John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Liz Hedgecock @lizhedgecock.bsky.social I write mysteries (historical and modern) and edit books. I also drink a lot of tea. Cheshire, UK. She/her. Books at http://author.to/LizH (Amazon author page). Website: http://lizhedgecock.wordpress.com. Painting at http://lizdoesart.wordpress.com
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Signe Calder @signecalder.bsky.social Like a mountain river born from ice, my affection is fierce but narrow. No desire to please everyone; only wanting to carve a unique path through the hardest stones of life, leaving a trace of cold clarity behind
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social Studying the Victorian connection between women and birds is great fun, but I’d love a job. Network & Development Officer for VPFA and Co-Reviews Editor for VPFJ. All views my own.
Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social PhD candidate/historian/writer•♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, & the cozy+kind• Canadian🍁• #GoSensGo #BlueJays50• (my other account is hacked)•♥️ kindness🍃•
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.
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social Leeds City organist, organ/piano for Halle, BBC Phil & others, arranging, improvisation for silent film and teacher RAM, director Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.
www.dariusbattiwalla.com
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social Rethinking Contemporary Music Publishing
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Emrys Jones @emrysdjones.bsky.social Teaches eighteenth-century literature at King's College London. Interested in 18thc. fame and sociability. General Editor of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Alexis Easley @maeasley.bsky.social Victorian literature scholar, writer, reader, traveler, zen practitioner, pug enthusiast.
ARTE @artefr.bsky.social Des repères clairs et de la culture pour tous !
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
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Marie Corelli @mariecorelli.bsky.social 1854-1924. Bestselling author of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Actor, composer, singer, poet, periodical contributor, novelist, and early conservationist.
Mason Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
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No bio or posts, no follow back.
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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Paul O'Leary @paulaber.bsky.social Hanesydd / Historian. Emeritus prof.
Interested in ideas and practices of freedom in 19th century Atlantic world, transnational journalism, Wales, Ireland and France.
Co-edited Gender in Modern Welsh History (2023) with Drs Beth Jenkins and Stephanie Ward
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Annemarie McAllister @demon-drink.bsky.social Cultural historian interested in the UK temperance movement, including its songs, buildings, publications, entertainments, teaching activities, and much more, together with its legacy and contemporary resonances.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Carolin Sternberg @carolinsternberg.bsky.social PhD student at University of Vechta | Victorianist
Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social Teacher, mother, wife
First-year Eng lit PhD student (Sherlock Holmes post Doyle) and former MA student (Victorian Gothic) at the University of Portsmouth
Bridget Morgan @bridgetmorgan.bsky.social PhD researcher. Aberystwyth Uni & Uni of Bristol SWWDTP. Female ageing in late Victorian literature & medicine.
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
Ouidaite @ouidaite.bsky.social iykyk
Helen McKenzie @helenmckenzie.bsky.social Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University @lboroenglish.bsky.social
#19thcentury & pre-war popular fiction
Author of Marie Corelli - https://www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie-corelli.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
Ceylan Kosker Bevington @ckbevington.bsky.social Decolonization enthusiast. Feminist. Victorianist.
Assistant Professor at Bilkent University
Aberystwyth alma mater
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Victorian Lit and Culture at Loughborough Uni. Mental health in the 19th century; Victorian asylums; sensation and gothic fiction; Neo-Victorian-dabbler; dog-parent; Dahl-maker. (She/Her)
Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme.
I mostly research and write about the corset in (neo-)Victorian fiction. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Birmingham & Midland Institute @bmi1854.bsky.social We are a charity that seeks to promote and provide cultural and educational activities in Science, the Arts and Literature for everyone.
Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Buseum @buseum.bsky.social 
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social 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/
Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social Research Fellow @USW, C19th literature, spatial theory, digital humanities, walking, black metal, black coffee and animals.
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
ssnci.org
CREW @crew-greenwich.bsky.social CREW | The Centre for Research on Employment and Work
University of Greenwich.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
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
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Dr James Rowland @jamesrowland.bsky.social Historian and Postdoctoral Researcher exploring the influence of America on 19th century British reform debates | PhD King’s College London | Currently coordinating peer review and research funding at the British Academy
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social #NabokovStudies #SoundStudies #Phenomenology #GeoHumanities #Arts 🦇 #Bats 🦇 #BatLover 🦇 #BatSupporter 🦇 #BatsInArt #StandWith🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🦇 #SupportBatsUkraine batsukraine.org
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Julia Boss @juliaboss.bsky.social Developmental editor working with scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Lapsed historian. Ex-Algonquin Books.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Dr KD Holzer @kdholzer.bsky.social Victorian lit & periodicals, Empire, New Women, colonial feminism, 13YO, 7YO, stitching, jogging, bees http://kellieholzer.com
Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social I study 19th c periodicals (fr India & Britain), print culture, illustrations, British colonialism, book history. Always on the lookout for woodcuts, lithographs, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides. 
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @UTU.fi｜🌲 Currently working on transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜Previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
Abby Clayton @abbyclayton.bsky.social Visiting Asst Professor @ W&J College | transatlantic 19C media + nationalisms | explorer at heart
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark
#empiressdu
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside. 
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk
Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social An international collaboration on the regional magazine. Upcoming edited collection - The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine.
Exchanges Interdisciplinary Research Journal @exchangesjournal.bsky.social Scholar-led, open-access, early career researcher–championing research journal published by the University of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study. Featuring contributor opportunities, podcasting & publication news. https://linktr.ee/exchangesjournal
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Liz Smith @lizsmith.bsky.social Digital curator for 19th century science collections, Cambridge University Library. Love food, drink, immersive theatre, culture in general. Attached to many fandoms.
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist. 
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian