Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Chris Webb @brownricelentils.bsky.social No longer working for money
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/ 
Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Ross Cameron @rosscmrn.bsky.social public engagement fellow @lcflondon.bsky.social | @victorianhand.bsky.social funded by the AHRC | dr of travel writing | formerly research and public engagement University of Glasgow.
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
Clément Fabre @clementfabre.bsky.social Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | Associate Professor @UPEC | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
Lucy Whitfield @lucywhitfield.bsky.social Social and public historian (esp. ordinary extraordinary women, buildings, food & daily life) and author, based in Wiltshire. Founder of @womenwhomademe Also musician, mother, pro-genealogist, folk music nut and perpetual volunteer. Totally freelance.
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Fenimore Farm and Country Village @fenimorefarm.bsky.social Formerly The Farmers' Museum. Cultivating an understanding of the rural heritage that has shaped our land, community, and American culture. Cooperstown, NY. 
Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social Cyclist. Victorian Lit & Culture. Reader. Writer. Teacher. Associate Professor.
About cycling: https://offthebackweb.wordpress.com
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social Historian of Regency era (1788-1837)
Researching William Long-Wellesley, celebrity, and the fall of Wanstead House
University of Westminster Alumni
Londonist 🔶 Orient Fan 🔶
Eejit 🔶 Irishman
Blog - www.wickedwilliam.com
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
Fox Daily @foxdailys.bsky.social Foxy features every day!
All credit goes to real owner.
Stephane @stephane0101.bsky.social 
Emma V. Gerstein @sassmill.bsky.social Gay museum lady that sews things. Part time Victorian woman, functionally indistinguishable from an eBay haunted doll. Living history, fashion history, and a definite lack of impulse control.
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
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.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social she/her •medievalist • monastic landscapes • experiential heritage • neurodiversity & archaeology • medieval women religious • creator #muntastic #nunscapes • SFF nerd #AuDHD Ally 🏳️⚧️🌈
🔗https://hcommons.org/members/kimmcurran
Adriana Sanroman @arannaudrey.bsky.social Heritage conservator. Lecturer. Telling stories. Building cultural bonds between LatAm and the Celtic Nations. Tourism. Good food. Trad/folk music and crafts. Ag foghlaim Gaeilge.
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.
J.D. Schnepf @jdschnepf.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
Garthine Walker @garthine.bsky.social 🌿Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP)🌿 Senior Coach Practitioner (EMCC). Supervisor.
🌿 Former now Honorary Professor of History (Cardiff University).
www.gw-psychotherapy.co.uk
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
Prof Paul Watt @paulmontycat.bsky.social 19th century musical and literary criticism; intellectual history; biography; religious history; popular culture; gender. Professor of Musicology.
Swimmer; cat dad.
Emily Brown @embo78.bsky.social Frustrated sewist, knitter, baker, runner. Loves great research.
Bethan Bide @bethanbide.bsky.social Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Dr Alison Mayne @knitrospective.bsky.social Doctor of yarn and wellbeing, methods nerd, textile history devotee. Co-founder Woolly Good Edinburgh yarn festival.
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Dr Alison Toplis @alisontoplis.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | working-class dress | workwear | smocks | 19thc clothes retailing.
Dr Francesca Elizabeth Richards @ferichardsuk.bsky.social Asst lecturer & PhD in #coral
Materiality, medicine, family, relig, art, books
Mama x3, usually on the beach!
Publications ⏬️
https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2360935
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae041
Lauren Bailey @ellebailee.bsky.social currently full-time parenting three littles in Austin, TX; in my former life, a PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center focusing on 18th-19th c. British literature, the Gothic, theory of the novel, history of economics & other cool things
Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social 🏛️ Conservator
📚 Historian of material culture
👩🎓 PhD material masculinity in C18th tapestry interiors
👩🏫 Senior Lecturer @uolconservation.bsky.social
📍 Own views ex re-posts
💻 http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/lwarrinerwood
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
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Gabriela Pascale @legreatgabby.bsky.social lg(b)ti(q+) • 27 • she/they • Spoonie✨
Higher ed admin, vintage queer, choral singer, material culture grad, & full-time memer
Visit my survivors’ project Galatea at legreatgabby.com/projects
Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social Oxford Brookes University Research Affiliate
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social PhD, @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
Dr Micòl Di Teodoro @micsim.bsky.social Egyptologist, Boursière Post-Doctorat at the Université de Liège,
Italian, astronomy enthusiast, in love with nature, geology and dinosaurs, mother of huskies
Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.org
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Dr. Barry Houlihan @barryhoulihan.bsky.social Archivist at University of Galway.
Research on Irish theatre, memory, conflict, and digital cultures.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74548-6
Joanna Cooksey @msfennybentley.bsky.social Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
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
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social Erstwhile lots of things, current digital humanities-ist, lapsed 18th century-ist. Specialist subjects include Neighbours c. 1998-2007 and primary school classmates' birthdays | no DMs please we're British
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick. A research centre for scholars of the history & culture of the 16th-18th centuries. University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College. Limerick, Ireland
Thomas P. Stephens @tpstephens.bsky.social PhD in British, Commonwealth, and Empire History from IU Bloomington, Assistant Editor of the Journal of American History, and Editor of The American Historian. Studies gender and military culture. Cat dad and nerd (he/him).
Gena Philibert-Ortega @genaortega.bsky.social Researcher, Author, Reader, Traveler. Loves: social history, women’s history, cemeteries, quilts, and other pieces of material culture.
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
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories.
https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
Dr CC Flinn @bostonoxford.bsky.social Historian mostly, bunch of degrees; sporty, ex-elite athlete; MTBer; geocacher. Not much of a follow-backer. My book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-9781350168800/
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Dr. Sophie Turbutt @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social Historian of Spanish anarchism: gender, comradeship, intimacy, emotions 📚
☆AHRC Curiosity Award Specialist
☆LAHRI Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
☆History Workshop Editorial Fellow
(she/her)
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
Dr Simon Crosbie @simon-books-art.bsky.social PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own.
Website: http://simon-crosbie.squarespace.com
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Kimberly Alexander @ksalex10.bsky.social Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
Claire Dagger @clairedagger.bsky.social Historian with interests in;
Women’s & Gender History 🙋🏻♀️
Family History and Genealogy 🌳
Irish History
Cultural History also…..
Part time runner, full time talker ☕️
Laura Mair @lauramair.bsky.social Modern Scottish History Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives #welshwomensaid #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
Dr. Kelsey J. Utne @kelseyutne.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History | Prison Educator | South Asia, Death, Digital Humanities, Heritage, Maps, Medicine | she/her 
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Jane Simon @janesimon.bsky.social Researcher/writer/maker
Photography, film, photobooks, domestic, home, photographic theory and history, visual studies. https://www.routledge.com/The-Domestic-Interior-and-the-Self-in-Contemporary-Photography/Simon/p/book/9780367543402
Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much | Views own
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.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Charlotte Mathieson @cemathieson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
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 Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
Kathryn Maude @krmaude.bsky.social Head of Medieval Records at The National Archives
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
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
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe