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
Inkubus Sukkubus @inkubussukkubus.bsky.social Inkubus Sukkubus is a British Pagan Goth Rock band formed in 1989 in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Their 28th studio album 'Eternal Monsters' is out now!
inkubussukkubus.bandcamp.com/merch
cbnewham @parishchurches.org FSA. Author. Photographer. IT specialist.
Church architecture & contents.
If you want to know what churches are open during the day then get my Keyholder for Parish Churches app (Android and Apple).
Bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Field System @field-system.bsky.social Gallery and shop in Ashburton, Devon, UK. Folk / esoteric / Dartmoor focused.
Thu - Mon, 10am - 5pm (Sun 10am - 4pm)
13 West St, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT
info@fieldsystem.co.uk
fieldsystem.co.uk
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Susan Gillanders @susiegherself.bsky.social
Limavady, Livingston. Scottish Co-operative History with some 17th Century History thrown in for good measure. Music. Killie
Georgia Eleni Poplett @georgiaepoplett.bsky.social
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
Sarah @sarahkchasse.bsky.social New Englander, alto, editor. Always learning.
(Also me: @truebluewbb.bsky.social)
linktr.ee/sarahkchasse
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
Aaron Larsen @double-a-larsen.bsky.social Medieval and Early Modern Historian at Mount Allison University. DPhil in History, Oxford, 3x UNBC alumnus, educator. Exploring space, place, and landscape in early modern Europe, with a focus on witchcraft, cartography, and the digital humanities.
K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
Vicky- Heritage & Hot Chocolate @heritage-hotchoc.bsky.social Historian, researcher, writer, artist, museuologist, heritage academic, animal lover, film buff, music lover, amateur photographer and crafter
Nathan Gabbard @nathangabbard.bsky.social Bibliophile. Rare and antiquarian bookseller, @OwlCreekBooks.com, mid-city Los Angeles. English bulldog dad. Midwest grown.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
Stephanie Shakay Tierney @littletiern.bsky.social 🇦🇲/🇺🇸PhD candidate in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Research focus on the contemporary memorialisation of Scotland’s 16th-18th century witch trials.
Politics of memory, kinship, gender, landscape, queer anthropology
Marta Gutiérrez-Rodríguez @martamgr.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UVa.es. Interested in witchcraft and literature, the Gothic, historical fiction and popular culture
Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Pub Director NF, @HoZ_Books | FRHistS | Author | Rep: @APowerAgent & @pastpreservers | Words: Guardian, Spectator, BBC History, The Critic, The Washing Post | Views my own
Savannah Flanagan @savflanagan.bsky.social History PhD student at Baylor University
Studying women’s medicine in utopian religious communities.
Also a lover of books, dogs, cats, and coffee
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme.
Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators.
www.talesofbritainandireland.com
Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social A nasty, forward minx.
I’m a random stranger on the internet, not a spokesperson for the State.
livia @liviagt.bsky.social Early Modern historian. Witchcraft, Demonology, Folklore 🐐📚
French Teacher
Historiadora e pesquiso umas bruxarias aí
📚🐐👹
Profa de francês
Anna Sofia Churchill @aschurchill.bsky.social PhD Candidate - ERC Starting Grant Project COLLAB @KU_Leuven | Collaborative Practices of Making Literature in Contexts of Displacement and Migration | ex-professional opera singer
Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, comedian, storyteller. PhD candidate. Friend of nature, hugger of trees.
Uncommon Folk- my folklore podcast is available everywhere https://uncommonfolk.buzzsprout.com
Zach Gordon @zachgordon.bsky.social Associate Academic Editor at IVP. Husband, dad, bibliophile. Preoccupied with theology, literature, folklore, and writing. Trying to learn one thing about everything. Generalist approach to life.
Dr. Martha Johnson-Olin @peronelle.bsky.social Medievalist/composition prof, fairy tales and sci-fi (She/her) Editor of The Cinderella Bibliography https://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella. Also M. Weigel. All views mine.
Dr Olivia Gomersall @droliviag.bsky.social Music, books, nature and vintage fashion…
Yorkshire lass in Shropshire.
Bookseller
@hillfort.bsky.social @hillfort.bsky.social Rural Wessex. Apples, chickens, archery, local history, the usual. Former seafarer and aero engineer
Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social
Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social I scream, you scream, we all scream because monsters are awesome! www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Lindsey McClure ✨ @ghostiesghoulies.bsky.social PhD candidate studying 19th century Irish and British folklore and literature ☕️📚I Folk & Fairy Tales | The Gothic | Archives ~loves cats, coffee, and cold, rainy days 🌨️
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Gavin McNamara @tallfolk46.bsky.social Teaches English. Writes about (folk) music for Bristol 24/7, Fatea and Tradfolk.
Rachel Anderson @rach-anderson.bsky.social Special Collections and Archives Assistant @ Newcastle Uni Library / Heritage Researcher @ Natural History Society of Northumbria / PhD’ing @ Durham Uni History ✨
Amanda Ellard @amandaellard.bsky.social PhD candidate ☕️
Teacher, writer, editor, folklorist, artist ✒️
Sarah Bryan @considerjeoffry.bsky.social Folklorist and writer specializing in the cultural heritage of the American South. Collector of 78 rpm records and old photos. Fiddler and banjo player. Researching folk gravestone art, Southern pottery history, ghost stories. Catscatscatscatscatscats
| Éireann | @rinnywee.bsky.social | History #PhD submitted! | #Librarian | Plumpton College | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | Shāhmārān | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social 'That childless woman.' Psychotherapist, author, Substacker, TEDxer, cat staff, apprentice crone. Founder of Gateway Women and Gateway Elderwomen #Childless #Childfree #WestCork #AgeingWithoutChildren https://linktr.ee/gatewaywomen
Craig Spence @cspence.bsky.social Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
Ben Westwood - Durham FLO 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @benjwestwood.bsky.social Archaeologist & Durham Finds Liaison Officer for @findsorguk.bsky.social & the British Museum
@FLODurhamFLO in the other place.
Archaeology, Football (Wolves FC 🐺), Politics ('milquetoast social democrat' ;) - what else is there? Oh yeah, ADHD
Kate Ellis @k8ellis.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PhD, playwright, co-founder of Plymouth Performance, TRP Lab Co OG. She/her.
Editor of the Revels Plays edition of 'Dick of Devonshire', publication 17 December 2024. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719099366
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Lisa Ollerhead @ljollerhead.bsky.social Director of the Association of Independent Museums.
Alicia Coventree @acoventree.bsky.social Librarian, bibliothecary, comic book geek, promoter of liberty through literacy, plays with words & pictures, Co-Founder and former Chair of the Texas Maverick Graphic Novel List Committee.
Brendan C. Walsh @brendancwalsh.bsky.social Early Modern Intellectual Historian and Religious Scholar from Australia. Devotee of the Dark Arts: demonology and the supernatural in the 16th and 17th century Anglosphere.
https://brendancharleswals.wixsite.com/academic
A. D. Bergin @adberginwriter.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author ‘The Wicked Of The Earth’. Britain’s biggest witch trial: greed, corruption, the strong women who dared to fight back and one damaged man seeking redemption.
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
Pam Thompson @pamthompson240.bsky.social Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography.
Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press).
Hawthornden Fellow.
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Dr. Laura Davidel @lauradavidel.bsky.social Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts.
Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.
Probably away taking pictures 📷
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Ali Harman @alihar.bsky.social Retired library and information specialist. Volunteers at Brent Museum and Archives.
Into local and family history. Sings with the amazing Cecil Sharp House Choir.
Plays piano. Spins, dyes, knits, reads. Bit of gardening.
She/her.
Dan Harms @danharms.bsky.social Author, librarian, occultist, gamer. Opinions expressed do not reflect the positions of SUNY Cortland or UUP.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
Rachael Bentley @freshairwildhair.bsky.social Writer with a passion for UK wildlife, the environment and folklore.
Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Nicole Greenspan @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Britain. Studied at Toronto, Professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. Works on news and media, and also royalist exiles.
David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social Theatre, horror, Doctor Who, Eurovision, history, arts, old British TV and film. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights.
Co-host of Rambling Through Eternity:
https://shorturl.at/S5Iuw
Insta: @davidevanspowell
@lindsaykernohan.bsky.social @lindsaykernohan.bsky.social Communications & Heritage | #LdnOnt Historic Sites Committee | she/her | food, drink, travel, gardening & books 💛
Dr. Billie Gavurin @bgavurin.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture
Interested in 19th/early 20thC connections between myth, folklore, & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️
She/her
Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social AHRC and DFG funded project exploring the Seven Sages of Rome/Dolopathos/Book of Sindibad, focusing on gender, genre, and multilingual medieval transmission. https://seven-sages-of-rome.org/
Superstition Sam @superstitionsam.bsky.social Superstition Sam discusses heritage, folklore and superstitions, exploring their connections to human creativity, psychology and cross-cultural friendship 🐾 🐈⬛🍀
#Superstitiology
https://superstitionsam.com/links/
Jon Fitzgibbons @jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
The Piskie Trap @thepiskietrap.bsky.social Podcaster exploring folklore and local history from across Cornwall and Devon
https://shows.acast.com/the-piskie-trap/episodes
The Old Crow Road @theoldcrowroad.bsky.social Three piece band playing British folk music with an occasional waft of Appalachian and contemporary. Based in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Here hear here: https://theoldcrowroad.bandcamp.com
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Heather Blanchard @heatherblanchard.bsky.social Author, pagan, AuDHD, Gothic Studies MA, poet, tarot, vinyl collector, fairy tales/folklore, horror, languages
She/her. Scotland/Yorkshire ✨
Joanna Rickert-Hall @jrickerthall.bsky.social Historian/Author: Cdn contested history; folk belief, myth, magic and practice of witchcraft/Braucherei
https://www.dundurn.com/authors_/t156375/t147522-joanna-rickert-hall
Caroline Tully @carolinetully.bsky.social Aegean archaeologist, Reception Studies scholar, antiquities curator, weaver, tarot reader, likes ancient Mediterranean religions, magic, the Victorians, contemporary Paganisms, modern Witchcraft, and big jewellery.
Sofia @sofiawanstrom.bsky.social Folklorist, postdoctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland: "Singlehood. Women's Experiences of Being Single in Swedish-Speaking Finland"
Narrative; gender; singleness, relationships and dating; sexual violence; social movements
She/her
Jen @junebean1.bsky.social Bookseller, tea drinker, TSwift enthusiast ✨
Faye McLeod @saffiemcleod.bsky.social Archivist and Records Manager, Balliol College, Oxford. All opinions here are very much my own.
Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival @burylitfest.bsky.social Celebrating books and writing in the heart of East Anglia
8-11th October 2026
Julie Fox-Horton @juliefoxhorton.bsky.social Associate Professor, ETSU | Cultural Historian | Archives & Manuscript Studies | Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
Dr. Shauna Louise Caffrey @witchstorian.bsky.social Cultural Historian & Musicologist |
PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic |
Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast
🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
James Domestic @jamesdomestic.bsky.social Poet and spoken word bloke, musician, DJ, punk. Tattoos. Vinyl. Coffee. Cats. Suffolk/Essex, PhD, S.A.D. Books at www.jamesdomestic.com / www.earthislandbooks.com. Records at www.kibourecords.bigcartel.com
Pam Grossman @phantasmaphile.bsky.social 🧙♀️Author of WAKING THE WITCH (Gallery Books) and MAGIC MAKER (Penguin Life Oct 2025)
📖Co-editor of WITCHCRAFT (Taschen)
🎙Host of The Witch Wave
📱Creator of WitchEmoji
Salt & Mirrors & Cats @saltmirrorscats.bsky.social Literary zine with stories, poems and art about superstitions 🧂🪞🐈 Founded by Superstition Sam with artwork by PrairieBones.
Salem Witch Museum @salemwitchmuseum.bsky.social Founded in 1972, the mission of our museum is to tell the story of the innocent victims of witch hunts from 1692 to the present day.
Richard Noakes @rjnoakes.bsky.social Historian of science and technology at the University of Exeter. Bit of an amateur astronomer and even more amateur at playing the clarinet and piano. Very proud dad.
Susannah Butler @sbeditorial.bsky.social ✨Freelance commissioning editor, copyeditor & proofreader working with publishers and authors to develop books across genres.
www.susannahbutler.com
Josh Hutchinson 🥄 @joshhutchinson.bsky.social Witch trial history guy. Co-host of The Thing About Witch Hunts and The Thing About the Salem Witch Trials. Co-founder of End Witch Hunts. Lead for the Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project. #witchtrials #fms #cfs