The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social Rare books and special collections at Furman Univ. in Greenville, SC, USA. U.S. and world book history. Am. Lit. Ph.D. Publishing Plates (PSU Press, 2023), In Dogs We Trust (USC Press, 2019). Book arts. Dogs, lots of dog pics (and cats). He/him
Ernst Gerhardt @eeseejee.bsky.social Oilers fan. Assoc. Prof, medieval + Tudor drama, Shakespeare.
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.
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
María Angélica Thumala Olave @mthumala.bsky.social Sociology University of Edinburgh
poe @poestiche.bsky.social sonic histories | museums | queer/trans/disability studies | CUNY alum (PhD '26) | 📍 WMass | views mine or my cat's
John Russell @johnruss28.bsky.social Associate librarian at Penn State, associate director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies
Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1997, the Ruskin Society celebrates the life, work and legacy of the Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin. ruskinsociety.uk
Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at NC State ||Print culture & periodical studies with emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz Age illustration & magazines, and popular modernism
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
🌈 🌏🥘🍱🥍🏹🎾🎳🎹🎻 🎮📖
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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social Transmasc writer, historian, educator. Civil War nerd. Tenured. Work in progress.
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).
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Reanna @rbrks.bsky.social phd in looking at stuff 📚
formally dphil @engfac.bsky.social
https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/people/reanna-brooks
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.
@juliagardner.bsky.social @juliagardner.bsky.social Libraries, education, cats
tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, labor history, gender, and the family. Jew for open access ebooks!
(Blocks are not personal)
They/elle/αυτή/היא/هي
Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social Lit Prof @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Tanja Grubnic @tanjagrubnic.com Currently doing a postdoc @ Duke. Interested in contemp and digital literary culture! Lover of emojis in emails. Learn more about me at tanjagrubnic.com.
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
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.
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.
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social Medieval and early modern manuscripts, books, libraries and archives
Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Dr Clare Horrocks @drhorrocks.bsky.social SL in Cultural History, published researcher on Victorian magazine culture, Punch & Dickens. Submissions Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review (@RSVP)
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Xiang Ren @xiangren.bsky.social Media scholar at University of Sydney, researching media industries, digital publishing, AI and platform regulation, and Chinese media.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social Assessment & UX at Princeton University Library| Bay Area expat, found in museums, between trees, and thinking about how to make libraries a place for everyone.
Op-eds my own.
GRÉLQ @grelq.bsky.social Fondé en 1982 par R. Giguère et J. Michon, le GRÉLQ regroupe des professeur.e.s et étudiant.e.s qui mènent des recherches sur l’histoire du livre au Québec.
Jenny McAuley @jennymcauley.bsky.social Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK
jennylmcauley@gmail.com
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only. 
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: “Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.”
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Kate Stuart @katestuart.bsky.social Researcher of authorship, identity performance, and online book culture. Writer of fantasy and anything else that takes my interest. Day-to-day supporter of learning development and academic skills in HE. She/they
Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social (she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
Lawrence Evalyn @lawrenceevalyn.bsky.social Text Mining Specialist at Northeastern University Library. Digital Humanities, book history, 18thC lit, Wikipedia. I’m trying not to be on social media but I don’t always succeed.
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
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
Madeline Bedecarre @mbedecarre.bsky.social Prof: Sociology of Lit / Postcolonial Studies / African Lit / Francophone 
Okan Kozanoğlu @okankozanoglu.bsky.social BA at Boğaziçi University in Turkish Language and Literature & History | MA at Central European University in Comparative History | late Ottoman Empire, book & print culture, history of censorship & newspapers, intellectual history
Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social Rare books librarian & cataloguer | library & book history | moderately early modern
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
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views- P Björn Biester @philobiblos.bsky.social
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. 🏳️🌈
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social Book historian; digital humanist; sector-leading single point of failure. Chapbooks, horses, computer vision. Homepage: www.printing-machine.org
Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social Co-Founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project; Sexuality Educator at Tool Shed Toys; Grinnell College alumni. Historian, archivist, zine maker. he/they 🤘🏼🌈🤘🏼
Dr Kush Patel @kshpatel.bsky.social critical DH pedagogy; queer- and trans-feminist digital technologies; community archives and bibliographies; art, architecture, infrastructure, and the city | educator, writer, public scholar | use: they/them
https://whospeaksandacts.net/
JHH @shqippy.bsky.social Theology, Prince, protest music. Opinions my own.
Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social Poet, academic library scholar, chronic illness life. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), more. See www.colleensharris.com
Sylvain Lesage @sylvain-lesage.bsky.social Ass. prof U Lille. Book history, media studies, comics & reading popular culture.
New project: Xerox and the information age
Co-redchef de Neuvième Art (revue de la Cité de la BD, Angoulême)
BiblioPhilous @bibliophilous.bsky.social He/him. Bookish, bikeish, brewish, bluish. Kjipuktuk. Burgeoning #DalhousieU Digipres/Archives person, former tome-slinger & metadataist. Coffee crusher. #Critcat, #Critarch, #digipres.
madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social 📍 seattle-ish
📚 art librarian (academic libraries)
👩🏻🏫 part-time faculty teaching arts librarianship
this is an unprofessional account!
I’m here for people with librarian in their bio.
Demibunny @silvergoldsea.bsky.social Pro trans, pro sw, pro union, pro choice, pro libraries, pro immigrants, pro ship. ANTI GEN AI. Current fandoms: #ThePitt, #Hannibal, #HEU, #DS9, #Sherlock, #Witcher.
Bunny #rabbot pfp by Pixelz 💖
https://archiveofourown.org/users/silvergoldsea
Gerardine Meaney @gmeaney.bsky.social Cultural analytics, gender, migration and national identities in literature and culture https://projectvicteur.com https://cca.ucd.ie 
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
Isabel Millán @imillan.bsky.social Author of Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature (2023, NYU Press) & Chabelita's Heart (2022, Reflection Press). Associate Professor, WGSS, U of Oregon 🌈 🍉 www.isabelmillan.com
Claudia Rojas @claudidaudi.bsky.social she/her/ella, Teacher Librarian, book and podcast junkie, first gen, hija de inmigrantes, fur mamá, Tía, Nina, world traveler, board gamer, concert goer, Wordler, SoCal native, Chicana
CR 📚 Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
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
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social • Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
• Opinions mine
• 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.
Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social PhD Researcher in small press publishing & diversity at University of Stirling
Operations @charcopress.com
Freelance typesetter
Ex-publisher at 404 Ink
lauraflojo.com
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
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
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP! 
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF on modern British manuscripts & the American archive @ RHUL | Dickens & life-writing | On BBC Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jt6c
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social Building and studying large-scale historical datasets. Interested in newspaper archives, information retrieval, data reuse, & book / information history.
https://danieljohnevans.github.io/
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social Official 🟦☁️ account for the DHLSNA, a non-profit academic org. Managed by @buxiduan.bsky.social, assistant social media coordinator of the Society. Website: https://dhlsna.bravesites.com/
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Elisa M. @buechernarr.bsky.social I teach and research book history at the University of Milan (Italy). Always in search of new knowledge and inspiration!
Press of the Varying Hare @varyinghare.bsky.social Andrew Steeves is a writer, editor, typographer and letterpress printer based in Black River Lake, Nova Scotia. He is the sole proprietor of the Press of the Varying Hare.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy This account has moved to @LeahPrice.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://historians.social/@bookish, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Roland Allen failed one aptitude test and here we are @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
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.