Alice Thornton's Books
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
@cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
The CMRS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and Renaissance periods. Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance
@uoe-llc.bsky.social
An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students. https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
@jennymcauley.bsky.social
Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK [email protected]
@lizbethcalvario.bsky.social
EN/FR-SP literary translation, Shakespeare & Translation Studies Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM Maestría en Traducción - CELL/COLMEX Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
@boapublishing.bsky.social
Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
@catsfstiles.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at University of Bristol working on female and gender nonconforming monstrous bodies in early modern literature. Based in West Yorkshire.
@marivalimaki.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675. Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
@kenmiddleton.bsky.social
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University African American history, women's history, historical newspapers, historical GIS, public history
@flavdav-theatre.bsky.social
Theatre director based in Edinburgh. Raised on the Brazil-Uruguay border, and this is important.
@maryfissell.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
@drshirleybell.bsky.social
Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (forthcoming 2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
@andykesson.bsky.social
Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
@christinesukic.bsky.social
Professeur de littérature anglaise à l’université de Reims Champagne Ardenne/Professor of early modern English studies at university of Reims Présidente de la Société Française Shakespeare
@alex-thom.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF — University of Leeds, views my own Shakespeare • duty and service • exile and imperialism • Renaissance drama • English Reformation • law and literature
@rfj1611.bsky.social
Genealogist & family historian, studying with the IHGS | 17th century & British/English Civil Wars researcher | Biographer of ECW painter William Dobson | currently cataloguing 1640s British portraits | Loves Jack Russells, tea and peanut butter
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
@ihrscb.bsky.social
Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
@lux-sterritt.bsky.social
early modern history; Catholicism; nuns; England; France; recusancy; 17th century.
@jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social
Early modern literary and religious history. All things Catholic, #nuntastic, #monkabulous, #friarific.
@drawcansir.bsky.social
Lapsing academic. Books, theatre, opera. Often early modern; always out of time. Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009324120
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
@oliviaweisser.bsky.social
Historian of early modern medicine, sexuality, disease, gender Author of The Dreaded Pox (CUP, soon!), Ill Composed (Yale)
@nailyas.bsky.social
Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
@historyrage.bsky.social
#HistoryRage is a #podcast by Paul Bavill where we invite historians to get angry about that one 'fact' you wish people would stop believing
@witches7hunt.bsky.social
The official account for the the Leverhulme Seven County Witch Hunt Project at the University of Exeter. Follow us for new research discoveries about the 'Matthew Hopkins' / East Anglian witch hunt; blog updates on the last Thursday of every month.
@franceswolfreston.bsky.social
Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Official account of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Study with us! linktr.ee/hcaatedinburgh
@drhelenkemp.bsky.social
Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Community Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
@elizabethbeattie.bsky.social
Early Modern Historian | Women, Education, and Agency in the 17th Century Low Countries 👩🎓 MA, MLitt, University of St Andrews 📸 https://www.instagram.com/secret_historian/
@dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
Author, historian of contraception and abortion, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. Words in BBC History, Haunted, and more. As seen on Netflix’s Lost Pirate Kingdom, talking about syphilis. 🏴☠️ Rep: Helm Literary. dirtysexyhistory.com
@tonyfoth.bsky.social
Ken Spelman Rare Books, ABA. ILAB. PBFA. books | birds | baking | photography | travelling | guitars ~ Art, gardening, women & science, Italian Grand Tour, manuscripts, the unusual. www.kenspelman.com [email protected]
@adamcrymble.bsky.social
History of migration | Trustee of Programming Historian | Interdisciplinary | Digital Humanities, Education & Research | He/Him | Own views. Book: Technology and the Historian (Illinois, 2021).
@lbrockey.bsky.social
Historian, early modernist (mostly things Portuguese), book lover, Schnauzer owner
@thomasplumes.bsky.social
The Library of Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), established 1704 in Maldon, Essex. www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.
@liamtemple.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham University. Lover of all things Catholic, mystical and Franciscan! First gen academic. More: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/liam-p-temple/
@drleith.bsky.social
English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
@mariacannon.bsky.social
Historian of the family, life cycle, and emotions in early modern England currently working on life in blended families. Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth
@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social
A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods .https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
@howtobooks.bsky.social
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖 Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
@bbienias.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences) History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology; early modern epistemology; history of the book
@paulksmith.bsky.social
#Financier of US Startups; & JVs in Asia #Physicist #Author: Strategy. #Playwright: 20 Recent NY Shows (Sarah's Rapture, Pablo's Kisses, Women of Paris, Badass Women, City Suite, Day of Promise, Ritual Cleansing, Rebooting Life, Break-Up, Twilight of Joy..
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
@cemskcl.bsky.social
CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/ Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
@harryspillane.bsky.social
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
@drcbartram.bsky.social
Early modernist, co-director of Centre for Kent History and Heritage.
@groomb.bsky.social
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
@whaireland.bsky.social
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.