Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social The Royal Berkshire Archives holds the archives of the Royal County of Berkshire. We look after nearly nine hundred years of the County's history.
Website: royalberkshirearchives.org.uk
Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, UK, for records of the archdiocese, local parishes, businesses, hospitals etc. borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
Mischiefe Press @mischiefepress.bsky.social A professor printing a world of mischiefe in York, UK. I’m about rare books, higher education, and letterpress printing.
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social PhD Candidate - University of St Andrews - Printing, bookselling, and library culture in 17th c. Swiss Confederacy ✧ Research Assistant - Universal Short Title Catalogue
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
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>
Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Abigail Moreshead @amoreshead.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
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
Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Mexican in the US.
Posts in Spanglish.
https://elikaortega.net
Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social 🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University
📋 Director, MA in English Literary Studies
📚Author of Codex Poetics (2026) & Modernity's Mist (2016)
💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social North America's 1st PhD in Publishing
Sessional at Simon Fraser University
Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
EA at SHARP
Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire
Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Kaja Marczewska @kajamarczewska.bsky.social Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020) 
Amy Sopcak-Joseph @amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
dr.ddrs @dr-ddrs.bsky.social Teacher. Researcher. Alive.
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Cecile de Morree @morree.bsky.social Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby | Editor of SHARP News | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Dr Susan Greenberg @sgediting.bsky.social Former journalist and editor turned academic, teaching/research about publishing & writing. Now back in professional practice c/o https://oddfish.uk & @oddfish-editorial.bsky.social. Cares about words & what they mean. http://bit.ly/2Jjx4gZ 
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Kate Long @gingeykate.bsky.social Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Little bit of ranting. Research Services Archivist. Western Mass. she/her.
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Eyk Akansu @e-akansu.bsky.social Leipzig
📖 Mutmaßungen über Schönwetterwolken. Gedichte
www.akansu.de
🎷https://brazzbanditen.info/
🎓 Graduiertenkolleg "Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen" @grk2806.bsky.social
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
Tamara Bhalla @tamara2727.bsky.social Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
Meghan Constantinou @mrconstan.bsky.social Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid. 
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
Danielle Fuller (she/they) @profdfuller.bsky.social Researches readers and reading cultures online and IRL. Book Studies, book history and YA studies. Serious about popular books and media. Slightly obsessed with YA TV shows. Professor at University of Alberta on Treaty 6/Metis Nation region 4.
Roland Allen failed one aptitude test and here we are @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Amy Blair @amyblair.bsky.social Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Program chair for the Aldus Society, book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL.
https://joliebraun.com/
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Hannah Fox @hannah-sakura.bsky.social PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship.
Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based English professor and writer
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Stella Mouroutsou @stellamouroutsou.bsky.social Lecturer in Education & Associate Dean for Internationalisation, University of Stirling| Inclusive Education |Early Childhood Education| Teacher Education| Equity and Social Justice| Education Policy Enactment.
https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/257424#panel_1_
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app