Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies
The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: [email protected]
@kmschultz24.bsky.social
Ex-academic historian | Now a grant-writer for an international development charity | Coloradan 🇺🇸 in the UK
@paulwainwright.bsky.social
Former business change guy, now living the dream as a student researching improvement in 18thC Yorkshire for MPhil/PhD (and pleasure!). Curious about our ancestors and how they changed the world around them. Love maps, visualisations, manuscripts & Suede.
@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).
@drangelamuir.bsky.social
Associate professor, historian, sometimes musician. Interested in gender and deviance in 18th century Wales & England. I co-host Wines & Crimes events in Cardiff. Currently writing a non-academic true crime history book (out in 2026) www.angelamuir.co.uk
@angusrcrawford.bsky.social
History PhD student at Warwick looking at the Lord Leycester Hospital in early modern England
@rosamundoates.bsky.social
Reader in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Deaf history, early modern history, religious history
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
@elliemackinroberts.net
Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@erhodes.bsky.social
PhD student in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
@sdamussen.bsky.social
Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old lady likes cats and dogs.
@historianjen.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories and pregnancy loss. SHS committee member Also likes baking cakes
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out in June. Indefatigable Allan Pettersson enthusiast.
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@sharonhoward.bsky.social
History, data, pictures, food. Still lazing about. http://sharonhoward.org/ ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
@fwinckel.bsky.social
PhD student in History of Science @ Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich | History of Snowflake Science 🔎❄️ 🔗 www.floriswinckel.com
@nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀 Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
@rjdashwood.bsky.social
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
@rmathematicus.bsky.social
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
@alexbamji.bsky.social
Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
@hibbertsalex.bsky.social
Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History, Institute of Historical Research PhD, Durham University Environmental historian. Weather reconstruction. Storm surges and floods. Little Ice Age. Outreach Editor, Environment and History
@pbhellawell.bsky.social
Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
@hsmurphy.bsky.social
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
@handle.invalid
Historian of science and medicine. Early modernist. Author. Editor, Notes and Records for the Royal Society. Love to garden.
@wesviner.bsky.social
historian of early modern christianity and science | early modern curator at museum of the bible | phd candidate at princeton | alum usna, oxford, wscal
@richardtbellis.bsky.social
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
@kawetj.bsky.social
Post-doc @uni-erfurt, interessiert sich für Klima- und Umweltgeschichte, Kolonialismus, Mediengeschichte und Religionsgeschichte #ichwarhanna
@cmaclean.bsky.social
SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
@meghankroberts.bsky.social
Historian @ Bowdoin | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently working on public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
@barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Neapolitan. Researcher at Ministry of Agriculture, Padua. Yale PhD
@memoiresdulivre.bsky.social
Revue bilingue spécialisée en #HistoireDuLivre, disponible en libre accès | Open access bilingual journal specializing in #BookHistory
@fredesmith.bsky.social
Early Career Fellow in Early Modern History @ Balliol College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
@laurenworking.bsky.social
Early modernist at the University of York | Writing a book about how the Americas & its peoples influenced Tudor/Stuart art, lit, & style | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
@angelamcshane.bsky.social
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
@louisamckenzie.bsky.social
Art #historian | Words for The Times, Apollo, Art UK and more | Research Associate at University of Glasgow | The art and material culture of late #medieval and #Renaissance Florence | #Digitalhumanities https://louisamckenziearthistory.com
@shiruuu.bsky.social
Historian at @leidenhumanities.bsky.social of various things: political thought, intellectuals & the state, Europe & Russia she/her 🎹 🍉 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/shiru-lim#tab-2
@emilymayvine.bsky.social
Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
@nicolemaceira.bsky.social
Historian of early mod animals / hunting & environment / Reformation/ James VI. Teaching Fellow @ University of Edinburgh. Co-organiser @kingjamesconf.bsky.social https://strathclyde.academia.edu/nicolemaceira
@andreamajor.bsky.social
Historian of C18 and C19 Britain, India and empire, esp. East India Company colonialism, sati, slavery and social reform. Views my own etc. She/her.
@khollewand.bsky.social
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.
@bookscribbler.bsky.social
History Prof @ Durham University | STS | HPS | Book: Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines (Chicago: 2023) | Current Projects: Science, Race and Statistics in the British Empire; The Enlightenment and Its Informatic Afterlives
@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
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@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.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
@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.
@lauragowing.bsky.social
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬