The Magic Lantern Society
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
@shelleystamp.bsky.social
Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
@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
@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.
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@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
@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
@circushistory.bsky.social
The Circus Historical Society (CHS) is an educational organization dedicated to preserving the rich history of circus.
@folkloresociety.bsky.social
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
@paulcowdell.bsky.social
I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
@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
@silentvalerio.bsky.social
Silent film nerd, ex-archivist 🎞️ and professional photographer 📷 in Bologna, Italy. https://linktr.ee/silentvalerio https://www.valeriogrecophotography.com/
@cineinterludio.bsky.social
Filmes clássicos e cults! Classic Movies and Cults! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cineinterludio?igsh=MWQxYXF6eDdyNTdkbA== Letterbox: https://letterboxd.com/thaisrfr/
@finger-post.blog
I write about the Franklin Expedition and other parts of history heavy on the “doomed” and “ill-fated” side of things. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries. Humanitarian. She/They. #MDANT. #NUJ. #NoTerfs. https://finger-post.blog
@roadsw9.bsky.social
History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood
@elizadearnley.bsky.social
Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Editor of DEADLY DOLLS and FEARSOME FAIRIES (British Library). Fairy tales / horror / interactive stories / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco
@neilwholey.bsky.social
UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics rosatroupe.co.uk
@kevinsegall.bsky.social
bibliophile, collector, preservationist, enthusiast, advocate https://kevinsegall.com/
@gothiron.bsky.social
Graves, confusion, city wandering like a startled cow, complaining about work. A Noticer of Small Things. Can't be arsed about Ambridge or The Archers anymore. MDANT
@todayonsteam.com
Today's releases on steam. Not affiliated with Valve/Steam. Automated by @syamamishra.bsky.social www.todayonsteam.com
@dantastic.bsky.social
Comics, photography, ska, books, Star Trek, D&D, interesting rocks but not a dick about any of it. Proud father of an autistic son. Visit my neocities page: https://dantastic.neocities.org/
@kbax.bsky.social
Vintage Internet Time Traveler Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera Also cats & whimsy Pennsylvania girl Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social
@mynameisgrant.bsky.social
I think we’re all pretending this place isn’t the things we hated about Twitter before the newest things we hate about Twitter. I'm a part of WSKRS, Six Feats Under, Chip and Ironicus, and your thing too if you're nice.
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@iainsarjeant.bsky.social
Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands iainsarjeant.com Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
@dlaur.bsky.social
almost there into ephemera, genealogy, urban & material history, maps, fiction of all kinds, pre-cinema optical devices & entertainments, cats, and a delicate balance of quality to trashy tv (banner by Martin Johnson Heade)
@quiet-horton.bsky.social
collector of non ai images. old and almost or, completely forgotten things. interesting people of cinema from early times.
@ecrg.bsky.social
The Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds. Exploring the past, present and future of motion pictures.
@jobi33.bsky.social
Silent, early, pre-cinema; travel, ephemera, Japan & sometimes other stuff. Digital humanist. 日本文化学映画史. Prof. Japanese and Visual & Cultural Studies, U Rochester. Directs "Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual & Material Culture"
@malcolmcook76.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film Studies, specialising in animation, early cinema, film music/sound, advertising and other useful animation.
@martinlj.bsky.social
Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film. Assoc. Prof. at UNC-Chapel Hill
@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net
Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at substack.funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
@silentbeauties.bsky.social
Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference. Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
@heathertweed.bsky.social
Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall. SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250 Book Ahoy! www.heathertweed.net www.heathertweed.co.uk
@charlieholland.bsky.social
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.
@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
@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.
@katejholmes.bsky.social
Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her) author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023)
@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
@naomiclifford.bsky.social
✍🏼WRITER 📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller 🩰Late onset ballet dancer 🐕🦺Dog lover