Hellish Nell is published this Thursday, revisiting a strange place where intense twentieth-century emotions met belief in the supernatural. Ghosts drifted through the seance room, dividing opinion and changing lives.
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Hellish Nell - the strange tale of Spiritualist medium Helen Duncan - is over twenty years old. Time for a new edition: condensed here and there, expanded elsewhere, and published by Penguin. Out on 5 October.
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Lapsed early modern historian, now professional services at the University of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants and the supernatural; KE and impact; project management; folk horror; 📸; 🥾; 🏋️. My photography portfolio: https://cursedaperture.squarespace.com/
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
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historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
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hextorian / soton english postgrad researcher queering the history of the 1645 tendring witch trials. occasional writer and editor for dk, scholastic, and more. poet: THE YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY (write bloody uk, 2023)
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.
Associate Lecturer and teacher | PhD from the University of Roehampton in sugar and femininity in early modern drama and culture | she/her.
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
Early modernist. Lecturer at Oxford Conted, IES, AIFS, & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800'. London, suicides, crime & punishment, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦; lives in York
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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AHRC-funded PhD Candidate, NT/OU | Global & East Asian Material Culture @ Stuart Ham House | MPhil on Tobacco, Pearls & Indigenous/African Labour in the British Atlantic (1615–1642) | Monomaniac for the 1600s | KerryApps.com
Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
