Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
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>
Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
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 
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social Historian, researcher, author, tutor,
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
misssarahwise.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise
Latest book: The Undesirables
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
Elizabeth Gaskell's House @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social Celebrating the life and literature of Elizabeth Gaskell, writer, social reformer and radical. Open Wed, Thurs & Sun, 11-4.30pm. Booking Advised.
ECA Material and Visual Culture Seminar @mvcseminar.bsky.social University of Edinburgh based cross-disciplinary research group for Early Modern material and visual culture studies
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
drsburdett22 @sburdett.bsky.social English Faculty at University of Cambridge. Author of The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). Researching women and dramatic adaptation, 1800-1871. Runner (usually injured) 🏃🏼♀️
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale University Press). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network @e-cen.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
Find out more: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Jay @drjaysullivan.bsky.social 🚒 Digital by day, mummy-obsessed Victorianist by night⚱️
📚 'Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920' out now!
🕸️ https://www.drjaysullivan.com/
🔗 https://lnk.bio/jayin35mm
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
Judith Pascoe @judithmpascoe.bsky.social Books: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, THE SARAH SIDDONS AUDIO FILES, THE HUMMINGBIRD CABINET
www.judithpascoe.com
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
Siobhan-Michelle Smith @smdsmith.bsky.social PhD student interested in nineteenth-century writing, gender, cross-dressing, women's facial hair, narrative silences & digital humanities (She/her)
Blue Fox Books - 'Last One Out in Lychford' Live on Kickstarter! @bluefoxbooks.bsky.social An imprint of Blue Fox Publishing, creating your next favourite speculative read. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonbirks/last-one-out-in-lychford-a-paul-cornell-novella?ref=dedp1c
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
open to collaborations
🌐 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social Animal Studies Podcast
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
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian and author PL Henderson
Real art...real artists...No AI
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Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
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)
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Kat Long @katlong.bsky.social Freelance science journalist, 19th-century Arctic enthusiast, biographer of polar explorer William Scoresby, Jr.
Uncover fascinating stories in the history of Arctic science and exploration in my newsletter Arctic Archives: https://katlong.substack.com/
ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social Official Bluesky feed of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. Visit us and join at https://www.asle.org.uk
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now @radcliffecup.bsky.social AHRC-funded project into the life and works of Gothic trailblazer, Ann Radcliffe 🦇🩸
Forthcoming edition of her works from Cambridge University Press 📚
Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social A network bringing together postgrads and ECR scholars from universities in northern England and Scotland working in the field of environmental history.
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
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. 
Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social Enthusiastic, neurodivergent, digressive, herded by cat (RIP Kooky)
Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social We offer high-quality lectures and courses on English literature and Classics, online and in person. We study Homer, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Tennyson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, and many others.
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
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.
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social Founded in 1989, The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) successfully manages sales, marketing & publicity for publishers in the UK & Europe.
Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social Writer. Lecturer. Curator:
Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Ruskin, Dickens, Victorian women. Books & more: linktr.ee/Suzannefagence
Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Steven @steven-burgess.bsky.social 👨🎓 PhD Candidate: Social Class and the Environment in the Novels of William De Morgan (University of Leeds) | Ecocriticism, Socioecological Model, New Materialism | 💼 Community Organising Manager in HE
stevenburgess0.wordpress.com
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Zoologist turned zooiconologist!
AKA Deniz (she/they), Art History PhD student @ UDel.
https://linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia
Current projects: parrots, opossums, animal alphabets…
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social The Warwick History ‘Post-Doc’ club is an informal social/discussion group of former History Research Students meeting online to maintain contact and encourage mutual support for ongoing research and careers. All welcome - not restricted to Warwick alumni.
Society for Global 19C Studies @global19c.bsky.social The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is a geographically and disciplinarily diverse network of scholars who share an interest in the world’s connectedness between 1750 and 1914.
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/
Art Collection, University of Stirling @artatstirling.bsky.social Making arts and culture a part of daily life for staff, students and visitors to the University of Stirling through exhibitions, events and workshops. Based in Pathfoot Building.
https://t.co/mbETTqX3Mb 
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
The William Morris Society @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social Founded in 1955, we aim to perpetuate the work and life of William Morris, one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
Located at Kelmscott House, London
26 Upper Mall
W6 9TA
https://linktr.ee/WilliamMorrisSociety
Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social All things Victorian: linking scholarship, teaching, and learning since 1994
British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
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
Ben Edwards @benedwardstoons.bsky.social Workplace Designer by day & Writer / Illustrator / Comic Artist / Game Designer at night
Your 'Northern Wildling'
(Ai 🚫)
BLUE FOX COMICS
https://linktr.ee/Northernwildling
Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com Writer/Director: Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep, Hush.
Showrunner: Carrie, Fall of the House of Usher, Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass.
Founder @redroompictures.com
www.mikeflanaganfilm.com
https://linktr.ee/mikeflanaganfilm
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
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 boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Hilary Ward @hilarycward.bsky.social Labour Party member, pro-EU, pro-inclusion, interested in language(s), linguistics, nineteenth-century literature, politics and journalism
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Chawton House @chawtonhouse.bsky.social Known to Jane Austen as the ‘Great House’, owned by her brother Edward. Beautiful house & gardens, Austen heirlooms, unique collection of early women's writing.
https://chawtonhouse.org/
The Burney Journal @burneyjournal.bsky.social An annual publication of twenty years' standing, publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on the Burney family and their circles. Available in print subscription and online open-access formats.
https://theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/about/submissions.
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social Your go-to bibliographical database for finding books that women were involved in producing between 1750 and 1836. Posts by Serena Spacek, Kandice Sharren, and Amanda Law.
Danielle Dove @danielledove.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey | 📚 Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction | currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social Aftermaths: https://navsa.georgetown.edu/
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social 
Centre for Museum Cultures @museumsbirkbeck.bsky.social A hub for intellectual exchange and debate relating to all aspects of museology, curation, and heritage. 
UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social UCL History of Art is one of the most dynamic centres for the study of Art History & visual cultures in the world 🌍 🖼
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
London and Cambridge
drvickymills.com
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies