Frances Owen
Books, history, writing
Editor, Historia magazine @historia-hwa.bsky.social, but not working while I'm here
2x judge for the HWA Gold Crown Award
@cbcreative.bsky.social
Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London. Home of #WriteCBC. https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
@reekiewriters.bsky.social
Reekie Writers consists of five women who write or have written in Edinburgh. Our work is a mixture of crime, Scottish Regency, contemporary women's fiction, historical romance, comic fiction and short stories.
@gaiabanks.bsky.social
Literary agent at Sheil Land Associates. Fair-weather gardener. Repairer of broken things. Magpie. Polyglot. she/her. Also on Threads. https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gaiabanks/
@englishanu.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account of the English Department of The Australian National University 📚✍🏽🤓
@alisonirvine.bsky.social
Author Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath) Highly Commended in Wigtown Book Fest Anne Brown Essay Prize 2024 Recollective www.recollective.org.uk Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
@insuhi.bsky.social
We are internationally renowned for our innovative undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research programmes in Culture and Heritage, Orkney and Shetland Studies, Highlands and Islands Literature, Scottish Heritage, Viking Studies and Island Studies.
@restorationhat.bsky.social
#writer researching the #17thC Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown (coming #CharlesII age 0-30 #biography) #history #books #ECW #royals www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399064517 www.amazon.com/dp/1399064517 https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Charles-II/p/52730
@gavinharris.bsky.social
@girlhermes.bsky.social
Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and more. Currently working on a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot. Here for history and the stories we tell about it. Click for courses, mentoring, and etc: https://linktr.ee/imogenhermes
@sophiehaydock.bsky.social
Author, journalist, marathon runner, mudlark | Curator Folkestone Book Festival | debut The Flames @DoubledayUK #EgonSchiele | agent Juliet Mushens | Madame Matisse coming in March 2025
@barbdrummond.bsky.social
Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. New book The Great Flood of 1607 published on 2 September. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity
@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents | ✍️ Currently: Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
@erhodes.bsky.social
PhD student in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
@bldigischol.bsky.social
Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@sriyav.bsky.social
Senior Publicity Manager @michaeljbooks.bsky.social, dog enthusiast, modern girl • no it's not spelled like the country • views my own • she/her
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@sunitathind.bsky.social
Writer,teacher, model,singer,creative writing facilitator.2 poetry books published,dycp grant Arts Council 2 write memoir-my Ovcancer. On prestigious writing mentorship programme New Writing North. Seeking lit representation Doing NCJT Diploma journalism
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@ehistorian.bsky.social
https://elizabethhyman.com/ Holocaust Historian, Public Historian, Archivist, Researcher, Writing Coach, and author of the upcoming Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, Harper Perennial 2025. Blogs at: historicity-was-already-taken.tumblr.com.
@florajowriter.bsky.social
Scottish fiction writer. The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now. Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
@alexburchmore.bsky.social
Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
@reynoldsauthor.bsky.social
Historical Novel Society First Chapters Adventure winner 2024. Longlisted for Exeter Novel Prize and HWA Unpublished Debut. Holding out for Google Maps 'by horse' option.
@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
@whitegoldsword1708.bsky.social
Interested in Jacobites and the 17th and 18th centuries- art, architecture, material culture, symbolism, JMW Turner, John Soane and ceramics. Historic House Manager.
@lotusbooks.bsky.social
Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to [email protected] Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
@rjhooton.bsky.social
Writer. Award-winning short fiction. Debut novel THE MARGARET CODE published by Sphere Books out now: http://bit.ly/4eNE0CI. Rep: @stubbleagent @ RCW
@sarahlupton1.bsky.social
Writer rep'd by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown SL Exeter Novel Prize 2022 Runner up Retreat West First Chapter Comp '23 Curtis Brown Creative Alumni
@rebeccaolds.bsky.social
Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher | UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk | cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
@alannamactavish.bsky.social
A lover of Glencoe, no matter how much it rains, and a historian of Jacobite Studies. Studying at the University of Aberdeen, the best of the ancients.
@nelbetancur.bsky.social
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
@maryanneyarde.bsky.social
I have passionately promoted historical fiction, romance, and fantasy novels since 2015, consistently achieving excellent results and effectively connecting books and authors with readers eager for engaging new stories https://maryanneyarde.blogspot.com
@cromwellmuseum.bsky.social
World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK www.cromwellmuseum.org
@1642author.bsky.social
British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. Associate Fellow - Royal Hist Soc. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham. 📕Biography: Charles I's Private Life 🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
@angelamcshane.bsky.social
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@tomaashby.bsky.social
Historian • Soon JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social • Reviews Ed @global-ih.bsky.social • Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social • PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social • the English republic • England & Sengoku/Edo Japan • autistic
@scottishhistory.org
Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Posts by @neilritchie.bsky.social
@neilritchie.bsky.social
Editor: @MilitaryHistoryJournal.com, @DefenceToday.com and @JacobiteWars.com • Military & Defence Matters • Military History • Scottish History • Nikon D850 user • neilritchiephotography.co.uk
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@jdmccafferty.bsky.social
A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
@rosannaforte.bsky.social
Editorial Director @ Little, Brown UK. Commissioner of beautiful books with big plots. Generalist but particularly partial to the historical, the criminal, the ghostly and the lightly fantastical. Exclusively 📚 on this account.
@misswalsingham.bsky.social
Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social