Deirdre Costigan MP @deirdrecostiganmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Ealing Southall 🌹 | Proud UNISON member | To get in touch email deirdre.costigan.mp@parliament.uk
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media. Nonbinary comrade.
Siân Humphries @sianhumphries.bsky.social Labour Women’s Network. Yorkshire lass, lover of politics, loud music and lipstick.
Alison Livesey @superdooperal.bsky.social Labour Councillor, thwarted gardener, feminist, anxious about the planet. #FBPE
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
The Labour Party @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Independently championing Labour Party values for a fairer society. Not affiliated with official Labour Party. Join us in amplifying voices, championing policies, and working towards a brighter future.
Patricia Ferguson MP - Glasgow West @pjferguson.bsky.social Scottish Labour MP for Glasgow West. Chair of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.
For casework please email patricia.ferguson.mp@parliament.uk
Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
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Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
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@philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social ATHEIST / ARDENT FEMINIST / Put Women In Charge Now / I voted for her / Vaxxed / Secular Humanist / Progressive Liberal Dem / Blue Crew /Eat the Rich / Pro Union / Pro choice /Far Left / Woke AF / Ally / Tax Religion / 8647 /Antifa/ Resister
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
International Vernon Lee Society (IVLS) @vernonleesociety.bsky.social The new Bluesky account of the IVLS
Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social All antifascists are allies now.
Our community is dedicated to antitoxicity, and opposed to all hate, including scapegoating of liberals.
Voting and political engagement are duty.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
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
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
Text Affects 2025: The Future of Intelligence @textaffects.bsky.social Text Affects brings together diverse scholarly communities that share a common interest in the creation, use and effects of text.
Conference CFP: https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects/text-affects-2025-2/calls/call-for-papers/
Clare Paterson @clarepaterson.bsky.social Author and former documentary producer.
The Nine Lives of Annie Besant, Victorian rebel, out 2025. https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-nine-lives-of-annie-besant/
Volunteer with Care4Calais. Cold water swimmer and painter.
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
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.
Gary Love @garylove.bsky.social Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice. Reimagining public credit creation and building intersectional solidarity in and beyond Middlesbrough, UK: https://wherecreditsdue.org
Caio Oliveira Dantas @caiodantas.bsky.social PhD student at @ndecon.bsky.social
Working on sovereign debt and international finance.
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
Jessica Kelly @jessica--kelly.bsky.social 🎓British and American Studies B.A. | 🎓 Computational Linguistics B.A. | 🎓 Gender Studies M.A.| ✍️ Feminism, conflict & violence studies, social policy | 👩🏻💻 Editorial Manager at @sagegsp.bsky.social| Always questioning, never settling.
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Katharina Herold-Zanker @jkhhz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Literature and Drama
@durham_uni
/ Decadence and Orientalism
@OUPAcademic
/ Feminism and Drama 🎭
Views my own.
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
Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social Prof of Literature, Politics & Performance at Loughborough University. Head of English. Editor of ‘Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations’ @livUniPress. Contemporary theatre, age studies & utopianism.
Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York #UoY.
8th in UK University Guide
A world top 35 Department
Athena Swan Silver Award
Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social Official Bluesky feed of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. Visit us and join at https://www.asle.org.uk
@partooy.bsky.social @partooy.bsky.social Teessider, Boro supporter, runner and just trying to get through life with the motto 'have courage and be kind' (shamelessly robbed from Cinderella's mum)
Lillian @hingleytheory.bsky.social Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford.
PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
lillianhingleydphil.wordpress.com
Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
Doriane Nemes @dodoriane.bsky.social PhDing on Oscar Wilde | fin-de-siècle art and literature; visual and material culture studies
Labour Left Podcast @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social Labour Left Podcast | Colchester Labour | Posts personal capacity | Fighting for Green Socialism | Vice Chair Momentum | CLPD Executive | He/Him | Podcast links 👉 https://linktr.ee/brynhgriffiths
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Phyllis Weliver @phyllisweliver.com Victorian literature & music history │
NEW coursebook: Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2025), co-edited with Katharine Ellis
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Team-Alpha @team-alpha.bsky.social We are members of Team-Alpha at Teesside University working on the intersection between criminal justice and public health and ALWAYS include communities in our work
Moderated by Professor Dorothy Newbury-Birch and Dr Andrew Divers
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Culture | Medical Humanities | Gut Health | Author of “Empire Under the Microscope" (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | lover of books, dogs, slow news, and the oxford comma. | vibe: 📚🔬🦟🐕👶🏻👶🏻🌱
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Jane Desmarais🕷🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🏳️🌈🦋 @janedesmarais.bsky.social Prof of Decadent voluptuousness
Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Dr Clare Horrocks @drhorrocks.bsky.social SL in Cultural History, published researcher on Victorian magazine culture, Punch & Dickens. Submissions Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review (@RSVP)
Em Cadger @emcadgerbadger.bsky.social art historian in training, 19th century socialist & scientific illustrations, UBC, general plant enthusiast and dog lover - she/her
Amy E Martin @amyemart.bsky.social Professor, Irish and Victorian Studies, anticolonialism, internationalisms, the gothic. Director of the Weissman Center at Mount Holyoke College. New Yorker in Massachusetts. She/her.
Kate Flint @kateflint.bsky.social uprooted transatlantic nomad; academically drawn to nineteenth century art, lit and culture; otherwise to cats, owls, hawks and the rest of the non-human natural world (except for cockroaches and clothes moths); travel; drawing; and resisting.
Debbie Parker Kinch @debbieparkerkinch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Staff Tutor @ The Open University. Interested in 19/20C writing by women and the history of feminism. Writing a biography of writer & feminist Bessie Parkes Belloc (1829-1925). Views my own.
Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social Academic at the University of Glasgow, working on / teaching James Joyce, Children’s Literature, Stevenson, Decadence. Parent. Cat Owner. Fool. 
Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social Nineteenth-century British literature; literature and economic history; currently thinking about capitalist farming and abstraction in relation to literary form. I live in Ankara and travel to the Aegean. 
Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social.
Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.
Hel Eline @hel.eurosky.social Age: Millennial. Will kill stuff boomers like for food.
Alignment: Chaotic Lawful. Yes, that is internally consistent. Cope.
Politics: Socialist. Economics is applied sociology.
Interests: Everything, but mostly computer.
HRT since 15th of May 2026, 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴
Jennifer Richards @jenerichs.bsky.social Author. Artist. Outsider.
Senior Lecturer: Fashion
PhD: Manifesting the Gothic: Reflections on Fashion and Visual Culture
Alex Bove @abovepdx.bsky.social If fingers were xylophones then I could play a tune on your fingers.
(Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social Established in 1935, the IISH is an archival and research institute on labour and social movements. iisg.amsterdam
Ulrich Janse van Vuuren @ulrichjvv.bsky.social Humanitarian | Environmentalist | 📱 Digital media 👥 Advocacy 🌍 Global development 🎓 University of London ⭕️ UN Global Goals #Goalkeepers2030 🌿 For people and planet.
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Natalie Hanna @nataliehanna.bsky.social Medievalist at University of Liverpool
Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her
Jane Eksie @janeismundane.bsky.social Jane likes nettles.
Doing a PhD.
I love East Asian literature, Alice in Wonderland, Lain, and lots of other things.
https://janeeksie.substack.com/
https://serialexperimentsjane.bandcamp.com/
https://ko-fi.com/janeeksie45241/gallery
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Storm Jameson @stormjameson.bsky.social 1891-1986. Yorkshire woman, prolific novelist and ardent political campaigner. English PEN President 1938-1944. Advocate for refugees and the displaced. Europhile, Socialist and campaigner. Thorn in the side of HG Wells.
https://stormjameson.wordpress.com/
Temple Drake @templedrake.bsky.social Lover of music, punk, jazz & everything in-between. Believer in equality & respect for all people except nazis. Perennially disappointed by Democrats.
Aircraft mechanic by trade, artist by nature. Use AI get, blocked.
#LeftisBest
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social 
Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social Historian of Cuba and Communist systems. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD candidate at UW-Madison. U of Havana BA, UW-Madison MA. Bylines in The Nation Mag & Dissent Mag, among others.
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB #AFTunion & Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books + CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social