Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social Reception Studies 📚, Classics🏺,
and the Ancient World 🌍
AIMS is a not-for-profit educational society
Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social
Concept artist. illustrator. Indie game maker. Tired.
aficionado of biology, mythology, & horror.
Inundated by bot followers I do not want :/
Will block any AI/NFT
Prev: Finji,Netflix,Blizzard
Her/They
https://linktr.ee/charamath
Casemate Academic @casemateacademic.bsky.social Academic book distributor specializing in archaeology, religion, and literature.
visit: www.casemateacademic.com
L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social 📖Author YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - out now
✏️Illustrator - GreekMythComix, Amarantus for CSCP
🏺Teacher - ClassCiv GCSE, Ancient History A Level resources
❤️Ancient Geek mini-podcast
✨CA Innovative Pedagogy Award 2022✨
💀massive nerd
she/her
Swedish_librarian @stefannordin.bsky.social Grovkulturarbetare.
Librarian with a love for lowbrow culture. Love italian exploitation films and 60:s adventure novels.
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS out now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
J.E. Linfoot @jelinfoot.bsky.social Fantasy Author
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/ancienthistory101
Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/AncHist101/shop?asc=u
lee agelastus 🌿 @liciniicrassi.bsky.social mature classics student, roman history | road cycling, atleti | 🚴🏺🌿 20s, he/him 🏳️⚧️
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
TWhitleyBay @twhitleybay.bsky.social TWhitleyBay - for Whitley Bay* Tweets
(*and surrounding areas).
Sharing news and (literal!) views
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
John Gwynne @johngwynneauthor.bsky.social Author of The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone and The Bloodsworn Saga series. Viking Re-enactor when not stuck in a coat of mail.
https://linktr.ee/johnhgwynne
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
EatalianWithRoberto @eatalianwithrob.bsky.social Authentic Italian food is my passion, Bologna my home.
My blog: http://eatalianwithroberto.com
Here after years on Twitter (I was eatalianwithrob 🤗)
Philip Athans @philathans.bsky.social Liberal author, editor, and SF, fantasy, horror, and TTRPG fan who has some links at https://linktr.ee/philathans and is happy to have rebuilt a #writingcommunity here. NO to AI.
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS: https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Dustin Tigner @dustintigner.com Hello! I'm an author of humorous fantasy in the flavors of GameLit and LitRPG. I also design & develop sites. Love board games, video games, books, and anime. Nice to meet you. :)
My books 👉 dustin.link/books
Our Whitley Bay @ourwhitleybay.bsky.social Your official guide to Whitley Bay.
Showcasing indie businesses from retail, leisure, hospitality, accommodation to services.
Championing charities and organisations.
G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social Fantasy author. Internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed, so cool, so sexy etc.
https://www.gdpenman.com/
Haggard Hawks @haggardhawks.bsky.social The bird with the words. // Obscure words, etymology & language facts // New book A WINTER DICTIONARY, a collection of obscure words for the festive season, is OUT NOW! // New look website haggardhawks.com launching soon...
Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social Historian. News editor at Ancient History and Ancient Warfare magazines. Author of 15 books, including MARCUS AGRIPPA, GERMANICUS and TIBERIUS. Appeared on History Channel, HistoryHit and The History Network. FRHistS.
Website: https://lindsay-powell.com
Adrienne Mayor @amayor.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Science & Human Curiosity, author of
Mythopedia
Flying Snakes
Gods and Robots
The Amazons
Poison King
First Fossil Hunters
Fossil Legends
Greek Fire Poison Arrows
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social Lover of words, player of music
μηδεὶς ἄμουσος εἰσίτω
LJ Trafford @ljtrafford.bsky.social I write about Romans. A lot. Someone should probably stop me. Author of the Four Emperors Series set in 68/69 CE and the non fiction How to Survive in Ancient Rome, Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome & Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors. 
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Dr Jean Menzies @jeansthoughts.bsky.social PhD in Ancient History 🏺
Nonfiction author for children with DK; YA/Teens with Wren & Rook; and adult with 404 Ink.
Debut medieval fantasy retelling for adults coming May 2025 with Michael Joseph, Penguin.
Agent: Emily Glenister
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Roman Military Equipment @equipmentroman.bsky.social Sort-of-official BlueSky account for Roman Military Equipment (no longer just from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome) by M C Bishop & J C N Coulston
Website: https://romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk
Dr Andrew Tibbs @andrewtibbs.bsky.social Author | Romans | Archaeologist | Heritage stuff Hon Research Fellow at Aberdeen Uni | Also RomanScotland.bsky.social
Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social Teaching Roman history, researching Roman magic and trying not to accidentally summon demons. Forever DM, Dad and Catholic.
Roman Scotland @romanscotland.bsky.social All about Roman Scotland and beyond. Run by AndrewTibbs.bsky.social | formerly @RomanScotland and @AndrewTibbs | Hon Research Fellow at Aberdeen Uni
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Coldmoat • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/ProudGeekBookshop
Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Writer, archaeologist, wild swimmer, wild gardener. New book ECHOLANDS -A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF BOUDICA out now from @Hodderbooks.bsky.social https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/duncan-mackay/echolands/9781399714143/ Rep. Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Dr Louise O'Brien @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social Teaching Fellow, Egyptology | Ancient Historian | Portraiture, Culture, Hybridity & Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt | Personal Account
Debborah Donnelly @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social Egyptian archaeologist, environmentalist🌲🐝, gemmologist💎, ceramicist🏺, photographer📷, veteran Canadian Navy Officer⚓🍁, 💜
#Egypt #archaeology #travelblog
https://www.debborahdonnelly.ca/
Manon Y. Schutz @manonyschutz.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in Egyptology ("Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin") at the University of Münster, PhD from the University of Oxford, interested in the use and meaning of furniture around the world, mother of cats and a dog, bibliophile. Views my own
@romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social "The Britons live in such a state of independence
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
Dewi - Map Artist 🏹🕯 @dewiwrites.bsky.social Map illustrator, occasional writer & editor. Over 250 maps drawn on commission! 🗺
Fjorn the Skald @fjorntheskald.com 🧙🏻♂️ I’m just a guy (he/they) wandering for wisdom
🎓 M.A. in History (mostly Norse)
📖 writing fantasy at feolnir.com
🚫 anti-AI ・ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ inclusive ally
Luke Chmilenko @lukechmilenko.bsky.social Science Fiction Fantasy Author, Gamer, and Meme Guy.
Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
A. D. Bergin @adberginwriter.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author ‘The Wicked Of The Earth’. Britain’s biggest witch trial: greed, corruption, the strong women who dared to fight back and one damaged man seeking redemption.
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social Archaeologist, educator, science communication. Also talk a lot about games and media, art, politics, and labor issues
Χριστίνα @drchristinah.bsky.social “A twat” — Andrew Mastrandonas @andrewmceo, founder of Pillar Health
LadyKivingston @lupalionessa.bsky.social Archaeologist turned Latin teacher, digital artist, and historical video gamer 🏺✍🏻 30s/she/bi 💖🌿
Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social Mother, writer, history professor, Homer fangirl & Alexander the Great geek * ATG Court Prosopography * Writing academic monograph on Hephaistion & Krateros * Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at UNO * Author, Dancing with the Lion duology
Maciej Paprocki @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social Student of ancient Greek theologies, librarian, tea drinker, gamer. Lover of myth, poetry and magic. Myth adviser on #Apotheon
Zamil Akhtar @zamakhtar.bsky.social Horror author masquerading as a fantasy author. Author of Gunmetal Gods. Follow the Dark Drinker Ultimate Edition campaign 👉 bit.ly/darkdrinker
@ancienthistgeek.bsky.social @ancienthistgeek.bsky.social Ancient history PhD at large. Proofreader, copy editor, and all-around commentary gremlin with Dickinson College Commentaries. Expect random posts about dinosaurs.
Halo Scot @haloscot.bsky.social Author of book monsters. Bringer of chaos. Screamer of voids. First to die in a zombie apocalypse. Stretch goal: galactic domination. HaloScot.com
NikkiTwisted - NT Anderson - Author @nikkitwisted.bsky.social Award-winning #author of 🔥 romance. Co-founder of Tepris Press - @teprispress.bsky.social. DJ for 1F2T. Pirate. Bratty submissive.
The Acts Series - http://mybook.to/TheActsSeries
ntanderson.com
teprispress.com
https://www.mixcloud.com/NaturallyTwisted
Knightingale - Jon Ford - Author @jonfordauthor.bsky.social 🇬🇧#WritingCommunity - Co-founder of @TeprisPress - Writer or Urban Fantasy and SciFi books - http://author.to/JonFord - 🏳️🌈Ally 💙🇺🇦💛
Happy to chat but please, no service pitches! I’m not in the market for buying 😝
Sebastien de Castell @decastell.bsky.social I write swashbuckling fantasy novels such as Traitor’s Blade, Spellslinger, Play of Shadows and Malevolent Seven. My books have been translated into fifteen languages and are available in ebook, hardback, paperback and audiobook.
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Ross Young @ryoungsulk.bsky.social Talks nonsense, and writes the same. Author of silly afterlife books - http://mybook.to/gloomwood. Beezy & Grim live here. He/Him.
Livi @classicsgaymer.bsky.social Liv, 26, UK (she / her). Gamer and classicist with an interest in classical gaming, Greek mythology and Roman history. Also sometimes I yap about my OCs.
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Nicholas Eames @nicholaseames.bsky.social Author of KINGS OF THE WYLD and BLOODY ROSE. Lover of books, games, comics, anime, hockey, football, cats, and...Well, I guess that about covers it.
H. M. Long @hmlong.bsky.social Canadian Fantasy Author - Dark Water Daughter - Hall of Smoke - Entwined (‘26) - Ashmarked (27’) - and more
Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social Author of 14+ fantasy books, including A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON, YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION, and RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. They/them. Represented by Britt Siess.
Other socials: linktr.ee/alexandrarowland
Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social Hadrian’s Wall tour guide, archeological photographer sampler of tea. Please DM for personalised tours or image use.
Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural.
https://clairemillington.com
(She/her)
Trevor R Browning @trevorbrowning.bsky.social Director, Producer & Writer | CatDog dad | Historian | Official Unofficial Spokesman for Digiorno |
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Annelies Cazemier @cazemiera.bsky.social Ancient historian. Greek and Hellenistic world, religion, Macedonia, Aegean sea, islands, and coasts, cultural interaction. Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Co-director of the Antigonid Network. Based in Newbury, UK.
Dr Emma Nicholson @nicholsone99.bsky.social Ancient historian at U. of Exeter. Hellenistic history & historiography, Polybius, Philip V, Macedonia, director of the #AntigonidNetwork. Author, dabbler artist, beagle owner, gamer and foodie.
N. Olya @nsolya.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist | Greek vases, ethnicity, & otherness in Mediterranean antiquity | Likes/Follows/Reposts =/= endorsements
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
L.C.Winter @lcwinter.bsky.social Writer of historical gothic. 'Spider, Spider' out now.
Links here. https://linktr.ee/LCWinter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b1799b03-281d-4d43-a3ee-0dbd8abf2d60
Agent - Emily Glenister
James Wilson @james-wilson.bsky.social Trying to survive The Gilded Age 2
He/Him mostly; good books & films, genre flexible; Opera. Poetry.
Ceasefire now. Fight fascism.
Ryan Rose (he/him) @ryanprose.bsky.social 🏳️🌈bi - Award-Winning Author of Epic Fantasy (rep by Harry Illingworth DHH) | EIGHT TASTES OF TREACHERY (July 2026) - http://bit.ly/43jGe8w
Richard H Moon @rmoonhill.bsky.social Movies, writing, curling, physics, not necessarily in that order.
Book about Ancient Egyptian Adventure (and the undead!) TO CONQUER DEATH is out now!
https://richardmoonbooks.com/
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/rmoonwrites
Wesley Savage @wesleysavageauthor.bsky.social The Mourning Song of Solitude and The Hidden Heart of Magic are available now in the link below. A Colorado based fantasy/sci-fi author.
Andrew Haxell @adhaxi.bsky.social Higher Education careers & employability, football (Arsenal, Southend United, Morpeth Town, Napoli - in that order), Northumberland, walking, tea shops, and a bit of politics, are my things
JM Stevens @jmstevens-author.bsky.social Ph.D. in Education Technology, University Professor, Aspiring LitRPG Writer. Gamer, -> TTRPG, MMORPG, and Board Games. Fan of Emerging Technologies, AI, AR, and VR. LGBTQ+ Advocate, SEL, and DEI Practitioner. He/Him https://bit.ly/JMStevens
Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social Founder of H.M. Classics Academy: we teach ancient languages and the ancient world.
helenmcveigh.co.uk
subscribepage.com/hmclassicsacademy
#Ancientbluesky
I always want to see pictures of your dogs. 🐶 Snowball 🐕 Edith
Andy Peloquin, Epic Fantasy Author @andypeloquinauthor.bsky.social #EpicFantasy #Author | Darkblade/Queen of Thieves/The Silent Champions | Exploring real humanity through characters and stories, fantasy coming alive!
Zack Argyle @handle.invalid Bookborn’s husband. Award-winning fantasy author. Founder of the Indie Fantasy Fund and Epic Fantasy Audiobooks. SPFBO Finalist.
linktr.ee/zackargyle
M. J. Kuhn @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social I write things. 
Fantasy Book Critic @fantasybookcritic.bsky.social We are a blog of passionate book reviewers who love anything from fantasy to sci-fi and self published works. Active since 2007. Blogger judges in SPFBO from 2015. Find us at https://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com (BS Posts/replies by Caitlin & Mihir)
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social Classics news, resources & more. A hub for Classics teachers. http://theclassicslibrary.com | http://ow.ly/A70L304v7U9
Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com Advocate for arts and humanities. I believe in the importance of sharing the stories of research to create impact outside of universities. Comms professional and history postgrad researching Anubis in the Roman World. 🏛️🐍
He/him
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social http://www.roamintheempire.com/
Archaeological travels through the Roman Empire. Bimonthy updates at the website. All photos my own unless otherwise noted.
Tej Turner @tejturner.com he/him. SFF author, travel blogger & vegetarian chef. Published by Elsewhen Press
http://linktr.ee/tejturner