Laélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social 
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social Pro-Palestine 🍉🍉🍉, anti-Murdoch Australian greenie. A lifelong leftie who thinks billionaires should be fired into the sun and that Israel's committing genocide. Posting a bit here: https://weaverbel.substack.com/
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Rob Eastaway @robeastaway.bsky.social Author, speaker, Director of www.mathsinspiration.com, cricket-lover, dad. Friend of BBC R4's podcast More or Less. 
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social Film scholar, director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. Research @goethe_uni Frankfurt: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer. 
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
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
Leah Knight @leahknight.bsky.social 
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Lynn Bridgett 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @northernlass208.bsky.social Qualified Tour Guide on Hadrian's Wall for over 17 years. Italophile. All photos are my own.
Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social Now I am become Jeff, destroyer of worlds.
PhD researcher. Outsider Cinema: Marginal Filmmakers in the American Exploitation Film 1960-1985.
Booklet editor for @indicator.bsky.social. Freelance film writer.
Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Two new books in 2026; hundreds of presentations/articles on anime, manga, cosplay, history, art and craft across the UK, USA, Europe and Asia.
Website helenmccarthy.net
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Bryan Simpson @dragalthor.bsky.social Runner, reader and bike (motor) rider. Likes alliteration. (He/Him)
The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social International Man of History. Heritage buildings and metalwork. A man of dreadful aspect and sorry footwear, "either an animal or a god" (Aristotle)
therestlessforge.ghost.io
Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....
Tracy Keefe @tracy0864.bsky.social Medievalist, book lover, (failed) knitter
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Jillian Reid @jillianreid.bsky.social archaeologist, medievalist, and devoted fan of cats
AHRC-funded PhD researcher on the archaeology of medieval women
Dr Louise O'Brien @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social Egyptologist, Ancient Historian | Portraiture, Culture, Hybridity & Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt | Personal Account
Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF, Edinburgh Uni, soon Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025); Co-ed, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025).
She/her
Jasmine Celtel @jasmine-celtel.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research studying communities of laughter in the Welsh Marches.
(Pabenham Clifford Hours, 55v)
www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-celtel
Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
📍Bristol 🇬🇧
Posts on: Bristol, community cohesion & social inclusion, climate & nature, deliberative democracy, public engagement and positive news.
Views my own.
Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum 
Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social 🇬🇧 she/her, cis, white, bi, lubberwort
Fandom old; have been known as Cynjen around the place
Strongly supportive of trans rights
Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
victoriaausten.com
Frazer Martin @frazermartin.bsky.social Associate Editor, Yale University Press London - he/they - views my own
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social Historian; Author of Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom (2026); Freedom in the Age of Slavery (2026); Beyond Slavery's Shadow (2021); and more at warrenmilteer.com
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. Reading, librarian, cups of tea, library advocacy, immunocompromised, pro-choice, scleroderma, interstitial lung disease, organ donation, ADHD and naps. She/her.
Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social Historical geographer, events whiz, mother to a tiny croissant-obsessed tyrant. Posting in a personal capacity
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Jane Edwards @janiesprogget.bsky.social Lazy artist, walker, gardener. Granny to two heartstoppers. Old age Middle Englander and self-proclaimed random BBC supporter. Nowt written by AI here ☮️
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Tim Powell @tepowell.bsky.social Places of Deposit Manager at UK National Archives. Interests in archives, aircraft, hillforts, Warwickshire CCC and AFC Wimbledon.
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social Tea and poetry.
Based in Cumbria UK.
More poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
The Way of Tea:
https://theherbfarm.co.uk/page/the-way-of-tea
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social Historian in WNC
working on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
home of #wrightposting
read at https://tinyurl.com/meinabookwow
listen at https://tinyurl.com/meonnprwow
cited here: https://tinyurl.com/meandsantawow
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social Cheese lover, animal/nature admirer, movie & anime lover, loves music. I love writing children's and ya books. Children's lyricist and composer. Children's Musicals.
NO CHAT UNLESS I KNOW YOU
BULLIES OUT
IF YOU COPY MY LINKS BOOK HASHTAGS please.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Lecturer at the University of Bath, Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages, gardens. Etc
Daphne Harries @daphneharries.bsky.social English Undergrad @ Keble, Oxford 📖
poet / student / mug collector / Fastitocalon defender
Pamela Devine @pdevinee.bsky.social Visitor guide/historian at the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon. Interested in medieval wall paintings & historic graffiti. Author of Writing on Shakespeare's Walls https://www.youcaxton.co.uk/writing-on-shakespeares-walls/
Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Heather Munro Prescott @knittingclio.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History at Central Connecticut State University
Lou Burnard @lb42.bsky.social Old enough to know better. Retired digital humanist and TEI editor currently obsessed by 19th c. Theatre. Anyone here heard of thomas hailes lacy?
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social Organist | Recitalist | Choral Director | Accompanist | Birmingham UK | paulcarr.co.uk
Jamie Hall @primitivemethod.bsky.social Traditional goldsmith with a research interest in Early Medieval archaeology. In particular, complex gold hinges from the 6th and 7th centuries.
Robert Guthrie @robertguthrie.bsky.social BBC journalist, 5 Live. Evensong, choir and liturgy nerd. Tenor, runner, Francophile www.robertguthrie.uk
Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social An accredited Tour Guide providing tours of London by licensed taxi; also bespoke walking tours in the City of London. Liveryman & Past Master Parish Clerk.
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
harry edwards @harry-edwards.bsky.social Berlin-based historian/academic. Ongoing PhD “Dancing at the End of the World”, an alternatice social & intellectual history of acid house/rave, the early internet and 'end of history' via Megatripolis. On paternity leave. https://linktr.ee/harry.edwards
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
StarDust949 @stardust949.bsky.social Aspiring to write for stage & screen. Dyslexic ball of chaos. She/ her. #pwME #MECFS #POTS #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights. Twitter account: @StarDust949
Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social Gustavus prof, Notre Dame alum, and Minnesotan. I write about Africa, France, colonialism, migration, and surveillance in the 20th c. All opinions are my own and not my employer
@skyellis666.bsky.social @skyellis666.bsky.social 
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Peter Doyle @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social Military Historian (and geologist)
Trench warfare, terrain and material culture
FRHistS
Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social Early medieval historian at the University of Kent | Reviews editor, Early Medieval Europe | Convenor @earliermiddleages.bsky.social
kent.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/roberts.html
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Mixed Metaphors @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Short fiction editor at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social The Ancient World & more recent history. Mosaics. And, of course, birds.
East Lothian.
Amelia Gentleman @ameliagentleman.bsky.social Reporter at the Guardian
Juanita Cox @juanitacox.bsky.social Fellow, Institute of Historical Research. Co-Founder, Guyana SPEAKS. Trustee, Oral History Society. Researches Black British History/Caribbean Studies. Writing critical biography of Edgar Mittelholzer. Lover of abstract photography, short stories & poetry
Ian Styler @stylerphone.bsky.social British medieval historian and space nerd living in the middle of a Swedish forest
Dr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social Freelance historian of the Actresses' Franchise League and suffrage theatre and entertainments... does books, talks, walks, radio, games, exhibitions, and workshops.
Also alter ego of award-winning comedy, cabaret & magic act Ada Campe
naomipaxton.co.uk
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social Descendant of vikings. Head of Architecture in rail, artist, musician, educator. Fmr. Prof, Principal, public speaker, author, founder. LCM, RSC, BBC, Sky, XBOX, LNER & more. Published/Exhibited. Charity chair. PROWIBO. BAFTA, FRSA, Soc of Authors. Dry SOH
Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books.
Fellow of The English Association.
Contact me for support for routes to ambitious English for all.
www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social The human version of a crow. 
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Conservation Scientist, Ecologist, Evolutionary Biologist. 🐝
Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social He/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
Johnny McGonigal @flyingcoracle.bsky.social Archaeology grad. Museum worker. Dysgwr Cymraeg 🏴