Darren Kerr @xdkerr.bsky.social Associate Professor and Head of School of Creative and Cultural Arts at Bath Spa University, UK. Co-director of screeningsex.com. Series Editor for EUP's Screening Sex book series. And a quiet author of short fiction inc NoSleep Podcast. Personal acc.- Y Eugene McNulty @yesthewholebook.bsky.social Prof @DCUSchoolofEng. Irish literature; Law and Lit (co-founder Irish Network for Legal Humanities @legalhumanities). Chair (2019-20) IHA @IrishHumanities
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.
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Poulomi Choudhury @choudhup.bsky.social Researcher in Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Horror. Completed PhD thesis explored depictions of meat and cannibalism within the context of the current climate crisis and food systems 🌱
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/fzcH | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
Dr. Andrea Kitta @andreakitta.bsky.social Folklorist, professor, author, horror enthusiast. I study the intersections of legend, conspiracy theory, and medicine and the supernatural. All opinions are mine as a private citizen.
Momcilovic Drago @momcilodragophd.bsky.social Comparative Literature teacher in Wisconsin. I study zombies, eco-horror, trauma, Gothic, the 80s, technology, stardom, and other assorted weird and wonderful things in literature, film, art & pop culture.
Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
Brian Fanelli @brianjfanelli.bsky.social Writer I Associate Professor of English I #HWA Member I Co-founder and Co-editor of The Horror Lounge (@thehorrorlounge.bsky.social).
www.thehorrorlounge.com
Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social Writing professor, horror reader, mandolin player. I publish about writing program administration, writing pedagogy, and horror film and literature.
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social Horror film history, theory, and production school since 2010 - Online & In person in London, UK
Upcoming events and archives miskatonicinstitute.com
Always accepting submissions via our contact page
Dr. Bruna Foletto Lucas @drfolettolucas.bsky.social Early career researcher focused on horror film and gender studies
Erin Wiegand @erinwiegand.bsky.social Film programmer, independent scholar, book editor. One half of @cinemaniapresents.bsky.social
olga111s-1980sos.bsky.social @olga111s-1980sos.bsky.social Hostage to traffickers in Arizona.
Not an exaggeration at all. They've killed a lot of cops. Phoenix az. My neighbors are not alive also....also I'm a psychic medium from Scotland/Russia.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social 18th century historian, FRHistS, genealogist and author for Pen & Sword books.
Host of the website: All Things Georgian. https://georgianera.wordpress.com/
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
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
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social University Lecturer in Criminology | PhD History | Cat Mumma & Pianist
Craig Stafford @craigstafford.bsky.social British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
Emily Rose Hay @emilyrosehay.bsky.social 
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
The Crime and Punishment Research and Collections Network (CaP) @capnetwork.bsky.social CaP is an Arts Council England subject specialist network which disseminates information and research to crime and punishment collections.
Visit our website at: https://www.capcollections.org.uk/ for more information
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social Historian of crime and London;
Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
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.
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Garment Crocheter, Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.
Bloody useless
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Jill Evans @jillrevans.bsky.social I research and write about the history of crime and punishment in Gloucestershire, England. Author of 5 local history books. Website: www.gloscrimehistory.uk. E-mail jevans.gloscrime@btinternet.com
Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present. 
Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Old Bailey Online @oldbaileyonline.bsky.social Historical crime online.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk 
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Amy Helen Bell @amyhelenbell.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
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
Dr Alexa Neale (she/her) @drlexxx.bsky.social Criminologist. Historian. Researcher. Writer. Talker. True Crime consumer, critic and crafter. Cat-Mum. AlexaNeale.com
Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk I’m a historian and author keeping people's history alive. Orwell Prize nominated journalist, PhD and tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Read my writing: www.manchesterhistory.uk
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
Eddie Hughes @halchimear.bsky.social Elderly gay man armed with a bus pass and a surfeit of curmudgeon. Most t-shirts already purchased.
Books do it for me nowadays.
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social 👻Writes the dark stuff
📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult
🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
👩💻Day job: Content & community
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
🤓Curious/exhausted
Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social Increasingly bitter disappointment. Makes up stories
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Paul Schoon @paulschoon.bsky.social Moderately crumbly English local history freak. A Yorkshireman researching early modern social structures and networks in Bedfordshire. Kellogg College, Oxford. I’m here for fun, knowledge and respectful debate, so be nice. Keyboard warriors get blocked.
NinaLewis @ninalewis.bsky.social When I still did research, it was on Reformation drama. Now I teach EngLit and try to write some, too. I like kissing stories and history, preferably in one package. Pseudonymous. Vegan. Pigoneer. Introvert. - No unsolicited DMs, please.
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social Scholar of dream worlds.
Western Sydney University Alumni, Doctor of Creative Arts
Of Books And Coffee @of-books-n-coffee.bsky.social Book reviews and occasional musings.
Website: OfBooksAndCoffee.com
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
emmatonkin.bsky.social @emmatonkin.bsky.social Researcher, sometimes lecture - currently digital health, data ethics, misc other. Charity swimathons. Ink, fiction, occasional yarn. Zombologiste à temps partiel. Citoyenne de nulle part. Franglaise. πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα.
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Dr. Craig Thomson @craigyboyt.bsky.social Writer, Editor and Lycanthropologist (Seriously).
NUFC sado-masochist.
PhD on Folklore, Werewolves and 19thC UK Gothic. Research interests: #Monsters #Folklore & #Gothic
Website: MonstrousFolklore.com
Zoe Enstone @zenstone.bsky.social Literature academic with research interests in the medieval to early modern and medievalism.
“So many books”📚 
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
View our social media commenting policy here: https://cup.org/38e0Gv2
Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social Socialism's orphan child
Love, music, wine, and revolution
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Captain Cabinets @samebattime.bsky.social A fixation with TV, Film and Horror nostalgia and creating images to amuse myself and others of a like mind
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html