Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Origin Books @originbooks.bsky.social We're Origin Books — a book printing company that helps authors and publishers bring their vision to life.- K kurzum5.bsky.social @kurzum5.bsky.social
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments
Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell)
Coined #HerBook
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social #NAFO Elder
@Falcone kicking Руди Джулиани 🔱
Analysing media #disinfo patterns:
#MisogynyIsANationalSecurityIssue
#MediaBetrayedDemocracy
If you're here to smear Olaf & SPD,
go kick rocks
🌹#SPD 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally
Swearing in 6 languages - deal with it✡️
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: “Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.”
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Arnold’s @arnoldjessica.bsky.social
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
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/
Lizzy Baker @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social
Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social Book historian and maker of things. Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org. MSLIS student.
Thamesliketheriver @miss-grimke.bsky.social History nerd, currently dwelling in 18th century South Carolina, author of The Radical Printer (https://radicalprinter.substack.com/p/the-radical-printer), aspiring bluegrass mandolin player and many other things.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.- E @elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social 18th century historian, FRHistS, genealogist and author for Pen & Sword books.
Host of the website: All Things Georgian. https://georgianera.wordpress.com/
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Marijuana Records @marijuanarecords.bsky.social Marijuana Records is a record label and digital record store based in Denver, Colorado. #ASCAP
https://www.ebay.com/usr/marijuanarecords www.instagram.com/marijuanarecords
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Paula Murphy @paula-murphy.bsky.social PhD student at Northumbria University | Cultural historian researching 1970s Hip Hop in the Bronx | formerly at Norfolk Museums |
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.
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social School of History @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
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
Vilja Virtanen | Ser calvo es tu culpa! @trasplantecapilar.bsky.social 🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅽🆄🅼🅱🅴🆁•❶•🅾🅽 🅶🅾🅾🅶🅻🅴
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bluesky+Messenger
Ser calvo, Es tu culpa!
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Georgia Dalton @georgiamayd.bsky.social Northern Bridge funded PhD, researching feminist theatre and women’s activism | Research interests: modern drama, grassroots theatre, the WLM
Ben D. @bdcj98.bsky.social Dad|Doctoral Researcher (Government/Public Administration) Criminal Justice, American History degrees🎣💦🥾🎸
@sham86.bsky.social @sham86.bsky.social
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Gráinne O'Hare @spacedolphin93.bsky.social I write things. PhD in 18th-century women's life writing, debut novel THIRST TRAP is out now with Picador (UK) and Crown (US) ✨️
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
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.
Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social PhD @ Northumbria · Researching the lives & deaths of women buried at Newcastle Cathedral, 1640-1815 (funded by Northern Bridge DTP) · Transcribing Elizabeth Montagu's letters in my spare time · https://hammonda.substack.com/ 💀
Pamela (Davis) Fausey-Giorgio @pfauseygiorgio.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Proud daughter of one of the many Springfields in this country (the one in Mass.). Against fascism and FOR immigrants, science, and history. Lover of cats & dogs, books & smart, kind people who are trying to do the right thing.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Gabrielle Robilliard @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
SJMEditing @sjmediting.bsky.social Developmental editor for humanities scholars, specialized in historical subjects and working with non-native English speakers. I help secure grants & create impactful publications.
Brown PhD, former Assoc. Prof Art History.
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
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.
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Oliver Jakes @olliejakes.bsky.social ‘Virtue is a currency’ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Nicola Pritchard-Pink @npritchard-pink.bsky.social Social historian of all things 18th century, specialising in Jane Austen, country houses, gardens, literature, and domestic vocal music.
nicolapritchardpink.substack.com
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/
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
AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
COYS
About: aaronrhanlon.com
@greatwhitesharkey.bsky.social @greatwhitesharkey.bsky.social
Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social German Studies, U of Edinburgh. Translation History, Holocaust testimony, archives, interpreters at Holocaust trials. Audio drama and the Holocaust. Occasional Scottish political nonsense. He/him
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
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Matthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social 4th year PhD (part-time). Presenting at Gulliver's Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London. 23rd-24th Sept 2026.
Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, horror films and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
Dr Sylvia Valentine @historylady2013.bsky.social Genealogy, medical history, life long learning student. PhD: "Controlling Smallpox in Scotland: Variolation, Compulsory Vaccination and the Rise of the Anti-Vaccination Movement 1721-1918.
WellnessDay.App @wellnessday.bsky.social https://wellnessday.app - Transform your wellness and productivity Journey. Join the app waitlist!
Megan Barber @mbarberhistory.bsky.social MA History Student at University of Winchester | Postgrad Member of RHS | Researching Monarchy & Public History
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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at University of Manchester. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally