Sophie Pitman

@people-plants-2025.bsky.social

8 – 9 July 2025, University of Cambridge. Organised by Zara Kesterton and Lucy Havard. https://sites.google.com/view/plants-and-people/home

@itsamaterialworld.bsky.social

@melkatrey.bsky.social

Asst prof of history at TCU | Writing about environment, bodies, books, & medicine in early modern Europe | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project

@rachsyme.bsky.social

Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess.

@paulahohti.bsky.social

Dress and textile historian

@fourredshoes.bsky.social

Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC

@eparpillee.bsky.social

Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.

@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).

@lornarichardson.bsky.social

Norwich-based academic/public archaeology/digital media/multimedia storytelling/cultural heritage/UCU/stuff/nonsense/whimsy

@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

@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

@draftingthepast.bsky.social

A podcast about the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Find it at draftingthepast.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

@jessemlocker.bsky.social

Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth.

@alexbamji.bsky.social

Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social

@rebeccarideal.bsky.social

Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing). Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.

@onslies.bsky.social

Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)

@carolinepennock.bsky.social

Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

@profelainechalus.bsky.social

Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.

@historyelaine.bsky.social

Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.

@m-azzolini.bsky.social

Historian of Science, Medicine and the Environment (15th-18th cent.). Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and a rescue dog. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.

@arifriedlander.bsky.social

Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com

@earlymodhistory.bsky.social

This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.

@lsangha.bsky.social

Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English history 1480-1700 | CI: Material Culture in English Wills | reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brown-ish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com

@bho.bsky.social

British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/

@petermandler.bsky.social

Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College

@jordanmitchellking.bsky.social

Dress historian. Working on a PhD on 18thc undress at DMU, interested in all things embodiment, material culture and reconstruction. Some videos of stuff I like to do! https://youtube.com/@JordanMitchellking?si=2vWTfAUTp0Qo_Bwf

@annegoldgar.bsky.social

Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.

@celinecamps.bsky.social

Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science and Technology, Art, & Material Culture | Columbia University, New York |📍Nuremberg https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x Studying screws 🔩 & the assemblage of goldsmithing art in early modern Nuremberg

@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

@sietskefransen.bsky.social

Historian of early modern science and art | max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History #VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions | Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com

@bethanbide.bsky.social

Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.

@jillburke.bsky.social

Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social

@srsrensoc.bsky.social

SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦‍🔥

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her

@rebeccaolds.bsky.social

Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher | UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk | cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)

@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…

@sarakbarker.bsky.social

Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.

@lauragowing.bsky.social

Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.

@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

@rpzquinton.bsky.social

Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.

@tinasmussen.bsky.social

historian of early modern science and culture | past, present and future of publishing

@hannahrosewoods.bsky.social

Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia

@richove.bsky.social

Bodley's Librarian, @bodleianlibraries.Bsky.social & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social

@drdavidrundle.bsky.social

Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.

@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

@itextilis.bsky.social

iTEXTILIS – Part of The IK Foundation @ikws.bsky.social – Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net

@stefanbauer.bsky.social

Lecturer in Early Modern History at KCL, Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23

@sdamussen.bsky.social

Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old lady likes cats and dogs.

@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social

Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments. Postdoc, 'Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World', University of Manchester. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/holly.fletcher