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Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern Anglo Atlantic World
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Owen McArdle @mcardleowen.bsky.social fo/he/him 🏴🏴 | 📍Caerdydd | linguist 🇩🇪🇫🇷 and @stcatharines.bsky.social grad | transport and Saracens fan 🚄🏉🖤❤️
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs
'Obvious but wrong'
Also JTJ on the other place
https://johnthejack.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/
St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social Founded in 1473 and known as ‘Catz’, we’re a welcoming, thriving & vibrant community in the heart of Cambridge. A College of @cam.ac.uk.
Visit caths.cam.ac.uk
Laura Runge-Gordon @lauralrg.bsky.social Prof of English at U of South Florida Restoration and 18C British literature, esp that by and about women. #OpenAccess Digital concordance research, music and stage performance, esp in works by Aphra Behn
Orla Smyth @orlasmyth2025.bsky.social MCF Eighteenth-Century Studies, France and Britain primarily. Narrative fiction 1670s to 1750s. Theories of fiction/literature, from the past to the present.
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/. 
S. E. R. A. (Société d'Études du Romantisme Anglais) @sera-romantic.bsky.social S.E.R.A. was founded to promote transdisciplinary approaches to the Romantic period in French academia. Current president: @sophiemusitelli.bsky.social Paris Steering Group of the London-Paris Romantic Seminar.
Anne Fertig, PhD @annefertig.bsky.social History, literature, but mostly just a lot of Jane Austen. Catch me in my upcoming podcast, Finding Jane Austen (Out 2025) 
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social Restoration is a peer-reviewed journal open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700.
https://blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/
Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social 18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Professor, UCSB English
rachaelsking.com
The Book of Improvement: Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment (Yale, 2026)
How Much, How Little: A Memoir of Caregiving (One Signal, 2027)
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ 
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
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.
Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social Well, sir, I guess there’s just a meanness in this world.
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social The Frame Blog is an online magazine for articles, interviews and reviews about antique picture frames.
https://theframeblog.com/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
Darren Dyck @darrendyck.bsky.social English Prof. Likes words, phrases, sentences. Barely serious.
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
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
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
harlan talib ockey @harlanto.bsky.social reporter @ law360 / 🇺🇲🇳🇿 in 🇦🇺 / mostly a personal account, lots of music and tennis thoughts / opinions my own
Melanie Parke @melanieparke.bsky.social Painter, Observer
Anti AI & tech
WEB 🦜 https://melanieparke.com/home.html
BLOG 🐝 https://melanieparke.com/news.html
☀️ https://meyervogl.com/artist/melanie-parke
☀️ https://www.kbfa.com
☀️ https://loucksgallery.com
☀️ https://www.thewillardgallery.co
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Tom Cook [isn’t really here] @tomcook24.bsky.social poet critic person • typographer for Faber & Faber and elsewhere • TLS contributor • currently editing a new selection of Wordsworth • typesetting work: tom.cook@turnstonebooks.co.uk
Eli Bernstein @elibernstein.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | The Queen's College, Oxford | c16 literary and intellectual culture | Erasmus to Montaigne
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Flynn Allott @flynnoallott.bsky.social Lecturer @ SPC Oxford. Asst. Ed. @ Imago Mundi. Ferimus ea quae sunt ferenda.
Myko Philip @wheelingstrange.bsky.social phd on shakespeare & early modern education @ uni of cam | an extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, / Of here, and euery where
Dan Brooks @bandrooks.bsky.social Working on Early Modern travel @TrinCollCam, sometimes reviews @Telegraph - a Dan for all seasons