Archaeology Podcast Network @archpodnet.bsky.social The APN 🎙 is an international community that creates free, professional podcasts on a range of archaeological topics. Become a member today!
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social A unique museum dedicated to Roman & Iron Age Scotland.
🌟Thistle Awards Winner
Melrose, Scottish Borders
🔗https://linktr.ee/trimontiumtrust
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. Views mine, he/him.
Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
The Bugle @thebugle.bsky.social The Bugle, as in The Bugle podcast
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Eleanor Ghey @eleanorghey.bsky.social Museum archaeologist and numismatist working with Iron Age and Roman coins at the British Museum.
Inger Sheil @oceanicing.bsky.social Assistant Curator Australian National Maritime Museum, loves lighthouses and ocean liners, vintage and antique clothing collector, historian, 1920s aesthetic, literature and art lover, silent film watcher and chihuahua attendant
Australian National Maritime Museum @seamuseum.bsky.social Australia's National Maritime Museum located on Gadigal Country, Sydney 🐳 We share stories of the sea and waterways.
Open 10am - 4pm | FREE ENTRY
Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Orkney. Currently obsessed with whaling history and whaling stories in Scotland. 🇨🇦
Marina Silva @marinasdsilva.bsky.social Postdoc @crick.ac.uk | ancient genomics | from 🦴🦷👩🔬 to 🧬👩💻
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Indigo Reeve @indigopareeve.bsky.social PhD Researcher in Scottish Medieval Health and freelancer in bioarchaeology, museums and heritage.
Kristin Bornholdt Collins @bornholdtcollins.bsky.social Numismatist ⁘ Vikings in the Irish Sea ⁘ Hiberno-Scandinavian and Hiberno-Manx coinage ⁘ intersection and overlap of bullion and coin, etc. ⁘ author of SCBI 73: Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man.
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.
Irish Archaeology @irarchaeology.bsky.social Sharing Ireland’s amazing archaeology as well as interesting sites from around the world. Posts by Wexford archaeologist Colm Moriarty.
@jenortiznyc.bsky.social @jenortiznyc.bsky.social 
Cord J. Whitaker @profcwhit.bsky.social Professor and author at Wellesley. Substacker at DIVERSITY DIFFERENTLY: https://diversitydifferently.substack.com; Consultant at https://sagelycreative.com.
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces.
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Norse in the North @norseinthenorth.bsky.social Annual postgraduate student conference in the North-East of England on Old Norse and Viking Studies. Co-run by Durham University, University of York, University of Leeds and University of Nottingham.
2027 - Theme TBD (University of Nottingham)
Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social Medievalist - Punishments & Crimes
Post-doc researcher at @usc.gal & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Associé LaMOP (Paris 1) / FRHistS
See more in: https://usc-es.academia.edu/AbelLorenzoRodriguez
ig abel_de_lorenzo_rodriguez
Author of "La horca y el fuego"
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
Royal Archaeological Institute @royalarchinst.bsky.social Founded in 1844, promotes the study of archaeology in the British Isles and Europe and publishes The Archaeological Journal.
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
The A.V. Club @avclub.com Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. https://linktr.ee/the_avclub
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust @gbptrust.bsky.social GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social Comedian union organizer writer dad Frisco. he/him https://linktr.ee/natogreen
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social A membership charity founded in 1780 that supports the study and enjoyment of Scotland’s past through publications, lectures, @scarf-scot.bsky.social, @digitscotland.bsky.social, @churchheritage.bsky.social and more | Visit https://www.socantscot.org/
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Interdisciplinary Seminar for Medieval Studies @ecrmedieval.bsky.social Seminar series at UCD pairing emerging and established scholars in different fields in order to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations across disciplines.
NEXT EVENT: 22 September - Dr. Rebecca Stephenson
Rebekah Day-Wood @rebekahbeatnik.bsky.social 🇦🇺🏴MSc Medieval History from Edinburgh Uni 🎓 Too many research interests; animals, magic and women in particular. Arthurian literature. Wales. Viking interactions. Witches. Always covered in cat hair.
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
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
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
@wigtownbooktown.bsky.social @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social 
Sarah Semple @sarahsemple.bsky.social Archaeologist, early medievalist, gardener, aspiring artist.
The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social Dedicated to the preservation and investigation of a nationally-significant early medieval royal palace site at Yeavering, Northumberland. *Order our new monograph here: https://adgefrin.co.uk/shop/Ad-Gefrin-Brian-Hope-Taylor-and-his-Quest-p811658455
The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social International scholarly society studying the peoples of early & high medieval Europe & their encounters in the Mediterranean, Baltic & larger medieval world.
https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/
Alice Martin 🦦 @alicecmartin.bsky.social Artist and project coordinator. Graduate of UHI Archaeology Institute and Gray’s School of Art 🪔. Stirlingshire 🏴. she/they. https://bio.link/alicecmartin
Early Medievalist @earlymedievalist.bsky.social Tim Clarkson. PhD, FRHistS. Historian and author.
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
Research in Action on Church Heritage @churchheritage.bsky.social Prioritising need and creating momentum to tackle an urgent challenge for the nation | A @socantscot.bsky.social and @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social project | Supported by #NationalLottery #HeritageFund and the Pilgrim Trust
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/- M @mesoplants.bsky.social @mesoplants.bsky.social
Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social hunter-gatherer archaeology at UCD Archaeology; Book *Hunter-Gatherer Ireland* (Winner EAA Book Prize 2024); President *International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research*; grows/eats chillies; mountain/ultra runner
Sarah Miles @sarahmiles.bsky.social #Archaeologist Director, Community Archaeology North CIC www.cancic.com @cancic.bsky.social Prehistory, Neolithic, Bronze Age, fieldwork, landscape, community. Former publisher.
UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social The UHI Archaeology Institute, a hub for world-class research, teaching, and professional consultancy. Part of the UHI
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/ | https://archaeologyorkney.com
Fornvännen - Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research @fornvannen.bsky.social #PeerReviewed #OpenAccess journal published since 1906 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Nordic #Archaeology #ArchaeologicalScience #Osteology #Medieval #History #ArtHistory #Runology
https://publicera.kb.se/fornvannen
Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social Archaeology, ancient biomolecules and Ice Age beasts
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social 
Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD
https://www.youtube.com/@XRayVisionPod
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Archaeology Shetland @archshet.bsky.social We are a community group dedicated to the exploration and celebration of Shetland's rich heritage. www.archaeologyshetland.org
UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Our Bluesky account - University College Dublin,
Ireland - posts by Aidan O'Sullivan and Conor McDermott
@everyringfort @everyringfort.bsky.social Posting a satellite image of every ringfort in Ireland, 1 an hour.
Created by @vool.ie
Data from National Monuments Service (RoI) and Department for Communities (NI)
Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social The IAI is the representative all-island organisation for professional archaeologists working in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Follow for updates on CPDs, conferences, events, etc.
First Millennia Studies Group @firstmillennia.bsky.social The First Millennia Studies Group is a discussion forum for all aspects of archaeology in the first millennia BC and AD. There is no geographical limit but the majority of discussions centre around Scotland.
Open to all.
firstmillennia.wordpress.com
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Megan Bunce @meganbunce.bsky.social Here for early medieval history and archaeology
Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social An independent project connecting archaeologists, heritage researchers, and members of the public committed to challenging rising misuse and misrepresentation of the past by the far-right. UK-based, ECR-led. https://archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social The Best Bronze Age collection in Britain
featuring gold from the time of Stonehenge
Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social Archaeologist
Archaeoethnologica @archaeoten.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, sometimes ethnographer .. eventually History & Art History professor. Defintivelly, construtive skeptict, dyslexical & systematical Eclectiic
https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/
NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
Sarah Kerr @sarahkerr.bsky.social Lecturer in Archaeology & Radical Humanities at UCC, Ireland.
Reviews Editor Medieval Archaeology @socmedarch.bsky.social
Former MSCActions Fellow at Aarhus University.
Feminist, mother, she/her.
Highland Historic Environment Record @highlandhet.bsky.social An online, publicly accessible record of the Highland's Historic Environment. Visit the Highland HER website here: http://her.highland.gov.uk
Banner Photo: Patrick Robertson
Highland Archaeology Services @hiarchuk.bsky.social Archaeology company based in the Highlands of Scotland
Friends of Kinneil @kinneil.bsky.social The Friends of Kinneil are a group promoting historic Kinneil House, Museum, Estate and Nature Reserve in Bo’ness. Get the full info at www.kinneil.org
Fergus @fergushs.bsky.social SGSAH-funded PhD researcher @ Glasgow Uni exploring the Picts in medieval, insular manuscripts. 📚
David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social Archaeologist at Cardiff University, directs Teffont Archaeology. Views my own not my institution's.
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Carly Silver Feldman @carlyasilver.bsky.social Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity:
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
And about: crime, punishment, imprisonment, prosopography, namelessness, digital humanities, and 👆 THE CITY OF ROME
@dependencybonn.de
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social Semi-retired farmer. Early career medievalist (annalistic chronicles of Britain and Ireland). Lapsed trombonist. Occasional dogwalker.
Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social Times and Sunday Times best-selling author
Medieval Historian
Mother of Doggos
SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework @clydevalleyarf.bsky.social We are the Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework team! Follow this account for Clyde Valley archaeology news. We are committed to delivering a framework crafted with and delivering for the communities of the Clyde.
Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social CVARF Engagement Officer at Archaeology Scotland, affiliated researcher @UofG interested in early modern uplands, shieling practice, hunting and estates, and 17th c. Glencoe. I also dabble in contemporary archaeology - edgelands and archaeologies of waste.
The Human Remains Project (UKRI FLF) @thehumanremains.bsky.social UKRI FLF project researching historic exhumations & burial management in Christian contexts (7th-19thC) in Britain, to shape modern policy & planning. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/research/projects/human-remains/