International Early Engines Conference (IEEC) @earlyengines.bsky.social www.earlyengines.org
Supporting new research into the origins and development of heat engines, atmospheric and steam prior to 1812.
The 4th IEEC takes place 20-22nd March 2026 at Kingswood Heritage Museum, Bristol.
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
• Views here my own
Teresa Jones @tess101.bsky.social 
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
David Shields @19cwt-obscura.bsky.social Designer & typographer & archivist & professor & (accidentally?) historian. I’m author & designer of the monograph The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog published by UT Press.
Text missives at
@19cwt.bsky.social 
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)
Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social Fellow in English @ClareCollege
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www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com
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www.beyondthetrigger.org
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www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters
Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk Barrister & mediator.
Things I like: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port.
My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk
Please email rather than DM!
Forgive typos.
Amelie Roper @amelieroper.bsky.social Head of Research at Cambridge University Library. Interests include research collaboration, AI for cultural heritage collections, collection development and early (music) printing.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
TypeParis27 Spring type design course @typeparis.com https://typeparis.com/spring27
#TypeParis27 Spring 3-week type design programme in April 2027. Apply 14 January 2027!
https://typeparis.com/now27
#TypeParisNow27 Graphic & Type conference – 29 May 2027!
Sarah Mackie @sarahlmackie.bsky.social Academic Rheumatologist. Giant cell arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, clinical trials.
University of Leeds, UK #RheumSky #AcademicSky #MedSky
Maciej Pawlikowski @mmpawlikowski.bsky.social Cultural Heritage & Music
https://linktr.ee/heronscreek
Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
Dan Reynolds @typeoff.bsky.social Type historian and copywriter. Sometimes a designer, too. I live in Wuppertal and work in the book studies program down in Mainz. www.typeoff.de
@tipocracia.bsky.social @tipocracia.bsky.social 
Typotheque @typotheque.com A type company
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Jamie Murphy @jamiemurphy.bsky.social The Salvage Press. Irish book artist & designer.
Never the same book twice.
Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social Book historian; digital humanist; sector-leading single point of failure. Chapbooks, horses, computer vision. Homepage: www.printing-machine.org
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
Borna Izadpanah @borna-i.bsky.social PhD – Lecturer in Typography, University of Reading
NA Friends Chawton House @nafriendschawton.bsky.social 
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
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Frogmore Paper Mill @frogmorepapermill.bsky.social Frogmore Paper Mill - birthplace of paper's Industrial Revolution in 1803.
Museum, archive, paper sales, boat trips, family activities, heritage crafts, events, film location and small business lettings. See our website https://frogmorepapermill.org.uk/ 
estelle boudillet @estelle-boudillet.bsky.social > manuscript culture | material literacy
> scribal authorship | collaborative writing
> community drama | mystery plays
>>> current project : inventaire raisonné des manuscrits de théâtre en langue bretonne du Trégor-Goëlo (17e-19e s.)
Scotland's Printing Heritage @printscot.bsky.social Promotes interest in the history of the printing industry, working with institutions across Scotland to ensure that printing archives and artefacts are not lost www.scottishprintarchive.org/
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social Penlee House is Cornwall's only public Gallery, specialising in the Newlyn School artists. It is the artistic heart of West Cornwall's history, a space to relax, explore, and discover.
Open Monday - Saturday
Owned and operated by Penzance Council
Logos & Types @logosandtypes.bsky.social Letter Logo Love!
Welcome to a space where the artistry of letters meets impactful logos. Explore how Real Companies perfect this creative fusion.
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers @stationerscomms.bsky.social City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries. Broadcasters, Writers, Journalists, Publishing, Printing, Paper, Packaging, Archive, Library & Conservation. Digital Media & Software, Stationery & Greeting cards, Tour Guides
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com https://typofonderie.com/links
Join any graphic designer, art director, web designer who use our fonts! Buy the best quality typefaces you need. Est. 1994.
👋 Annual graphic & typography design conference + learn type design @typeparis.com
Tony Fothergill | Ken Spelman Rare Books, York @tonyfoth.bsky.social Ken Spelman Rare Books, ABA. ILAB. PBFA.
books | birds | baking | photography | travelling | guitars ~ Art, gardening, women & science, Italian Grand Tour, manuscripts, the unusual.
www.kenspelman.com kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com
Archie @archielakeland.bsky.social Follow me on my adventures with the assistance of Dad, my personal photographer! You’ll get to know the life of a Lakeland Terrier interspersed with photos from around the UK.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Ruth Millington @ruthmillington.bsky.social Art writing, curating & consulting. Author of MUSE (Vintage, 2022) and This Book Will Make You An Artist (Nosy Crow, 2024).
Jeremy Tankard Typography @jeremytankard.bsky.social Crafted, original and unique type designs
typography.net/links
Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Norwich Printing Museum @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social Love our collection of printing machinery, type and bindery equipment! 📄
We are currently closed to the public, but do get in touch if you would like to see anything from the collections, or arrange a workshop or lecture.
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Paulwnash @paulwnash.bsky.social Bibliographer, librarian, printer, printing historian, editor and amateur of books.
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
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Jo De Baerdemaeker | typojo @typojo.bsky.social multiscript type designer, font engineer & founder of studio Type in Antwerp, Belgium | www.studiotype.be | Typo Belgiëque
academic researcher on Tibetan, Mongolian & Indonesian typefaces
author of 'Tibetan Typeforms'
Jessica Gardner @jessicagardner.bsky.social University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books. 
Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100398-the-world-to-me/
John Townley @jfredt.bsky.social Independent historian. 18th & early 19th century history. Birmingham, maps, steam power and anything else that takes me down a random rabbit hole.
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 
Winterbourne house. @winterbournehouse.bsky.social Winterbourne House is a historic home that combines the beauty of classic architecture with the comfort of home.
Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social 📚Head of Access at @natlibscot.bsky.social 📖Co-Editor of Library & Information History Journal🧾Hon. Treasurer of CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group📓Books, libraries, singing, theatre & food.
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social Sending books to every corner of the known universe since 1918
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains. 
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
Nick Booth @nickb45.bsky.social Scot stranded in Yorkshire
Work in commercial kitchen design
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
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
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org The latest research in Archaeology from @universitypress.cambridge.org
cambridge.org/archaeology
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Bertie Lakeland @bertielakeland.bsky.social I'm Bertie a very happy Lakeland Terrier who lives in Cheltenham. I love everybody and I try everyday to be a good boy but it doesn't always quite work out!
Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
Caylin Smith @caylin.bsky.social Head of Digital Preservation for Cambridge University Libraries | Trustee for the Centre for Computing History | AHRC Peer Review College member | Article Editor for Archives and Records | Interested in file formats, digital forensics, web archiving...
English Heritage @englishheritage.bsky.social 
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social Rare books at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, frogs in my garden, medieval nuns. These are a few of my favourite things. Went viral with a biscuit found in a copy of Augustine.
Aurélien Vret @aurelien-vret.fr ΛUV | Plasticien logiciel | Art dans le système monde | ex chercheur associé @labnf.bsky.social | Designer @typofonderie.com | https://aurelien-vret.fr/ | CFC
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social PhD’er UniBirmingham. Unearthing gardening and horticulture in 18thC Birmingham. Book 📣 Gardens and Green Spaces in West Midlands since 1700, UniHertsPress.
I Love Typography @ilovetypography.bsky.social Shop thousands of quality curated fonts from your fav foundries.
ilovetypography.com
https://linktr.ee/ilovetypography