Leah Armstrong @drleaharmstrong.bsky.social Design Historian , FWF Senior Post-Doc Fellow @ Angewandte, Vienna
https://www.drleaharmstrong.eu/
Reviews Editor, Journal of Design History
Author, The Industrialized Designer, (MUP, 2024)
Fellow, Young Academy, OeAW
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
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
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer @lmckeizer.bsky.social Curator (Early Modern Era) at the National Library of Scotland | Passionate about archives, libraries, and museums in any shape or form | she/her | views own
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Dr Rachael Purse @drrachaelpurse.bsky.social Historian, feminist, and lover of all things spooky. I’m interested in women’s histories, building conservation, architectural history, dress history and art history. 
Dr Julie Holder @julieh80.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Alka Raman @alkaraman.bsky.social Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof @UCL History. Chair of the Women’s Committee @Economic History Society, Associate Editor @Industrial History Review.
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Tarini Bhamburkar @victarinist.bsky.social British and Indian women's Victorian travelogues and periodicals. Retelling women's colonial histories 📚
*Taar-rinee*
Pete Maw @petemaw.bsky.social Associate Prof 18th-Century History at The University of Leeds;Atlantic trade, merchants and infrastructure; economic history; cotton; co-editor of Northern History
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
F/fashion Narratives Research Group @ffashionnarratives.bsky.social Interdisciplinary fashion-based research group at Manchester Metropolitan University
Roberto Filippello @robertofilippel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media & Culture at University of Amsterdam | Author of DRESSED FOR DISSENT: DECOLONIAL FASHION & THE QUEER STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE (UC Press, October 2026) 🇵🇸
Sarah Maria Evelyn @sarahmariaevelyn.bsky.social Ex Designer and Academic Now Textiles Maker and Teacher leaving Meta and trying Bluesky
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
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
Danny McNally @dannymcnally.bsky.social Cultural geographer working on climate adaptation and creative methods
GeoHumanities Editorial Board
Forthcoming books:
Aesthetic Encounters: Cultural Geographies of Participatory Art (LSE Press, RGS-IBG)
Routledge Handbook for Geohumanities
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
@pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social 
Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
JusticetoHistory @justice2history.bsky.social History educators & authors.
See our website for news, historical enquiries and publications: justicetohistory.org
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Dr Alison Mayne @knitrospective.bsky.social Doctor of yarn and wellbeing, methods nerd, textile history devotee. Co-founder Woolly Good Edinburgh yarn festival.
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Daniel Milco @milcod.bsky.social A betterer bio to come about this curator guy who knows about frocks, social history and general stuff.
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford
https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social History Department of @ubuffalo.bsky.social. Providing rigorous education for the next generation of scholars and helping to foster an informed and engaged public. Find out more at history.buffalo.edu.
Padmaparna Ghosh @padmag.bsky.social Events and Comms @ Linnean Society of London. Lurks here, posts on Instagram as @Girl_On_A_Hill. Alum @TrinityCollegeDublin, School of Natural Sciences.
Natural history | Conservation | Art Stories | Textiles and Embroidery
Elaine Maguire O’Connor @wigsandgowns.bsky.social Writer, Law, Culture etc.
www.wigsandgowns.com
Magali An Berthon @magalianb.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian and Curator / Cambodia’s materialities of conflict / Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The American University of Paris / guest scholar Centre for Textile Research
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
Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social Writer. Lecturer. Curator:
Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Ruskin, Dickens, Victorian women. Books & more: linktr.ee/Suzannefagence
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social History madam. Scribe for hire. Plus art, illustration, culture, fashion, food, friends. Mary Evans Picture Library. Glen of Imaal terrier owner. Mother of 3 people. Crisp addict. Co.Durham born; Wanstead dweller. Will finish my website one day.
Ava Trimble @harlotryhistory.bsky.social I'm Ava and I'm a trained public historian in Albuquerque trying to turn my opinions into YouTube videos and rekindle some old dreams while managing complex chronic illness 🐑 Hampshire College alum 🐑
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields.
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
linktr.ee/emmaprobett
Ruth Craggs @drruthcraggs.bsky.social Reader in Historical and Political Geography at King’s College London. 
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Carlile Vernon @markgray.bsky.social Liberal centrist. 18th/19thc art.
DMs=block.
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
Rebecca Land @rebechuana.bsky.social Head of Communications & Advocacy at National Science and Media Museum - Trustee at Heptonstall Museum - embarrassing mum, crafter and very amateur runner at home.
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
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)
Kate Debono @katedebono.bsky.social Currently in limbo between PhD, looking at curatorial practices and the acquistion of twentieth-century fashion by UK museums, using Worthing Museum and Art Gallery as a case study and gainful employment.
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024) and The Book Everyone Read: The Sphere of Sacrobosco and the Origins of Modern Science (Princeton, coming 2027)
Cathy Gilmore @cathygilmore.bsky.social UofU PhD student, record rescuer, family record hoarder. Studying at the intersection of family and scholarly history in women’s history, lived religion, and 20thc family. Formerly @thisgreatdeep
Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social Cultural, environmental, and economic anthropologist. All things coastal. Photography. Some baseball too.
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Gregory Mitrovich, Ph.D @gregorymitrovich.bsky.social Award-winning scholar. Harvard/Stanford fellow. Historian of the Cold War, nuclear deterrence, the rise of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, and China’s emergence in the 21st century. From beautiful San Diego now living in Europe.
sari edelstein @notsorry-sari.bsky.social English prof @UMassBoston | 19thc US lit | new project on the American beach | *Adulthood & Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age*🌈
Jennie Wood @jenniewood.bsky.social Material culture, craft and domestic histories.
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Dr Emma Pearce @emma-pearce98.bsky.social Art historian | Lecturer in Design History at Glasgow School of Art | PhD on tartan and colonial identity in the 18th c Atlantic 🌎 | currently working on: colonial masculinity + animal-material culture 🐋 | BSECS ECR rep | she/her
Claire Bradshaw @clairelbradshaw.bsky.social Community Archaeologist in Morecambe Bay. Loves early prehistory, experimental arch, fibre arts, pc gaming & gardening.
Lurker. All views my own.
She/her 
M @ladycamembert.bsky.social Western Mass. Here for longform journalism, design/decor, & fat studies. I collect old photos of fat people.
Laura Dietrich @ldietrich.bsky.social Associate Professor of Archaeology and Prehistory in Germany. Wear & Robotic Laboratory Head. Love life and science.
Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking.
She/her
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social 🎓Lecturer @BristolUni @BILT (curriculum, pedagogy, SFHEA, sustainability, AI, qual research) UCU WIASN Higher Education
🏺 Archaeologist @archsengage.bsky.social Archaeology
👩🎨Crafter, TephraArts https://tephraarts.etsy.com
📍Bristol ☘️ she/her
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
Mikael A. Manninen @mamanninen.bsky.social Senior researcher, Uni. Helsinki, DES. Associate professor of environmental archaeology and archaeology, doing interdisciplinary research of all kinds (ancient technology, aDNA, climate change...you name it). Stream restoration and rewilding. He/him
Tessa Whitehouse @mtwht.bsky.social Researching religious minorities in eighteenth-century London; being by the sea; working in the English dept at QMUL