Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro. Tao of Glass
Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk
www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️🌈
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Rashna Nicholson @rashnanicholson.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Warwick. Theatre History and Historiography, Cultural Development and Diplomacy, Inter-Asian stuff, all manner of performing things.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
Georgia Dalton @georgiamayd.bsky.social Northern Bridge funded PhD, researching feminist theatre and women’s activism | Research interests: modern drama, grassroots theatre, the WLM
Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern Anglo Atlantic World
Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Neil Wholey @neilwholey.bsky.social UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics
rosatroupe.co.uk
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social Prof of English at Queens College & Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY ✍️ 📖 🕺 🚲
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Alice Kelly @dralicekelly.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
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.
Andrew Griffiths @musicalgriff.bsky.social ᚐᚔᚅᚇᚏᚔᚒ 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇲
Musical Director & Composer represented by @keddiescottassociatesltd; Senior Lecturer @leedsmusicdrama.
UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social A history department committed to its students and wider community. uhi.ac.uk/history 
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Szabolcs Musca @szabolcsmusca.bsky.social Academic & cultural curator. Migrant theatre, socially engaged performance, cultural policy. Associate researcher at Bristol & Lisbon, director of Migrant Dramaturgies Network @newtidesp.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Szabolcs-Musca 
Karen Vedel @karenvedel.bsky.social Dance Scholar, Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. 
@ullakallenbach.bsky.social @ullakallenbach.bsky.social 
Hannah Coleman Manktelow @hannahcm.bsky.social 
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Susanne Foellmer @sufoellmer.bsky.social Leitung/Head Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (German Dance Archive Cologne)
Supporting Berlin dance. Und ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Coventry.
Posts are my own personal opinion.
Sarah Bartley @sarahbartley.bsky.social Community artist | Theatre Academic
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
@meikewagner.bsky.social @meikewagner.bsky.social Theatre scholar at LMU Munich with a special interest in cultural history, performing citizenship and puppet performance. @amateurtheatre.bsky.social
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social She/Her.
Dublin-based Researcher, Teaching Fellow and Amateur Baker.
S. Beckett, Theatre, Performance, Ecology, the Mind, Modernism, Postmodernism, Cheese and Chocolate.
S @deviousmeans.bsky.social York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
Paul Johnson @pesch909.bsky.social Professor of Theatre and Performance, Academic quality and standards, Chair of Shropshire Cultural Compact
Kelsey Jacobson @kelseyljacobs.bsky.social Associate Professor @queensu | Author of Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance | Watches people watch things @centreforspectatorship
Photos by Jen Bernard
Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF on modern British manuscripts & the American archive @ RHUL | Dickens & life-writing | On BBC Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jt6c
British Theatre Guide @britishtheatreguide.info British theatre news, reviews & podcast. See our contacts page for where to e-mail press releases & invitations to review.
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social performance • visual culture • writing • pedagogy // linktr.ee/swatiarora
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
Mario Longtin @mariolongtin.ca Manuscrits et imprimés, ancien théâtre français. French Literature professor happily living in London Ontario. Sur une note optimiste : « Mamie, la vie y’a pas d’avenir là-dedans, il faut investir ailleurs » Ducharme !
Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
www.heathertweed.net
www.heathertweed.co.uk
Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social News and events from the Theatre Studies team: https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/
Adam Harrison @adamharrison1956.bsky.social Stage Manager / Show Caller Theatre & Live Events…..retired.
Eighteenth Century Worlds Liverpool @ecwliv.bsky.social Research centre for all things Eighteenth Century Worlds at the University of Liverpool. 
QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies @c19qmul.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/
Centre for Life History & Life Writing Research, Sussex Uni @clhlwr.bsky.social The University of Sussex is a leading international centre for life history research, oral history, and life writing research and teaching. Follow the CLHLWR here for news on research, events, and related news. www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr
Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies NTU @crhhms.bsky.social The Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Making the past meaningful in the present.
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
@livesandletters.bsky.social @livesandletters.bsky.social 
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre @heritagewshc.bsky.social Home to 11 miles of archives & local studies collections, charting the history of people, places and events across Wiltshire & Swindon.
Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham.
MBS2026 conference, June 3-5 2026. Registration now open!
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
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Institute of Intellectual History @standrewsiih.bsky.social Founded in 2013, the Institute of Intellectual History is a hub for everyone interested in intellectual history at both the University of St Andrews and beyond. www.intellectualhistory.net
TORCH Oxford @torchoxford.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. 
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social The International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is based at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
We are the world's leading research centre for the study of the history of sport.
Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social Our aim is to promote, support, and assist in the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History (formerly the Centre for English Local History) at the University of Leicester
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social Home to the University of Oxford's community of Intellectual Historians | Follow us for updates on events, publications & more | intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social Supporting history teachers to bring rigorous, accessible and life enhancing history into classrooms for all young people. Find out more www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk #WeAreSHP #SHPUnderstanding #SHPCurriculumPATHS
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
📍 Explore more: sog.org.uk
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #HistoryMatters
Historical Perspectives @historperspect.bsky.social An established history society run by and for postgraduates studying at universities throughout the United Kingdom. #histperspectives
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland.
🌐 Visit our website saha.scot
🎙️ Listen to our podcast #SAHAConversations on Spotify
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social HTEN UK represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers.
Email: HTENUK@outlook.com
https://www.hten.org.uk
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.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com