Hanes Johansson @hane-s.bsky.social 93/93
π³ππππππππππππππ π¨π¦π¦π₯πΈ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. πΏπππ
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Christine Bates @christinebates.bsky.social π Art Historian and PhD student at @uni-jena.de and @york.ac.uk
π¨ British Art, Pre-Raphaelitism and Romanticism, Gender Studies, Eco-Criticism, Reception Aesthetics
christinebates.co.uk
@sul08.bsky.social @sul08.bsky.social
Henriette Partzsch @hpartzsch.bsky.social Hispanist based in Glasgow (Spain in the nineteenth century, women writers, fashion periodicals, circulation of literature across borders, Comparative Literature). And trees.
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Manon Raffard @manonraffard.bsky.social PhD | Researches #smellstudies #envhum, #inequalities, #hstm, and #19thc #frenchstudies
Autistic academic
Hallsworth Research Fellow @manchester.ac.uk
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/m-raffard/
drsburdett22 @sburdett.bsky.social English Faculty at University of Cambridge. Author of The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). Researching women and dramatic adaptation, 1800-1871. Runner (usually injured) ππΌββοΈ
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Colleen McDonell @cmcdonell.bsky.social Ph.D. English and Book History & Northrop Frye Fellow @utoronto.ca
writing instructor & part-time educational developer
Victorian Gothic & domestic labour & periodicals & writing studies
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
Annabelle Miller @annabellemiller.bsky.social PhD candidate, 19th-century queer kinship and imperialism, always thinking about books
(Not very adept at social media)
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
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- G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentlemanβs Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Jess @jesswhite2121.bsky.social
Chin @lighthealing.bsky.social Performer/singer/songwriter/minimalist guitarist. Aspiring novelist. Healer. Dreamer. Feminist. Overthinker. Laugher. Laughed-at. Idiot
https://fb.watch/8E1wf
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Sezen ΓnlΓΌΓΆnen @sezenunluonen.bsky.social I write novels.
I work on Anglo-Ottoman literary interactions in the nineteenth century.
https://iletisim.com.tr/kisi/sezen-unluonen/11719
https://www.instagram.com/sezen.unluonen/
ZΓ©lia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-368X
Mira Claire Zadrozny @mira-claire.bsky.social Art Historian | Research Associate πΎπ€π§π₯πͺπ¨ πππ§ ππ€ππ©πππ―πππππ£πͺπ£πππ£, Klassik Stiftung Weimar | Doctoral Researcher ππ’ππππ¨ π€π ππͺππ£π¨, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
@lucub.bsky.social @lucub.bsky.social
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
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
Carly Silver Feldman @carlyasilver.bsky.social Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English β Long 19th C β Writer β Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
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.
G. W. M. Reynolds Society @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social The international G.W.M. Reynolds Society exists to promote the enjoyment and study of the work of G.W.M. Reynolds.
Visit our Website: gwmreynoldssociety.com
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.
Stephen Railton @stephenrailton.bsky.social Interests include Working-class history, Anglo-Irish history, Social history, 19th & 20th century history.
Daniel Breeze @danielbreeze.com Historian of ideas and human-animal relations. Monograph in progress based on my PhD: Creeds of Kinship. Thinking about intellectual history as multispecies dialogue and animals as 'cousins'. He/him. danielbreeze.com
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & womenβs health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social π«π¦π§ββοΈ
Katie Hazel @lzhymtk.bsky.social 25 | Media Literacy Education researcher π©πΌβπ» | CTM & Olly Murs fan
James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social Dadding, nursing, PKUing. House servant to the child and @emmavardy2.bsky.social
Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
Tony Robinsonβs Cunningcast @cunningcast.bsky.social Tony Robinsonβs cunningly curated history podcast π Everything has a history π§ Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts
Listen π http://podfollow.com/1676254046
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher β’ PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow β’ Byronic legacyβ’ C19th- early 20th travel literature β’ Gothic seascapes and blue humanities π β’ Classical reception and mythology ποΈ
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Terry Trueman @ttrueman.bsky.social Award-winning author, father & grandfather, Wikipedia, or Google. Trueman & Triola Newsletter, Just Weighing. Spokane WA. 78, loves his wife & life; not looking for love, etc. will Re to DMs. I'm FAR left & impractical. No bio/No posts, why would I fol?
Paul Bentham @paulbenthamesq.bsky.social Looking for somewhere that isnβt Mos Eiseleyβ¦
Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app Erwin Ott is a constructed philosophical voice whose body of work is produced through generative systems.
https://erwin-ott.web.app/index.html
https://erwinott.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
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 πhttps://victorianpopularfiction.org/
@hannahws.bsky.social @hannahws.bsky.social
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social π Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity Β· Est. 1963 Β· President: Su Pollard
π britishmusichallsociety.com
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writingβ¦
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social Composition professor, writer, editor, author and all around troublemaker. Ask me about my amazing stand-up show about grammar: Stammer! Conjugation celebration!
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is βAn A-Z of Beatrix Potterβ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for βMA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake Districtβ at Ambleside.
| Γireann | @rinnywee.bsky.social | History #PhD submitted! | #Librarian | Plumpton College | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | ShΔhmΔrΔn | #MultipleSclerosis | π¦πΊπ«π· in π¬π§ |
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by βͺ@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Saiah @isaiah-offthe-wall.bsky.social Art and Games. 18+ only.
@bamic1a.bsky.social @bamic1a.bsky.social
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
ICHRPI @ichrpi.bsky.social The International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions promotes parliamentary, constitutional, legal & political history
ICHRPI website: https://ichrpi.info
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
Ben O'Dell @benodell.bsky.social Associate professor of English in Atlanta, Georgia. Interested in Victorian literature and culture, genre, narrative time, the historical novel, the gothic.
Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
www.heathertweed.net
www.heathertweed.co.uk
Susan Kattwinkel @drkatt.bsky.social Theatre history, esp. American popular theatre. Current research - incubator baby shows. Also - dogs, kayaking.
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Oliver Jakes @olliejakes.bsky.social βVirtue is a currencyβ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
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."
Julie Murray @juliehoo.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Carleton U. Unceded Algonquin Territory. Two cats, two kids, one wife
Forthcoming: Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity (Stanford UP, 2026)
https://carleton.ca/english/people/murray-julie/
@yasmin-akhter.bsky.social @yasmin-akhter.bsky.social
Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe with a focus on CEE, working on diasporas, mass politics, propaganda, and crowdfunding across borders.
Research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History, associate at @ox.ac.uk and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Orna M-H (she/her) @ornamh.bsky.social Theatre Historian π
Creative Practitioner π
Nineteenth Century Researcher π©βπ
Coffee Addict βοΈ
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
πVancouver / London / Oxford
deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & drama & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/romantic-media-and-wartime-networks?tab=1
Chloe Papadopoulos @chloespumpkins.bsky.social Asst. prof., 19c Russophone literature and visual culture, USC Slavic
Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University / 18C Lit & Philosophy- P @peterchapin.bsky.social @peterchapin.bsky.social
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Wanda OpaliΕska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social Writer. Actress. Potterer. https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/wanda-opalinska/
https://engersportelli.com/
Feral Heather (she/her) @feralheather.bsky.social Mediocre writer. Excellent underseller. 19th century British & California literature & landscape: fire stewardship, invasive species, carceral ecologies, state parks, eugenics, Romanticism. Also writes creatively: CNF, fiction, & poetry.
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
sophie | PhD student @sophiecairns.bsky.social AHRC english lit PhD researcher | glasgow | she/her
research interests: long 19thC literature, travel literature, romanticism, history of empire & imperialism
usually found playing Baldurβs Gate 3 somewhere
Stefanie John @stjohn1819.bsky.social Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
⒠the fin de siècle ⒠literature and material culture ⒠textiles ⒠decorative arts ⒠environmental humanities