The Burney Journal @burneyjournal.bsky.social An annual publication of twenty years' standing, publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on the Burney family and their circles. Available in print subscription and online open-access formats.
https://theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/about/submissions.
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
J.Schorb @jodisch.bsky.social Atomic Early Americanist ✨
Affable Abolitionist ⛓️💥
Amateur Sexologist 🏳️🌈 ⚧️ 🐌
Author of Reading Prisoners (Rutgers UP)
Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.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.
Terri Halperin @terridhalperin.bsky.social Historian of the Early American Republic; author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution
ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social Historian of 18c Scotland, PhD Candidate at UDelaware. Mary Stuart, historiography, memory, Hume, Jacobitism.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ENCCRE @enccre.bsky.social ENCCRE est la première Edition Numérique Collaborative et CRitique de l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert (1751-1772).
Site public http://enccre.academie-sciences.fr
Facebook : https://facebook.com/enccre/
Mastodon : https://social.sciences.re/@enccre
Susan Dalton @susandalton.bsky.social Professeure d’histoire, Université de Montréal ; Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, Routledge, 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Mediation-and-Popular-Education-in-Venice-17601830/Dalton/p/book/9781032190969
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Anna Kroon @noorka.bsky.social Professor - digital humanities, book history, 18c British literature
Dr Raspberry @drraspberry.bsky.social I teach online, ungrade, and wear a mask. She/her
neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Shalyn Claggett @badvictorianist.bsky.social EQUAL NATURES (SUNY Press 2023), co-editor of STRANGE SCIENCE (U of Michigan P 2017). Victorian lit, science, and culture. Magic lantern enthusiast.
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social With over 80,000 letters and documents and 10,300 correspondents as of Spring 2025, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period.
https://www.e-enlightenment.com
Based at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social Newberry Library; abolition; maps; other things
Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Monika Renate Barget @moreba.bsky.social (Digital) historian @ FASoS Maastricht, dance enthusiast, choir singer, (sleeper) train traveller, interested in all things 18th century and islands. 🏝️ Mastodon bridge: @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy
Amy Froide @afroide.bsky.social History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Germanist
jonathanblakefine.com
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
Eli Rubin @erubin.bsky.social Historian @ Western Michigan University. GDR, WWII, material culture, consumption, design, Plattenbau, destruction, urban space. Chicago and sort of Michigan sports fanatic. Father of five!!!
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @drgsespinosa.bsky.social ¶ Professor of Spanish literature at QUB, specialising in the Spanish Enlightenment –el Siglo de las Luces–, and book history. ¶ Enjoys jazz and used to like baseball
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.
Learn more at www.nhalliance.org.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Zara Kesterton @zarakesterton.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge studying flowers in 18th century French fashion 🌸 
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
Laura @draperies.bsky.social Writer, parent, partner, friend to cats.
Current project is Prescriptive Communities: 18c Libraries and the Origins of Public Health.
Previously: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5100/
Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in English Studies at Durham.
Opinions are mine alone but probably should also be those of my employer.
Dad account.
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays.bsky.social UCLA English PhD candidate.
former nativity play baby Jesus. new mom.
managing editor: the-rambling.com.
2024 LARB Publishing Workshop Fellow.
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
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
German Studies Association @thegsa.bsky.social The German Studies Association is the multi- and interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, and economics.
Miriam Latane @miriamlw.bsky.social Former SLAC prof turned Dean; ed Transits-Bucknell UP; lives with 3 parrots & 1 human; loves wine, food, lit, & languages--esp together...
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social he • biology prof & PhD program director 🧪• not representing my employer • ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers • hearing impaired • romance, sff & other 📚 • #9ReplyGuys • no terfs
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/ 
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Sophie Vasset @sophievasset.bsky.social All things 18th Century; Health Humanities; Theatre
Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France)
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
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
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
@redbookish.bsky.social @redbookish.bsky.social Archers addict; feminist historian; lifts heavy stuff. Eternal student & ballet dancer
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
Emily B. Stanback @emilybstanback.bsky.social Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race
Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
Dr Anna Harrington @amdharrington.bsky.social Social and cultural historian of eighteenth-century Britain and empire. Happy, tired mom to two nutters and a perfectly rotund cat. Lover of eclectic music, reading, women’s football, and buying flowers I can’t keep alive.
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social Academic and curator. Globes, maps, zines, William Blake. Author: "William Blake" (Tate Publishing, 2024), "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination" (Palgrave, 2025). Views my own.
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
M Shaughnessy @shaughmr.bsky.social 🌰 Chestnut enthusiast
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
Jordan E. Taylor @publiusorperish.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution, news, politics, etc. Author of Misinformation Nation.
Manager of Digital Content for Colonial Williamsburg. Views here are my own.
Used to be more into social media. Now trying to enjoy the quiet.
jordanetaylor.com
Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social Spanish Tragedy evangelist | dramaturg, full prof, theatre historian (18thc, celebrity, & Shakespeare) | 📚Carrying All Before Her (2022) | opinions mine
https://spanishtragedy.villanova.edu
https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/carrying-all-before-her/
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Sadie Mansfield @sadiemansfield.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of Birmingham researching Indigenous diplomacy in c18th North America
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Jonathan Haddad 🌴🥥🥥🥥 @haddaddoinwork.bsky.social Scholar. Francophile. Man about town.
Dino Franco Felluga @felluga.bsky.social Romanticist, Victorianist, Digital Humanist, Theorist
Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University / 18C Lit & Philosophy
@fchroberts.bsky.social @fchroberts.bsky.social Work in HE. Still an 18thCist at heart. She/her
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
Dr. Rebecca Simon FRHistS @piratebeckalex.bsky.social Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
Written for History Today, BBC History Extra, Routledge
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
https://rebecca-simon.com
Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
David Cooke @gwalchbach.bsky.social Previously, horticulturalist, archaeologist, archivist and writer. Currently PhD candidate - "Sport in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, 1804-1881"
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social Academic historian, writer, sometimes musician, full time cat lady. Interested in gender and deviance in long 18th century Wales & England. www.angelamuir.co.uk
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
cassandragoodhistorian.com | same handle on insta & Mastodon
T.R. Cross @trobertcross.bsky.social MSt History at University of Oxford. Aspiring scholar of Atlantic Slavery. IT InfoSec exec on the sly.
Amateur chef, chess enthusiast, trekkie, orchid tamer.
He/him
Stephanie Lawton, PhD @skaylawton.bsky.social not-quite-as-newbie history professor at a SLAC; CA girl in the South,
working on 19th c. US history, presidents, funerals, classics; creator of #histgym
Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org