@edgeworth-biog.bsky.social @edgeworth-biog.bsky.social Writing Maria Edgeworth: A Practical Life
Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social Publishers of rather good greetings cards, postcards & prints by Ravilious, Nash, Klimt, Simon Palmer and many more.
https://www.rathergoodart.co.uk
Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel.
Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social
Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/
Archaeological things here - https://www.digitaldigging.net/
๐ฐ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐ซ ๐. ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐ฑ @eileenmhunt.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฉ๐-๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ก ๐ญ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฑ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐๐ข๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐๐ช๐๐ฏ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐๐ข ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐๐ข ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ด๐.
2024-27 NEH Scholarly Editions project leaderโCreating an integrated standard edition of #Wollstonecraftโs โRights of Menโ and โRights of Womanโ for OUP.
David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder.
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing โข History and future of the book โข Book design, typography, typesetting ๐
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic ๐
โข Views here my own
Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research @oser-oxford.bsky.social The Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research is an interdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in letters from all geographical locations and historical time periods. Meetings take place fortnightly at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social Retired history teacher. Enjoys Lake District, painting, grandchildren, nature, history - lots really. Oh, and wildlife gardening. Still interested in education.
Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org CSO of TPO.group โฆ๏ธ EFF Board of Directorsโฆ๏ธshe/her โฆ๏ธ bestselling author but only that one time
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Oxford For Europe @oxford4europe.bsky.social New account for a friendly bunch of campaigners looking to expose the Brexit horrors (not hard) & campaigning to rejoin (- bit harder). Come and join us!
Previously at @oxfordforeurope
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social Blog: IrishPhilosophy.com
Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotlandโs oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. Weโve 3 sonsโโthe crow makes wing to the rooky woodโโall posts etc personal
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com A Fellowship of Franciscans in Spirit
Live the Gospel. Share God's Love. Rebuild the Church.
Maine - Massachusetts - Assisi
assisiproject.com
John Haffenden @johnhaffenden.bsky.social Author & editor; FBA; FRSL; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London; editor of the letters of T. S. Eliot. Chocoholic.
Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social Writes about literature and old books โ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus โง Editing Pope
Jon Fitzgibbons @jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.socialโฌ. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social Historian of the future, utopia/dystopia, radicalism & socialism. Anti-totalitarian socialist. Last book: Utopianism for a Dying Planet (Princeton UP, 2022)
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
David De Roure @david.deroure.org Oxford interdisciplinary prof: music & AI, digital & scholarship, AI & cyber, web science & social machines, Lovelace & creativity, jazz & bass
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social Fastidious historian, Manchester UK ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j- R @rhammersley99.bsky.social @rhammersley99.bsky.social Intellectual historian, teacher, writer, Digger. Views my own.
Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social Research Fellow, St Johnโs College, University of Cambridge
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/thomas-j-holland
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Wolfson College Oxford @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social The natural home for graduates at Oxford University
Linton Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6UD
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
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 Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall - charity, museum, gallery and gardens. Former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold & author of Tristram Shandy.
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
Elias Buchetmann @ebuchetmann.bsky.social Historian โข PI 'Transnational Republicans' (Emmy Noether Research Group) โข Author of Hegel & the Representative Constitution (Cambridge, 2023)
Simon Kลvesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Tom Whitfield @tjlwhitfield.bsky.social Conservation Adviser (Northern England) @ The Georgian Group | Historical Archaeologist | C18th stuff, spaces and buildings (particularly N.England) | haphazard gardener and maker of things.
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social Author: historic architecture, places, history. Here I post English buildings in their variety: churches but also cafรฉs, gazebos but also garages, public houses but also public loos. Plus occasional books, art, carvings, and other stuff.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
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
James Macdonald Lockhart @jmlockhart.bsky.social Author of Wild Air & Raptor.
Literary Agent: James Lockhart Agency: jameslockhartagency.com
Cardiff Book History @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
Institute of Intellectual History @standrewsiih.bsky.social Founded in 2013, the Institute of Intellectual History is a hub for everyone interested in intellectual history at both the University of St Andrews and beyond. www.intellectualhistory.net
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| ๐ฆ๐บ || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
David Ryan @ryangenealogy.bsky.social Historian/genealogist. APG board member. Recently completed MA Public History and Cultural Heritage in University of Limerick. Passionate about heritage, oral history and anything that connects to our past https://ryangenealogicalresearch.com/
Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social Thinking about utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought at Oxford. linktr.ee/shcardin
Kieran Hazzard @kieranhazzard.bsky.social Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
David Francis Taylor @davidftaylor.bsky.social Professor of English, Oxford
Julian Woodford @historylondon.bsky.social Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of Londonโs East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social Archaeology | Heritage | Landscapes | Museums |
Based in beautiful Dorset, UK
Work in maritime Project Mgmt.
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social Associate Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Susan Major @suemajor.bsky.social Railway historian, living in York UK. https://susanmajorhistory.wordpress.com. Working class railway excursions mid-19c Britain, inc women's leisure mobility. Women railway workers WWII. FellowRHS. Local history for www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social โsigns and characters from the type-case of forgotten thingsโ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Else Churchill @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social Hi Iโm the Genealogist at the Society of Genealogists. I babble on about #genealogy #familyhistory #archives #history and occasionally #cats. I buy a LOT of books
Bรฉnรฉdicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Universitรฉ Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: โThings that Didnโt Happenโ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. ๐ธ&๐ค in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social โCurious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennantโs Tours of Wales and Scotlandโ. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sรญ/รญ
Richard Kirkland @richardnw5.bsky.social Professor of Irish literature at King's College London. Lives in Kentish Town.
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐๐๏ธ๐ฐ
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Brecht de Groote @brechtdegroote.bsky.social Assistant Professor TT of English at Ghent University. Romanticism and 19Ce//theory//lit, media, trsl. Author of De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation (Edinburgh). I am totally horrified, and so on.
Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 ๐ Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust ๐บ๏ธ Trustee, British Association for Local History ๐ Tutor, Pharos Tutors ๐ Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Antoine Fournier @toitoinef.bsky.social Head of Activation at Euronews. Follower of global events, history buff, drummer.
Brussels-based but often on the move ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social Photographer, blogger, family historian and low-grade choral singer. Passionate about wildlife.
Feminist. Humanist. Centrist.
Pro-EU. Pro-PR. #FBPE #FBPPR
https://jillorme.org.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/jillorme/
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
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
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social Loves books and arts and culture and vegan food, and sharing thoughts about them! Blogs at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/
Stephen Greene @englishwithstephen.bsky.social English teacher. Born in Birmingham, Uk. Live in Curitiba, Brazil. Always learning Portuguese. Sometimes teaching English.
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
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