SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed publisher of distinguished research and works of general interest since 1966 / Learn more about the State University of New York Press at sunypress.edu
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
Fine Book Fairs @finebookfairs.bsky.social Organize rare book and print fairs across the US. Upcoming events in Indianapolis, April 25th-26th, DC, May 2nd-4th, NYC, September 26th-28th, Philadelphia, December 4th-6th. More information: finefairs.com
The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
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
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
MapQuest @mapquest.com The OG of online mapping.
Get the app on Android and iOS: lnk.bio/MapQuest
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
Ellen Scheible @ellenscheible.bsky.social Professor of English in MA, Feminist modernist, Irish literature enthusiast. Moonlights in childcare and eldercare.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-politics-in-contemporary-irish-womens-fiction-9781350429109/
Anna Wilkinson @annawilkinson.bsky.social Historian, PhD candidate, potter-in-training 🏺(she/her) || Post-1945 conflicts, Asian Australian history, migration, oral history and memory, gender and decolonisation https://experts.deakin.edu.au/58078-anna-wilkinson
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
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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 -
McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk Rare & second-hand bookshop in central Edinburgh, est. 1957.
Open every day 11am to 5pm, and till 8pm on Thursdays.
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
Gráinne Blair @grainneblair.bsky.social Memory keeper. Networker. Historian. ABI &PTSD #DisabilityMatters #MakeNMHOurs @RepealRathdown ♿️ @DADACampaign #Magdalen #SalvationArmy &much more #Resistance ☘️
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Lauren Bailey @ellebailee.bsky.social currently full-time parenting three littles in Austin, TX; in my former life, a PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center focusing on 18th-19th c. British literature, the Gothic, theory of the novel, history of economics & other cool things
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
@cornwallhistory.bsky.social @cornwallhistory.bsky.social
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Anna Harrington @amdharrington.bsky.social History PhDer, Wolfson Scholar & tired but joyful toddler mum. Researching formation of imperial identities across diverse spaces and 'contact zones' in the long 18th century and pondering ideas of time, transformation and imagining. Just happy to be here!
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian. Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026
Henriette Partzsch @hpartzsch.bsky.social Hispanist based in Glasgow (Spain in the nineteenth century, women writers, fashion periodicals, circulation of literature across borders, Comparative Literature). And trees.
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Dr Katie Crowther @katiecrowther.bsky.social research assistant | curator | PhD on material letters, print culture, and the c18 country house 💌
Heather Heckman-McKenna @drhhm.bsky.social PhD 2023, long (long, long) 18th centuryist, memoirist, digital humanist, sensibility studies, Associate Editor for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, baby book historian, new mama (tired; so very tired), and CATS. All of the cats.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
Prof Paul Watt @paulmontycat.bsky.social 19th century musical and literary criticism; intellectual history; biography; religious history; popular culture; gender. Professor of Musicology.
Swimmer; cat dad.
Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now @radcliffecup.bsky.social AHRC-funded project into the life and works of Gothic trailblazer, Ann Radcliffe 🦇🩸
Forthcoming edition of her works from Cambridge University Press 📚
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Nicolette @nico2lette.bsky.social and a bit of politix……with a wee terrier 🐾
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social We're a grassroots organization of concerned citizens working to save an essential Canadian institution - join us ! 🇨🇦✌️
Check out our pages here! https://linktr.ee/save.thecbc
*Not affiliated with the CBC*
Perth Women on Wikipedia @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
@mariedani.bsky.social @mariedani.bsky.social
inkyheels @inkyheels.bsky.social everyone loves a mystery
Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social Politics of IP, open knowledge, law & humanities, citizen science
Argula @argular.bsky.social Project Curator (Cataloguing Lead), SOAS Library
Jenny Buckley @jennybuckley.bsky.social Lecturer in literature of the long 18thC at University of Galway. Research: periodicals, fiction, material texts, sociability. Author of Periodicals, Fiction, and the Novel: Ecologies of Print, 1700-1760 (EUP)
Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production
What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social (Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching climate & clothing, also histories of fashion and graphic design | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
Lucy Waverley @so-last-century.bsky.social Writes, reads, looks at the pictures.
Shortlisted Cheshire Novel Prize ‘23.
MSt Lit & Arts Oxford ContEd.
IG @history_is_so_last_century
Paul C. Jones @paulcjones.bsky.social Professor of 19th-Century American Literature | Ohio University
Author of Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
Erin Blakemore @erinblakemore.bsky.social Journalist, bookworm, feminist, historian, library school dropout, knitter, Angrian-Gondalian, author of THE HEROINE'S BOOKSHELF. (She/her)
I used to be heroinebook on Twitter
erinblakemore.com
Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in Irish literature. Based in #Taiwan.
#IrishStudies #PeriodicalStudies
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yenchi-wu/home
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Fiona Handley @fionahandley.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
Mum to four grown up children
Wendy Toole @wendytoole.bsky.social Writer and Editor | creatively self-employed
Karen Hart @karenjkhart.bsky.social Writer, former reporter & press officer. Back in Folkestone after London. She’s my rescue greyhound Cassie.
Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday
I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social Head of Learning, Teaching and Quality- GCU London. Academic Development. 19th century literature and culture, periodicals.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
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/
Brecht de Groote @brechtdegroote.bsky.social Assistant Professor TT of English at Ghent University. Romanticism and 19Ce//theory//lit, media, trsl. Author of De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation (Edinburgh). I am totally horrified, and so on.
Kelly Fleming @fleminist.bsky.social VAP, c18 literary historian, meme curator.
She/her.
Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.
Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking.
She/her
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
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!
Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social North America's 1st PhD in Publishing
Sessional at Simon Fraser University
Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
EA at SHARP
Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire
Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
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/- S Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss
Jessica Roberson @jroberson.bsky.social Associate professor of English @ MSMU Los Angeles - Romanticism, book history, maker culture, literary tourism & disability. Views my own.
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social she/her | Victorian Studies, Disability Studies, Children's Lit | Assistant Professor at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan | Dog Enthusiast and Very Bad Cook | views my own | profile pic ctsy of retrospect photography