Dr Edwin Coomasaru @ecoomasaru.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, race, empire, and ecology.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #HistoryMatters
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.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, writer, ranter, poet & cook
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social Books, radio, newspapers, magazines, music. Not posting is the shorter route to the same result. No aggression, sealioning or nitpicking. "We remember the silence of our online friends."
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
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
SurvivorsUK @survivorsuk.bsky.social Working to ensure every male & non-binary person has the support needed to navigate the impact of sexual violence and begin the journey to recovery.
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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social Writer (alt history fantasy, Victorian occult), PhD in psychology, trauma researcher. Shorter than you might expect. He/him. Trans rights, ok?
Dr Alison Daniell @alispencer.bsky.social Author, former family lawyer and all-round plate spinner currently working in learning development. Independent scholar: 18th century women, law, literature (esp Jane Austen) plus a bit of witchcraft 🐈⬛
Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social Academic law person at King’s College London. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also medical ethics. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
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www.heathertweed.co.uk
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
@authorameliamartin.bsky.social @authorameliamartin.bsky.social I'm a writer who explores the mystery of the human experience. I invested years researching the Nazis & interviewing witnesses for my debut novel A Promise. #authors #resistance #animals #liberty #historicalfiction #Website: ameliamartinauthor.com
Historical Novel Society @histnovsoc.bsky.social For historical fiction readers and writers across the world.
Starting to post here, but volunteer-led and still juggling The Other Place and Facebook, so thank you for your patience!
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Dr Emma Pearce @emma-pearce98.bsky.social Art historian | Lecturer in Design History at Glasgow School of Art | PhD on tartan and colonial identity in the 18th c Atlantic 🌎 | currently working on: colonial masculinity + animal-material culture 🐋 | BSECS ECR rep | she/her
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
CJ @cjtm.bsky.social playwright, director, actor | creative director @apricitytheatre.bsky.social staging queer new writing & adaptations | postdoc research fellow, Bath Spa University | Shakespeare, disruptive dramaturgy, trauma-conscious practice & queer identity | they/them
Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social Specialist in Roman mosaics, with particular interests in iconography and antiquarian illustrations; also hedgehogs in any medium. Author. Membership Secretary asprom.org (posting personally).
Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Donovan Blake @donovanwrites.bsky.social Empowering Emerging Authors | Manuscripts Coach & Storytelling Advocate | Helping Experts Turn Ideas into Books
Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924.bsky.social We champion historic buildings and places of all ages and all types and work to provide a sustainable future for them.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social Engelsberg Ideas is home to great writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays as well as regular podcasts.
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Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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
Charlotte Mathieson @cemathieson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
Heritage Institute @heritageinstitute.bsky.social We're dedicated to exploring and celebrating heritage in all its forms. We believe that understanding the past is essential to building a more prosperous, fair, and healthy world for everyone.
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
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Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces.
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk
Gresham College @greshamcollege.bsky.social Free public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597
http://gresham.ac.uk
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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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.
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
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
University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
https://liverpool.ac.uk
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Dr Taryn Hakala @tarynhakala.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at CSUCI | Victorianist | Linguist | First Gen | she/her
Historical Fictions Research Network @historicalfic.bsky.social Discussing all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative
https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/
Prof. Patricia Pulham @peptriss.bsky.social Head of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries, member of the Academia Europaea. Interests: Decadence; 19th Lit & the Visual Arts; Neo-Victorianism.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Tim Gao @timgao.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol | Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel (2021, CUP) http://ow.ly/laM150ErNZ0
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
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.
Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
London and Cambridge
drvickymills.com
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Rebecca J. I. Mellor (she/her) @rjimellor.bsky.social Curator, Lecturer, Advocate. Art of the Body, classics, & celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories in GLAM.
Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social Professor of English and Co-Director of the AI Institute, University of Nebraska. Digital humanities, critical AI, contemporary tech studies, world literatures in Englishes, 19th-century British literature, and archival and cultural heritage studies.
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
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.
Helen Victoria Murray @helenvmurray.bsky.social Writer, Researcher, Heritage Professional
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Jane Harrison @janeh1837.bsky.social Part-time PhD researcher of the Victorian period at the University of Portsmouth by night, History and Politics teacher by day.
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Mary L. Shannon @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
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.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social @ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
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
Timothy Hughes @astimgoesby.bsky.social Writer, PhD student. KidLit geek, CatDad, and proud member of the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating, wokerati. I don't even like tofu.
Hachette Learning @hachettelearning.bsky.social Global teaching and learning solutions for schools, teachers and learners aged 3-19+.
Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social Researcher in Archaeology/Anthropology. Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at MOLA, PhD from University of Edinburgh, MSc in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology. Into Theoretical Archaeology, Personhood, Ethnography of archaeology, Emotions
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Dani Crowley 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸 @aquadan1.bsky.social PhD student at Bangor University & ZSL 🦈🏴 | Shark ecology, culture & climate change 🌍 | Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️ | Views all mine | she/her is fine
Fenja Schultz @fenjaschultz.bsky.social BSc in Biological Anthropology, MSc in Science Communication. Fascinated by all things Natural History and Human Evolution, working part-time in a museum. Author of Queer Nature guided tour. She/her
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com Science writer, editor and author | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🌱🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Stephen Kelman @stephenkelman.bsky.social Author of the novels Pigeon English (Booker Prize shortlist, AQA GCSE set text) and Man on Fire. New stuff on the way.
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Ben Dawkins @bendawkins12.bsky.social Film photography enthusiast, wanderer/traveller, sometimes activist. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Uni Kent PhD researcher on covert homosexuality in late 19th century art.
Fritz Ruhmann @fritzruhmann.bsky.social Black and white as a language.
Shaped through Leica and Midjourney.
Images drift between realism and invention.
Silent tributes to the masters of monochrome.
www.fritzruhmann.com
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Dr Dayo Eseonu @deseonu.bsky.social Mum| loved by God | Learner | Interested in racial equity and policymaking. I use creative and participatory methods to co-create knowledge with racially minoritised young people to influence policymaking. Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Lancaster Uni, UK