Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social Professor, Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Books, running, messiness, cats
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
LIBER Europe @libereurope.bsky.social We represent ±400 research libraries & their users in Europe. Together we are Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age.
https://libereurope.eu/
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
In Search of Ann Walker @searchingforann.bsky.social A collaborative group bringing to light details of Ann Walker’s life from the archives, as well as creating a lasting legacy. Insearchofannwalker.com
Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
UoL HSS PGR @uolhsspgr.bsky.social Resources and support for postgraduate researchers in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. We're all about wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, equity and success!
Nicola Pritchard-Pink @npritchard-pink.bsky.social Social historian of all things 18th century, specialising in Jane Austen, country houses, gardens, literature, and domestic vocal music.
nicolapritchardpink.substack.com
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Anne Lister Forum @annelisterforum.bsky.social A monthly discussion group facilitating conversation and collaboration between students and junior scholars researching Anne Lister's life & writings. Images: West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/19/0002 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0124
Rachael Tarrant @rachaeltarrant.bsky.social SGSAH PhD | marginalia studies | Glasgow
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
National Literacy Trust @literacytrust.org.uk We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life.
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of History at Lehigh University on leave. John Carter Brown Library Fellow, 2024-25. IAS member 2023-24. Writing biography of José de Gálvez (1720-1787) for Yale UP. Eighteenth-century Studies. Book history too! Views and opinions are my own.
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian, National Library of Scotland
Here for the digital humanities, open research and the long nineteenth century
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Early Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social Academic, fourth class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk tales + music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social Rare books librarian & cataloguer | library & book history | moderately early modern
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
Jennifer Young @printlady.bsky.social 17th century book history, Shakespeare, ex-pat, all things early modern print culture 
Careers, University of Oxford @oxfordcareers.bsky.social Supporting University of Oxford students, researchers, and alumni. Creating opportunities. Building connections. https://www.ox.ac.uk/careers
Tracy Brabin @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social Mayor of West Yorkshire 
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @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 the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Zanna Van Loon @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
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @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
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
Dr Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social BAVS Newsletter Editor | RRR Journal Academic Editor | 19C Matters Fellow (24-25) | Researching Victorian science, altruism, and the novel.
https://19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centurylegacies
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris
email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com
purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
National Trust for Scotland @n-t-s.bsky.social We think places that make people smile are worth caring for – support our charity so we can keep sharing them with everyone, #ForTheLoveOfScotland https://www.nts.org.uk/
University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
https://liverpool.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/livuni
University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social Celebrating what makes Leeds special ❤️🏳️🌈🌍
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Ann Gow @anngow.bsky.social Professor of Information Studies, University of Glasgow. Trade Unionist. Springsteen.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Ash Charlton @ashcharlton.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Edinburgh & National Library of Scotland, funded by SGSAH | Cultural heritage professional
DH research into race and slavery in the early Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social An initiative to support and enhance humanities research through the use of innovative digital methods.
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsmuseums.bsky.social 
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
The Common Room @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social The Common Room in Newcastle upon Tyne is a heritage venue, library and archive. It has a cafe bar called 5|Quarter.
Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social Home to some of the best museums in Yorkshire, we are part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - find out more via our
https://linktr.ee/bradfordmuseums
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Tom Whitfield @tjlwhitfield.bsky.social Conservation Adviser (Northern England) @ The Georgian Group | Historical Archaeologist | C18th stuff, spaces and buildings (particularly N.England) | haphazard gardener and maker of things.
Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social PhD @ Northumbria · Researching the lives & deaths of women buried at Newcastle Cathedral, 1640-1815 (funded by Northern Bridge DTP) · Transcribing Elizabeth Montagu's letters in my spare time · https://hammonda.substack.com/ 💀
Dr Katie Crowther @katiecrowther.bsky.social research assistant | curator | PhD on material letters, print culture, and the c18 country house 💌
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @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.
ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social Your go-to bibliographical database for finding books that women were involved in producing between 1750 and 1836. Posts by Serena Spacek, Kandice Sharren, and Amanda Law.
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @montaguletters.bsky.social Digital edition of the letters of Bluestocking socialite and literary critic Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718-1800).
https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/about/
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social 📚Head of Access at @natlibscot.bsky.social 📖Co-Editor of Library & Information History Journal🧾Hon. Treasurer of CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group📓Books, libraries, singing, theatre & food.
@books-borrowing.bsky.social @books-borrowing.bsky.social 
Charlotte Emily Edgeshaw @ceedgeshaw.bsky.social • she/her • NBC Funded Northumbria University PhD student • EMCO Research Assistant • Women’s Education and the North •
Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production