Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
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.
Elliot Andrews @fleetstreetels.bsky.social Midlands4Cities-funded PhD student at the University of Leicester. Studying Victorian periodicals (mainly Punch), and digital humanities.
He/Him
Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Punch's Pocket Book Archive is an international ANR-funded project based at @universite-caen.bsky.social
It aims to deliver a fully searchable archive from a complete run of Punch's Pocket Books (1843-1881), an ancillary publication of Punch.
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.
Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
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
Matthew Stephens (Dr) - 19th-century Newshound @c19thnewshound.bsky.social Historian, author, researcher. IHR Applied History Fellow. Specialist in the C19th press. PhD from Edge Hill University & British Library, funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. Thesis focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers.
Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
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 
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
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.
Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social #Chartism #C19thRadicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY
"In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻
Associate Professor & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney
Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series
She/Her
https://kirstinmills.com
Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
centrevictorian.bsky.social @centrevictorian.bsky.social The UK's oldest Centre for Victorian Studies based at the University of Leicester. Follow to stay up to date with the community!
Our next event: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cssahevents/1581232
Find us: linktr.ee/centreforvictorianstudies
Teresa Mangum @teresamangum.bsky.social Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social 19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik.bsky.social Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social she/her | Victorian Studies, Disability Studies, Children's Lit | Assistant Professor at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan | Dog Enthusiast and Very Bad Cook | views my own | profile pic ctsy of retrospect photography
Transcribe Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at U of Portsmouth; Associate Tutor, Oxford University ContEd. Victorian literature and detective fiction; Arthur Conan Doyle specialist. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Dino Franco Felluga @felluga.bsky.social Romanticist, Victorianist, Digital Humanist, Theorist
Natalie M. Houston @nmhouston.bsky.social Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
Ronjaunee Chatterjee @ronjaunee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Queen’s University. Author of Feminine Singularity (Stanford, ‘22) and editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (‘24)
Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond.
Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index
Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century.
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
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
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social English prof at King's / Dalhousie (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) @ukrio.bsky.social An independent charity supporting the research community to uphold the highest standards of integrity. Our work promotes research that is rigorous, trustworthy, and of benefit to society.
🔗 https://ukrio.org/
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Britain and the World @batw.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for Britain and the World. We are a group of scholars from around the world who share an interest in Britain and its engagements around the globe.
Learn more about us and become a member: https://britainandtheworld.org/
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York #UoY.
8th in UK University Guide
A world top 35 Department
Athena Swan Silver Award
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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