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Haberdashers' Company Archivist. Early modern London, migration, drama.
Bees, ants, parasites, and pollinator conservation for work. Professor and Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University. Nature, opera, fantasy novels, family, and reading for play 🐜 🐝 🦠 🏳️🌈
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Teaches and writes about ancient Greek literature, rhetoric and politics at the University of St Andrews. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/people/jph4/
art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006) https://www.barquepress.com/media/12/pdf/ian_hunt_green_light.pdf
We offer high-quality lectures and courses on English literature and Classics, online and in person. We study Homer, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Tennyson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, and many others.
Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Also historian of late medieval Scotland, researching loyalty identity, allegiance, kings, & more. Views my own.
Historian-in-Residence, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Co-I with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
melissaglasshistory.com
Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social
Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis.
Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire
Archivist. Interested in history of smell, natural history, and medicine + multisensory approaches to heritage and engagement.
Views are my own.
Pronouns: she/her
Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London | PhD (York) on how-to books in early modern England | fan of scribbles in books, gardens, & scribbles in garden books
PhD Student in History @ University of Chicago. Early Modern Danish Empire, Political Economy, Environment.
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/jon-kristinn-einarsson
History prof. War & religion in EM Europe; Denmark. Author of FIREPOWER (Basic, 2021); DENMARK, 1513-1660 (Oxford UP, 2007). Current project - Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Art Historian at University of Oxford. Interests = material culture, collecting, gift exchange & the ivory trade in East Africa and the British empire
Historian with an interest in all things Baltic, as well as early modern maritime, colonial and global history. Cutting down words is my vocation. Gets excited at football and fun maps.
History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
All views strictly my own.
🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Sci Fi, fantasy and Astronomy geek.
Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.
Sleep deprived librarian,archivist and historian. I study culture and literature of the Middle Ages. Alfonso X is my dude. I like music, books, beekeeping and good food. He/him.
“Librarians aren’t the enemy. Nazis are”
Professor of Law and Philosophy, Oxford
Archives and cocktails. Mainly cocktails, to be honest.
Librarian by trade. Amateur historian with interest in Athens, her ships, sailors, laws, direct democracy & economy. Festivals & crowds.
Nurse, Grandma, Infection Prevemtionist, dog and cat mom, sometimes photographer, thankful to be in Colorado, go Chi White Sox and NIU Huskies. Sussex Squad. Glad to be where the sky and conversations are blue
That little paperclip was always a friendly shoulder to cry on.
Quick to chime in, quick to delete. Blame the anxiety.
PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share
jackkennedy.ie
linktr.ee/jack_kennedy
Marketing, communications. EU Citizen living in NRW, Germany. English teacher.
Swedish. AuDHD. PTSD. Middle-aged, early retired. Atheist .Lifelong radical left scum. Democratic socialist.💙🇨🇦🇩🇰
Forschungsbibliothek zur deutschen #Bildungsgeschichte | herausragender Bibliotheks- & Archivbestand | breites digitales Angebot | Zentrum der #histed Forschung & #DigitalHistory of #Education @eduresearch.social@bbf_dipfberlin
https://bbf.dipf.de
PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Anglo-Catholic Episcopal layman.
PhD student at Cambridge. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神，自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
The Brooking houses the largest collection of British architectural detail in the world. https://thebrooking.org.uk
Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Priest. Canon Missioner at Manchester Cathedral. Diocesan Environment Officer. Tutor at Luther King Centre. Researching Ecological Grief. Writes, reads occasionally on the radio. Manc/Cymraeg/Indian
Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research & other museumy shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder. She/Her
Librarian, fan of theatre, ballet, opera and certain television programmes. Creator of knitted people and eccentric fanfiction. Benton and Hawthorne Investigate coming soon https://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/bentonandhawthorneinvestigate.html
I read the network news on 40 BBC radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & morris dancer.
Former academic but still a geek.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Trustee of @baysar.bsky.social.
Lancaster, UK.
Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Printmaker and artist in East Anglia. Art, architecture, music & poetry. Borromini and Hawksmoor. Rembrandt and Hepworth. Work in the V&A & other public & private collections.
Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum; STEM historian, particularly instruments and material culture - current research focused on astrolabes and astrology in medieval and renaissance Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British literature, street literature, and Gothic Revival. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. It’s all sarcasm. Never legal advice. Life coach for bad ideas. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA.
We are the library service for Wakefield and its surrounding towns and villages.
Follow us for news, reviews & events, plus oodles of free online resources, learning courses & historical photographs!
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Archivist and adjunct professor. I'm fond of reading, hiking, tea, and independent journalism. All opinions are my own.
Retired lawyer, quite attached to the dear old rule of law. Also here for natural history, dogs and entertaining snark.
Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Associate Professor and Director of Academic Programmes at University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education. Bye-Fellow Lucy Cavendish College. Teach EU politics. Co-editor Contemporary European Politics. I also sing.
A wondrous place... Founded in 1710, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society is
Britain’s oldest provincial learned society and second-oldest surviving
museum, library and archive.
18th century historian, FRHistS, genealogist and author for Pen & Sword books.
Host of the website: All Things Georgian. https://georgianera.wordpress.com/
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at RHUL. The Dark Bible (OUP, 2022). She/her
Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts.
www.cerl.org
Medievalist 📜🪶 @mmapod.bsky.social Producer 🎙️ | former @gsc-maa.bsky.social 🪑 | '24-'25 @scholarslab.bsky.social Digital Humanities Fellow 💻 | '23-'24 pensionnaire étranger at ENS Ulm ⛲️ | UVA French PhD 📚 | UT Knoxville alumna 🍊
Special Collections Librarian at St John's College, Cambridge. Views my own.
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
Assistant Curator: Parliament Art Collection at UK Parliament | Modern British Art | #WW1 and #WW2 Art | Northern | Views my own
Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair @cripantiquity.bsky.social. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum.
Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL.
Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine.
Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear.
Own views.
Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Film/TV historian; Art Newspaper Lit Editor; Exhibitions/Curatorial Consultant; Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth (Sun Times Art Book of 2021) #HardStreets OUT NOW “Fascinating” Mike Leigh “Rich & emotive” Hallie Rubenhold “Enthralling” Lucy Worsley 🎉
Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past
Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Shakespeare and Donne scholar, Humanities advocate, library and museum acolyte, erstwhile ballerina: "To be or not to be, that is the question . . . "
Head of Artes at KU Leuven Libraries and Associate Professor of Open Research. Scholarly Communications & Cultures in the Humanities with a pinch of 16thC humanism.
food blogger and home cook
#foodaroundtheglobe, #burgersummer, #yellowstickerdinner, #JazzPizzas #sundayfishsuppers
DMs open for collaborations and appearances
buymeacoffee.com/poetofcuisine
Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
🇺🇳 🏳️🌈 classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
Global President, Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford. Senior Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford University. Former President: University of Michigan, University of British Columbia & University of Cincinnati.
English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Elizabethan & Jacobean Chapels Royal | AHRC History DPhil @ Merton College, Oxford
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
#COYS
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
historian and philologist
rare books and manuscripts cataloguer
putting the t back into incunabula since 2025
danubius me tollit, sprea me vocat
Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
Oboist (modern & Baroque), musicologist & former research fellow; production coordinator for Texas Early Music Project; film database manager for Austin Jewish Film Festival צדק צדק תרדף
🐘 @oboistaalli@babka.social
The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work | London | https://www.apollo-magazine.com/
President of The College Language Association (CLA) @clascholars.bsky.social — Chair of The Black Studies Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) @blackccny.bsky.social — Views My Own — www.jervette.com
Historian of culture & ideas | hows whys & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Historian of emotions, still much attached to all things medieval--art, literature, feelings, charters... Recent books on anger, love, and old age. Now writing a novel about my family, from the Pale of Settlement to now.
