Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
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
Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser // Letterpress amateur // Previous rare books librarian at UMN // MLIS, St Kate's // MA American Studies, Columbia
DC -> NYC -> MPLS -> BC
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social Nicole (she/her)
Poet | Letterpress Printer | Art Worker
Letterpress printing to power the revolution: https://bio.site/radicalemprints
Original #AntiCapitalistLoveNotes.
You are worth so much more than your productivity.
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
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
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Juliette Brocal @cy-lindric.bsky.social I make comics and silly little outfits.
Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
Sonya Cronin @sonyalcronin.bsky.social IRC post doc fellow @UCD networking early modern women writers across the archipelago | formerly IRC @TCD | FRHistS | theory | book: Women, Royalisms and Exiles 1640-1669
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89609-6
Anna Kroon @noorka.bsky.social Professor - digital humanities, book history, 18c British literature
Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️⚧️🎨🌈⚖️
Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜
amanda wyatt visconti (they/them)
yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal
free high fives & exclamation marks
Vera @infonta.bsky.social Type design & calligraphy — www.infonta.com.
The power of interpretation in type design. Historical material reimagined.
Letterforms of all kinds, styles and applications. Culture, research, fun.
Married, raising two bilingual kids.
Cambridge, UK
Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social Book historian and maker of things. Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org. MSLIS student.
Francesca Giannetti @jofrankie.bsky.social DH librarian w/ interests in text encoding, language learning, librettos, pedagogy, and digital libraries. She/her. Profile pic: Hollyhocks and Cats from the Met. Re me: https://francescagiannetti.com.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Zara Slattery aka Inksplattery @zaraslattery.bsky.social SCRIBBLER-HOPPING MONOPED
Comic Artist, Illustrator, Tutor.
Author of COMA: https://myriadeditions.com/books/coma/
LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/zaraslattery
WEBSITE: https://zaraslattery.com/
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.
Sara Schliep @sbschliep.bsky.social Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…
That Guy With The Books @guywiththebooks.bsky.social Toronto based antiquarian bookseller, early print and manuscript specialist. Illumination is groovy.
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social Writer, speaker, storyteller, folklorist and museum curator. Arts and Crafts Movement lover. William Morris fangirl. Church crawler.
William Morris Society US @morrissocietyus.bsky.social https://morrissociety.org/
Established in 1971, the William Morris Society in the United States strives to publicize the life and work of William Morris and his associates.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
@msabinus.bsky.social @msabinus.bsky.social Retired educator keenly interested in manuscript/early printed fragments, 18th C gothic fiction, and Barbara Stanwyck. https://archive.org/details/@msabinus?sort=title
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
BE4COPY @be4copy.bsky.social ERC project (BE4COPY, 101042034) at the University of Oslo. Printing privileges and intellectual property rights in the Early Modern Period.
https://shorturl.at/OsXWW
Rian Hagebeuk @rianhagebeuk.bsky.social Independent Reformation / Early Modern History researcher, with a special interest in printing and early Latin-Vulgar language dictionaries
Co-author of "The Subtelty of Witches. A Reformation Era Cipher Mystery"
Also: Cats.
Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social PhD Candidate - University of St Andrews - Printing, bookselling, and library culture in 17th c. Swiss Confederacy ✧ Research Assistant - Universal Short Title Catalogue
Drew Thomas @drewbthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unisalzburg.bsky.social | Digital History | Applying AI to early modern print & visual communication • The Industry of Evangelism (Brill) • FRHistS
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
McGowin Library @pembrokelibraryoxf.bsky.social The library of Pembroke College, Oxford.
DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social DigitalArc provides approaches to organizing, collecting and publishing community histories. More than platforms for publishing stories and processes for capturing stories, DigitalArc focuses on the people who contribute their stories.
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
medieval worlds. comparative and interdisciplinary studies @medievalworlds.bsky.social
Roberta Mazza @robertamazza.bsky.social Papyrologist and Ancient Historian
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/r.mazza/en
https://facesandvoices.wordpress.com/
Sharon Fortney @sharonfortney.bsky.social Indigenous curator interested in Salish weaving, basketry and contemporary Indigenous fashions (and big earrings).
PhD Anthropology, Active in repatriation
Klahoose First Nation
Laura Peers @laurapeers.bsky.social Curator and historian. Museum repatriation and provenance consultant. Happiest in museums, archives, outdoors. www.laurapeers.com.
Marcy Bidney @maplibrarian.bsky.social AUL - Distinctive Collections, University of Chicago
Always on my mind: distinctive collections, cultural heritage, repatriation, digital humanities, memory, rare maps & books, coffee, nature, travel and curiosity.
Dr Trish Biers @drtrishbiers.bsky.social Human Remains Specialist. Curation, conservation, repatriation, ethics, museums, relics, education. Stop the trade in human remains! 💀🪦⚰️ #thanatology #folklore #deathwork #deadtorites #tacos
Lea Köhne (she/her) @leakohne.bsky.social PhD on repatriation and international law @University_Potsdam ll formerly Uni Hannover & Hertie School ll Find me @ examensgerecht & JTÖR 2025
Dr Rachel Scott @recoverreturn.bsky.social Forensic Anthropologist and Archaeologist passionate about recovery, identification, and repatriation of the dead. Also a big fan of 🐕 and 🏒
Dr. Julie Chernov @drjchernov.bsky.social Professor. #PSC #IR. Author. Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia @ oxfordacademic. Why Terrorists Quit @Cornellpress. Terrorist Behavior. CVE. How Terror Cells are Constructed. Repatriation. SE Asia. Equality for all.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Writing a book about commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️🌈
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
@sanddonut.bsky.social @sanddonut.bsky.social Academic Instruction Librarian. Practicing rest, liberation, and saying 'yes' wholeheartedly. she/her/hers
Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ PhD in 16c. history
❧ MLIS
❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Dr. Martha Johnson-Olin @peronelle.bsky.social Medievalist/composition prof, fairy tales and sci-fi (She/her) Editor of The Cinderella Bibliography https://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella. Also M. Weigel. All views mine.
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social Your go-to bibliographical database for finding books that women were involved in producing between 1750 and 1836. Posts by Serena Spacek, Kandice Sharren, and Amanda Law.
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
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
Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History of the Book | University of Amsterdam | Early Modernist | The Role of Print in Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia| current project: Hand-Colouring the World Outside Europe
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
dh+lib @dhandlib.bsky.social Where the digital humanities and libraries meet. dhandlib.org
Siglum Calligraphy @siglum.bsky.social Boston calligrapher, http://siglum-calligraphy.com, http://youtube.com/@siglum, He/him/his. Allyship is discipleship, Trans rights are human rights 🌈
Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social Celebrating 26 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo.
Starshaped.com
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
[Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) @rbmsinfo.bsky.social News, updates, committee meetings, and conference announcements for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Posts by Publications and Communications Committee. 📜📚📖
we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social community for BIPOC library workers first. 🌿 community school + community study + we here press + we reads + we together.
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org International fan club and educational charity promoting the life and works of J.R.R. #Tolkien, including #Hobbit and #LOTR.
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-c. maritime connections in the North Sea world
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association @abararebooks.bsky.social We're the trade organisation for dealers in rare books in the UK and Ireland.
https://aba.org.uk/
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America @abaararebooks.bsky.social Your trusted source for rare books and related ephemera since 1949. www.abaa.org
N. G. McBurney @ngmcburney.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller with a focus on printed books and manuscripts from the Muslim world, defined as broadly and inclusively as possible.
www.ngmcburney.com
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Tilted Books @tiltedbooks.com Online Independent Bookstore selling Vintage & Antiquarian books plus select Comics. Buy, Sell & Trade.
www.TiltedBooks.com
https://www.ebay.com/str/tiltedbooks
#boycottAI #quitgpt
Tom Ayling @tomwayling.bsky.social Antiquarian Bookseller (and new here!)
Dealing in rare books and manuscripts from the medieval period to the twentieth century.
www.tomwayling.co.uk