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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
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.
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/
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
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) 🏃🏼‍♀️
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/
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
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Annabelle Miller @annabellemiller.bsky.social PhD candidate, 19th-century queer kinship and imperialism, always thinking about books (Not very adept at social media)
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt‬ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine Proud queer 🏳️‍🌈 Trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
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
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social Digital Humanities | NLP | Computational Theology Now: Drifting... Before: Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen. Before Before: Digital Academy, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.
G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Jess @jesswhite2121.bsky.social
Sezen Ünlüönen @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/
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
Mira Claire Zadrozny @mira-claire.bsky.social Art Historian | Research Associate 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙪𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙯𝙚𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙣, Klassik Stiftung Weimar | Doctoral Researcher 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙨, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Zélia 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
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 │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
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.
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
Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
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.
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & women’s health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚‍♀️
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
Katie Hazel @lzhymtk.bsky.social 25 | Media Literacy Education researcher 👩🏼‍💻 | CTM & Olly Murs fan
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
James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social Dadding, nursing, PKUing. House servant to the child and @emmavardy2.bsky.social
Tony Robinson’s Cunningcast @cunningcast.bsky.social Tony Robinson’s cunningly curated history podcast 🔎 Everything has a history 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Listen 🔗 http://podfollow.com/1676254046
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
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/
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
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
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 & writing… My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard 🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
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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 ‪@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
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
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
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 ‘Virtue is a currency’ - 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/
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
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC 📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Orna M-H (she/her) @ornamh.bsky.social Theatre Historian 🎭 Creative Practitioner 💕 Nineteenth Century Researcher 👩‍🎓 Coffee Addict ☕️
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
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 Opalińska @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.
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 Baldur’s 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
Dr Sarah Wingrove @sazwingrove.bsky.social ECR @ Surrey Literature & Languages and Sociology, and freelance technical editor. Queer pilgrimage practices, lesbian histories and their legacies. www.sarahwingrove.com she/her 🏳️‍🌈 Banner courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/003
Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social #NabokovStudies #SoundStudies #Phenomenology #GeoHumanities #Arts 🦇 #Bats 🦇 #BatLover 🦇 #BatSupporter 🦇 #BatsInArt #StandWith🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🦇 #SupportBatsUkraine batsukraine.org
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
Gem 📚 @gemk03.bsky.social Aspiring madwoman in the attic | she/her
Dr Beth Mills @drbethmills.bsky.social Learning Developer & Library Information Assistant in #HE. Research background: scientific knowledge, evidence & authority in Victorian popular fiction & culture.
James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History #18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
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.
𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social 𝔐𝖎𝔩𝖉-𝖒𝔞𝖓𝔫𝖊𝔯𝖊𝔡 𝔭𝖔𝔩𝖎𝔱𝖎𝔠𝖆𝔩 𝔱𝖍𝔢𝖔𝔯𝖎𝔰𝖙 𝖆𝔫𝖉 𝖋𝔬𝖗𝔪𝖊𝔯 𝔞𝖙𝔥𝖑𝔢𝖙𝔢 𝔬𝖋 𝖘𝔬𝖒𝔢 𝔯𝖊𝔫𝖔𝔴𝖓. 2024-27 NEH Scholarly Editions project leader—Creating an integrated standard edition of #Wollstonecraft’s ‘Rights of Men’ and ‘Rights of Woman’ for OUP.
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Leon Biela @ljbiela.bsky.social Historian | University of Freiburg | PhD project: Nation-Building, Empire and the Navy in 19th and early 20th century Germany
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Shellie Vandersluis @shellie-v.bsky.social Eternal learner, full-time project manager, and part-time stand-up philosopher. Current hobbies include losing pens, misplacing sunglasses, and overthinking simple tasks. askshellie.com
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social Musicologist & cultural historian, Royal Northern College of Music | Fellow, Royal Historical Society | Author, ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (CUP) | Current project: 'The Cambridge History of German Opera to the Early Nineteenth Century'
Abdallah Aljazzar @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social Palestinian. Storyteller. Rooted in Gaza.
University of Exeter Department of English and Creative Writing @uniofexeterecw.bsky.social Exeter ECW is a large and dynamic department that is international in outlook. Colleagues come from around the world, making us an academic community in which different cultures and languages intermingle and thrive.
Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social making art, hiking, kayaking, gardening, watching films and tv, listening to music, reading comics, and singing karaoke about.me/melvinpena
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/