Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Dr Amara Thornton @amalexathorn.bsky.social Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
VO XO @voxo-wav.bsky.social Ride the wav 🌊
Love Herself out now
listen / save / add to ur playlists 💙
Linktr.ee/voxo.wav
Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social Book historian; digital humanist; sector-leading single point of failure. Chapbooks, horses, computer vision. Homepage: www.printing-machine.org
Guyda Armstrong @guyda.bsky.social Books, things, languages, analogue, digital, sound. Shoegazer.
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
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
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Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, specialising in the cultural history of early America. Writing Edible Empire, a book on foodways and the making/breaking of Anglo-America. Indigenous knowledge, colonial appetites.
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social Just a Jaf. Sometimes a librarian. Mostly tired. Crafty, in the good way. Edinburgh history lover. Trans rights are human rights. Kindness is cool. Scotlandshire. She/her.
Ellen Werner @ellenwerner.bsky.social Research associate in environmental histories at the University of Manchester | PhD research on "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at the University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
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
@aurorabreak.bsky.social @aurorabreak.bsky.social 
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social C19th historian fascinated by philanthropy & charity. Latest book examines Lord Overstone's philanthropy in period 1843-83. Oh and I’m a fundraiser as well! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/charitable-giving-in-victorian-britain-9781350424593/
Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊
Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
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
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social Home to interdisciplinary research, public engagement and a range of undergraduate and taught master's courses and PhD programmes.
Website: https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/english/
Susannah Eckersley @susannaheckersley.bsky.social Prof of Critical Heritage & Memory Cultures, Newcastle University, UK
Director, AHRC Northern Bridge
AHRC-DFG: Cultural Dynamics: Museums & Democracy in Motion
HERA: en/counter/points
Horizon 2020: CoHERE
EUFP7: European Museums in an age of Migration
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
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/
Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
@alijanedew.bsky.social @alijanedew.bsky.social 
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
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
Jo Marchant @jomarchant.bsky.social Science journalist and NYT bestselling author of Cure, Decoding the Heavens, The Human Cosmos and In Search of Now www.jomarchant.com
Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions 
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social Usher syndrome, deafblind, retinitis pigmentosa, cochlear implants, guide dog 🦮 🌈, AltText and capitals on hashtags,
♿️ she/her,
Equality, Equity and Justice
Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social Researcher at Oxford, lecturer at Exeter…never a dull moment!
Visual&Intellectual culture|Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History |
PDRA Crafting Documents project & William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College.
Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social Historian, author and Spaniel lover. WHW IC. Specialism: Women's Suffrage movement. Things of historical interest: just about anything. Currently working on tracing my father's service journey in #WorldWar2 and the history of 104th Regt RHA.
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’.
Eyob Derillo @eyobderillo1.bsky.social Independent researcher, former curator Ethiopian collections and the first black curator at the British Library. All my view.
Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide. Walks and tours. The original lunchtime Manchester Netwalks for business.
I can't access DMs so please contact via website.
www.revealmanchester.co.uk
Highlighting women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
@thegreenlefty.bsky.social @thegreenlefty.bsky.social Tall lad with a tendency to ask people to vote Green!
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group.
The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/- P @paulr82.bsky.social @paulr82.bsky.social
Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
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https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social Manchester and Salford anniversaries, memories and photos. Also RTs relating to history and events.
Food Simp @foodsimp.bsky.social Food Simp helps you discover recipes using ingredients you already have at home, reducing food waste and making cooking easy.
foodsimp.com
Download on App Store: https://bit.ly/FoodSimpAppStore
Download on Google Play: https://bit.ly/FoodSimpGooglePlay
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social Novels & games chap. Johannes Cabal, Carter & Lovecraft, THE SHADOW ON THE GLASS for "Call of Cthulhu," Kyth the Taker, Goon Squad, co-wrote BROKEN SWORD I-III, principal writer on the BAFTA-winning ATOMFALL. All my fault. Sorry.
UK. Portrait: Small Robot
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Rachel Garraway @racheluomlib.bsky.social Engagement Librarian for School of Environment, Education and Development at University of Manchester.
Loves libraries, reading, music and walks.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Jonathan Keenan @j-keenan.bsky.social Photographer and stuff.
Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social Medieval and early modern manuscripts, books, libraries and archives
Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
@bardodasidades.bsky.social @bardodasidades.bsky.social 
Jamie Robinson @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social Manager of the Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab
Multispectral | Photometric Stereo | 3D | Heritage Imaging
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social University of Manchester
Cantabria Románica @cantabriaromanica.bsky.social Arte Románico en Cantabria. #cantabria #arte #historia #romanico #medieval #patrimoniocultural #difusiondelpatrimonio www.cantabriaromanica.com 
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|