Josh Smith
Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD @ StirUni | RA Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online | Prev on Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/) | Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
@keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Curriculum & Progression, at Study Group's ABERDEEN International Study Centre. Educational Developer, Manager, Author. Any views expressed are my PERSONAL ones rather than those of any institution I am associated with.
@bibsoc.bsky.social
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
@drdavegriffiths.bsky.social
Sociologist at Stirling Uni. Interests in social network analysis, social stratification, disadvantage, health egonets, quantitative methods and some other stuff.
@girlinthe.bsky.social
#RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her.
@benansell.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. Why Politics Fails. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host of What’s Wrong With Democracy? and BBC Radio 4’s Rethink
@seththevoz.bsky.social
Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. New: clubland.substack.com
@ainsley76.bsky.social
@vawright10.bsky.social
Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
@davidheniguk.bsky.social
Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
@shayan86.bsky.social
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | [email protected]
@edwinapenge.bsky.social
Rare books librarian at Longleat | library & book history | moderately early modern
@howtobooks.bsky.social
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖 Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@louisecreechan.bsky.social
Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people.
@dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Editor. Researcher. Writer. Eighteenth-century & Nineteenth-century, Romanticism, Women's Literary History & Creative Nonfiction (memoir & biography). She/her. Pacific NW person living in Sussex. www.alexiswolf.co.uk
@davidmilliken.bsky.social
Reuters economics reporter covering the Bank of England, HM Treasury, bond markets and UK data.
@georgepalmer.bsky.social
PhD candidate | Emmanuel College Cambridge | CofE and Politics 1885-1914 | I sing many high notes
@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social #bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
@zoecrowther.bsky.social
• reporter at PoliticsHome ✍📱 • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • social media, tech, health & mental health • X: @zoenora6 • threads: zoe_crowther • https://www.politicshome.com/news/author/zoe-crowther.htm
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
PhD candidate Binghamton University • Incoming Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • She/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
@syrpis.bsky.social
Professor of EU Law at the University of Bristol. On here mainly for inexpert political noodling and discussion, with occasional forays into EU law. And, puns. Sorry.
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
@shire-reckoning.bsky.social
The events of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. The complete archive of entries, with commentary, can be found at https://shire-reckoning.com/
@bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social
British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Reps
@lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social
Art & Architectural Historian - Leverhulme ECF at Uni of Edinburgh - Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - Currently researching Rosslyn - She/her
@tswingard.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @historytcd.bsky.social, researching sex and the Church courts in 14th century England read more about my work: tesswingard.wordpress.com header: bit.ly/3WbQMC5
@printersofscotland.bsky.social
A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking. Festival of Printmaking 15-17 Aug 2025. University of Stirling. www.printmakersofscotland.com
@nicolawilsontorch.bsky.social
AHRC SGSAH PhD researcher looking at social media and the publishing ecosystem. Also interested in literary history, platform economies and digital culture. Usually found talking about disability awareness, food, books or 00s TV
@williamcarruthers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
Professor-turned-librarian; my digital humanities is usually analog; often seen with two dogs and a lot of yarn; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
@drhelenkemp.bsky.social
Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Community Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
@sharpnews.bsky.social
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@sharpweb.org
📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 💚 Promoting humanities scholarship 🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars 🪢 Facilitating bookish community sharpweb.org
@leahveronese.bsky.social
She/her. Early modernist at University College Oxford. Petition. John Donne. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father. All opinions my own.
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE, coming in September 2025
@hollyqueenofspayeds.com
Tech, cats, cat-tech & being catty about tech. Basically I'm a tech writer who also runs a cat rescue. Well, I do have a lot of mice.
@klhkhistorian.bsky.social
Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in arts & humanities communications; public humanities & alt-ac/post-ac advocate; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom. 📍Cville
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@julialaite.bsky.social
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to three ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle. http://www.isecs.org
@asecsoffice.bsky.social
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
@michaelsavage.bsky.social
Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇 [email protected]
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.