Katherine Scheil's Starter Pack
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@kscheil.bsky.social
@atrupar.com
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/) 2. Obsessed with lists 3. COMMON PEOPLE 4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS 5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@racheldeering.bsky.social
Onemorething on ABC Tales, Twitter @deeringrachel Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. 🖤 literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering No AI!
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
@unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
@backlisted.bsky.social
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social giving new life to old books every fortnight. Bookshop.org Indie Champion 2023. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
@cathamclarke.bsky.social
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25. https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
@meganlcook.bsky.social
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. Currently co-chairing an English dept at a SLAC in Maine. Also in progress: Dirtbag Medievalism.
@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/
@johnmitchinson.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, co-host of Backlisted, publisher of Boundless.
@lmansley.bsky.social
Editor, historian, feminist, & book-lover | Senior managing editor, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
Professor-turned-librarian; my digital humanities is usually analog; often seen with two dogs and a lot of yarn; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
@cairdiul.bsky.social
Former terror of the high seas, now a cannibal king. 🇮🇪🇺🇲🏳️🌈 author (You Ruin It When You Talk) in London, very publishable pleasant lady Sarahsnewideas.com
@lauraphillips.bsky.social
Campaigner to support the BBC, (not a BBC employee).It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs <48 pence/around 62 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
@lissakevans.bsky.social
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea. lissaevans.com
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥
@paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
London depicted by artists past and present. “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson. Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon This week's theme: Londoners at Work
@peteralanross.bsky.social
New book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland, will be published by Headline on September 11, 2025.
@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
@rickburin.bsky.social
I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. “Let patience reign.”
@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
@drlauravarnam.bsky.social
Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers Volume Seven: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Writing a book on Du Maurier.
@memsunikent.bsky.social
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available. For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
@mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor. Free newsletter at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St Georges, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
@williamcavert.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
@martinevanelk.bsky.social
Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course) bio.site/martinevanelk https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/ https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
feminist bibliography, old books, and mutual aid // I wrote Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide, I edit The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and sometimes I play with wallpaper designs // sarahwerner.net
@ericabuchberger.bsky.social
History Prof. at UTRGV. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Early medieval ethnicity, Gaul, Iberia. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse.
@rhetorician.bsky.social
early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Bread, beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@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 🤬
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
@cristinalalfar.bsky.social
Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
@racheljwillie.bsky.social
Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture http://bit.ly/2dvki2o
@cweiss-smith.bsky.social
professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
@erikagaffney.bsky.social
Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
@ncrenic.bsky.social
Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
@kscheil.bsky.social
English prof at U of Minnesota, fan of dogs, cats, books, theatre, wine, Anne Shakespeare and her husband, all the good stuff in life.