Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
James Donaldson @cairojim.bsky.social Australians, Antiquities and WW1.
The Shellal Mosaic.
Collecting Antiquities in the Antipodes.
Manager/Curator at UQ Antiquities Museum.
Tanya Cheadle @cheadletanya.bsky.social Lecturer in Gender History at University of Glasgow. Research: sexual radicalism, esotericism, masculinities at Victorian fin de siecle. Based in Glasgow.
Helen Brookman @helenbrookman.bsky.social Professor in Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Education
@kingsartshums. Thinking about medievalism, gender, and domestic space in the C19th as well as creativity and interdisciplinarity in pedagogies and curricula.
Andy Lawrence @drudrudru.bsky.social Post-Doc in Roman (Provincial) Archaeology at @UniBern. Views own.
Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social Folklorist and Journalist. Associate Professor, Sheffield Hallam University. Project lead, AHRC National Folklore Survey. Views expressed entirely my own. http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
Blog: https://drclarke.substack.com/
Jordan Claridge @jordanclaridge.bsky.social Economic Historian of Medieval Europe.
Associate Professor, LSE Economic History.
🇨🇦 in London.
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social … ✨💡
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social KCL Classics Department.
Mariona Coll Ardanuy @mcollardanuy.bsky.social Computational Humanities researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS): NLP, Computational Linguistics, DH
Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social Medical Heritage Museum Curator @TCD, queer #deathpositive artist, childfree cat-lady. Dublin / Drogheda 🇮🇪. Aspiring sociologist @ UCD writing on death, mortality, & display.
🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🐈⬛🪶📚📷💀🎨
https://www.evi-numen.com/
www.thanatography.com
Views, my own.
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Professional Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Working on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland too
Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social Researcher developer at Sussex Uni.
academia • culture • media • archaeology • genealogy • sea swimmer • stitcher
Brighton northerner, ex-librarian @ Guardian. She/her
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social Established in 1991, the BHA is a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal focused on global histories of archaeology, published by Ubiquity Press.
See more at https://archaeologybulletin.org/, and follow us here for updates on articles, research, & events!
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Nikolay Sarkisyan @nikolaysarkisyan.bsky.social Scholar of Russian and Soviet history and culture.
Visiting Lecturer at HSE St Petersburg.
Currently working on museums of revolution in the early Soviet Union and on the revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire.
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
DeeDeeChainey @deedeechainey.bsky.social Storyteller. Heritage botherer. @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social & @folklorethursday.bsky.social founder; #TreasuryOfFolklore author. #XR and #UX enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/deedeechainey 🇲🇹 🇮🇹 🇬🇧
Daniel Patterson @drdpatterson.bsky.social Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
Dr Rebecca Bennion @calymeneblue.bsky.social Palaeontologist working in a local history museum 🖼️ collections (of all kinds), curation, and community engagement 🐬 PhD on whales and marine reptiles, now also working on sharks and cave archaeology
J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .(all views my own)
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social
SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed publisher of distinguished research and works of general interest since 1966 / Learn more about the State University of New York Press at sunypress.edu
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Combined Classics Library @joliheroics.bsky.social The Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies.
Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU
UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
Dr Chloe Emmott @cloemmo.bsky.social PhD in history of British imperialist archaeology in Palestine. Now working in a totally unrelated job in FE, watching academic humanities die. Also a dancer.
https://beacons.ai/chloeemmott
Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social Artist. Osteoarchaeologist. Canadian. Doing creative things with heritage in the NW (UK). Multi-passionate person. Can expect knitting, gardening, ttrpg, nerdery. Aprendiendo español! she/her
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Dr Dan Potter @danpotteregypt.bsky.social Egyptologist and Assistant Curator @ National Museums Scotland.
Researching the entanglement of archaeology and the antiquities market in Egypt and Sudan
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Historic Environment Forum (HEF) @histenvforum.bsky.social The forum for the historic environment sector in England, supported by Historic England. http://www.historicenvironmentforum.org.uk
The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Worldwide society for prehistoric archaeology, established 1935.
www.prehistoricsociety.org
Posts by Tess Machling (membership secretary)
Helen Antrobus @helenantro.bsky.social 📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once).
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social Sharing the story of Dunblane, its magnificent medieval Cathedral, the 1715 Battle of Sheriffmuir, and people through the centuries who've lived, worked or been educated in Dunblane
Scottish Charity No. SC020895
https://dunblanemuseum.org.uk/
Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist & museum education professional.
Director of the Paphos Theatre excavations, Paphos Cyprus & Education & Experience Manager at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney.
Cypriot archaeologist on Gadigal land.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social Proud history nerd
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social Librarian. Lover of rare books, ballads & broadsides. Interested in folklore & the macabre. 💀
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social Sefydliad Ymchwil Ystadau Cymru | Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates. Research centre at Bangor University. www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe
History - Culture - Landscapes - Archives - Heritage - People - Places - Wales
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/
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Dr Jemima Hubberstey @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
Ben Cowell, Historic Houses @bencowell.bsky.social Director general, Historic Houses. Author, The British Country House Revival (2024).
Dr Margaret Maitland @margaretmaitland.bsky.social Egyptologist by training. Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Researching inequality in ancient Egypt and histories of excavation/collecting/museums. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/eloquentpeasant
Toby Martin @tobyfmartin.bsky.social Assistant Director at Oxford Lifelong Learning; early medieval archaeology, material culture, digital education.
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives #welshwomensaid #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Ure Museum @uremuseum.bsky.social Home to one of Britain's largest collections of ancient Greek ceramics, and more! 🏺 Open Tuesday to Thursday, 09:30 to 16:30, year-round. Free entry! collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
Jayne Holly @jayneholly.bsky.social Assistant Curator at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading. Views my own.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Sacred Heart University @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social The study of WGSS from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective! 🌈🍎 https://www.sacredheart.edu/majors--programs/womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies---minor/
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
Sacred Heart University History Department @shuhistorydept.bsky.social Explore, Discover, Learn, Become! Study abroad in Dingle, Ireland! ☘️ https://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/colleges--schools/college-of-arts--sciences/departments--schools/history/
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Aaron Manning @warwick-historian.bsky.social 👑Interpretation Manager at Historic Royal Palaces
🏰Historian of Warwick Castle and the House of Warwick
📚Director of Warwick Words History Festival
Follow for history, heritage, architecture, art, Warwick, Christmas
Instagram: warwick_historian
Almuth Ebke @almuthebke.bsky.social historian at the University of Mannheim. Wrote a book on the intellectual history of #Britishness. Now: the bible, #secularism, and #modernity in the 19th/early 20th cent.
Dr Vicky Randall @vrandall.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting
BEM for queues
Dr Nick Snashall @drnickarchaeo.bsky.social Archaeologist. Wiltshire. Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site. Lover of old stuff, and stones big & small 🏺Prehistorian. Partial to a bit of #Egyptology on the side
Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social Architectural historian (women’s spaces in the long 19th century), PhD candidate (Courtauld), assoc. lecturer, knitter, wool shop employee. Politically progressive and culturally effusive. Former lawyer. US—>UK, based in Bath. I love a good fountain pen.
Laura Schmitz-Justen @schmitzjusten.bsky.social PostDoc @unimuenster.bsky.social | former Visiting Fellow @ Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | c18 poetry | law and literature | disability studies | women's suffrage literature | occasional ornithologist
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
Alex Craven @dralexcraven.bsky.social FRHistS. Freelance historian, working mainly for the VCH in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Interested in the English republic, radicalism, religion, and Reading FC.
Daniel Pett @museologi.st Once a member of Historic England, Fitzwilliam Museum, British Museum, Dresdner Kleinwort and BT.
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social Farm boy at @themerl.bsky.social (at Uni of Reading). Looks after old rural stuff in a big shed. On committee of British Agricultural History Society. Active in AIMA, RMN, and Folklore Society. Views own. “Iconic”.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com