Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Dr Lizzie Marx @lizziemarx.bsky.social Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland
Insta: Lizzie.S.Marx
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
Sébastien Bersot @sebastienbersot.bsky.social 🎓 PhD Student / 18th Century and Visual Studies
'The role of women during the American Revolution: history, histography and visual representations in American films and TV series (1980-2020).'
(Caen, France)
Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Alka Raman @alkaraman.bsky.social Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof @UCL History. Chair of the Women’s Committee @Economic History Society, Associate Editor @Industrial History Review.
@ityb.bsky.social @ityb.bsky.social Historic house curator formerly @move,teach inspire. Interests; heritage, the environment, security. Picture is from where I work. Try and guess where.
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, Mondays fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
Lindsay Petrie @lindsaypetrie.bsky.social PhD student Scottish History
University of Dundee
National Identity, Heritage & Museums
Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much | Views own
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Dr James Finch @jamesfinch64.bsky.social Senior Curator (Collections) at the Royal Academy of Arts and c19/20 art historian. Posts mostly relating to the RA and its collections. 🖼📚🎨
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Dr Nic @eldergoth.bsky.social Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice. "Grim(m) Perspectives: Stitching Tales of Self" https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/handle/10399/5406
Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social Journeywoman Mantuamaker | Historical Costumer | Workshop Instructor at Burnley & Trowbridge Co | Cat Lover
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
Justin Smith @justintpsmith.bsky.social Cultural historian. Prof of Cinema and Television History and Director of Research and Innovation Institute of Arts, Design and Performance at De Montfort University.
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Roberto Filippello @robertofilippel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media & Culture at University of Amsterdam | Author of DRESSED FOR DISSENT: DECOLONIAL FASHION & THE QUEER STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE (UC Press, October 2026) 🇵🇸
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social An affiliate society of the College Art Association (CAA) in North America, HBA promotes scholarship and other professional endeavors related to British art and architecture, broadly conceived in terms of place and time. 
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social 🗃️ historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social Leading publisher of fashion books and resources as smart as they are stylish! From fashion design how-tos, to the history of fashion and beyond.
Dr Benjamin Wild @drbenjaminwild.bsky.social Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University; Lead: F/fashion Narratives Research Group
Bernadette Banner @bernadettebanner.bsky.social I drink and I sew things.
YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
Emmy Sale @emmyailish.bsky.social Midlands4Cities (AHRC) funded Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD candidate with De Montfort University and The Hockey Museum 🏑👗
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
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/
Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social English prof at King's / Dalhousie (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social Curator, goblin. Neoclassicism/sculpture/reception theories in the very, very long 19th C. Also paintings and museums. She/her, views absolutely and only mine
melissagustin.com
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century.
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social Increasingly wayward Victorianist becoming increasingly invested in Critical Indigenous Studies. Mixed Chinese Am settler living on Bodéwadmi land. Very queer. Very abolitionist. Very much not representing my employer. 🤘🏽🐵 l ♍️🌞♑️🌛♉️⬆️ I 2⛰️4🌱3🌳
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Kathryn @fivefteditrix.bsky.social Freelance editor, mostly of scholarly things; v. occasional feral Victorianist. Focusing on the mournful signage.
Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social Cornell Professor, climate activist
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist • 100% AI-Free
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news. 
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Simon Reader @psiwaves.bsky.social mainly movies, novels, and sass
QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies @c19qmul.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27)
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
views my own
Liz Smith @lizsmith.bsky.social Digital curator for 19th century science collections, Cambridge University Library. Love food, drink, immersive theatre, culture in general. Attached to many fandoms.
Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social Director of Humanities Initiatives at Oregon State University. Histories of AI, author of SEEMING HUMAN. Runner, mom, writer, tator tot enthusiast.
Nora Gilbert @noragilbert.bsky.social Prof. of old British novels and old Hollywood movies
Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond.
Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index
Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
Ronjaunee Chatterjee @ronjaunee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Queen’s University. Author of Feminine Singularity (Stanford, ‘22) and editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (‘24)
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Natalie M. Houston @nmhouston.bsky.social Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Dino Franco Felluga @felluga.bsky.social Romanticist, Victorianist, Digital Humanist, Theorist
Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social Hat #1: Chartered strategic comms professional, UK higher education sector. Hat #2: PhD'd historian currently writing about my family's connections with the Danish West Indies, c. 1720-1900. Former Michiganian … ask me about Petoskey stones and Motown!
Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social Historian & Darwin aficionado. Editor, John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Father & advocate for connecting children to nature (natureplaysign.com). He/him/his. Portland, OR.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at U of Portsmouth; Associate Tutor, Oxford University ContEd. Victorian literature and detective fiction; Arthur Conan Doyle specialist. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
Kirsten Harris @kirstanneharris.bsky.social Lecturer in Liberal Arts @ Bristol
Walt Whitman // C19 socialism // utopias // interdisciplinarity // equity in HE
Book on Whitman and British socialism http://goo.gl/fGYLXY