Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social famous Welsh poet in English language 1913-2000
“…catching this / one truth by surprise / that there is everything to look forward to…”
#RSThomas #poetry #barddoniaeth
📍 yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs
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Not a Machine, nor Bot nor AI
Kathryn White @kathrynww1.bsky.social Dr Kathryn White writes about history: the World Wars, British Empire, religion, and the books she's reading.
kathrynshistoryblog.substack.com
Ralph Darlington @ralphdarlington.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social The Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and supporting artists and academics.
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Alex Calder @dralexjcalder.bsky.social ECR in Contemporary Lit | teaching at University of Cambridge | writing Ali Smith and the Politics of Connection (Edinburgh UP) | co-editor Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social | from Caithness, Highland; he/him
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority. 
Declan Gillespie @declangillespie.bsky.social Comparative Literature PhD candidate at Warwick writing on Beckett, mysticism, and affect
alysrogers.bsky.social @alysrogers.bsky.social De 🏴
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secret granny
BACLS @bacls.bsky.social The official account of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. www.bacls.org
Daniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg Prifysgol Abertawe / Sacsoffonydd gyda Burum
@kbohata.bsky.social @kbohata.bsky.social 
Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social Welsh Independent Press, established in 1993. Based in Aberteifi/Cardigan
A Carnival of Voices in independent publishing. Our titles reflect a diverse and contemporary Wales that cast a keen eye on the wider world.
Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social Lecturer in health geographies at Bristol, treasurer of RGS Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Group; interested in activisms and feelings entangled in welfare states, "gifted" children, childbirth and trauma, participatory art.
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social teacher, writer, reader • Chicago
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
Dr. John Price @jpaprice.bsky.social Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile.
www.drjohnprice.net
www.moel.org.uk
buildingstories.co.uk
Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com Political theorist @lsepoltheory.bsky.social. Author of Citizen Marx. www.brunoleipold.com
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
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
Jon Lawrence @jonhistorian61.bsky.social Historian of class and politics in Modern Britain - author of Me, Me, Me? The search for community in post-war England @ https://tinyurl.com/463e6tff 
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Institute of Advanced Study Warwick @iaswarwick.bsky.social University of Warwick IAS is dedicated to advancing new research ideas, interdisciplinarity, innovation, and international connections.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Matt Mundt @mattmundt.bsky.social BA History & Law graduate & current MSc Historical Research student at Stirling, studying poor children/families and the kirks support for them in eighteenth century Scotland. History geek. Queens Park and Glasgow Clan fan.
Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough. Also recently wrote a book, Teenage Time (Bloomsbury 2025).
Graeme Macdonald @gmacdonald.bsky.social Literature Energy Environment Climate stuff @University of Warwick. Glasgow Dweller. Yes, they are quite far apart.
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
Religion Call For Papers (relcfp) @relcfp.com RELCFP is a religious studies call for papers repository (relcfp.com)
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
#firstgen
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Association for Welsh Writing in English @awwe.bsky.social Cymdeithas Llên Saesneg Cymru - scholarly association for the anglophone literatures of Wales.
AWWE.org
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
Weimar Film Network @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social https://weimarfilmnetwork3.wordpress.com
Charlotte Gannon @ckagannon.bsky.social Early Careers Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study & Dep. Psychology at University of Warwick, researching imagination evolution and development 🦧👶. She/her
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Edge Foundation @edgeuk.bsky.social Edge is an independent foundation working to inspire education to give all young people across the UK the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to flourish in their future life and work.
Dr. Josh Patel (he/him) @joshpatel.bsky.social Researcher, Edge Foundation
https://joshsdpatel.wixsite.com/joshpatel
New book: 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain' (SRHE/Routledge)
Swimmer & coach🏊🏽♂️🦦
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Mark Taylor @markdoeswords.bsky.social He/him, specialist in twentieth-century British literature
Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel out now with Edinburgh University Press
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)
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social Prof American Studies @ U Heidelberg
Am Lit 1800-present, cultural sociology, literary institutions
https://www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/Leypoldt/
North Lancashire Green Party @northlancsgreens.bsky.social Green Party in Lancaster & Wyre including Morecambe, Carnforth, Garstang, Fleetwood, Lune Valley.
Leading Lancaster City Council - 23 Cllrs
Opposition on Lancashire County Council - 3 Cllrs
https://linktr.ee/northlancsgreens
No dms.
Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Zeynep Sandalli @zeynepsandalli.bsky.social Project Coordinator & Teaching Fellow, @uni-freiburg.de
MA Political Science/Political Theory from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social They used to call me The Drift King back in college.
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/rtgame
YouTube: http://YouTube.com/rtgame
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rtgamecrowd
Fanart: #rtgamefanart
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Alice Nutter @alicenut.bsky.social Stage and screenwriter, The Street, The Accused, Trust, Full Monty and before that Chumbawamba.
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer. 
Daryl @drleeworthy.bsky.social Writer, historian. Labour histories, social histories, biographies of writers, mostly British but occasionally elsewhere. Always got my nose in a novel.
“Each day is a little bit of history” — Jose Saramago
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
Claire Hélie @clairehelie.cpesr.fr Senior lecturer (CECILLE). I work on dialect in contemporary British poetry and theatre and I teach at the Arts Department at @univlille. Mum of 3, lover of 1.
Skeet pour @cecille-ULille.bsky.social
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Joe @lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social writer and critic for the TLS, Spectator, Tribune, etc / PhD from UEA on the university and literary culture / reviews editor at Critical Quarterly
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Max Shirley @maxrshirley.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at a London uni. Research/write on avant-gardes, contemporary lit, the politics of form.
Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social Executive Publisher for Humanities journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis
S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
Anna Devereux @annadevs.bsky.social PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice, University of East Anglia & the Harry Ransom Center, CHASE-funded
interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures
https://mountainsbound.substack.com/
she/her
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Folding Rock Magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social New Writing from Wales and Beyond.
A bold magazine for writers and readers of the best creative prose | Issue 001: Roots out now | Eds. @kathryntann.bsky.social & @rjph91.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/foldingrock
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social I live in norway now but when I say “this fucking country” I still mean britain
natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social English Lit PhD student @ UoLiverpool: contemporary trauma literature and theory, online reading communities and affects 💫 amateur internet archaeologist 🔎 writer: Refinery29, VICE, i Paper, Dazed
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social Reviews and Roundtables Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social | Author of 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' (2025) @edinburghup.bsky.social