Rick @onceuponenglish.bsky.social 37🇫🇷 | ESL teacher ~ Linguistics and literature lover ~ English at heart 🏴 ~ cat daddy ~ 🏳️🌈
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Suzy Corrigan @scmc.bsky.social PhD researcher interested in fin-de-siècle literature, music, gender identity, queerness and The New Woman. Vernon Lee, Ethel Smyth, Sarah Grand and George Everton
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Aparna Prakashbabu Uma @aparnaup.bsky.social PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.
Gillian Walters @gillianwalters.bsky.social Midlands4Cities AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Final Footnote @finalfootnote.bsky.social Former nurse turned literary researcher. Interested in overlooked narratives of atmospheres, illness, contagion, environment, and medical authority.
University of Bristol.
Monty Davis | Postcards & More @montydaviskc.bsky.social Photographer | Leica IIIf | Deltiologist | Antique Dealer | Mean People Suck | Bleed Blue | 🚫 No DMS 🛑 | 3 Pugs 🐾 | 27K+ Postcards For Sale eBay Store: https://www.ebay.com/str/suburbangranolageneralstore
René Hugo Laporte @renehugolaporte.bsky.social Broken enough to see it. Intact enough to say it.
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.
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
🇨🇦LisaFellarinaAntifa📎 @lisaantifafella.bsky.social 🇨🇦liberal/atheist/ardent feminist
❤️democracy/dogs/elephants/frogs/gardening/history
Avid reader/disabled by #Fibromyalgia
Settler on Mississaugas of the Credit Treaty Land 🚫DM/porn/crypto/AI
🇺🇦🏴at❤️ #SlavaUkraini #NeverVoteConservative
#NAFO #LandBack
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
josephcarpenter @josephcarpenter75.bsky.social God First ✝️
Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart.bsky.social Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas.
Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social 🦖 Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (charity no. 1165231)
Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues + the Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park
📧 info@cpdinosaurs.org
https://linktr.ee/cpdinosaurs
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
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
ボビー @robertvinson.bsky.social § “Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.”
https://prayerandpolitiks.org/articles-essays-sermons/early-church-fathers-on-refusal-of-the-sword/
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Elise Garritzen @egarritzen.bsky.social Historian; cultural & social history of 19th c. history writing, archives & book history. Latest passion: scholarly celebrity culture. Researcher at the U. of Helsinki. Author of Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social History PhD Researcher 📚; Researching the Intersection of British 19th Century Gunboat Diplomacy and Humanitarianism.
Matthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social Wednesday 18th Nov. 4:30pm. (Zoom) Sex At The Seaside Seminar. Presenting alongside Dr Allan Brodie exploring the sexual undertone of the seaside and Bernard Crossley, the author of Donald McGill Postcard Artist: Illustrated Biography. #heritage #seaside
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
Steven @steven-burgess.bsky.social 👨🎓 PhD Candidate: The 'Condition of England' and the Novels of William De Morgan (University of Leeds) | 💼 Community Organising Manager in HE
stevenburgess0.wordpress.com
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
The Autistics' Orphanage Uganda @ugandanorphanage.bsky.social We are a small orphanage for both Autistic and Disabled children. It's an institution that was founded to take care of children with special needs.
@cmillerartlife.bsky.social @cmillerartlife.bsky.social http://cmillerartlife.blogspot.com
http://instagram.com/cmillerartlife/ Artists celebrated daily
@jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social @jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social
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.
Shira Feldman @writingwithrobots.bsky.social Writer, reader, human. Interested observer of all things AI/writing.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Alison Twells @alisontwells.bsky.social History, 'creative history', life writing: www.alisontwells.com
OUT NOW! A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0461
Sharin Schroeder @sharinfschroeder.bsky.social
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of the FNRS (Belgium) interested in speculative fiction since c. 1890 and especially its material culture. Singer, sewist, pun-lover. Made in the US for immediate export. She/her.
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.
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.
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Karen L. Carter @kcingr.bsky.social Art Historian / Professor / late 19th century France
Dog lover
Opinions posted here are my own
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
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
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
#instagram #threads #X #tumblr #bluesky https://0-info.my.canva.site/barcode-century-docx
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
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.
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Olivia Scarr @oliviascarr.bsky.social writer + DPhil candidate @ Oxford, researching glasshouse culture and Victorian embodiment
(she/her)
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
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
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
Tara Puri @victorianthings.bsky.social Researching late 19th-early 20th century women's magazines in Britain and India; Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Amateur Theatre Research @amateurtheatre.bsky.social This account celebrates amateur theatre practices, research and histories. It is managed by the ‘Performing Citizenship’ project, funded by the European Research Council.
Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social.
Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.