Orla Smyth @orlasmyth2025.bsky.social MCF Eighteenth-Century Studies, France and Britain primarily. Narrative fiction 1670s to 1750s. Theories of fiction/literature, from the past to the present.
Nana Marie @nana-marie.bsky.social Late Antiquity | Medieval Europe | Burgundy
Historical crafts and textiles | European Arts | Wine
Jagiellonian University
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Jonas Nordin @jonasnordin.bsky.social Historian | Professor of Book and Library History, Lund University
https://www.jonasnordin.eu/ | https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/jonas-nordin/
Leviticus 13:40
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Paul @thentherespaul.bsky.social I’m literally appalled… because my name is Paul.
Scan, discard, select, move on.
Philippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social Professeur d'histoire des arts en HK et K au Lycée Condorcet (Paris 9ème), docteur en histoire moderne, chercheur (voyage des Britanniques en Italie, marché de l'art à Rome au XVIIIe siècle). Veille expos.
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Martin Spychal @martinspychal.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow & Digital Humanities Lead, History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. History, politics, prints, cats. Author of 'Mapping the State' OUT NOW. bit.ly/3RQmUeK
Thomas A. Hammer @thomasahammer.bsky.social A review for gay playboys: politics, current affairs, and the masculine form.
Writer, gay erotica
📧tahammerstories@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/thomasahammer
⚠ adult #NSFW 🔞
Photos and media: "fair use" as provided for in sec.107 of the US Copyright Law
Hazel Hoffman @hazelhoffman.bsky.social Fitness and fashion / golden retriever energy 🐶 / check 🔗
https://linktr.ee/Jhoffman1234
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
YourFriendKevin @yourfriendkev.bsky.social A little bit Hank Green, a little bit Sean Cody.
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Florent @flomanelli.bsky.social ✹ Auteur & illustrateur
✹ Mes livres → linktr.ee/flomanelli
🥊 @querelleofbros.bsky.social 
Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program.
“Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Matthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social 4th year PhD (part-time). Presenting at Gulliver's Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London. 23rd-24th Sept 2026.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Jason Paris @jasonparis.bsky.social Fuelled by architecture, design, liminal spaces, media, transit, Toronto, and an unhealthy number of podcasts. Also here for cats, coffee, music, and queer stuff. *Opinions are unfortunately my own*
🌈 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD from StirUni | Prev RA on Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online and Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/)| Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social Canada Correspondent, @nytimes.com. Mostly photos, mostly made on film, a lot of it large. austen@nytimes.com
Sage Wisdom @sage-wisdom.bsky.social Faggotry feels good in a place like this.
zeid @zeidmoon.com zeidmoon.com
onlyfans.com/zeidmoon
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
Rob Ware @robware.bsky.social A learner rather.
Cycling, books, games, cinema
Salt Lake City, UT
Constitutional Court Art Collection @concourt-art.bsky.social A unique collection of art that speaks to freedom, dignity and equality. Owned, managed and cared for by the @ConcourtTrust.
https://ccac.concourttrust.org.za/
https://www.instagram.com/concourt_art?igsh=MXUxNmp1b3d5MWlteA==
Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in English Studies at Durham.
Opinions are mine alone but probably should also be those of my employer.
Dad account.
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Dr. Shawn @shawnhercules.bsky.social New beginnings? 🦋
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.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about “Madame Lescombat, the first femme fatale”.
blesauvage @blesauvage.bsky.social Graphiste / Photographe
Nu masculin / Male nude
Paris 🇫🇷
(All pictures are mine @)
Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social Occasional editor and writer. Purveyor of half-baked opinions. Intermittently able to make my nieces laugh. (SnoozeInBrief on Twitter)
My blog on usage, editing and suchlike: https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social I've ran out of clever things to write here about five social networks ago, so I'm just gonna play this out a little bit and see if it sticks.
Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca Bluesky home of the City of Toronto's City Planning and Development Review Divisions. Follow us for news on upcoming events, community meetings and urban issues. Terms of Use: http://toronto.ca/socialmedia
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Bill Dalzell @ardatirion.bsky.social 
Alain Truong ♎🏳️🌈🏴☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social Historien d'art (École du Louvre, Société Française d'Études de la Céramique Orientale), blogueur (www.alaintruong.com) (plus de 51 millions de visites), collectionneur de céramiques et de curiosités
Anton van den Abbeelen @anton-vd-abbeelen.bsky.social Collector, Art Historian and Private Dealer
Kimberly Alexander @ksalex10.bsky.social Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social 📸/museums/🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑
I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks.
Bristol, UK
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social Would-be architect, printer, gym-goer, baker... actual curator & author, among other things. Currently working in a castle. Views are my own.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Alexandre Lafore @alexandrelafore.bsky.social Journaliste à La Tribune de l'Art (compte personnel)
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD: UC Irvine | fiction @ Fallow Journal; non-fiction @ Guardian, The Atlantic, Salon, 3AMMagazine &c. | writing a Great Novel™ or two for you
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social 🔬 Centre d'Analyses et de Recherche en Art et Archéologie
La science au service de l’Art
📍 at Paris & Le Mans
Mark Allen @markallen23.bsky.social PhD in history from Cambridge University. Examined coexistence & religio-political crises in early Stuart London through a case study of the Catholic queen's & embassy chapels.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117058
https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social Someone on Twitter ordered the Merlot. So here I am.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
University of Aberdeen Collections @uoacollections.bsky.social News, Events, Exhibitions and a look at the extensive and varied collections cared for by the University of Aberdeen Collections.
uoacollections@abdn.ac.uk
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social If you’d like to get in touch, my email address is my Bluesky handle at Hotmail dot com.
Born at 319.08 ppm CO2
The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society is dedicated to supporting and advancing research and pedagogy related to Defoe’s corpus through the organization of conferences and panels, administration of awards, and facilitation of exchanges between Defoe scholars. defoesociety.org
MMontier @madamamontier.bsky.social En el siglo XVIII, con las escritoras olvidadas.
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
TheDoctorIsIn @doctorisinmentors.bsky.social We live in garrets, offices, nooks, coffee shops.
We mentor and are mentored.
Affiliated with @ASECSoffice, #17thc #18thc #19thc
Our site is https://doctorisinblog.wordpress.com/
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, published since 1955. Voltaire Foundation (@voltaire.ox.ac.uk), in partnership with Liverpool University Press (@livunipress.bsky.social).
Gianni di Lorena @giannidilorena.bsky.social Auteur du cycle MUTATIS MUTANDIS. 4e tome à paraître au printemps 2026 chez OLNI Éditions.
Social: linktr.ee/giannidilorena
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the English Department of The Australian National University 📚✍🏽🤓
Legal Style Blog @legalstyle.co.uk A web-log on legal style, with a focus on England & Wales. Also home of the ‘In the Privy Council’ podcast and the novelty @tritelaw.bsky.social account. Editor: Mr Elijah Z Granet @ezgra.net. Web: legalstyle.co.uk ; e-mail: editor [at] legalstyle.co.uk
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
https://robbierichardson.net
Julien Rubat @julienrubat.bsky.social Artist
⚲ France
http://julienrubat.studio
Benjamin Ringot @benjaminringot.bsky.social 🏰 Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, chef du service de la Recherche, Colloques et Enseignements / Head of Research, Conferences and Teaching
Also teach digital culture and heritage (Université Paris Cité)
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Dr Maddy Pelling @maddypelling.bsky.social Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
Marcus McCann @mmccnn.bsky.social Employment & human rights lawyer 📚Writer of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path (Anansi) 📚 He/him 🌈 EN/ES
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
Daniel Clauzier @danielclauzier.bsky.social Photographe, Historien de l'art
Poitiers, Châtellerault, Paris
The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript (1775) @lyoninmourning.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities project by @drleith.bsky.social and The Digital
Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University Library to analyze the #jacobite #manuscript by Robert Forbes held in the National Library of Scotland. #Scottish @scottishsfu.bsky.so
Barnaby Bryan @barnabat.bsky.social Inn of Court Archivist. Personal philosophy two parts His Dark Materials to one part Mary Poppins.
Peter Schmid @peterschmidvienna.bsky.social Photographer in Vienna
www.peterschmid.one
instagram.com/when_there_is_light
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century