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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/
Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social Historian / writer / university lecturer. Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) https://cambridge.org/core_title/gb/613004 & lecturer @uclhistory
Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 PhD student @irishinstitute.bsky.social vikings, women & textiles
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Kaarina Kilpiö @kilpkaa.eurosky.social Social historian of music, University lecturer at taideyliopisto.bsky.social. Interested in social debate. Bookworm. Mom of 2 (+2 rescue dogs). Tending to a 1950s house and garden. everyday life & functional music – music in propaganda – film music
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society @ecisociety.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all. https://www.ecis.ie/
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches, teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social Research Development professional, Ethnomusicologist (Celtic/trad music), probably definitely autistic, Manx traddy/muso, feminist lefty (but not loony), Xennial, Welsh Indy, punk, with a soft spot for cats. Hiraeth for Ellan Vannin. Afraid for humanity...
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷‍♀️ She/They) https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her more: casey.prof
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker. Literary medical historian Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Dr Fiona Tolan @fionatolan.bsky.social Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social Scottish SFF writer and podcaster. Hugo Award finalist. Author of The Politics of Doctor Who. Telefantasy Time Jump co-host: https://www.patreon.com/TelefantasyTimeJump. Writes a lot of Doctor Who things. Likes trebuchets. https://lizbethmyles.com/
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Nicola Pritchard-Pink @npritchard-pink.bsky.social Social historian of all things 18th century, specialising in Jane Austen, country houses, gardens, literature, and domestic vocal music. nicolapritchardpink.substack.com
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 Cambridge, Massachusetts THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Amma Asante @ammaasante.bsky.social Bafta Award Winning screenwriter and director: A Way Of Life | Belle | A United Kingdom | Where Hands Touch
DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Marie Jaros @mariejaros.bsky.social Medievalist, PostDoc, curiously looking towards the early modern period, currently working on historical whales, but also Kingdom of Sicily, Italy and charters @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage. Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Malorie Blackman @malorieblackman.bsky.social Author.
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw. Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc. https://robbierichardson.net
Annie Tupciauskas Richardson @a-mrichie.bsky.social
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers She/her Formerly known as foggyknitter
Corinne Gressang @corinnegressang.bsky.social Historian of the French Revolution. Dog mom. Auntie. Learner. Any posts here do not reflect my employer.
Dr Elizabeth Gow @ecgow.bsky.social Manuscript curator and archivist in Manchester, UK.
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚 sick poet / library mole london
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social Autistic(she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~ Maker of beautiful things 🧶 Bedbound by #MECFS and Appreciate all kinds of Support through https://ko-fi.com/chembarathi/shop
David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social Historian with daily Alaska history posts & weekly column (https://www.adn.com/author/david-reamer/). Black Lives in Alaska (2022) co-author & 2023 co-Alaska Historian of the Year. Support at Buy Me a Coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/davidreamer).
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century. https://womensstudiesgroup.org/ Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere. Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Christopher Paolini @christopherpaolini.bsky.social Creator of the World of Eragon and the Fractalverse. Artist. Storyteller. Full-time asker of questions. https://linktr.ee/christopherpaolini
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel ‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833). Based at University of Bristol https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Lost in the Middle Ages. Lecturer at the University of Bath - Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Helena Ifill @helenaifill.bsky.social
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom. FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk
Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social www.philiphoare.co.uk contact: irene@georginacapel.com
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
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
Dr Matt Crofts @mattcrofts.bsky.social Literature researcher. PhD on #Gothic Tyranny. Interests: Dracula adaptations, the #Flashman papers, rats, apocalyptic wastes & Castlevania. Black cat fan 🐈‍⬛
Tiffany RM Wang @tiffanyrmw.bsky.social MA @National Taiwan University C18 literature, environmental humanities, natural history
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Dr. Serena Qihui Pei @serenaqihuipei.bsky.social PhD in English and Comparative Literature, Global Romanticism, University College London. AFHEA.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD from StirUni | Prev RA on Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online and Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/)| Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
S Susan Wilkin @susanwilkin.bsky.social Oxford-based linguist/early modernist into (horti/cultural history of late Stuart England, works on fruit/vegetable cultivation). Reviving Dutch language skills to extend research across North Sea.
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” 💊
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
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
Lois Wignall @loiswig1.bsky.social ESRC PhD student researching industrial knowledge production & dissemination, palatability of the machine & working-class education in c.18th and c.19th northern England. University of Liverpool / NWSSDTP
David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social Wildlife Ecologist. Passionate about open science, scientific publishing, & peer review. Founder of @StacksJournal.bsky.social, a scientific journal designed ease & ethics. Learn More & Join Us ⬇️ https://www.stacksjournal.org
Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social You probably know me from a space language. This is my account for pure nerdy escapism. Talk with me about books, language, musician life, cooking. Formerly physics/CS, soon back to school for linguistics! they/them Steerswoman (🤷)
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Chiara Codecà @chiaracodeca.bsky.social
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Francesca @fbls.bsky.social Lecturer. c18 women's writing and older age. PhD on Anna Seward. Should be working on her book (Palgrave, soon)
Michael Powell-Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
Louise @thefloralhistorian.bsky.social Ex-Florist now a historian with an Masters in history from Liverpool Hope University. Writing a book on Liverpool social history, I hope to have it finished by the end of 2025. I'm a Mum of three in my other life & have been roped into being a dance mum.
@medievalgender.bsky.social @medievalgender.bsky.social
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
Lecturer in Recent Runes @lecturer.bsky.social University Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Project Management and Strategy Pro, Consumer Marketing Afficonado Vienna (AT) based (ususally to be found in 3B)
SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social Inspiring the next generation to develop ideas for a fairer world. Follow us for tweets about SOAS life, news and events. #WeAreSOAS
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/ Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977 www.alcs.co.uk
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI. Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Melissa Shiels, PhD @melissashiels.bsky.social Early Modern Irish Historian, Dress/Fashion Historian, Dress Recreation, Living History. Recreating historic dress since 2002 from 10th century Viking, Normal, Medieval, 1530s-1570s, late 18th-century, Regency, and mid-Victorian.
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Harvard University @harvard.edu Official account for Harvard University. Devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
@socforrefstudies.bsky.social @socforrefstudies.bsky.social
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust 🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584 warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen She/her Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities. British #womencomposers 🎶 Long-term housebound with #longcovid Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦‍⬛🐞
John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Archaeobears @archaeobears.bsky.social Follow for info on human-bear interactions, from the ice ages to the present day. Home to #BoxOfficeBears news. #archaeology #history
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world. -- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/ -- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
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
Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Impact Officer @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Uni of Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor of IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Book forthcoming with MUP.