Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
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Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
JJ @jjustyna.bsky.social Meh vibes only
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
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
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Eli Keren @eliarieh.bsky.social Literary agent at the Curious Minds Agency. Freelance editor. Treasurer of the Association of Authors’ Agents. Books, cats and crochet. He/him. Trans ally. 🏳️🌈
https://curiousmindsagency.com/our-team
www.elikeren.co.uk
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social art historian researching whiteness and greco-roman mythology in british history painting. curator thinking about victorian art and global connections. views my own. 🏳️🌈
https://hardeepsdhindsa.co.uk
Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Kate Stuart @katestuart.bsky.social Researcher of authorship, identity performance, and online book culture. Writer of fantasy and anything else that takes my interest. Day-to-day supporter of learning development and academic skills in HE. She/they
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social Anti racist historian. Views my own
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
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
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
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
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
UCU Commons @ucucommons.org UCU Commons is a broad activist community working within and alongside the University and College Union (UCU). We are also on http://UCUCommons.org #UCUCommons
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social A community of practice for open institutional publishers in the UK, driving change in academic publishing. Visit https://oipauk.org/
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
Website is https://marcdavenant.com
WAIT-UP SLT / Gillian Rudd @waitupslt.bsky.social WAIT-UP SLT is a research project exploring perspectives and experiences of waiting in children's speech and language therapy in England. Tweets by @gillianrudd.bsky.social
Gillian Rudd @gillianrudd.bsky.social Speech & Language Therapist; Joint Course Lead MSc SLT at BCU; DHealth candidate (#WaitUpSLT); Lily Mae Foundation Trustee; Parent.Views own. #bskySPEECHIES
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone.
Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014: https://academic.oup.com/book/62701?searchresult=1
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
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/
Lucy Lawrence @lucyklawrence.bsky.social AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her
Ceylan Kosker Bevington @ckbevington.bsky.social Decolonization enthusiast. Feminist. Victorianist.
Assistant Professor at Bilkent University
Aberystwyth alma mater
Andrea Stewart @andreauponavon.bsky.social 
Sharin Schroeder @sharinfschroeder.bsky.social 
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme.
I mostly research and write about the corset in (neo-)Victorian fiction. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social Teacher, mother, wife
First-year Eng lit PhD student (Sherlock Holmes post Doyle) and former MA student (Victorian Gothic) at the University of Portsmouth
Helena Ifill @helenaifill.bsky.social 
Helen McKenzie @helenmckenzie.bsky.social Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
Grace @drgfrance.bsky.social Lecturer in academic skills / historian of Moral Re-Armament
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
Hannah Harvey @1hannahharvey.bsky.social Research assistant at Birmingham City University 🦁
#DLD and #codesign 
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
Peter Crowther @pjcrowther.bsky.social Work at Birmingham City University. BCU UCU Professional Services Rep, UCU West Midlands Regional Secretary and National ARPS Committee. Love Radio, Journalism, Technicians, Trade Unions, 3D Printing, Public Transport and Jet Lag: The Game.
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.
Demi Wilton @demiwilton.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @ Birmingham City University. Environmental Displacement & World-Literature.
EDI Officer for ASLE-UKI
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
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.
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social Birmingham City University branch of the University and College Union
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
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.
Meanwhile...Letterpress @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social Trans and Queer owned letterpress studio resisting erasure through the power of print. 
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Sara Medina Calzada @smedinacl.bsky.social Lecturer in English Studies at @UVa.es. Anglo-Spanish cultural transfers in the 19th century. Romanticism. Victorian era. Reception, translation & adaptation.
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Soc. N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture & food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑
Fiona Handley @fionahandley.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
Mum to four grown up children 
Lauren Bailey @ellebailee.bsky.social currently full-time parenting three littles in Austin, TX; in my former life, a PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center focusing on 18th-19th c. British literature, the Gothic, theory of the novel, history of economics & other cool things
The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk
Dr Alice Storey @dralicestorey.bsky.social Associate Professor of Human Rights at BCU. Interested in the UN’s UPR, women’s rights, access to higher education & rugby league.
www.bcu.ac.uk/business-law-and-social-sciences/staff/law/alice-storey
Wendy Pashman @wpash.bsky.social Beauty, engagement, art, poetry, fashion, architecture, landscape, visuals, fiber.
How do we develop more awe and enchantment?
I am a mixed media maker.
Robert Sharl @sharl.bsky.social Rated PG for occasional adult themes, and some mildly upsetting scenes. Director at Cine Excess. Designer at Futurilla. UX lecturer at BCU. Occasional composer.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Miguel Pérez Milans @mpmilans.bsky.social Professor of Language, Discourse and Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics @University College London | Critical ethnographer
NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social Aftermaths: https://navsa.georgetown.edu/
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social An international collaboration on the regional magazine. Upcoming edited collection - The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine.
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
James Michael @datasune.bsky.social UK based in the West Midlands / Senior Lecturer in Medical Utrasound / Academic Lead of Diagnostic Imaging at Birmingham City University / Sonographer specialising in abdominal and vascular ultrasound.
Sundeep Braich @sundeepbraich.bsky.social Scatty Seeker | Uncovers | Writes | Talks
History • Legends • Heritage • Light ☀️
Koh-i-Noor diamond: a storied stone 💎
⚖️ Is Hades… history’s actuary?
📸Instagram @SundeepBraich
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.
JoannaMWilliams @joannamw.bsky.social Historian, nature and music lover. Author of historical biographies on Mancunian Victorians Abel Heywood and Lydia Becker. And now I have a new book out: ‘Emmeline’s Loving Comrade: Richard Marsden Pankhurst, the man who inspired the Suffragette leader’.
Mark Radke @markradke.bsky.social Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
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.
Kristine Moruzi @kmoruzi.bsky.social Associate Professor in Children’s Literature. Currently working on children’s literary culture, far right children’s books, and consent in YA fantasy
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.
april patrick @aprilpatrick.bsky.social assoc prof. research in women's health, narrative med, periodicals, digital humanities. mom to 2 mostly-domesticated cats + 1 feral child.
book: Women's Health in Britain & America: Texts & Contexts (Palgrave) / next proj: women & wellness in periodicals
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.
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