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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
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Raphaëlle Goyeau @biblioraphic.bsky.social Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social ☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian | Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026 | Project Officer for National Literacy Trust - views my own
Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating. Looking for small amounts of paid work.
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Kathryn Brunet @madamebibliophile.bsky.social 📚 Special Collections Librarian 📍London
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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social book history | digital humanities | early modern
Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social Bookhistorian, codicologist, medievalist, fnd patiënt & chairwoman of the Dutch fnd society.
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
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Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
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For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
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Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊
Amy Sopcak-Joseph @amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
L Berrini @lpberrini.bsky.social Sleep deprived librarian,archivist and historian. I study culture and literature of the Middle Ages. Alfonso X is my dude. I like music, books, beekeeping and good food. He/him.
“Librarians aren’t the enemy. Nazis are”
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/wimvanmierlo
Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University with 'an air of cranky scholarship about him'
Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury)
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
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Sara Schliep @sbschliep.bsky.social Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
Carma Fiera 🇨🇦 @carmafiera.bsky.social Art. Cats. Nature. Books
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
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Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Richard Wragg @richdwragg.bsky.social Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol 📚 w/ Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Boydell & Brewer, Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press; now writing ‘The Medieval Library: Using and Abusing Books in the Middle Ages’ for Reaktion Books
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer @lmckeizer.bsky.social Curator (Early Modern Era) at the National Library of Scotland | Passionate about archives, libraries, and museums in any shape or form | she/her | views own
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
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Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Print and Probability Project @print-and-prob.bsky.social developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History of the Book | University of Amsterdam | Early Modernist | The Role of Print in Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia| current project: Hand-Colouring the World Outside Europe
Peter Sjökvist @sjokvist.bsky.social Librarian & Latinist. Uppsala University.
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
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Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social Historian of Modern Ireland and Britain at the University of Galway 
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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