RJT @lettersdirectory.bsky.social Independent researcher of various humanities writing poetry. Disabled. Johns Hopkins alum. Thinking about post-capitalism, post-violence, and etymology. https://www.tilley.earth/, https://www.letters.directory/, https://www.violencestudies.com
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social Historian and Religious Studies scholar.
Postdoctoral fellow at the @oeai.bsky.social
Atheism, heterodoxy, and religious deviance in ancient times.
#religiones #religion
UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social At UCL, we champion #OpenScience across all disciplines. We empower our community with support in #OpenAccess, #ResearchData, #CitizenScience, and more, fostering a truly open academic culture.
Join our mailing list: https://shorturl.at/DeWTC
RCA Design Research @rcadesres.bsky.social Staff and student research in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art, London.
Dr Lindsay de Wal @drlindsaydewal.bsky.social BA,MA,PhD|UK’s 1st NHS Humanist Head of Chaplaincy|Director Humanist-Existential Care [EHSN]|Head of Pastoral Care [NRPSN]|Thoughts are my own|Published Author|
W: https://living-your-values.com
W: https://humanist-existential-care.trainercentralsite.eu
Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social Londoner in Norn Iron | Data Communicator | Humanist | Dad of girls | Glastonbury Pilgrim | Strange Loop | Runner | ENTP
Author of @believethedata.org
Co-founder of @pfie.bsky.social
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom @undiscvc.bsky.social A digital humanities project reimagining how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive race-conscious lens.
💼undiscipliningvc.org💼
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Transforming Evidence @transformevidence.bsky.social Global collaboration improving research about evidence production, mobilisation and use, and sharing lessons about what we already know
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Ex-BBC, formerly senior producer of In Our Time now quietly enjoying and celebrating the humanities
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social By day data geek and research and innovation management guru. By night, usually asleep. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social Historian of religion and politics in the US specializing in Gilded Age and Progressive Era, reform movements, and religious debates about American democracy.
Views are my own, not my employer’s. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
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.
Daniel James Sharp @danieljamessharp.bsky.social Writer.
Editor, @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social.
Council Member, @natsecsoc.bsky.social.
Senior editor, Free Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social.
Pieces in Areo, Spectator Australia, Merion West & more. Substacker.
https://linktr.ee/DanielJamesSharp.
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Maggie Ardiente @maggieardiente.bsky.social Filipina American // Humanist 🙌🏽⚛️ // Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ // Director of Philanthropy @psr.org // President @humanists.bsky.social // #Resist
Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social Author of Radical Help and The Work We Need (out May 2025), Hon Prof @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Trustee @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Doer. Free Radical www.hilarycottam.com
Victoria Shaw @victoriashaw.bsky.social OD, leadership, innovation for systems transformation | NHS, Royal Free London FT | Previously Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium, Deep Transitions Lab, SPRU, University of Sussex | ♡ inc bookmarks
Stephen Unwin @stephenunwin.bsky.social Director, Writer, Teacher, Campaigner.
Founded ETT. Opened the Rose.
Laughing Boy, All Our Children, Poor Naked Wretches, Beautiful Lives. Man to Man.
http://www.stephenunwin.uk/
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Journalist, commentator and DWP botherer. Author of Ramping Up Rights She/they.
https://linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
https://holly-bird.co.uk/
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social MHRA Visiting Research Fellow | @ilcs.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social
contemporary portuguese literature, photography, & film 🇵🇹
empire | medical humanities | trauma | illness | disability | women’s writing
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Matthew Logie @matthewrlogie.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist and VR developer interested in space, time and memory. Formerly at Neurospin. https://brainthemind.com/
VR+EEG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUBO6zcJCM
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social I study young people and digital cultures
Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social Research Associate at SOAS working on stories of displacement in Syria & Scotland
Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social Substack Writer (see pinned post), Author, Writing Coach, and Kitten Herder. As the card on my desk says, I'll be post-feminist in post-patriarchy. She/Her.
https://substack.com/@jjonesewc
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social PhD researcher in Romantic Literature 🖋️ Thinking/writing about clouds, climate, affect, and ecological consciousness ⛅️Co-convener @e-cen.bsky.social
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Dr. Rob Phillips @robdphillips.bsky.social Senior Tutor: Design Futures: The Royal College of Art | Designer | Author | Maker | Grower | Dad
Work (Linkedin) | https://tinyurl.com/bdhbehxw
Articles | https://tinyurl.com/3bnuxmn4
Current Project | https://ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/
Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social Red Duchess, biog of the Duchess of Atholl MP, OUT NOW. Freelance public affairs, small person wrangling, incurable reader, always trying to write. Also on IG.
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
John D. Attridge @johndattridge90.bsky.social English Researcher in Modernisms, Marxism, class, labour and working-class literatures and pedagogies | Forster, Woolf, Rhys, Conrad and Lawrence | Assistant Book Review Editor for 'The Space Between Journal 1914-1945'
Dr Sarah Wingrove @sazwingrove.bsky.social ECR @ Surrey Literature & Languages and Sociology, and freelance technical editor.
Queer pilgrimage practices, lesbian histories and their legacies. www.sarahwingrove.com
she/her 🏳️🌈
Banner courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/003
deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & drama & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/romantic-media-and-wartime-networks?tab=1
Natalia Núñez Bargueño @nunezbargueno.bsky.social Current:
a) #MSCA fellow @KU_Leuven (2024-2026) reserach project: #TheoFem
b)Vicepresident @AEHRC https://www.aehrc.es/
+Former Research fellow @uclm (2022-2024)
🇪🇺 #genderequality #diversesocieties #religion #herstory
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
NAVSA Victorian Poetry Caucus @vicpoetrycaucus.bsky.social The Poetry Caucus holds annual meetings and dinners at each NAVSA conference as well as online events throughout the year. All Victorian poetry scholars are welcome to contact us to join our listserv.
Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social Haiti/Black Atlantic scholar, poet and mummy. Passionate about public heritage and outreach, collabs and excavating the histories of Haiti's rebel women. AHRC CATALYST BUILDING A BLACK NATION COMMENCING FALL 2025. https://linktr.ee/fanmrebel.
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Sylvain Lesage @sylvain-lesage.bsky.social Ass. prof U Lille. Book history, media studies, comics & reading popular culture.
New project: Xerox and the information age
Co-redchef de Neuvième Art (revue de la Cité de la BD, Angoulême)
Anne Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social Historian of 19thc Europe; “Lecturing the Victorians” now out via Bloomsbury. Slightly goofy teacher, mom, bell-ringer, Dem. My grandpa was one of Harry Truman’s fishing buddies.
Ceylan Kosker Bevington @ckbevington.bsky.social Decolonization enthusiast. Feminist. Victorianist.
Assistant Professor at Bilkent University
Aberystwyth alma mater
Maddy Goodall @madeleineog.bsky.social heritage.humanists.uk
Dawn Pike @dawnpike.bsky.social Open Research Librarian. Interested in copyright, open research and digital preservation.
English Radical History @englishradical.bsky.social Quotes, facts, images and videos about England’s radical past.
Laura Robertson @doublenegativel.bsky.social Critic. Writer. Editor. Lecturer. Writing about art, teaching others how to write about art. Scouser, RCA alum, cofounder @TheDoubleNegative.co.uk. Freelance critic for BBC, Art Monthly etc.🌱💀🍄🦇😼
laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site
thedoublenegative.co.uk
Histories of racialised communities in Britain @historyracebritain.bsky.social Showcasing new historical research on racialised communities in Britain by emerging scholars from racially minoritised backgrounds. Send work for us to share via dm!
Understanding Humanism @humanismedu.bsky.social We provide free resources and services for teachers, parents, children, and the general public to help people learn about the humanist approach to life. We offer trained & accredited humanist school speakers. https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Hannah Rosefield @hannahrosefield.bsky.social editing at The Dial and elsewhere
sometime Victorianist, London Library emerging writer 25/26
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Vinny Thomas @vinnythomas.bsky.social ancient reptile in real life, Omar on Platonic. formerly known as vinn_ayy
Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social Irish in Edinburgh 🇮🇪
PhD in the history of vasectomy ✂️🍒
Writing around masculinities and eugenics, amongst other things.
Working in performing arts policy/advocacy.
Disabled (AuDHD, EDS & POTS)
sí/í, she/her
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
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/
Jane Harrison @janeh1837.bsky.social Part-time PhD researcher of the Victorian period at the University of Portsmouth by night, History and Politics teacher by day.
Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social Nautilus Island's hermit heiress (settler, she)
Books, bread, cloth, cyclamen, snow, roses, rooms
Walking—looking—liberation
PINK THEORY! (Milkweed, 2027), PATTERN-BOOK(Carcanet, 2025); rep: Wylie
profile, Corita print; banner, campion/gorse
ohbara.com
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Hannah Cornish @hannahcornish.bsky.social Curator at UCL Grant Museum of Zoology. Animals, museums, fibre arts, nerdery. She/her. Views my own.
gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
LGB With The T @lgbwiththet.bsky.social Trans rights are human rights! #LGBWithTheT
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Hannah LeClair @hleclair.bsky.social