History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
Alma Kell @almakell02.bsky.social I’m a Philly-based bookworm who loves reading forgotten classics to learn about the past.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social writer, psychogeographer, walking artist, educator, performer; lover of the weird and folkloric
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Thomas Meehan @orangeaurochs.bsky.social Cats, cows, lego. Work in a library. Sandy, Bedfordshire. https://instagram.com/orangeaurochs
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Julianna Bratt @bjulianna.bsky.social Paleographer & family historian interested in early modern England, book binding & book history, and nice people fleeing twitter. MA student in archives & records management, distance learning through Aberystwyth University. 
Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social Printmaker, Artist & Human perpetually seeking wonder | Organiser of For the Love of Print | Printmaking Tutor | Commissions |
Shop etc at haggytea.com
Rachel Matthews @provnewshistory.bsky.social Journalist-turned-academic with a focus on all things local news. Currently working on the salvage and uses of local newspaper archives. Spare-time sculler.
Mr Bingo @mr-bingo.bsky.social art, jokes etc
🚪 Shop open 10am - 6:30pm every Friday
🛎️ 'By appointment' on the other days (DM or email me)
🏠 Address: 46 Amwell St, London EC1R 1XS
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social Writer, Guardian and others. The Invention of Essex is published by Profile Books: http://bit.ly/3Bj9lLi
Guardian profile: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/timburrows
Agent: ZRoss@unitedagents.co.uk
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca Game history, programming, nonsense.
Multimedia blog: https://cdrom.ca
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen
Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
Karl Pettersson @karlpettersson.bsky.social Data mangler.
Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social Aerial photography | GIS | Sarsen stone | landscape archaeology | archaeological comics | archives | YAC Leader | MHFA | FSA | MCIfA | all my own views
Sonia García @soniagarcia.bsky.social Doctora en Medicina. Aficionada a Cine y Literatura. Lucho por la igualdad y la justicia.
«Aunque ya nada pueda devolvernos la hora del esplendor en la hierba, de la gloria en las flores, no debemos afligirnos, porque la belleza subsiste en el recuerdo«.
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
Cadena SER @cadenaser.com Somos la radio más escuchada en España 📻 👋 https://cadenaser.com/ 
Nagihan Haliloğlu @nhaliloglu.bsky.social Former Bishop of Oxford. Take me to ceilidh.
Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social 19th Century Vendéen memorials. Former PwC partner. Treasurer at the Society for the Study of French History. Trustee at Institute of Historical Research. Trustee at NHSRF. Active travel campaigner. Cricket, cycling, rugby à XV. France and England.
Mþ. Kestrel (pronounced Myth) @kestrelsward.bsky.social They/them. Early-career librarian/archivist living in FL & working in higher ed archives & OER. Nonbinary, queer, disabled, white, divorced, parent
Onequeerlibrarian.com
Icon: Jonathan Poritz for OpenEd 2024
Banner: Isabelle Gedigk on Tumblr
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Mike Rogers @mikerogersmidlands.bsky.social Sector Development Manager: Midlands, Transport & Infrastructure, TNA. All views my own unless clearly work-related.
Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social 🇬🇧 she/her, cis, white, bi, lubberwort
Fandom old; have been known as Cynjen around the place
Strongly supportive of trans rights
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
Carole Jones @cjmrc.bsky.social 
Pádraig Belton @padraigbelton.bsky.social Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
How-to History @howtohistory.bsky.social Instruction and information for historians. Into your inbox every month | https://how-to-history.com/ | Edited by Joe Saunders & Anna Cusack
Phil Clifford @philclifford.bsky.social Retired. Amateur historian, specific interest in the UK Mine Rescue Service and the development of mines rescue at the Western Front between 1915-1918. WFA member. My research posted at www.heroes-of-mine.co.uk. Still on X as @thefleetman
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social Retired accountant. Knitter and reader 
Staffordshire Archaeological & Historical Society @staffsarch.bsky.social Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society is dedicated to the study and dissemination of the archaeology, historic environment, history and heritage of Staffordshire.
https://www.sahs.uk.net/
Waseem Ahmed @waseemahmed98.bsky.social UCL History PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA UCL Institute of Americas and EISPS, KCL History, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions 
Staffordshire @staffordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Staffordshire (Staffs), UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
@chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social 
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.
Rosemie Callewaert @rcallewaert.bsky.social 🏋️♀️ Head Ghent University Library
🗼 Ghent Booktower as inspiring workplace
💡 Board meemoo, cultuurconnect, iedereen leest, compagnie cecilia
🎯 Connecting as a Service
🏄🏼♀️ https://boekentoren.gent
🤖 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcallewaert
@railwayphotography.bsky.social @railwayphotography.bsky.social Student of international relations and military history and transport nerd musings
Tom Shaw @shawthomas.bsky.social Library Engagement Lead for @ojcollective.bsky.social. Former academic librarian now working with libraries globally to support diamond open access publishing. Open knowledge, open research, digital innovation. And sometimes music and other stuff.
Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer.
Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.
JenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com Exploring the country using every station as a gateway to lesser known places, sharing my journey via YouTube | parkrun addict | https://youtube.com/@JenOnTheMove | she/her
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
curious-archivist.bsky.social @curious-archivist.bsky.social Man of Kent and retired archivist currently exiled in the West Midlands. Humanist.
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Ralph Darlington @ralphdarlington.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
University of Warwick Press @uowpress.bsky.social Posts on & around the University of Warwick Press by the University Press Manager, Dr Gareth J Johnson. Views expressed should not be considered official positions of my employer.
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/research-support/uwp/
Craig Fees @cfees.bsky.social Retired archivist. Formerly @ArchiveandStudy. Joined ex-Twitter 2009, thanks to the late Ian Milne, one time nurse at the Henderson Hospital, where he recorded Leonard Cohen in concert.
LSHTM Library, Archive & Open Research Services @lshtm-laors.bsky.social Library, Archive & Open Research Services @LSHTM.bsky.social - supporting discovery, preserving history, and promoting open access & open science, including LSHTM Press. Sharing collections, insights & updates from our community.
Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social Old Woman who lives in a Shoe.
Cheese. Books. Music. Politics. Children’s Services. Cocktails. Random ❤️❤️❤️
Do I think “Big Thoughts” about the issues of the day? Yes, I do. Do I share them here? Mostly not. Why not? What purpose would it serve?
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social Proud history nerd
Michael Harris @davidmichaelharris.bsky.social MA (Hons), MScR, FSA Scot
Archaeologist. Adult Education Tutor. Editor & proofreader.
Member: Friends of the Earth Scotland; Red Rope; Solidarity Federation-IWA
Lang Rabbie @langrabbie.bsky.social Hydronyms: Gulf of Mexico/Lake Ontario
Not an architect but prone to concrete fetishism
Palimpsestian
Scot with a Nottinghamshire childhood now residing in London SW2's debatable lands
C19th Liberalism tempered by teenage Marxism Today habit
Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social Just a Jaf. Sometimes a librarian. Mostly tired. Crafty, in the good way. Edinburgh history lover. Trans rights are human rights. Kindness is cool. Scotlandshire. She/her.
The Devil's Porridge Museum @devilsporridge.bsky.social We tell the incredible WW1 story of HM Factory Gretna, the greatest munitions factory on Earth. Eastriggs and Gretna Heritage Group SCIO.
SCN SC031616
Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social Biographer of Beatrice and Sidney Webb.
Previously Deputy Leader, Greatr London Council; Director, Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
Now Chair, Arundel and South Downs Labour Party
www.michaelward.eu 
Sarah Sharman @poemplaynovel.bsky.social English teacher. Volunteer for Breakthrough T1D.
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Caroline Proctor @caggles.bsky.social UCU NEC member (Midlands), UCU Commons member, interested in higher education, food, LARP, meteorology, Sea Cadets and naval history. Occasional Arma3 content because we all need a hobby.
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
Tim Williams @timotea.bsky.social Contemplative, liberal, progressive, anti-fascist, woke, love to read history books, enjoy all types of music, enjoy researching anything that interests me, loves to quilt and sew, Humanist, happily married for 43 yrs. My dogs are my life.
Attic Brew Co. @atticbrewco.bsky.social Brewery | Taproom | Bar
Stirchley & JQ, Birmingham
Born in an Attic. Built on Brum.
www.atticbrewco.com
Alipy @gazpachodragon.bsky.social Did stuff in Leeds, now doing stuff in BC. Loves food, tv, crafting, plushies and Advent. Adventurous cook, nature hater. Celebrates everything. May contain swears. 
@stuartsw4.bsky.social @stuartsw4.bsky.social 
@churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social 
Fig Rolls Rolling @peppercornicus.bsky.social I'm just parts of people from the telly. She/Her. UK
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Peter Holt @peterholt.bsky.social Husband. Father. F1 and Football fan. Software Engineer/Web Developer. My views are my own.
Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social Historian of shopping precincts, derelict landscapes, leisure centres, power stations, inner cities, housing, the Potteries, Telford new town, & city centre redevelopment. @c20society casework & trustee.
Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social We are part of Oxfordshire County Council - we're the archive and local studies for the county, including photographic collections
Website - http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirehistory
Catalogue - https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social Things are terrible
(we follow our contributors)
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social Just me. Theatre, plants, grumbling about stuff. 🌈
Knitted Clanger @knittedclanger.bsky.social Retired communications manager who once knew a lot about banking strategy. Now mostly having a cup of tea and reading a Victorian three-volume novel.
Sara the Digital Archivist @sdaythomson.bsky.social No bit left behind 💚 (only preserved or deleted)
Translating Women @translatingwomen.bsky.social Helen Vassallo 🇲🇹
Researching the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry
Writing about intersectional gender bias in translation
Translating women writers
Always learning
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/
Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social The Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable #digital resources and #digital #preservation for #archaeology and heritage 💾💻🏺
Based in the Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK.