Mr Socko @laotianrockrat.bsky.social Liz Kendall hate account. He/Him
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
florinatufescu.bsky.social @wildelady.bsky.social Literary scholar &
Translator working from French/English/Romanian/Spanish/Swedish into English/Romanian
Author of Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Irish Academic Press)
Passionate about Peace, Beauty & Knowledge
Ask me anything:)
Jan Angermeier @jnam.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher for @litattention.bsky.social, Uni Stuttgart | former B2B Tech PR consultant | probably reading a Joseph Conrad novel right now | Stuttgart/Karlsruhe
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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
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.
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
21 Group @21group.bsky.social A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
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.
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Mari Komnæs @marikomnaes.bsky.social I am a PhD student in English Literature at Lund University, Sweden. Working on women’s writing during the turbulent and exciting 1790s
https://marikomnaes.com/
Bethan Catherine Watts @bethanwatts.bsky.social MRHistS. PhD researcher at UWTSD focusing on Medieval English children and childhood.
Author of 3 books. Owner of 3 cats. Loves children’s history, domestic culture, and the history of medicine.
Works for @histchild.bsky.social
Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social PhD holder and teacher of journalism at a CT university. Currently too tired to be any good at social media-ing. (She/Her)
P.S. If it isn’t obvious by now, you should know I love animals.
Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social 19th-century German philosophy (mostly Hegel, with a dash of Marx) | Comparative philosophy of race | Africana philosophy | Philosophy of social science
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities. Keen on C16th letters & archives and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social C18 scholar. Recently former Director of Graduate Studies. Now Dorm Dad and VP of Father Functions. Would like to finish book.
Andrea Marzocchi @andeamarzocchi.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Surrey (UK).
Contemporary Literature, the American short story.
Host of @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Rachel Xhemajli @rachelxhemajli.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at Oxford | Long 18th-Century British Literature | English Romanticism | 18th-Century Theology and Political Philosophy | Digital Humanities
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
@vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
Maintained by:
@daveawl.bsky.social
@thoughtcat.com
@baronvonbork.bsky.social @baronvonbork.bsky.social 
Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com I write stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things. He/him.
Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk 🎧🎙 Award-winning presenter: Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast (independent - arts/science) | Event host | Podcaster | Broadcaster | Love theatre, history, space
🌐 https://jodurrant.co.uk/
🌐 https://jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/
Matt Hall @221bcooee.bsky.social BSI. Sherlock, Agatha, locked rooms! Watson’s Tin Box scion, and home of the Bowery Ruffians. http://221bcooee.blogspot.com
Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Archive TV Channel. Keeping celluloid alive! Freeview82 Freesat306 Sky324 Virgin445 Freely36. FREE catch-up via Freeview Red Button and http://tptvencore.co.uk
Andrew Maunder @andrewm73.bsky.social Head of Humanities, University of Herts.
Latest book "Enid Blyton: A Life" (2021).
Currently working on 1920s theatre.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
MASSOLIT @massolit.bsky.social Short video lectures from university professors for secondary schools |
“The best new resource we have used with students in the last 5 years.”
Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100035435336739
Target Books Remembered @targetbooks.bsky.social TARGET MANUAL: The Collector's Reference Guide (Vol#2: UK Paperbacks) available @ Amazon - https://amzn.eu/d/3DJZEFu
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
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Retired lexicographer and academic, most recently at the University of Portsmouth. Committed trade unionist. I mostly post about things I know about or am good at. If I stray into other areas, it's usually because there's a language angle.
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot. Deactivate frequently/whenever I'm annoyed by notifications.
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
The Ghost Story Book Club @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social The Ghost Story Book Club podcast. Join host Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social as he discusses classic ghost stories with special guests. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social Sending books to every corner of the known universe since 1918
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social Literature professor, broadly construed. Teaching composition and having OPINIONS about uses of "AI." Scholar of literature and science.
Trying to feel hope and practice usefulness in these present times.
She/her.
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social Shakespeare, drama, radio. Often all at the same time. Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University of Suffolk. Formerly BBC producer. My views.
https://linktr.ee/audioandrea
Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social Music, politics, history, art, photos, Southsea/Portsmouth, Barking & West Ham ⚒
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
The Crazy World of Arthur Brownlow @wazzock.eurosky.social Here because there's nowhere else to go now. And you know what? I'm rather enjoying it. See pinned post regarding what makes me tick and if you're going to follow me, POST SOMETHING!
Also support these people; https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Staggeringly Good Brewery @staggeringlygood.bsky.social We make beer for people who love to ride Dinosaurs!
Taproom: The Rex's Arms
Venue: The Warehouse Of Rapture
Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social "I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell" Libraries, vampires and Sherlock Holmes. Very good bad influence. She/Her.
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Kernow 〓〓 @kernow.bsky.social Celtic #Cornwall #Kernow homeland of the #Cornish (Kernewek) 〓〓
Cornish history, politics and language
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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
Baker Street Journal @bakerstreetjournal.bsky.social The world's first and best periodical devoted to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. We post on Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and their world. https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-baker-street-journal/ #SherlockHolmes #Sherlockian
Darlene Cypser @darlenecypser.com Sherlockian, writer, attorney, historian. Member Dr Watson's Neglected Patients & former Chief Surgeon; member Hudson Valley Sciontists & Hounds of the Internet. Living in Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk 👋 Welcome to the home of lifelong learning at @ox.ac.uk – a global community of curious minds. Tag us in your #OxfordLifelongLearning content!
phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, shitposting. I like Triscuits, the Broncos, Douglas Sirk, Henry James, maybe some other things. AI is not one of them.
The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
@tejapusapati.bsky.social @tejapusapati.bsky.social 
University of Exeter Department of English and Creative Writing @uniofexeterecw.bsky.social Exeter ECW is a large and dynamic department that is international in outlook. Colleagues come from around the world, making us an academic community in which different cultures and languages intermingle and thrive.
Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social Brian Eno news, updates + related articles from the archives of More Dark Than Shark
https://www.moredarkthanshark.org
Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social Bookish cat valet, etc. Awaiting the sixth extinction in Dublin, and spending more time editing than writing, currently _Moonfleet_ for Oxford World's Classics. But mostly here for the wit-posting and cat photos.
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
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
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.
Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Big fan of books, libraries, folklore, history. Also have a PhD on the folklore of death and dying in 19th century England
WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social 🎨 👺
Prints: https://wefail.art/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wefail
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
| Éireann | @rinnywee.bsky.social | History #PhD submitted! | #Librarian | Plumpton College | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | Shāhmārān | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social Thinks about literature, and occasionally even writes about it. Also dogs and Doctor Who.
Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social Writer, academic, medievalist, queer
Barbara Braid @dr-braid.bsky.social Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Vicky Angelaki @vickyangelaki.bsky.social Professor in Comparative Literature, Mid Sweden University. Environmental arts & humanities; theatre history/historiography, society & politics. She/her. Own views.
My latest book, OA, here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54892-5
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Historical Fictions Research Network @historicalfic.bsky.social Discussing all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative
https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/
Phyllis Weliver @phyllisweliver.com Victorian literature & music history │
NEW coursebook: Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2025), co-edited with Katharine Ellis
Céline Brossillon @celine-brossillon.bsky.social 19th c French and Comp Lit. Scholar | Literature, cultural anthropology, GWSS, psychiatry | Author of “Le Taureau triste” (CNRS, 2021) | Creator and coordinator of the Comparative and Global Literatures program at Ursinus College
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.
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
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.
Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social DOROTHY MSCA postdoc at UCD and University of Reading • Victorian literature, violence, health, contagion, afterlives • Associate Editor of Brontë Studies • 'Violence and the Brontës', out now with EUP • she/her
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Anne Ramos @annebobis.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Ph.D. student. Probably yapping about NJ, Milton, or Shakespeare.