Claudine van Hensbergen
Associate Prof in English Lit, C17th & C18th. Current projects include a cultural history of Aphra Behn's grave, editing Behn for OUP, and a study of public monument in Britain, c.1640-1740.
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social
Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Shakespeare's Tragic Art out now from @princetonupress.bsky.social | Writing a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
@manymanyplies.bsky.social
Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Currently writing: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
@calrbs.bsky.social
California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
@juliepark.bsky.social
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
@claudewillan.bsky.social
C18th stuff, DH, dad stuff, ex-pat things, poems, material culture, etc Ex-brit-abroad unsettled to be resettled in a UK I don't recognise; Durham.
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@profastreete.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; oh, and our cat. My views. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
@freyagowrley.bsky.social
Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@benltjackson.bsky.social
Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
@rabarr.bsky.social
Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English, Uni of Cambridge. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support provided by a terrier. It seems a lot nicer here than that other place.
@melissammowry.bsky.social
Professor 17th and 18thc British Atlantic, author Collective Understanding (OUP), The Bawdy Politic (Routledge), Defoe’s Roxana (Broadview). Working on tyranny, slavery, and friendship. Opinions my own. https://www.melissammowry.com/
@racheljweil.bsky.social
Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS SHS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-Mutt Mom, Democrat, she/her
@katytelling.bsky.social
JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 RVA. Social Media Management: #WomenAlsoKnowHistory || Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
@cassidyh.bsky.social
assistant professor of English @ UNLV in c18 literature, book history, digital humanities, media studies, the novel | she/her
@bibliowitz.bsky.social
Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
@jakerr35.bsky.social
he/him Professor of 17th-century British literature, composer, occasional homilist. Author of Milton’s Theological Process (Oxford, 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/miltons-theological-process-9780198875086
@rscar.bsky.social
18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Assoc. Prof., UCSB English
@18thcenturysam.bsky.social
NUAcT PhD student working on bibliography of 18th pornographic print // she/they
@camlibresearch.bsky.social
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
@ruthahnert.bsky.social
Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Queen Mary University of London: & The Alan Turing Institute, UK. She/her
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@josephhone.bsky.social
Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
@ruthscobie.bsky.social
Mostly eighteenth-century celebrity, empire, identity, novels; she/her. Authorship, Activism & Celebrity: Art & Action in Global Literature out now with Bloomsbury
@jacklynch000.bsky.social
Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric. C18 British lit, dictionaries & lexicography, book history, political smartassery. https://jacklynch.net
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@crulph.bsky.social
Erstwhile lots of things, current digital humanist, knows some stuff about the 18th century. Specialist subjects include Neighbours c. 1998-2007 and primary school classmates' birthdays.
@mjrsangster.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
@maryfairclough.bsky.social
Professor, Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Books, running, messiness, cats
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
@philistella.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
@c18ah.bsky.social
Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
@johnjoemctague.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
@mckeever.bsky.social
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
@emmcgirr.bsky.social
Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant.
@daniellejthom.bsky.social
senior curator @ the design museum possibly just three trenchcoats in another, much larger trenchcoat views all my own 🇨🇮🫱🏻🫲🏼🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/danielle_j_thom
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
Historian & Writer • PhD on Mary Delany and the culture of Improvement at University College Cork • 18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories • Secretary Women’s History Association of Ireland • West Cork
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@billbloodyhughes.bsky.social
Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/ www.opengravesopenminds.com
@fierengraw.bsky.social
Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. Currently working on early modern whales She/her https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content https://18thcparatext.wordpress
@odsecs.bsky.social
The Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies: https://www.odsecs.org
@joedwards.bsky.social
18th centuryist - social networks and history of education | Trustee Hannah More Trust hannahmoreletters.org | President NDLHS | Chair of Trustees Nailsea Tithe Barn | Continuing Education Tutor and examiner.
@ecfjournal.bsky.social
ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: [email protected].
@jharrimansmith.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@voloshkova.bsky.social
Bluestockings and Travel Accounts (CUP, 2021); interests - women's life writing, the Bluestocking circle & long 18thC British travel accounts / UKW (2022-), Oxford Brookes U fellowship (2022-2024), Ukrainian Society for 18thC Studies
@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni | Historian of Leisure, Fashion, & Commercialisation | 📖 ‘Domino’ CUP 2023 | 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 | Mother runner, coffee enthusiast.