Charlie Holland
19th century Circus and Music Hall history (esp. acro, aerial & juggling) & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference.
@streathamhillt.bsky.social
The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre (FoSHT) are campaigning to save this "sleeping beauty" theatre for the community. Find more at http://streathamhilltheatre.org
@lotski79.bsky.social
A bit of acting, a bit of tour guiding & a lot of reading. Owned by cats. It’s so much nicer here. Check out my work stuff at @bluefiretheatre.bsky.social
@womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
Celebrate the amazing mostly historic women with a connection to South London. Meet suffragettes, actresses, activists, writers, pioneering HCPs, politicians, sportswomen & many more women from all walks of life. Includes some reposts from the other place
@dominicmcgrath.bsky.social
ACTOR: www.spotlight.com/6214-6720-4647 * Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
@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
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
@alisonatkin.bsky.social
Artist. Osteoarchaeologist. Canadian. Doing creative things with heritage in the NW (UK). Multi-passionate person. Can expect knitting, gardening, ttrpg, nerdery, and occasional hamster content. she/her
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@roberthazle.bsky.social
Cabaret performer, MD & panto director. Singing ‘The Shows we Used To Know’: the forgotten favourites and fabulous flops of musical theatre history. www.roberthazle.com #showsweusedtoknow Profile photos: Miranda Mazzarella/Pamela Raith.
@paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
London depicted by artists past and present. “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson. Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon This week's theme: Bridges
@jofvictculture.bsky.social
The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic. Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
@christopherpittard.bsky.social
Victorian literature academic, Course Leader in English Literature. Detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. New book: *Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature* (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
@19birkbeck.bsky.social
Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in the histories of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@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.
@marieminden.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University | Author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes, forthcoming with Oxford University Press - https://shorturl.at/ReFmK | Working on a new book about modern poetic drama and dance
@danrebellato.bsky.social
World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
@davidjcoates.bsky.social
Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
@drfernriddell.bsky.social
Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio. Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture. www.fernriddell.com **PREORDER Victoria’s Secret NOW** https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
@lilaclillian.bsky.social
Mild and moody - Museums, archives and evidence based learning. Post about my days, my places, my people, my interests, my loves but not my hates. Curatorial and Collections Manager at Showtown - all views my own.
@fabulousfashion.bsky.social
Fashion and dress history - historical, antique and vintage fashion and more! Extant fashion garments, fashion plates and original photographs from 18th century to 1980s! Occasionally also lifestyle and other extant products. Old stuff only!
@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 [email protected]
@mhora.bsky.social
Aspiring traveller, continuously curious - exploring heritage, culture, music, and theatre - and a few buildings too!
@magiclanternsoc.bsky.social
Welcome to the wonderful world of pre-cinema Big Screen Entertainment, via the mysteries of the magic lantern. Join us at www.https://www.magiclantern.org.uk
@sarahouston.bsky.social
Professor of Dance at University of Roehampton U.K. Passionate about community arts/socially engaged art/dance and health and arts research. National Teaching Fellow. Wrote a book: Dancing with Parkinson’s
@youngalison.bsky.social
Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing… My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
@stephsirr.bsky.social
CEO of fabulous Nottingham Playhouse, joint president of UK Theatre. Writer. Consultant. Feminist. Doodle owner. #theatre All views my own
@legmania.bsky.social
Journaling the life of 19th century Music Hall dancers James & Lucy Allison, and their life between continents. All things music hall, eccentric dance, and outlandish costumes. Adrift Australian once found in London now Folkestone.
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@hannahgreig.bsky.social
Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London. Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
@standawhile.bsky.social
Retired stationery seller, graphic designer. Loves art, books, renaissance and baroque music, typography, theatre, nature, food and drink. Life’s absurdities. Amuse me.
@cermatori.bsky.social
www.josephcermatori.com writer, critic, editor, historian "drama and the arts of performance" - Author: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
@layersoflondon.bsky.social
https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
@magiclantern.bsky.social
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
@janesamuels.bsky.social
Mancunian artist and writer. Geography, ecology, place and politics, prolific drinker of cheap whiskeys. Inventive dancer. PhD Candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU.
@catherinequirk.bsky.social
Dog mum. Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, director, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@digivictorian.bsky.social
Historian • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
@lucywhelan.bsky.social
Art historian, mostly 19-20C France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris 📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0 📍Durham, UK
@bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
@ehunineteen.bsky.social
Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University • MA 19thC Studies • Directors: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social • https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
@naomipaxton.bsky.social
Historian of suffrage theatre. Books, talks, walks, games, exhibitions - and more! Performer and broadcaster. Former BBCR3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Member of The Magic Circle. Does comedy, cabaret & magic as Ada Campe www.naomipaxton.co.uk
@davidbcrump.bsky.social
Historic building human butress, heritage surveyor, writer, actor, panto dame, singer, guitarist, comedy historian, music hall fan, biographer of comedy legend Fred Karno. Say hello - it's all new to me!
@rickblackman.bsky.social
Food, wine, cider, comedy, vintage British sitcoms & films. Music Hall & Variety, pantomime. Vintage VW's. Gardening and growing our own veg. Gardener by profession and inclination. Sometimes post about my late Dad's acting career.
@naomiclifford.bsky.social
✍🏼WRITER 📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller 🩰Late onset ballet dancer 🐕🦺Dog lover
@billyrough.bsky.social
Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
@museumsassociation.org
Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org