Aria_🪐 @itsariabsky.bsky.social curating a life that feels good on the inside.
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
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@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
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
Francesca Galligan @francescagalligan.bsky.social Rare books librarian, Oxford. 
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
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Committee for Autonomous Social Action - CASA, HGT @casahgt.bsky.social To promote the unity of all workers and their families and to conduct social and political actions designed to strengthen the working class movement. (https://casahgt.org/)
ThriveLib Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries @thrivelib.bsky.social Registration is open! August 11, 12, and 13, 2026. A virtual conference for librarians, creating space for their well-being.
https://www.thrivelib.com/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Pixegias Research @pixegias.com Pixegias Research is a news publisher delivering accurate, timely, and reliable coverage with a focus on integrity and transparency.- S West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Eric Salsburg…Grow The Resistance. @ericsalsburg.bsky.social 🟦Fuck trump, Fuck Fascists, Fuck Netanyahu…Save Our Democracy.
Save us, VOTE BLUE MIDTERMS/2028. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS!
Philly Sports Lifer. Animal Rights/Animal Welfare, Climate Change, Human/Civil Rights, Fighting For The Underdog, Standing with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social Urban librarian, storyteller, wikimedian, all things GLAM 
LONDON's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoylondon.bsky.social 2026: LONDON's TECH (Sept) BOOKFAIR (July) CRAFT/ART FAIRs (May) AUTHORs/BOOKs (April) linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyLDN: WANDSWORTH SOUTHWARK LAMBETH GREENWICH Camden Ealing Hackney Hammersmith/Fulham Islington Kensington/Chelsea Lewisham Tower Hamlets Westminster
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
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
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Guyda Armstrong @guyda.bsky.social Books, things, languages, analogue, digital, sound. Shoegazer.
Trans ark @transark93.bsky.social To build capacity, provide technical support and advocate to strengthen Transgender refugees in south Sudan gorom refugee camp🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Janet Guertin @janetguertin.com #Design & #BookArts
📕 bookbinding, artist books, commissions, workshops ⚡️ designer 🐈 cat lover
JanetGuertin.etsy.com // JanetGuertin.com
IG: @janetguertin
Plants @wildlifegarden.bsky.social Plants: Trees, Flowers, Shrubs, Gardens, Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands, Woodlands, Montane, Marine, Coastal and Indoor Plants..
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Stas Voyager @stasvoyager.bsky.social WHO STAYS: The Intergenerational Audit. We analyze the long-term risks of decisions made by leaders with short-term horizons. Because the future belongs to those who stay https://globalriskleadership.substack.com/
Dennis Hansen @dennish.bsky.social Concept- & content developer new Natural History Museum UniZurich; Island biologist w. fetish for giant tortoises (Aldabrans!) & rewilding 🐢
Fond of Gessner (x2) & Scheuchzer; lover of old books, older fossils, history of science & music of metal
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
@thegreenlefty.bsky.social @thegreenlefty.bsky.social Tall lad with a tendency to ask people to vote Green!
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers @stationerscomms.bsky.social City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries. Broadcasters, Writers, Journalists, Publishing, Printing, Paper, Packaging, Archive, Library & Conservation. Digital Media & Software, Stationery & Greeting cards, Tour Guides
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.
Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her
Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social Rare books librarian & cataloguer | library & book history | moderately early modern
Richard Wragg @richdwragg.bsky.social Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
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 📚🦋
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/
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Alfred Pasternack @aopmurray.bsky.social Rare books, manuscripts, that sort of thing. Bookseller @quaritch, bookbinder. Oooh, serifs. 
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
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
Rob Carson @robcarson.bsky.social Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
James Russell @profjrussell.bsky.social Medieval and Early Modern Book Historian, (Print Culture and the History of Reading) Adjunct at Rio Salado College, Improviser, (he/him)
Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social Among other hats, prof emeritus Eastern Illinois University. Historian of early modern plotting, sermonizing, politicking, gossiping, printing, and detecting before detectives. Mainly British archipelago.
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
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
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
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)
Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊
History @historyzone.bsky.social Bringing the past to life. Daily posts about world history, American milestones, wars, revolutions, and forgotten events.
Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social Farm boy at @themerl.bsky.social (at Uni of Reading). Looks after old rural stuff in a big shed. On committee of British Agricultural History Society. Active in AIMA, RMN, and Folklore Society. Views own. “Iconic”.
The Lit & Phil @litandphil.bsky.social Newcastle's independent library, the Lit & Phil, is home to more than 200,000 books and music items, and has a rolling programme of events and activities.
www.litandphil.org.uk
Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social Flora 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK
🏺Ancient Mediterranean art🏺
💌Contact: flora@flarohillustration.com
🖼️Prints & merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/flaroh/explore?asc=u&page=1
⛲️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flaroh
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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives is an Accredited Archive Service, home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
Find out more: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Erika Giddens @egiddens.bsky.social rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own
Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social Entomologist. Curator of Polyneoptera at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy in the Vogler lab https://www.site100.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Stoke Football History @stokefootball.bsky.social Stoke, books, history, football
Francesca Hillier @frannabel2010.bsky.social London mum, likes cats, museums, archives & indexing. Senior Archivist, British Museum
DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social Engagement librarian at Mississippi State. Researching Black legislators in Mississippi during Reconstruction. Opinions represent me alone. Rocking the AuDHD. 40-something fangirl and secular humanist. Aunt to humans, mom to cats. she/her
Jo @octavosaurus.bsky.social Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, Wikimedia, art, UCL, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. 🌈📚📦✨
https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
Magdalene College Libraries @magdlibs.bsky.social The Libraries and Archives of Magdalene College, Cambridge. https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/library-news
Hanna Polasky @pox-and-frocks.bsky.social Paleopathologist, medical historian, archives gremlin, a menace and an imp who threatens to lick any Scheele's green she sees.
https://pox-and-frocks.github.io/
Mariam Yamin @mariamyamin.bsky.social Senior Archivist at University of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives
Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social Rare books and special collections at Furman Univ. in Greenville, SC, USA. U.S. and world book history. Am. Lit. Ph.D. Publishing Plates (PSU Press, 2023), In Dogs We Trust (USC Press, 2019). Book arts. Dogs, lots of dog pics (and cats). He/him
Erica Fischer @bugmuseum.bsky.social history PhD + lepidopterist doing weird bio/history stats with digitized biodiversity collections | currently GVSU Biology | formerly of King's CHoSTM, MSU Entomology | they/them
Elisabeth B @decorporis.bsky.social Rare book librarian in the Midwest, tea and fountain pen enthusiast, cat lover.
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social Making over 850 years of the city of York's history accessible to all. Keep up to date with our latest projects and activities here.
Website: https://exploreyork.org.uk/archives/
Blog: http://citymakinghistory.org