Peter Barker
I work in both history and philosophy of science. Current projects: the reality of celestial orbs before Tycho Brahe; the afterlife of Tychonism; women in the Scientific Revolution (with @sacrobosco.bsky.social)
@makingawarrior.bsky.social
Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present Complete the Great Viking Survey at vikingsurvey.org Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
@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.
@eprenprof.bsky.social
Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
@christalund.bsky.social
Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine's College in Cambridge, co-convenor of the PTIH seminar, and otherwise busy finishing my first book.
@lizzywilliamson.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at Exeter's DH Lab, keen on early modern letters and archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture.
@samuscript.bsky.social
Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
@richardcalis.bsky.social
historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor @Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
@susanwabuda.bsky.social
Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@emwjournal.bsky.social
The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social
Professor of History; author of Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; journal co-editor; higher ed consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer; home is Cleveland, Madrid, Atlanta email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
@zannavanloon.bsky.social
Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social
The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
@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…
@lauragowing.bsky.social
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
@isabellarosner.bsky.social
Textile historian🪡 curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
@devoney.bsky.social
Professor and Author, ASU. Next book, Wild for Austen, Sept '25. Also sisternovelists.com & makingjaneausten.com. Bylines NYT, WaPo, TLS. Author news: devoney.substack.com
@medrenliza.bsky.social
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
@artherstory.bsky.social
Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
@memps2.bsky.social
Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell) Coined #HerBook
@tarallyons.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature ; Old books, women and libraries, early modern book storage; book trade, English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
@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
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@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.
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@kimcoles.bsky.social
I live in the past. I write for the present. 16th and 17th c. English Lit. Critical Race Studies. If we have sense, we're outlaws in TX. Bad Humor: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812298352/bad-humor/
@evelynwelch.bsky.social
Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
@meganpeiser.bsky.social
Mixed Chahta on Anishinaabe Land. Food sovereignty. Bibliographer. 18C lit. Women Writers. DH. Periodicals. Mother of dachshunds, first of her name. She/her
@naomipullin.bsky.social
Historian of 17thC & 18thC British Atlantic. Author of Female Friends and Transatlantic Quakerism, working on solitude in early modern Britain. Associate Professor @warwickhistory
@pjsalzman.bsky.social
Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
@cmcrif.bsky.social
historian (Ph.D.) of Christianity, women, kinship, food, & the body in the Spanish Atlantic ~ working in major fellowships baking enthusiast | human of Theodore | BR tap water zealot | avid sportsball watcher | Geaux Tigers, On Wisconsin | she/hers
@yingaa.bsky.social
Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰 Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan) Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@onthetudortrail.bsky.social
Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors. Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social
Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25
@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
@evanbourke.bsky.social
Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
@crowneofbookes.bsky.social
Director, IUB WTS | CITL, Writing Studies, Writing Centers, & Writing Pedagogy | WAC/WID | SoTL | Renaissance woman | Early Modern women's writing | Genre studies | Teacher |Professional Fangirl | Bibliophile 📚
@miramiraculous.bsky.social
Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
@inekehuysman.bsky.social
Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. Huygens Instituut/NL-Lab.
@liekevdeinsen.bsky.social
@ninalamal.bsky.social
Historian | Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) | #earlymodern publishing, politics, and diplomacy | The Low Countries, the Italian peninsula & the Holy Roman Empire | Archive dweller, coffee-lover, and pasta-addict
@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
@lauraingalli.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@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