Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social My Vintage Paperback Collection, one book at a time / aka Rex Parker aka Michael Sharp / https://salmongutter.blogspot.com
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & women’s health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚♀️
Ersev E @ersewius.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University Press
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)✨
Women's Writing Association @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social Women's writing Association is a community of women focused on celebrating and uplifting women in writing and academia.
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | (in)visibilities & Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros
emmatimpany.wordpress.com
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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
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
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada @romanceac.ca The Association of Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada is a Nova Scotia registered society, dedicated to enhancing the craft and art of romance writing, and advancing the careers of our members. Join us! More at our website: https://romanceac.ca/
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Charlotte Yule @shadowsandcobwebs.bsky.social PhD & Lecturer at UOS. Researching Cornish landscape & becoming in the early twentieth century works of Woolf, du Maurier and Christie. Other interests: spatiality, decay/ruination, psychogeography, wildness & folk history.
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Dr. Donna J. Drucker @histofsex.bsky.social Research development by day, history of sex, reproduction, & technology by night. Books at U of Pittsburgh Press, Springer, MIT Press, & Reaktion (future). Black cat, cold takes. NYC. No employer opinions. #histsex #histmed #histtech
Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social We are a research centre within the University of Leeds. Let’s think about intimacy together. - https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/420/centre_for_love_sex_and_relationships
Haunted Words Press @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social Tales of the gothic, the peculiar, and the downright spooky for middle grade and young adult readers!
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Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social 👻 We take horror seriously so you don't have to! 🔪
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https://futureofsex.net @futureofsex.bsky.social The world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality. 
EngErotics @engerotics.com Pleasure Derived from Science.
Intimate devices & CBD care for your wellness.
CannaSexTech pioneers.
Happy. Calm. Gratified.
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M.Christian @mchristian.bsky.social Sexual futurist author, sextech journalist, and Future of Sex's (www.futureofsex.net) Managing Editor. They/them 🏳️🌈Black Lives Matter Antifascist Prochoice - www.mchristian.com
buttplug.io 🍑🔌 - Open Source Sex Tech @buttplug.io Open Source Sex Toy Control Software.
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SWAID Collective @swaidcollective.bsky.social Mutual aid collective created and run by sex workers, serving sex workers all across the country! Request aid & harm reduction supplies or contribute funds at our website www.swaidcollective.org
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
SEXTECHGUIDE @sextechguide.com Where sex and tech meet. Adult topics, but no explicit content. #teledildonics #VR #apps #privacy #safety. Started by @thenextwoods in 2016, contributions by many since - come stop by! SEXTECHGUIDE.com
Mastodon: @sextechguide@mastodon.social
Puck Limburg @puckanna.bsky.social Historian, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam
Kate Walters @katewaltersartist.bsky.social Artist, writer, teacher. Interested in animals and visionary states; creativity; interconnectedness. Lover of Italy and wild places. Musical; book lover. Anti Brexit. Arusha Gallery Artist 2014-2025. Published by Guillemot Press and Dark Mountain.
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.com
Sarah Frankish @katasterizo.bsky.social Sensory experiences & the ancient world. OU MA Classical Studies.
Certified nerd. Lover of words. Food is life. Northern lass.
You can never have enough books
Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social The Drinking Studies Network is an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking cultures. We are free to join and welcome all. More info at https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social Account for @NCN_PL funded project on 19th C representations of female drinking in Polish and British public discourses led by @diasdorota & @pamplemoussepam
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social Director @lexacademic.bsky.social | RSA Fellow
Research Associate @ox.ac.uk & @uehiro.ox.ac.uk | Distinguished Visiting Scholar @waidecenter.bsky.social |
www.lexacademic.com
https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/people/constantine-sandis
Lex Academic @lexacademic.bsky.social We provide expert advisory, editorial, and translation services to academic researchers publishing across the humanities and social sciences.
www.lexacademic.com
Dr Maria Butler @mariabbutler.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Cultural Analytics, UCD. Other research interests include Irish studies, commercial fiction and literary activism
Ryan Sweet @ryansweet.bsky.social Researcher and lecturer of Victorian literature, culture, and disability. Co-creator of the new role-and-move strategy board game Legless in London (www.leglessinlondon.com). All views my own.
Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Scott Humphries @scotth-author.bsky.social Author of "The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries"
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-age-of-melodramatic-miniseries/
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Glitz & Glam Fiction @glitzfiction.bsky.social Avid reader of #glitz fiction📚. Lover of silly #films🎞️ and '80s #miniseries📺.
Rich Gale @waistcoatrich.bsky.social Word-wrangler for tabletop games • Ex sports columnist • Haunter of Libraries • EF Benson/MR James fan • #Cornish #Gothic and #CornishGothic
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.
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Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
“Imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s folk tales” (KLOFmag)
Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Victorian Lit and Culture at Loughborough Uni. Mental health in the 19th century; Victorian asylums; sensation and gothic fiction; Neo-Victorian-dabbler; dog-parent; Dahl-maker. (She/Her)
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social Feminist research lab at Harvard University dedicated to generating concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender.
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
@mariemacneill.bsky.social @mariemacneill.bsky.social 
Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Dr Kingsley Marshall @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social Film production/Academic. #TheLandDemandsBlood #HowlsavlaGwav #TheBirdwatcherFilm https://linktr.ee/myskatonic #RoseofNevada #PrinceofWhales #EnysMen #Backwoods #LongWayBack @myskatonic.bsky.social https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kingsleymarshall
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Ethical dating online @ethicaldating.bsky.social We are a network of academics, mostly philosophers, exploring the social impact of dating apps. Find us at ethicaldatingonline.com and Instagram.
Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
Journal of Femininities @femininities.bsky.social The first academic journal devoted to the study of femininities.
Brill.com/fem
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
Molly-Kate @mollykatebritton.bsky.social 26. Teacher, reader, writer, survivor. PhD student writing about Alma Mahler. Feminist. Queer. She/her. All views my own. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪✡️
https://linktr.ee/mollykatebritton
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social The @uniofbrighton Transforming Sexuality & Gender Research Centre brings together researchers working on sexuality, gender, LGBTQ issues & social change.
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/index.aspx
Liz Fenwick @lizfenwick.bsky.social Novelist and cat servant
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
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
Sarah Sloan @witchitythings.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Famouth University #glorygothic | Psychic clairvoyant witch based in Somerset | Political activist | Comedy hound | Gothic and Crime Fiction are my thing
Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social “It’s worse than death in the mines. You want them to sing opera as well?”
Award winning author of fiction & non-fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. Currently living in Berlin.
https://linktr.ee/andrewnette
Anna Maria Barry @annamariabarry.bsky.social Writer & historian in London, working in heritage. Specialises in Victorian/Edwardian culture - especially women's writing, music, art, death masks. Usually found in a graveyard or at a gig!