Andrew Stevenson @werdnanosnevets.bsky.social There is no us and them. Only us.
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'And the nurse will tell you lies
Of a kingdom beyond the skies'
Rachel Xhemajli @rachelxhemajli.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at Oxford | Long 18th-Century British Literature | English Romanticism | 18th-Century Theology and Political Philosophy | Digital Humanities
Sarah Ovenall @ovenall.bsky.social Podcaster with The Five By, https://thefiveby.fireside.fm/ Host of Divaville Lounge, Sundays 2-4 PM ET at WXDU Durham 88.7fm or wxdu.org Tabletop games, swing dj, gardening, cooking, quilting, civics nerd. She/her. I’m giving mussels the wib.
🏳️🌈Japanese crazy mascot Live🇯🇵 @chiitan-prt.bsky.social 🔹Chiitan's live stream announcement ちぃたん🇯🇵
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social Writer and academic. Prof Emerita in Scottish Literature.
Pedro Vallín @pvallin.bsky.social Colungués de vermú en El Cueli, Timonel del Bígaro, Tomatero Mayor de Santa Cruz de Bezana y Comidilla del Cielo. Repipi. “¡A coger y a revolver!”.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@miketomlinson73.bsky.social @miketomlinson73.bsky.social 
@libk81.bsky.social @libk81.bsky.social 
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
@rbenadette.bsky.social @rbenadette.bsky.social 
Kevin Cristin @kcristin.bsky.social Docteur en littérature britannique - Enseignant contractuel second degré à Aix-Marseille Université
PhD in English literature | 19th century literature and engineering | Robert Louis Stevenson | history of technology | visual and material culture
The Blether @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow designed to highlight the work and research being done in Scottish Literature. Who doesn’t love a good Blether!
Koffiart37 @koffiimageworks.bsky.social
Visdev / BG painter/Concept art/ comic book artist with decade of working in animation and game industry
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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
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
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Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social Composer, climate campaigner, dad.
Main site: https://hutchingsmusic.co.uk
Songs trying to save the world: http://choirsforclimate.com
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/hutchingsmusic
Videos: http://youtube.com/@choirsforclimate
he/they, Edinburgh
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
Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
Aaron @exlibris451.bsky.social Research Librarian. Reader. Snooker player. Tea drinker. Foot Servant to two Jack Russells. LGBTQ+ Ally. Trump, Musk, and MAGA can all fuck off. No Crypto. No Porn. No DMs. #FuckTrump #Resist
Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
University of Exeter Department of English and Creative Writing @uniofexeterecw.bsky.social Exeter ECW is a large and dynamic department that is international in outlook. Colleagues come from around the world, making us an academic community in which different cultures and languages intermingle and thrive.
Neurodivergence Connect Scotland @ndconnectscot.bsky.social Bridging the gap between educators & parents of neurodivergent children. CPD sessions | Free Online ASN CPD Programmes📄
http://neurodivergenceconnect.co.uk
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SELCIE @selcie.bsky.social Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative 🦉 Edinburgh University working with Edinburgh Museum of Childhood 🤎 blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/about
🌿 NEW EXHIBITION 'Nurture through Nature with Children's Books' @ Museum of Edinburgh 1 May to 7 Sept 2025
Stewart Kenneth Moore @opipop.bsky.social ARTDROID (Tartan Flavour} at 2000AD
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MACBETH tinyurl.com/2fn8jaa5
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Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
Danny Aston @dastonsnp.bsky.social SNP councillor for Craigentinny-Duddingston ward, Edinburgh |
Promoted by D Aston, 16 N St Andrew St EH2 1HJ
Constituent queries to: cllr.danny.aston@edinburgh.gov.uk
Anne 🇰🇪 @barefootlibrarian.bsky.social Quilting librarian and doting grandma!
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Mckeedi @mckeedi.bsky.social Wannabe writer and photographer
All photos and writing my own unless stated otherwise
Susan Penny Indexing @susanpennyindexing.bsky.social Professional indexer - mostly arts and humanities. Passionate believer in the power of books and reading, especially for children. When I'm not at my desk I'll be on the beach with dogs or ponies. 
Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Lewis Roberts @lewisroberts.bsky.social English professor at Purdue Fort Wayne
Victorian novels, Children's Lit, Detective fiction
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame”
Robert Burns Poetry Bot @robertburnsbot.bsky.social A delightful bot sharing snippets of Rabbie’s classic works. Poems of romance and radical liberalism.
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Donnas-m @peewoddin.bsky.social Author, educator, Philosophy, Shakespeare, zen, defiant cat lady and promoter of human rights...
George MacDonald - Reflections @gmd-reflections.bsky.social How does the condition of mind affect our life's journey? - Engaging the help of #GeorgeMacdonald and others as a springboard for ideas and principles of living.
https://gmdreflections.substack.com
https://buymeacoffee.com/gmd.reflections
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.
Stuart MacRae @stuartmacrae.bsky.social Composer. Operas (Anthropocene/The Devil Inside)
orchestral | chamber | vocal
http://linktr.ee/stuartmacrae
Support and more via Music Patron: https://musicpatron.com/r/c/85
Lairn Scots @lairnscots.bsky.social The Scots Language Centre's education account. DM/Email education@scotslanguage.com to enquire about support/resources, or to let us know of a project/resource.
Laura MacDonald @laurzzs.bsky.social SGSAH PhD researcher @ Strath | archiving & critically analysing the work of the late, great Agnes Owens in aowensarchive.bsky.social | she / her
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
weebirdie @weebirdie.bsky.social Occasional visitor
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
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
Robin Scott Elliot @robinscottelliot.bsky.social Author, journalist. Scotland. Latest books... Finding Treasure Island (Cranachan) Sweet Skies (Everything With Words)
Mystery Tomes @mysterytomes.bsky.social I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?
#Mystery #CrimeFiction #Thriller
Twitter: Mystery_Tomes
Jennifer Brady @jennyb6565.bsky.social PhD student at NUI Maynooth, Jacobite history in 18th century Ireland. Adoption and baby homes in modern Ireland.
Leonie Jungen @leoniejungen.bsky.social PhD Candidate and Researcher of Scottish Literature and Culture | Memory Studies, Narratology, Generational Storytelling | she/her
Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social Professor of Robert Burns Studies & Cultural Heritage, Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Director: Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Co-Director: Realities & Immersion Glasgow (RIG). Co-I Museums in the Metaverse (IUK).
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social ☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Domenico Di Rosa @domenicodr.bsky.social Scholar in Modern and Contemporary Queer and Trans Scottish Literature
🏳️🌈 he/she/they
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Gilles Robel @gillesrobel.bsky.social Maître de Conférences Université Gustave Eiffel - Traducteur -
Membre du BED EELV93 - Ex élu à Montreuil et Est Ensemble (93) 
Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her
Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh
Dùn Èideann 
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.
Lin Anderson @linanderson.bsky.social A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Monika Szuba @monikaszuba.bsky.social literary scholar
environmental humanities
Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society fellow 2023/4
Author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World (2019) and Landscape Poetics (2023)
Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social Scotland: Literature Song Culture
Valentinabold.org
FSA Scot, Hon Fellow Edinburgh Uni, Heritage at Scottish Women's Institutes, Editor journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc and
www.peterlang.com/series/shcs Birlawman of Stirling Marches
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love jazz, tulips, birds, French films | Second novel in progress | Had ME since 1983 https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social (she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
All views personal; likes/shares are not support
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Hannah Grimshaw @hannahgrim02.bsky.social Scottish Literature PhD researcher👩🎓 | Robert Burns and the Environment 📚 | 23
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Elaine Whiteford @elainewhiteford.bsky.social Author of Scottish historical novels, The Rescue Sisters and The Asylum Women. Also underwater photographer. Mainly on Instagram. https://www.elainewhiteford.com
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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