy
@squeakyboots.bsky.social
snoopy enjoyer. anti-imperialist. tudor women. medieval & early modern. writer. linktree: https://linktr.ee/margaretbeaufortfanclub contributor at https://his-ill-fated-wives.wixsite.com/henryviii
@purplemermaid25.bsky.social
Author of The Marquess House Saga, The Wind Chime, The Music Makers, The Forgotten Palace and The Secrets of Crestwell Hall. All things history are my passion. @BoldwoodBooks @SapereBooks @KeaneKataria
@catholicismsem.bsky.social
Catholicisms, c.1450-c. 1800 is a book series of @imems.bsky.social Press, an imprint of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Details can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/search-results/?series=byd67-catholicisms-c-1450c-1800
@phokion.bsky.social
Author, outdoor enthusiast, modern-day knight. Artifact Space, Red Knight, Cold Iron, Tyrant, Killer of Men, Chivalry etc
@insrtcoins.bsky.social
Author: The Fundamentals of Video Game Literacy (coming April). Podcast host for Play;Write, Cane and Rinse, and Sound of Play. Marketing for Xbox Game Pass, prev. Nintendo. https://letterboxd.com/InsrtCoins/
@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/
@dissinet.bsky.social
The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), an ERC-funded inititative at Masaryk University’s Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, applies SNA, GIS, and computational text analysis to explore dissident and inquisitorial cultures in medieval Europe.
@beetlebards.bsky.social
💫 illustrator and art historian, big fan of bugs and men with swords, posts mature content sometimes 💫 he/him • 24 • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 open for freelance work! beetlebard.net
@elabozok.bsky.social
History PhD @EUI, Italy | Historian of news and rumors, early modern period, eastern Mediterranean, Ottoman Empire, La Serenissima | Sabancı University
@altnehgov.altgov.info
Democracy DEMANDS wisdom. History cannot be undone, books cannot be unwritten, experiences cannot be ignored. Not the official @nehgov.bsky.social account, but a collective of Hercules Mulligans. #AltGov
@geopam.bsky.social
The international research network GEOPAM studies the spatial constructions of the Americas from modern times to the present 🌎 www.geopam.org / www.canoageopam.org
@onlyplaywizards.com
📖UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator 🚀 @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG 👕 @CauldronNTower.bsky.social 📚Academic Librarian 🎼Vinyl collector 📝Dysgraphic linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
@meirazk.bsky.social
Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
@grayxvii.bsky.social
European Research Infrastructures & DH Huma-Num & DARIAH-EU PhD, Early Modern French History: Marillac & their family strategies. ex-TNAH de l'ENC
@humanitiesall.bsky.social
The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill. Learn more at www.nhalliance.org.
@hectorlinares.bsky.social
Upcoming Assistant Professor of History at Suffolk University, Boston. Historian of the Early Modern Iberian World, the African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies, Law, and Imperialism. Queer 🏳️🌈
@nielsstern.bsky.social
Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter.
@openhistoricalmap.org
Explore the world throughout time, mapped in minute detail by people like you & dedicated to the public domain. OHM is a charter project of @osmus.bsky.social and cousin of @openstreetmap.bsky.social. #oldmaps #dh #hgis https://www.openhistoricalmap.org
@aaup.bsky.social
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
@snaxwell.bsky.social
Game Designer + Prof. Angry queer. Himbos of Myth & Mettle, Frame 352 and vis-a-visage. https://maxwellander.itch.io/ Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com
@matthewguz.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Alberta, Canada and CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Games, machine learning, and creativity. he/him
@drlauralevy.bsky.social
🔬 Games User Researcher, Amazon Games 🎓 PhD human factors psych 🐝 Previous Georgia Tech Research Scientist 👾 #GUR #HCI 🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list" 💬 my own thoughts/opinions 🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
@adarel.bsky.social
Writer/designer. I study narrative theory and make games. Classics PhD. She/her. I post about games, history, cats, stories, and octopodes. http://adaplays.com UChicago | Booth | CAAI
@catacalypto.bsky.social
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
@coil.bsky.social
Schipperke owner @PNW Game Systems Designer, dangerously unsupervised (prev Big Blue Sky Games, Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc) Hire me! #GameDev he/him
@mbelle4912.bsky.social
Prof. Translation Studies (Université de Montréal) Ed. Meta: Journal des traducteurs/ Meta: Translators' Journal Translation and print in 17th c. Britain: crosscurrentscatalogue.ca Material, feminist, decolonial history of translation in early modern era
@moudhy.bsky.social
Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book is now out! 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
@leaderannephd.bsky.social
Art historian. Author of The Badia of Florence. Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, IATH virginia.academia.edu/AnneLeader. Italian art and architecture. Editor/creator of digitalSepoltuario sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu. GenX. Dachshund enthusiast.
@print-and-prob.bsky.social
developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
@hsbamford.bsky.social
PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | Part of @historperspect | She/They 🏳️🌈
@jonas-gardsby.bsky.social
Writer of and historian of literary essays. Writing a weird book on Montaigne, experimental living, banned books, and spies. Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
@ekkells.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Chico State. Early Modern British literature. she/her. All views my own.
@freeburian.bsky.social
FRHistS. Author. Shakespeare Lecturer. General Editor: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Editor: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh. https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
@muerko.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Art History at UT Dallas. Maps, views, sculpture—mostly Italian, always old.
@dramaticletters.bsky.social
they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@earlymodernemma.bsky.social
PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Public engagement RA @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Tutor @brilliantclub.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
@michwatsonoz.bsky.social
Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://stocktonnsw.blogspot.com/
@pfin25.bsky.social
Subject Matter Expert Digital Scholarship @jisc Interested in all things academic library, humanities, including digital ones, science, and a bit of art does not go amiss. Views are inevitably my own. Team blog: https://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp
@jmbrabbs.bsky.social
W&M History Ph.D. candidate studying eugenics, euthenics, and disability in Southern agricultural spaces | NCWC & VT Alumna
@msg77.bsky.social
Professor and Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
@guillaumeserina.bsky.social
History teacher @International School Los Angeles (French/English). Author "An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev & a World Without the Bomb" (Pegasus) Ex-US correspondent (Le Parisien, Le Monde...) & journalist. L.A.-Paris. www.guillaumeserina.com
@patj86.bsky.social
#archaeologist and #historian in Virginia. Beloit College, University of West Florida, and William and Mary alumnus.
@shorelarking.bsky.social
Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️⚧️