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DEAD Chachra
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
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Zanna Van Loon
@zannavanloon.bsky.social
Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
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PD Smith
@pdsmith.bsky.social
📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality.
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
linktr.ee/pd_smith
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Dr Keri Thomas
@drkerithomas.bsky.social
Manuscript theorist, wannabe booklicker. Early medieval + digital humanities + materiality + resurrection. Come for the swearing, stay for the medieval shit. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’, Routledge (2025)
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Tom Johnson
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
historian of fifteenth-century England @York | law, materiality, archives, ghosts | writing a microhistory of economic life
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Ben Jackson
@benltjackson.bsky.social
Historian of 18C Britain | Incoming British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | Teach early modern history at U of Birmingham | Writing a book on 18C men's materiality with MUP
birmingham.ac.uk/benjackson
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Sarah Pyke
@sarahpyke.bsky.social
#QueerBibliography, browsing, children's books, customs raids and censorship, histories of reading, materiality, etc. | librarylist.substack.com
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Paulina (Paula) Kolata
@paulakolata.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Interested in religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies and labour, heritage and materiality, food.
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Rebecca Whiteley
@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)
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Victoria J E Jones
@victoriajejones.bsky.social
Artist, Human Geography researcher.
Waiting. Disorientation. Affect. Emotion. Sensation. Materiality.
www.waiting.org.uk