Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Jung-Hsin Hsieh @junghsinhsieh.bsky.social English Lit PhD Candidate @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | 18thC & modernist studies, focusing on women’s writings | PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | TW
Killian Quigley @k-c-quigley.bsky.social oceanic form
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Rilo Kiley @rilokileyofficial.bsky.social Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, Jason Boesel & Dave Rock ~ ~ ~
Katie Noble @katienoble.bsky.social Dr of 18th C ephemera & theatrical culture; actresses; media history, mediation, adaptation; printing and book history ✨
Day job in education policy and Editor of BSECS Criticks
(she/they)
katiernoble.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
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature at University of Cambridge and Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Erin Spamp @erinspampinato.bsky.social Mostly mushroom musings 
Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social Bad puns and video games since 1999.
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Alexander Larman @alexlarman.bsky.social Author, journalist, refugee from elsewhere
James Balmont @jbalmont.bsky.social *probably posting about ambient music and foreign films*
Music supervisor @ Nower Studio
Writer @ BBC Culture, Time Out, Dazed, AnOther etc.
Musician @ Swim Deep
The Nickel Cinema @thenickelcinema.bsky.social London’s new grindhouse cinema. Listings at thenickel.co.uk
Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service.
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
Elizabeth McDonald @drpastonsrus.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Boydell & Brewer with particular interests in the period c.1450-c.1850. Primarily here to support the good fight via publishing enterprises. Will also be found "nerding out" over medieval churches and book history.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
danielle thom @daniellejthom.bsky.social senior curator @ the design museum
possibly just three trenchcoats in another, much larger trenchcoat
views all my own 🇨🇮🫱🏻🫲🏼🇵🇸
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DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Sue Walker @sowalker729.bsky.social Anglophile, special collections librarian at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. Classic film, British WWII history, animals, kindness.
Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford.
Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond.
https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/
Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social LitProf University of Oxford. Loves long serial fiction in all its forms.
Dr Katie Aske @katieaske.bsky.social Lecturer in English at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in 18th-century beauty and skincare. Instagram: @drkatieaske
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Matthew Bell @matthewgbell.bsky.social Prof of German and Comp Lit, KCL. Fellow of the British Academy. I do: Goethe, the classical tradition, histories of the human sciences. And for pleasure: cricket, birds, German wine, Cornwall.
Richard Kirkland @richardnw5.bsky.social Professor of Irish literature at King's College London. Lives in Kentish Town.
Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social Professor of Medieval English @ King’s College London; US / Oz; producer of Dolly Collins / Maureen Duffy ‘Missa Humana’ world premiere 
James Harriman-Smith @jharrimansmith.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
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
Dr Maddy Pelling @maddypelling.bsky.social Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social Multi-award winning stationery & gifts for rebels & troublemakers
www.clavisandclaustra.co.uk
Jodi Johnson @jodijohnson.bsky.social Irish poet. Teach at Harvard. Poetry Editor at *Tampa Review*.
Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema
https://linktr.ee/thirdwindowfilms
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
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kcl.ac.uk/artshums
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