Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol
https://paulclammer.com/
Kathryn White @kathrynww1.bsky.social Dr Kathryn White writes about history: the World Wars, British Empire, religion, and the books she's reading.
kathrynshistoryblog.substack.com
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, July 2024). Winner of the VPFA First Book Prize. https://www.routledge.com/James-Malcolm-Rymer-Penny-Fiction-and-the-Family/Nesvet/p/book/9781032431598?_ga=1674154651.1719792000
Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: @bethanwatts.bsky.social
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
Prohibition Blunder @prohibitionblund2.bsky.social
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Joanne Genealogy @joannegenealogy.bsky.social MSc Genealogy, Professional Genealogist, Business Mentor. Staffordshire. PhD Researcher: 19c Women in the Temperance Movement. @temperancehistory.bsky.social
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Euen Herbert-Small @lasermike33.bsky.social Editor @ JamRadio.uk covering Policy and Human Rights, investigating how the British state treats minority communities, with a focus on Windrush and wider accountability around systems that fail them. My focus is on clarity, truth and pressure.
History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social Professional scientist. I like reading books about history. Editor of the Bluesky edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
http://historybooksreview.co.uk/
https://beautyscientist.github.io/GSDIANOZAS/
Dr Billy Frank @drbillyf.bsky.social Messes with history, basses, and cameras.
Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social I study 19th c periodicals (fr India & Britain), print culture, illustrations, British colonialism, book history. Always on the lookout for woodcuts, lithographs, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides.
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
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
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
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.
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
Shira Feldman @writingwithrobots.bsky.social Writer, reader, human. Interested observer of all things AI/writing.
INCSA @incsa.bsky.social The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA |
CNCSI Partner | https://linktr.ee/IN_CSA
Nacoa UK @nacoauk.bsky.social National charity helping everyone affected by a parent's drinking.
A movement for change 💙
@tonyodounga.bsky.social @tonyodounga.bsky.social PhD student. Victorian culture. #women's networks. #The EWJ. #Empowerment.
Club Soda @joinclubsoda.com The original Mindful Drinking Movement, since 2014. Listen to our podcast, read our blog, buy drinks online, or join our online courses at joinclubsoda.com
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Performing Recovery @performingrecovery.bsky.social The Addiction Recovery Arts (ARA) Network, through its magazine and podcast Performing Recovery, and on and offline events brings together artists, groups and practitioners in the addiction recovery arts sector https://www.patreon.com/c/PerformingRecovery
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Temperance History @temperancehistory.bsky.social Temperance History PhD project which will, in time, become an educational resource for the Temperance Movement and the people involved https://temperancehistory.com @joannegenealogy.bsky.social #Temperance #TemperanceHistory
Illustration Archive @profjt.bsky.social The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive dedicated to historical book illustration: https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/. Account run by Prof Julia Thomas. Interested in the Victorians, word and (mental) image, digital humanities
Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk An independent organisation that seeks to bridge the gap between science and public policies to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Website: https://www.ias.org.uk/
Newsletter & Podcast: https://instalcstud.substack.com/
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK. Slowly writing a book on home, gender & class.
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
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
Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social The Drinking Studies Network is an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking cultures. We are free to join and welcome all. More info at https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
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)
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news.
Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org