Topical cryptic crossword clues. It'd be great if this is how someone found out a celebrity has died.
Attorney, gamer (computer, RPG, tabletop), GM, husband, father, occasional author. Hatch Act restricted, so don't expect much politics.
Project Manager|Writer|Mom’s Favorite|Playwright In Progress|F***king Done w/ the DNC|Anti-Zionist/Pro Palestine|National Theatre at Home Subscriber|Baritone|Stay In & Chiller|Black Coffee Drinker|After Period Double Spacer
Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
Esto iba a ser un bot que respondiese preguntas con frases de la Bola 8 en Twitter, pero me voy a quedar donde se pueda para hacer juegos de palabras malos.
Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person
Blog: https://www.arrantpedantry.com
Merch: https://arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Historian of early modern Science + Medicine + the Environment. Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and two rescue dogs. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
Early modern historian, University of Münster.
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
book history | digital humanities | early modern
Currently a postdoc on DORMEME project at KCL (Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe).
Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
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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.
Historian of early modern teachers, theologians, editors, and plagiarists. Assistant professor at Lund University & Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study.
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Early modern German history. Currently the Thirty Years War. And cats. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/bmh6
Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Historian | Archives and Power | Early Modern History | Venice, Italy and Mediterranean | Gender and Politics | Food and Famine
Associate prof at University of Amsterdam
Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. New book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
Historian | Colonial & Maritime History | Assistant Professor in Public History of Slavery at University of Amsterdam | Research Curator at the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum | Author of 'De voormoeders'
historian, visiting fellow @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond · work & poverty · sociability & cosmopolitanism · Switzerland<>Europe
Political theory PhD candidate, UC Berkeley polisci | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle
BA University of Toronto
https://antonia-alksnis.weeblysite.com/
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)
Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar + currently work in refugee and migration legal(ish) sector
Professor at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. Swiss National Science Foundation Consolidator Grant recipient. Early modern philosophy. John Mair, James Dundas @ihr-geneva.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social
Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Historian of religious minorities and/plus jewish history in Early Modern Italy
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Helping build new programs in higher ed.
Currently: Managing Director, Urban Technology at the University of Michigan
Sometime historian of early modern Europe, Catholicism, the Jesuits, ...
Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/balancing-strategy/305960D358172DBCF641320024BFF71D#
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
Lecturing @manmetuni.bsky.social
Grand Tourist myself and Jacobite scholar.
FrHist/ SFHEA / PGCert
"The Jacobites and the Grand Tour" now out with Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179920/
🏳️🌈 & good theatre!
Book historian | Low Countries 15th-17th | Censorship
https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=U188166
Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.
Historian of Mediterranean slavery and of Muslims in early modern Italy. Currently Max Weber Fellow at the EUI.
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
PhD Student @ University of Edinburgh: Vermont, Northern Frontier, American Revolution, Localism🌲⛰️. Spare time: wandering with Sully the dug, stressing myself out with the Scotland national team 🏴, learning to deal with AuDHD.
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
Historicus, late Middeleeuwen, loterijen, hoe keken mensen in het verleden naar de toekomst?
Historian, Late Middle Ages, lotteries, interested in how people in the past perceived the future. University of Antwerp & Centre for Urban History
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion |
Host of Challenging Colonial Narratives Seminar Series | Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer.
Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing).
Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
PhD researcher at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, exploring the history of emotions and migration in early modern Central-Eastern Europe.
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
My views are my own.
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Environmental history / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Canine enthusiast.
Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate, w/ National Trust & OU | Studying the impact global goods on Restoration-era court culture @ Ham House | MPhil on Tobacco & Indigenous/African Labour in the English Atlantic c.1615–1642 | 1600s Monomaniac | KerryApps.com
Material Culture | Women’s History | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📚 Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury) |✍️ Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP) | sarahabendall.com
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.
PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research working on the Late Medieval London Customs Accounts. Formerly at MoLA. Researching Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.
Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Historian. Working at Tilburg University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
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."
Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
Historian of Religion and Culture in 16th Century Ireland, the Witch-Hunts, and the Reformations. D&D/TTRPG nerd. Views are my own.
Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- British Civil Wars (1639-1660)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
#Dyslexic in 5x languages
Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
Entre lycée (Toulouse/Rodez) et recherche : Histoire du Saint-Empire, histoire urbaine, arbalètes, baptêmes, et quelques calembours. Early Modern urban History of the Holy Roman Empire: between crossbows, Lutheran godparents and angry pastors
Former philosophy professor and attorney, nascent historian and writer on Tudor intellectual history.
Chapel Hill, Oxford, Charlottesville, God only knows where next. Would very much like to live in a P. G. Wodehouse novel if that can be arranged.
Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
