dr will pooley
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c
creative histories
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory
aspiring acronymancer
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Creative histories
people / groups / organizations doing creative things with histories - if that’s you and you aren’t on here, let me know
@sklafon1.bsky.social
Pr. of 18th-century studies at Paris Nanterre Université: literature and the sciences, translation and history thereof. Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™. Opinions are my own.
@abdavis.bsky.social
Lecturer in English Literature, University of Derby | Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Shelleyan 🍂
@bristolunilib.bsky.social
Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat. www.bristol.ac.uk/library
@aylwin.bsky.social
Aspiring dosser / emerging Art abolitionist / Corieltauvi separatist He/Him
@justinmcarville.bsky.social
Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
@andrewseaton.bsky.social
Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, modern Britain | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL http://andrew-seaton.com
@catscreatechaos.bsky.social
Medievalist and musician, long-haul PhD at Liverpool on “monstrous men” and mappaemundi. Mountains, mushrooms, music, festivals and cats. 🏳️🌈🏴
@justjenerally.bsky.social
respectably absurd | she/her | own opinions | interests: Ghibli, puns, cats | research: Shax/Marlowe's French; multilingual early modern London; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com
@nnscott.com
Archives and Records. Historic Preservation. Chicagoland. "Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
@hflgbtq.bsky.social
critically rethinking queer history at oxford university 🗣🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@howtobooks.bsky.social
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and printing 📖 Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social
Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
@pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social
Magpie architectural writer and image maker. 'Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us' out now with Reaktion Books. www.ragpickinghistory.co.uk
@jamesassunderland.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Cambridge. PDRA at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Historian of Mandate Palestine. Maker of stained glass windows. Brewer of mead. Amateur bellringer.
@barbaraauger.bsky.social
Ph.D - Centre de Recherche sur l'Imaginaire ; Responsable Musée-Patrimoine. Museum curator & heritage project manager. Exploring the Norman countryside and its people. Past and present. 📍Bernay, Normandie
@jackieclarke.bsky.social
Contemporary historian interested in France, work, consumption, class, gender, deindustrialization. Based in Glasgow.
@drrochellerowe.bsky.social
Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
@pittprofdude.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Sociolinguist, Linguistic Anthropologist, Discourse Analyst. Language, GENDER, and Sexuality. Trying and failing to keep up with just about everything. GENDER: Ambivalent masculine Assigned male at birth
@lalexander.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Restoration/18th c. Brit lit, women writers, fairy tales https://sites.google.com/view/lauraalexander/home 2024 Ridenhour Award for research Royalties donated to Catherine's House, a shelter for women/children
@jdnott.bsky.social
Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh. Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/ Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
@emmakeddev.bsky.social
She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
@alinanbotezatu.bsky.social
AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection
@joannahorrocks.bsky.social
Writer, clinical & forensic psychologist. Sr. Lecturer, DClinPsy programme, U. of Hertfordshire. Interests include the Three P's — psychedelics, paganism & phenomenology. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️(she/her).
@aacruz1009.bsky.social
Historian and Information Specialist. Current Data Coordinator and independent scholar. Interested in U.S. Human Rights History and archives. Views my own.
@rebamex.bsky.social
REWIRE Post-doc @Univie, ex-@HIIGBerlin & @kingsDH. Likes museums, linked data & a good catalogue. Migrant and Niknaks nostalgist. Tired.
@jamesafox.bsky.social
Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
@klracine.bsky.social
Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.
@victoriacrooks.bsky.social
Associate Professor History Education at University of Nottingham Co-Chair @htenuk.bsky.social Co-author: https://tinyurl.com/vj36v3hu Blog: https://uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/ @UoNSoEHistory in other places
@finneypb.bsky.social
FPVC @ Aberystwyth University; cultural memory of war; editor Rethinking History; running; husband and dad
@cbolibaugh.bsky.social
Assoc prof @DeptEdYork. Language processing & acquisition, open research @irisdatabase.bsky.social | @oasisdatabase.bsky.social
@somsproject.bsky.social
Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance. PI on AHRC project: ‘The Secret of My Success’: Women and Self-Employment 1970-2000. Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/are-we-rich-yet/hardcover
@katievernon.bsky.social
Medievalist PhD researching arms and armour in Middle English romance. Interested in medievalism of arms and armour in modern pop culture, esp. video games. https://katievernon.weebly.com/
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social
Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
@irbiel.bsky.social
PhD candidate @UVA History. Print politics in the global nineteenth century.
@imanimosley.bsky.social
your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist. ✨ music/cultural historian at the University of Florida 🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉 she/her 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
@vickyausten.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Gif Enthusiast. My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 victoriaausten.com
@rlarochelle.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service at the University of Maine. Researching and teaching about American political development, US social policy, and political history. https://www.ryanlarochelle.com
@akennedysmith.bsky.social
Author & researcher, with essays & book reviews in TLS, Guardian, History Today, ODNB etc. Writing about Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society 1890-1914 here: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/
@socfrimphmcc.bsky.social
Société Française d'Importation d'Herbert McCabe Interactions entre Marxisme et Catholicisme, Extrême Droite et Catholicisme, Sciences sociales et Catholicisme. Catholicisme Vulgaire et Marxisme Kremlinvacantiste 🌹Fou qui fait le délicat💮
@alixdietzel.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice at SPAIS, University of Bristol. Associate Director at Cabot Institute for the Environment. Teach Global Justice and Philosopher Queens. Mother to Clementine.
@ryandahn.com
Senior associate editor at @physicstoday.bsky.social. Historian studying Nazi science by night. Passionate about Philadelphia urbanism, sports, and politics. All opinions my own. https://ryandahn.com
@archivealex.bsky.social
Archivist, here for all things archives, digital preservation, critical technology. Probably on a train. Uses likes as bookmarks. Slowly building up account here...
@lwalker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
@extispex.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
@harryspillane.bsky.social
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
@geoffgrundy.bsky.social
History PhD, academic proletarian. Interests include the Enlightenment and empire, opera, shitposting about Star Wars, the less/fewer distinction, preserving the thin reed of American democracy, and, time allowing, abolishing the Senate.
@ellencssmith.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc, University of Bristol. Interested in all things letters, India, family history, memory https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/ellen-smith