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
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kieran Hazzard @kieranhazzard.bsky.social Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.
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
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social Light, politics, aesthetics, & gender in the city, sexology and creepiness. Canadian in Oxford (ish). Come for the typos, stay for the wit.
Anne-Maree Gray @mtramg.bsky.social Aussie who drinks too much coffee, writes fanfic as mrstrentreznor and books (that I never finish) as me, AM Gray. She/her
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2154210/Mrstrentreznor
annemareegray.com
AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
COYS
About: aaronrhanlon.com
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!
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social PhD researcher, writer, auntie. Clumsy but resilient.
Currently looking at the links between health and travel in Anne Lister’s diaries and letters. they/she. Current leader of @chase-cw-net.bsky.social
MORNDUR @morndur.com The Sunless Hold — a drowned kingdom under the bones of mountains.
Async collaborative storytelling MMORPG. anyone writes what happens next; at 20:00 CET Morndur weaves every voice into the next chapter. free, daily → morndur.com
British Women Writers Association @bwwa-bwwc.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the British Women Writers Association
Albert Crabtrees @albertcrabtree66.bsky.social 🇺🇸TX/KY
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research @oser-oxford.bsky.social The Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research is an interdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in letters from all geographical locations and historical time periods. Meetings take place fortnightly at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
@mills-and-behn.bsky.social @mills-and-behn.bsky.social 
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Phineas Dowling, PhD, FML, LMNOP @pwdowling.bsky.social Scholar of 18th-century literature and culture.
Souvik Roy Moulick @roymoulick.bsky.social Researching proto-veganism in modernist British literature. PhD fellow: NU-London, University of Kent.
Reach out to me at: s.roymoulick@northeastern.edu
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.
Oxford English Faculty Outreach @engfacoutreach.bsky.social The official account for the Oxford English Faculty Outreach team.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Wise Owl @wiseowl.bsky.social Interested in science, nature, COVID realism, detective fiction, gardening, social Christianity.
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Volt🟣 Simone Stalfieri @simonestalfieri.bsky.social I am a #European 🇪🇺 #Italian 🇮🇹 #Volt 🟣 activist. I am fighting 🗣📣 for #sustainable 🌱🌞, #equal #FederalEuropeanUnion, #rights 🌈 and #housing #FreedomOfThePress 📰 and for #democracy 👥. Follow me✨
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@simonestalfieri
Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social Comedy, Music, Improv, Writing.
Latest book “Introducing Mrs Collins” out Nov 6 / available to pre-order now
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
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/
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social Proudly Minneapolis born. Chapel Hill NC, Passionate advocate for the needs of twice-exceptional students. MA UNC-CH Folklore.
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Greta Colombani (she/her) @gretacolombani.bsky.social Short stories on vampires, queerness, the end of humanity, etc. | Dr in Romantic ghosts @cam.ac.uk | Co-investigator of BA/Leverhulme "Mapping Italian Literary Cafés, 1720-present" | @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Events Organiser for Oxfordshire & Berkshire
Dr. Melvin Clifford @melvinclifford.bsky.social Caring for people, one tip & one smile at a time 🌿- A Abby @abyy03.bsky.social
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Caminey Kuropatwa @camineyk.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
@sunshine0707.bsky.social @sunshine0707.bsky.social 
@kimhanif.bsky.social @kimhanif.bsky.social ‘Always be a poet, even in prose’ Charles Baudelaire
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
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
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
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
remy @remyjackson.bsky.social 
Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
@jeanpaul0.bsky.social @jeanpaul0.bsky.social 
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social. Study: @Harvard.edu. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, intimacy/consent, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.
@brucethomson.bsky.social @brucethomson.bsky.social 
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Tyler @caviddopperfield.bsky.social he/him
Enjoyer of history and old books ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
ghostcheerio.carrd.co
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann