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.
Christine Bates @christinebates.bsky.social 🎓 Art Historian and PhD student at @uni-jena.de and @york.ac.uk
🎨 British Art, Pre-Raphaelitism and Romanticism, Gender Studies, Eco-Criticism, Reception Aesthetics
Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social Researching the life and work of Philip Webb (1831-1915)
Kaisa Kyläkoski @kaisakylakoski.bsky.social Historiaa, menneisyyttä ja siihen liittyvää. / History, past and anything that relates.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7570-1819
Aparna Prakashbabu Uma @aparnaup.bsky.social PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.
Karen L. Carter @kcingr.bsky.social Art Historian / Professor / late 19th century France
Dog lover
Opinions posted here are my own
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Gillian Walters @gillianwalters.bsky.social Midlands4Cities AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History of Irish Art and its Global Contexts, 1800 - 2000 | Trinity College Dublin
Ahad Taqizadeh @ahadtaqizadeh.bsky.social Victorianist, Victorian Novel📚, Bodies, Gothic Fiction 🧟♂️🧟♀️ Researching the Gothic body in late Victorian fiction
Xiangtai Zeng @xiangtaizeng.bsky.social PhD Researcher at QMUL, specialising in the 19c transnational British press | PGDip in History of the Book (in progress), IES, SAS | Exploring comparative bibliography
Final Footnote @finalfootnote.bsky.social Former nurse turned literary researcher. Interested in overlooked narratives of atmospheres, illness, contagion, environment, and medical authority.
University of Bristol.
Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social Theatre, books & writing.
Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸
Personal opinions on this & that.
Glasgow/London 🎭
SAST. Theatre 118
www.kaymarquis.com
Xmas ghosts are stirring @toffph.bsky.social anthologist of Victorian Christmas ghost stories
local historian and gravestone conservationist
H. C. Dodge & shape poem collector
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20841298.Christopher_Philippo/blog
https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/477914
Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
@princexkiwi.bsky.social @princexkiwi.bsky.social 
Anna @annacharlton.bsky.social 
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her Independent museum collections contractor (looking for work) . Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
Susan Hiner @srocher.bsky.social French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in East Neuk & Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest book (pbk. ed.):
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social Libraries! Libraries for everyone! 
Tony Harcup @writerlytone.bsky.social Tony Harcup writes about journalism - mostly in books and articles, sometimes here and at @rememberlop.bsky.social
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/people/academic/tony-harcup
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.
Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
Dr Victoria Dawson @vsdawson.bsky.social Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Maartje Janse @maartjejanse.bsky.social Historian at Leiden University, working on histories of political participation and protest
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature at LJMU; author of Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850-1914 (2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming- M @mclstcd.bsky.social @mclstcd.bsky.social
jessica @ds-jessica.bsky.social analytics lead & angel investor & advisor. always learning = business & innovation. doing #datascience
Pfeifferpack aka Kathleen Pfeiffer @pfeifferpack.bsky.social Aspiring writer, dog networker, novice graphic artist, reader, poet, NM Aging like wine (b 1954). Happily married since 1992 Very liberal
she/her LGBTQ+ & POC ally. Network death row dogs, politics, Buffy, sci/fi/horror, TV, music, film, Dum Spiro Spero
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social English + Print Culture @ SFU | Women’s Manuscript History Project
I love books and capers in equal measure.
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social Studying the Victorian connection between women and birds is great fun, but I’d love a job. Network & Development Officer for VPFA and Co-Reviews Editor for VPFJ. All views my own.
Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) in British Art @manchester.ac.uk | c19 Horror/Occultism @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art & science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | they/she 👻🔮
@routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social News on Literary Studies and Creative Writing books from Routledge. This account is managed by the editorial team.
sarah salter @shsalter.bsky.social Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals. [all opinions = my own]
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
Karulliny Siqueira @karulliny.bsky.social historian specializing in the written and printed culture of Brazil. I teach in the Archival Science program at the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Interests in literature and in visual art.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion- M md-phil.bsky.social @md-phil.bsky.social
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Zélia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-368X
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long eighteenth century | Gothicist | Game Studies | she/her
Sandra Schwab @scribblingsandy.bsky.social Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a very large library. Expert on dragons & PUNCH. Writes stories with happy endings and loves her caravan Miss Hetty. 🌈 She / her.
Newsletter: https://sandraschwab.eo.page/newsletter
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Xiaorui Chen @xiaoruichen.bsky.social 25fall, Modern Literature and Culture MA at KCL
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social 
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.
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
Merrie Monteagudo @merriemont.bsky.social Archivist and adjunct professor. I'm fond of reading, hiking, tea, and independent journalism. All opinions are my own.
Charlotte M Yonge Fellowship @charlottemyonge.bsky.social Literary Society for fans of best=selling Victorian author 
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social More moustache than man. Former flâneur in the Middle East. #ActuallyAutistic Now a Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/people/academic-and-research-staff/english/craskem.html
One of 'those' followers of walterpater.com
@sandramorosoli.bsky.social @sandramorosoli.bsky.social 
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Marty @martyrye62.bsky.social Artist, Bon Vivre & Buddhist
Mourning America a once great Nation
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social An international journal focusing on the theory, critical interpretation, literary history, and cultural production of young adult literature.
Sezen Ünlüönen @sezenunluonen.bsky.social I write novels.
I work on Anglo-Ottoman literary interactions in the nineteenth century.
https://iletisim.com.tr/kisi/sezen-unluonen/11719
https://www.instagram.com/sezen.unluonen/
@davidpenteado.bsky.social @davidpenteado.bsky.social 
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Joshua Grey @joshua-grey.bsky.social Pronouns: they/he
PhD Candidate at Monash University and University of Warwick. Thesis: 'The Conservative Press and the British World, c.1780-c.1830'
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1913619/
Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate at SOAS @soashistory.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Research Associate at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow • IASSL Membership Secretary • AFHEA • She/her
Lost History Books @losthistorybooks.bsky.social Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
Leif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social Historian, museum jack of all trades, and DPhil candidate in History (Oxford)
Steven @steven-burgess.bsky.social 👨🎓 PhD Candidate: Social Class and the Environment in the Novels of William De Morgan (University of Leeds) | Ecocriticism, Socioecological Model, New Materialism | 💼 Community Organising Manager in HE
stevenburgess0.wordpress.com
@laurenottaviani.bsky.social @laurenottaviani.bsky.social 
G. W. M. Reynolds Society @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social The international G.W.M. Reynolds Society exists to promote the enjoyment and study of the work of G.W.M. Reynolds.
Visit our Website: gwmreynoldssociety.com
Stephen Railton @stephenrailton.bsky.social Interests include Working-class history, Anglo-Irish history, Social history, 19th & 20th century history.
Kriti @soykriti.bsky.social Doctor of Romantic Periodicals. @UArizona
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social Flotsam and Jetsam. Folklore, customs and odd guilds, gangs and groups.
Ken Middleton @kenmiddleton.bsky.social Digital Initiatives Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University
African American history, women's history, historical newspapers, historical GIS, public history