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Ranks @rankinn.bsky.social The way I interface with the rest of the world seems somewhat off-kilter.
Chris Wells (he/him) @holesholes.bsky.social Modernist I write about modernist bisexuality in the work of Richard Bruce Nugent, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce. https://sheffield.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/phd/christopher-wells
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial. They/them
Allison (she/her) @thelegalseagull.bsky.social Noisy and annoying and will probably steal your chips. Enthusiastic amateur, bookbinder, reader, member of the Great War Group, Great War Aviation Society, Western Front Association and Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, CWGC volunteer. Views my own.
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc - Graveyards - Guerrilla Gardens - Street Art - Indie Retail - Hidden Gems she/her
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social Military history enthusiast, esp FWW. And cat lover. Ex Naval and Military nurse as well as NHS and university lecturer. Volunteer in several military museums
Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social MWHN is an international, interdisciplinary & all-career-stages networking & dissemination platform for military welfare, care & medical history researchers & projects. Coordinated by @paulhuddie.bsky.social Visit: https://militarywelfarehistory.com
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Kiara Gregory @kiaragregory.bsky.social PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War. Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
TVARK @tvark.bsky.social The online TV museum 📺 📼 documenting TV graphics and branding from the UK and around the world. • https://tvark.org
@hettiegarnham.bsky.social @hettiegarnham.bsky.social PhD Researcher in Modernist Studies at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social | PGR Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
Dr John Cameron Hartley @drjchartley.bsky.social "He's not a philosopher, that's just the name of the degree, dear."
@hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social @hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social Bringing Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole back into the limelight he once enjoyed! https://hughwalpole.org/
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social Prof of literature at University of Warwick. Medical humanities, age studies, modernism, Samuel Beckett. Middle age shaped by lockdown: chickens, cold swimming, over-excited gig-going.
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland. 🌐 Visit our website saha.scot 🎙️ Listen to our podcast #SAHAConversations on Spotify
The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for the journal The Space Between Website: https://spacebetweensociety.com/home/journal/ General Enquiries: spacebetweenjournal@gmail.com Book Reviews: spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com
Dr. Stuart J. Taylor @stuartjtaylor.bsky.social PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University. #ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science 🍃 https://metatheory.space associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Kate Simpson @kilmun.bsky.social Programme Convenor MSc Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow. Digital Humanist. Specialist in 19th C digital creation and curation.
EIS @eisunion.bsky.social Scotland's Largest Teaching Union. Posts Mon-Fri, 9-5. Zero tolerance of abuse. Posts are for info only: contact your Rep, LA, AO for advice. https://www.eis.org.uk/
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Tim Beasley-Murray @timb-m.bsky.social "You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind." Professor of Humanities, UCL; games that get out of hand. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/4327
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc.. Standards have fallen; my value has dropped. https://danrhodes.co.uk
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026. Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like. https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024). I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social Academic, literary critic etc. teaching at NYU. Books from Cambridge UP, Bloomsbury, Broadview, Palgrave, U of South Carolina P, Sydney UP, Routledge. He/him
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Dr Rosie Paice @rosiepaice.bsky.social Author of "Milton's Loves: From Amity to Caritas in the Paradise Epics" (Routledge, 2023). Thomas Fairfax; green and blue spaces on estates of 17&18C; ASLE-UKI Membership Secretary
Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉 fossilfreebooks.org linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks opencollective.com/fossil-free-books Template letter: https://bit.ly/4kDo2O4
Elijah Wald @elijahwald.bsky.social musician, writer
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre. https://500songs.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
David Strong @david-strong.bsky.social PhD at the University of East Anglia. Spending time thinking about Eliot, Auden, and the gang making plays & having fun in the 1930s.
Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social PhD candidate researching 20th-century European internationalisms at UCLA https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
Decadent Serpent 🐍 @decadentserpent.bsky.social The one place for all things culture. Edinburgh-based online magazine for literature, art, and more. Send us your pitch at editor@decadentserpent.com
Knut Ola Naastad Strøm @konstrom.bsky.social Associate professor of air power at RNoAFA / @forsvaretshogskole.bsky.social Economic historian. Scandinavian sec, history, economic warfare. WWI blockade geek. Occasional Napoleonic reenactor.
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social A good guy.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, and chosen as a 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian. Views own/No DMs https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Rowan Thompson @rowan-thompson.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain out now: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/organised-militarism-in-interwar-britain/
J Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social Historian of War and Peace and other things. Currently: Cooperation in Exile "The London Moment": https://exilegov.hypotheses.org/ and Post-War Periods: https://conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmer’s son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp. 2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks. Passable organist. https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/ Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.
Gareth Roddy @grod.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain & Ireland, landscape, regional/national identities, borders, heritage, travel literature.
Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social Lecturer | Historian | Curator Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)
Thomas Vaisset @tvaisset.bsky.social Histoire navale contemporaine, histoire de la guerre (MCF à l'université du Havre)
María Inés Tato @mariainestato.bsky.social CONICET Researcher at the Ravignani Institute. Historian of the two World Wars in Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas question.
John D. Attridge @johndattridge90.bsky.social English Researcher in Modernisms, Marxism, class, labour and working-class literatures and pedagogies | Forster, Woolf, Rhys, Conrad and Lawrence | Assistant Book Review Editor for 'The Space Between Journal 1914-1945'
@yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social Ni mes avis, ni ceux d’autrui
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social Historian of war & society in WWII UK, veteran disability. Proud NZer 🇳🇿 Researcher @Manchester Met Uni FRHistS https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2025.2573607
Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.
Gail Savage @savagegl.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain with interests including family, law, gender.
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Literature, creative industries & liberal arts, University of York. New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, 2026).
Gemma Curto @gemmacurto.bsky.social Affiliated Researcher @Sheffield Uni, PhD English Literature ∣Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems ∣Climate&Energy ∣ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer ∣#envhum #envlit #litsci
Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social Historian.
David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
David Parmee @1418war-birds.bsky.social Military history & birds. BSc(Hons) Maths & Stats @ Liverpool 1975. MA(Distinction) Great War @ Wolverhampton 2022. Lothian SOC. Edinburgh CAMRA. Retired FIA C.Act. #YNWA.
Cook'd and Bomb'd @cookdandbombd.bsky.social https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk 27 years ago, CaB started as a Chris Morris archive before transitioning to become the home of serious (UK-slanted) comedy discussion. Proudly old-school forum, no algorithms or endless micrograding via "karma"/followers.
Nigel Atter MSc @nigatt59.bsky.social Historian. Publisher Helion & Co. Currently writing about 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914/1918. Historical Wargamer.
Damien Accoulon @daccoulon.bsky.social #Historian of #Aviation #WW1 #interwar #veterans #France #Germany Maître de conférences (Associate Prof.), Université de Tours Membre du CA @asso-h2c.bsky.social
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Michelle Moyd @michmo.bsky.social Historian of Africa, soldiers, war. Mom, spouse, daughter. Author of *Violent Intermediaries*. Vet. Wish I had a dog. Wish I could just write what I want.
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by ‪@tandfresearch.bsky.social
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025. Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Alice Keane @alicedkeane.bsky.social Bloomsbury scholar | teaching at CUNY | PhD, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard Law School | Co-Editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives (September 2025)
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk. Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time' Volunteer for Abortion Support Network Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@kristinbluemel.bsky.social @kristinbluemel.bsky.social
Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American literature, Swansea University. Working on Harlem Renaissance writers' tours of the South. Book: The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South (UGA Press, June 2027) linktr.ee/sianround
Jess Masters @jessmasters.bsky.social English PhD & sessional academic, U Sydney | Modernist Studies Association Grad Student Rep | Australian Modernist Studies Network exec | never not thinking about form |
Alberto Andrés @aandres.bsky.social AHRC-funded PhD candidate, University of Leeds' School of English (attention in the contemporary stream of consciousness novel) | EN-ES/ES-EN translator.
Kevin Riordan @kvnrrdn.bsky.social Modernism | Theater | World Literature teaching @ Temple University, Japan Campus (Kyoto)
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History. New project: The World Republic of Data. Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP) Opinions Mine
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
Emilie Rose @helloemi.bsky.social Academic librarian, English professor, digital humanities PhD student with research interests in gender and queer studies, and popular culture.
Matt Moore @mattmo-washu.bsky.social Writer and PhD student in American Lit at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Interested in labor and affect in American realism, regionalism, and naturalism. MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. matthewmo.com
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Sarah Gleeson-White @sarahgleesonwhite.bsky.social English prof @ University of Sydney. American literature and film. New book: Silent Film & the Formations of US Literary Culture: Literature in Motion (OUP 2024). Working on Wallace Thurman.