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
@jamesdaybell.bsky.social
Prof EM Hist; Letters; Gloves; https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk; Swedish Res Council project on Hist of Separation; Histories of the Unexpected Pod: https://historiesoftheunexpected.com/about-us/; agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/james-daybell
@louisefalcini.bsky.social
Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
@valeriewayne.bsky.social
Professor Emerita, U of Hawaii. Early modern literature and book history. Editor, Cymbeline for Arden and Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Also a grandma who sings.
@oliviasmith.bsky.social
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding.
@rachelmurphy.bsky.social
Social historian of Ireland (landed estates; family, urban and local history) | Working @ria.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Visiting scholar at QUB | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Living in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
@adamkoszary.bsky.social
Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc. https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
@themerl.bsky.social
We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Posting hog on main. Chaotic Good. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
@nick-seager.bsky.social
Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ #arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
@uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social
Showcasing excellence in gender and sexuality studies teaching, research and KEI at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, powered by @uoe-sps.bsky.social #UoE_genderED
@davidorvis.bsky.social
Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
@listerlanecem.bsky.social
In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals.
@curatorkate.bsky.social
Heritage & conservation professional / enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃 Curator of Properties for English Heritage, but posts here mine. Studying p/t for a PhD in lime finishes, at the University of Stirling. Easily distracted by dogs!
@historiankarol.bsky.social
▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian ▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social ▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@derbyshiredro.bsky.social
Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock. Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
@valerievoight.bsky.social
PhD/Renaissance literature fanatic/rhapsody of follies working on post-Reformation English romance. She/her
@ginahist.bsky.social
Historian of Transatlantic World; empire, economy, migration, & gender. Burned by the 🐦⬛but happy to give 🦋a try. Book Review Editor World History Connected. ❤️📚🗺️🌍🌎
@rankinmccabe.bsky.social
All Things Early Modern Literature • Fellow at University of Melbourne • PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
@ekkells.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Chico State. Early Modern British literature. she/her. All views my own.
@martinamampieri.bsky.social
MSCA Global Fellow @ Penn and Modena • Author of "Living under the Evil Pope" (Brill 2020) • Co-Ed H-Judaic & EMoDiR • prev fellow @HebrewU, Oxford, Harvard, Göttingen, IRHT/CNRS #earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory 📍 Philadelphia
@undomielise.bsky.social
book doctor in training (PhD Candidate in Renaissance literature at Ohio State University) | professional old soul | Tolkien enthusiast
@ehxlibris.bsky.social
PhD candidate in late medieval/early modern book history @ Ohio State. libraries. book arts. HEMA. nature.
@hsbamford.bsky.social
PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | Part of @historperspect | She/They 🏳️🌈
@majikmouse.bsky.social
Senior Instructor in English Lit at the University of Alabama. PhD in Early Modern Drama. Author of Tombs in Shakespearean Drama; Monumental Theater. He / Him. Views are very much my own.
@profjoubin.bsky.social
Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
@isriv.bsky.social
From the DR to Barna and Pucela. Medievalist. Passion for early printed texts during the 15th century. Teach so that students can become critical thinkers.
@cethompson.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | JHMAS Book Review Ed. | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
@susanwilkin.bsky.social
Oxford-based part-time library assistant & early modernist (horti/cultural history of late Stuart England, especially late 17th/early 18th century works on fruit/vegetable cultivation), Ralph Thoresby's correspondence with Oxford academics.
@lillybe.bsky.social
@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social #bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
@lemdo-uvic.bsky.social
Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
@ruthslatter.bsky.social
Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vchlondon.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
@vmakarov.name
Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
@katlecky.bsky.social
Endowed at Loyola Chicago; seventeenth-century cheap print publics and common medical / botanical knowledge, weeds, and acts of general naturalization. Book: Pocket Maps and Public Poetry (OUP 2019).
@enghistrev.bsky.social
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods. Find our content here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
@wsperrazza.bsky.social
Texas A&M Assistant Prof. | early modern literature & science | poetics | book history | women writers | histories of gender & sexuality | media archaeology. She/her. Views my own.
@rgmemss.bsky.social
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books? Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
@teamnun.bsky.social
Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
@drsheeha.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University London
@kateloveman.bsky.social
Mostly posting about Samuel Pepys’s diary, and other strange 17th-century stuff