John Bright Collection @jbrightcollection.bsky.social Reference collection of historical costume at film,TV & theatre costume house Cosprop. Online collection funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk
www.cosprop.com
Arthur Brand @artdetective.bsky.social Art Detective丨Book 'Hitler's Horses' (18 languages)丨'Art detective will forever be a cool job title.' (Dan Brown after my recovery of the 'Blood of Jesus')
Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social Oscar-Claude Monet was a 19th century French painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 linktr.ee/monet_artbot
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Gabriëlle La Croix @lacroixgabrielle.bsky.social Historian / PhD fellow at IN THE SAME SEA, University of Copenhagen / Family & Inter-island connections / Dutch & Danish in the 18th c. Caribbean
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Lisa Godson @lisagdub.bsky.social Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
Cloak and Tailor @cloakandtailor.bsky.social Maker of corsets and assorted historic, vintage, and bespoke clothes. Textile and fashion history.
Toronto, Canada.
Email: cloakandtailor @ gmail (.) com
Miriam R Lewis @scissorchef.bsky.social Plays with sharp tools in the kitchen and in the costume shop. Digs into history down to the underpinnings. 
Sparkles??? @agressive-sparkles.bsky.social 26, she/her, artist, writer, historical costumer.
Ask me about my chocolate strawberry donuts recipe.
Lucie Whitmore @luciewhitmore.bsky.social Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social Rennaise
Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne tout récemment habilitée à diriger des recherches
18e siècle
Genre
Culture matérielle et consommation
Cour de France
#ESR
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her
Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages. 
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
GASP Archives Vintage Sewing Patterns @xxgaspxx.bsky.social Digitized vintage sewing patterns. We have PDF Freebies every other week of random vintage sewing patterns.
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social Exploring the fascinating history of fashion, one day at a time.
Skeets by @hottycouture.bsky.social.
Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social Oxford Brookes University Research Affiliate
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social your daily dose of bunnies ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
@pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social 
The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk The world's oldest charity dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of historic and contemporary dress. https://costumesociety.org.uk/
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Sideways @sideways440.bsky.social I talk about music. A lot.
Tohtoriverkosto ry @tohtoriverkosto-ry.bsky.social Yhteisö ja kohtaamispaikka tutkitun tiedon taitajille: tohtorit, väitöskirjan tekijät, akateemiset yrittäjät.
https://www.tohtoriverkosto.fi
Dr. Nina E. Harkrader @nehbuildings.bsky.social Historian, 19thC Architecture of England and USA. Social Housing, Women's History, History of Medicine.
Books, Bicycles, Beaches, Bunnies, and Gardens.
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Dr Elisabeth Gernerd @elisabethgernerd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ De Montfort University * The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World * Dress History, Satirical Prints, Georgian Sartorial Culture
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social A network for new approaches to the study of dress and textiles in the long 19th century (1790 – 1914). https://c19thdressandtextilesreframed.wordpress.com
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
ASECS @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.
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Dr Amy Miller & Alison Beadnell @beadnell-miller.bsky.social Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.
Dr Rebecca Morrison @rebeccaem.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century dress, dressmaking, and theatrical costume design. Also known to experiment with recreative practice.
Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social Dress/social historian. Passionately pro-democracy. Cat fosterer. Vote 🔵.
Valerie Wilson @valeriewilson.bsky.social Curator of Textiles at Ulster Folk Museum,National Museums NI. Love fashion past and present, and all kinds of needlework. All views my own
Kimberly Alexander @ksalex10.bsky.social Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
The Underpinnings Museum @theupmuseum.bsky.social An online museum dedicated to underwear history through the ages and across the globe.
https://underpinningsmuseum.com/
Sophie Pitman @textilehistorian.bsky.social Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern)
Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social iTEXTILIS – Part of The IK Foundation @ikws.eurosky.social
– Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net
@julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social Women, women’s history, dress history, art history, books, politics, wine…under a French sky.
Formerly Twitter (X) AStitchInTime13
Nicole Jenkins @frillseeker.bsky.social Fashion historian.
Award-winning author of 'Love Vintage' and 'Style is Eternal'. Collector. Educator. Valuer. Museum professional. MA Cultural Heritage.
https://circavintageclothing.com.au
Dr Dustin M. Neighbors @historyboy30.bsky.social University of Gothenburg; @horizoneu.bsky.social #MSCA fellow; #HERLAND project; FRHistS; #earlymodernwomen, landscapes & human-animal relations; #historynerd #southerngentleman #castlelover #musicfanatic #neurodivergent
Colour4CRAFTS @colour4crafts.bsky.social @HorizonEU consortium project at @helsinkiuni, combining historical textile, craft & dyeing practices w/ new tech applications for bio-based dyes; funded by EU-Horizon (no. 101094809).
Turun yliopisto - University of Turku @utu.fi We build a sustainable future with multidisciplinary research, education and collaboration. Follow our latest news!
utu.fi
Otto Latva @ottolatva.bsky.social Adjunct Prof., PhD, Senior Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Historian specialized in human-animal and human-plant studies as well as cultural and environmental history. Project leader of http://www.utu.fi/humbio
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Bernadette Banner @bernadettebanner.bsky.social I drink and I sew things.
YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social Leading publisher of fashion books and resources as smart as they are stylish! From fashion design how-tos, to the history of fashion and beyond.
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
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