Shalyn Claggett @badvictorianist.bsky.social EQUAL NATURES (SUNY Press 2023), co-editor of STRANGE SCIENCE (U of Michigan P 2017). Victorian lit, science, and culture. Magic lantern enthusiast.
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy @brianmayarchstereo.bsky.social www.stereoscopyday.com
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Lottie Walker @lotski79.bsky.social A bit of acting, a bit of tour guiding & a lot of reading. Owned by cats. It’s so much nicer here.
Check out my work stuff at @bluefiretheatre.bsky.social
Legmania @legmania.bsky.social Journaling the life of 19th century Music Hall dancers James & Lucy Allison, and their life between continents. All things music hall, eccentric dance, and outlandish costumes. Adrift Australian once found in London now Folkestone.
Lititz Historical Foundation @lititzhistory.bsky.social Come discover the rich history of Lititz, PA
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social Professor of History. Historian of Science.
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Circus Historical Society @circushistory.bsky.social The Circus Historical Society (CHS) is an educational organization dedicated to preserving the rich history of circus.
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
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
Silentvalerio @silentvalerio.bsky.social Silent film nerd, ex-archivist 🎞️ and professional photographer 📷 in Bologna, Italy. Antifascist 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
https://linktr.ee/silentvalerio
https://www.valeriogrecophotography.com/
Jorge Iturriaga @iturriaga.bsky.social Historiador
https://uchile.academia.edu/JorgeIturriaga
Cine Interlúdio @cineinterludio.bsky.social Filmes clássicos e cults!
Classic Movies and Cults!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cineinterludio?igsh=MWQxYXF6eDdyNTdkbA==
Letterbox: https://letterboxd.com/thaisrfr/
Alison @finger-post.blog I write about the Franklin Expedition and the people who searched for them. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries.
Humanitarian. Sea lawyer. She/They. #MDANT. #NUJ. #NoTerfs.
https://finger-post.blog
Loughborough Road Histories @roadsw9.bsky.social History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood 
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Javier Frutos @frutosjavier65.bsky.social USAL - AHIGE. Pobre es el que precisa mucho
Neil Wholey @neilwholey.bsky.social UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics
rosatroupe.co.uk
Kevin Segall @kevinsegall.bsky.social bibliophile, collector, preservationist, enthusiast, advocate https://kevinsegall.com/
jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social Graves, confusion, city wandering like a startled cow, complaining about work. A Noticer of Small Things. Can't be arsed about Ambridge or The Archers anymore. MDANT
TodayOnSteam @todayonsteam.com Today's releases on steam.
Not affiliated with Valve/Steam.
Automated by @syamamishra.bsky.social
www.todayonsteam.com
Dantastic @dantastic.bsky.social Comics, photography, cats, ska, books, Red Dwarf, Star Trek, D&D, interesting rocks but not a dick about any of it.
Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social Vintage Internet Time Traveler
Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera
Also cats & whimsy
Pennsylvania girl
Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social
Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DamesAndDahlias
My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social I think we’re all pretending this place isn’t the things we hated about Twitter before the newest things we hate about Twitter. I'm a part of WSKRS, Six Feats Under, Chip and Ironicus, and your thing too if you're nice.
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
dlaur @dlaur.bsky.social almost there
into ephemera, genealogy, urban & material history, maps, fiction of all kinds, pre-cinema optical devices & entertainments, cats, and a delicate balance of quality to trashy tv
(banner by Martin Johnson Heade)
Quiet Horton @quiet-horton.bsky.social collector of non ai images. old and almost or, completely forgotten things.
interesting people of cinema from early times. 
Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social The Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds. Exploring the past, present and future of motion pictures.
Joanne Bernardi @jobi33.bsky.social Silent, early, pre-cinema; travel, ephemera, anime, Japan, sometimes other stuff. Digital humanist. 日本文化学映画史. Directs "Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual & Material Culture"
Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film Studies, specialising in animation, early cinema, film music/sound, advertising and other useful animation.
Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film (Illinois).
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
www.heathertweed.net
www.heathertweed.co.uk
Charlie Holland @charlieholland.bsky.social 19th century Circus & Music Hall history & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference, London Juggling & Flow Arts Festival (throwntogether.org).
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Monomania @intothelimelight.bsky.social Music hall, magic lanterns, books.
Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social Mancunian artist and writer. Geography, ecology, place and politics, prolific drinker of cheap whiskeys. Inventive dancer.
PhD Candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Never AI.
Kate Holmes @katejholmes.bsky.social Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her)
author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial
website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction & Non Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social ✍🏼WRITER
📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller + others
🩰Late onset ballet dancer
🐕🦺Dog lover
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