Cllr Dan Hutchison @danhutchison.bsky.social Socialist Councillor - Govan | Comhairliche Sòisealach - Baile a' Ghobhainn
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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social We are Scotland's feminist policy & advocacy organisation. Find us on Linked & Instagram or get in touch via our website:
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preel @prildo.bsky.social weird girl on youtube
Cia Jackson @drciakate.bsky.social Highly caffeinated northerner with a PhD in comics & fandom, and an extensive yarn stash. Prone to dice rolling, sometimes podcasting, and posting pics of my dog.
she/her
Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social Glasgow left journo writing about politics, LGBTQ+ liberation and environmentalism. Columnist for @ScotNational. They/Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Views are mine etc.
Prof Fiona Skillen @fionaskillen.bsky.social Professor in History, GCU. Research: sports & gender history, heritage &volunteering.
Pragya Sharma @pragya.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher
Studying histories of domestic crafts in India - Knitting, Crochet, Lacemaking and Needlework 🪡
CFP Thinking Through Heirlooms https://drive.google.com/file/d/17P_QVHN3Qr-aBE7XZ_u5cXkP3nUvMaSN/view
Footy Scran @footyscran.bsky.social The original and only Footy Scran. Posting scran at the football. Send your photos to footyscran.contact@gmail.com until BlueSky allows photos in DM’s! 📸
Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com A better place for my shit cartoons about the TERF WARS
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Silverythoughts @silverythoughts.bsky.social The one and only West Country Gaysian Giant 🏳️🌈👢🐈⬛
CRICKETher @crickether.com Women's cricket news, views & charts.
Catch the CRICKETher Weekly with Raf Nicholson and Syd Egan on https://www.youtube.com/@crickether
@womenscriczone.bsky.social @womenscriczone.bsky.social
Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
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Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social Not the former drummer with Roxy Music.
Freelance researcher & writer with an award-winning PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?'
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Cricket Research Network @cricketacademic.bsky.social The voice of cricket research. Chaired by Raf Nicholson
Feminist Gender Equality Network @networkgender.bsky.social We exist to promote the understanding, equality, equity & rights relating to all gender identities, & to stand against transphobia & gender-based discrimination.
https://feministgenderequality.network/media-power-media-abuse/
@bmondragont.bsky.social @bmondragont.bsky.social
Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social Irish in Edinburgh 🇮🇪
PhD in the history of vasectomy ✂️🍒
Writing around masculinities and eugenics, amongst other things.
Working in performing arts policy/advocacy.
Disabled (AuDHD, EDS & POTS)
sí/í, she/her
Bayfirth Research CIC @bayfirth.bsky.social Research in sport, voluntary sector organisations and volunteers.
Bikini Kill @theebikinikill.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/theebikinikill
Oldpatterns.com @oldpatterns.bsky.social Owner of Oldpatterns.com. My website has over 10,000 vintage sewing patterns.
Interests: Sewing, historical fashion, quilting, Broadway shows, drag, travel, and museums
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social Glasgow's new quality newspaper. Join our free mailing list 📨
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social 'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present and Future.' All images are my own.
Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
Cats of Oxford @catsofoxford.bsky.social Our social media empire grows to another new outlet.
Glasgow Women’s Aid @glasgowwomensaid.bsky.social Information, support and temporary refuge for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.
📱Our helpline is open Monday - Friday 9.30-4.30pm on 0141 553 2022
📍You can also drop-in to our office at 30 Bell Street- no appointment needed.
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Bronwyn Clarke @bronwync.bsky.social Dress historian, historical dressmaker esp. 1750-1920 every day dress | Spinner, weaver, knitter, quilter, maker| Also novelist (as Bronwyn Parry)| Australian | Social justice matters| On Wadawarrung Country| She/her
stitchinghistory.com
bronwynparry.com
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
NicDaisy @nicdaisy.bsky.social 🪡 B.A. Art history & History. Historic fashion, art, old ruins, churches, antiques, gardening & music fan... LLB student & seamstress. 🐝🐨 🦜🐶🐱
You may know me as @plummie9 on the bird.
Dr Nic @eldergoth.bsky.social Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice. "Grim(m) Perspectives: Stitching Tales of Self" https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/handle/10399/5406
Danielle Dove @danielledove.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey | 📚 Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction | currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
Kirsty Hassard @kirstoir.bsky.social Fashion historian & co-curator of Tartan, @vadundee. Scotland rep @DATS. Awards Committee @DressHistorians. Researching 18th c. women, work & print culture.
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
@oestitch.bsky.social @oestitch.bsky.social
Amy Wilson @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social 18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social A book fanatic with an unhealthy amount of knowledge about Russian Lit, Jane Austen, and Lotrs. This is my platform to post daily about fashion history.
@gailbaxterlace.bsky.social @gailbaxterlace.bsky.social Researcher, Artist, Lace Specialist & Net Maker
Research Fellow Nottingham Trent University Lace Archive
Currently looking at the introduction of colour to machine made lace
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.
katie mcclure @katiemcclure.bsky.social sgsah pgr @ university of glasgow || historical synthetic dyes || history of art 🤝 chemistry || https://linktr.ee/kathrynraeburnmcclure
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
Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
The Bill and Ted Test @billandtedtest.bsky.social How hard is it to costume a Regency drama better than the extras in the Beethoven scene of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? PASS/FAIL
http://ko-fi.com/billandtedtest
Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century
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
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.
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
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
Jade Halbert @jadehalbert.bsky.social Historian | Currently researching fashion and costume making | Co-I 'Constructing Costume Histories'
Dr Benjamin Wild @drbenjaminwild.bsky.social Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University; Lead: F/fashion Narratives Research Group
Kimberly Wahl @panoptipandora.bsky.social Ambivalent Academic and late-diagnosed AuDHDer---with special interests in Art; Psychology; Perfume; Histories of Photography/Dress/Fashion; Science and Astronomy (especially theories about time/space and the nature of reality).
Dr Suzanne Rowland @glassbuttons.bsky.social Here for the fashion history
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
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
Lori Topper @lipsticklori.bsky.social Midlife work-in-progress human. Writer in search of a new project. Works in HE. Attempting to navigate perimenopause in style (51, bi, polyam, agender, she/they)
Veronica Isaac @vtisaac.bsky.social Material Culture Historian | Past Curator | Specialist in 19thC theatre costume & dress | Writing a biography of actress Ellen Terry | @concoshistories
Dr Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social chief conservator | Cleveland Museum of Art
fashion | textiles | museums | conservation
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
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
Bethan Bide @bethanbide.bsky.social Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
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
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 Robyne Calvert @robyneerica.bsky.social Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her
https://robynecalvert.com/
#WomensArt2 @womensart2.bsky.social Celebrating ♀'s art & creativity, curated by autist @tidbit.bsky.social & art nerd @brainchain.ca . Images © to respective owners. WA2 actually welcomes all followers, art from diverse communities/cultures, even 🏳️⚧️
Pfp cred @pianta.bsky.social
#WomensArt1 @womensart1.bsky.social She/They. not affiliated with PL Henderson, a previous user of this handle. they are a transphobic bigot & content scraper.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Enbies are whatever they say they are.
follow @womensart2.bsky.social. plz use alt text
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
bilbo 🍊 @bilbo.cat im bilbo!!! orange bboy ,,who likes friensd on line 🐾🚫👈 im 10 ! mother is @ellenfromnowon.co.uk
www.bilbo.cat
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
@jennynoble.bsky.social @jennynoble.bsky.social Intersectional feminist | Museum curator | Lover of books, films n fitba | Getting into gardening 🌈🍀🍉
Isabel @isaimho.bsky.social PhD student @ KCL
Working on lesbian literary production & circulation in 80s-00s Britain
Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social Alternative artisan. Leathercrafter, former foamsmith, propmaker. LARP, softcombat, geek stuff. Part-time mamarracha. #SaveWarriorNun
(ES/GL/EN) She/her
Terra de meigas
https://linktr.ee/SairaWorkshop
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social Green MSP for Glasgow | He/Him
Short, bald, frequently appalled.
https://linktr.ee/patrickharvie
Promoted by Patrick Harvie, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens.
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland and Lothians West.
Charity costumer. Star Wars enthusiast.
Posts sometimes by staff.
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
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
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
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)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
knitty® | editor, Amy Sadler @knitty.com knitty.com : the free online knitting + fibercraft mag, est. 2002. Amy, editor (she): est. quite a bit before that. 🧶
FREE, thanks to our Patrons!
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Perpetually covid vaxxed💉
look at this absolute unit @absoluteunits.bsky.social 🐏 your periodic reminder to look at this absolute unit
website: https://merl.reading.ac.uk
merch store: https://merl-shop.co.uk/shop/absolute-unit.html?utm_source=absoluteunits
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/