Corbie Wake @corbiewake.bsky.social Drawn by hand, bones, corvids, rowan and the customs people kept without ever quite being able to say why.
Prints and stickers.
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social Books, radio, newspapers, magazines, music.
After three years here, the result is abject failure: eighteen non-muting followers left. Not posting is the shorter route to the same result.
Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social therapist | activist | novice bookbinder | academic escapee | interests: climate, community, grief, religion, apocalypse, temporalities | Also here for sci-fi & music chat! (she/her) 🏴
(I don't have access to DMs)
J.W. Wanzer @jwwanzer.bsky.social Historian, Philosopher, Bibliophile, Stylophile, & Esotericist practicing in the arts of bibliography, preservation, conservation, bookbinding, printing, and publishing, with a bit of woodworking on the side.
(he/him)
http://wanzer.org
Alison @alisono.bsky.social Erstwhile physicist now earning a living from medical statistics; tenth century scribe and early medieval reenactor; aspiring northumbrian pipe player (I'm trying); and mum to two cats 🐈 (+ a daughter doing PhD in classics who complained I'd forgotten her)
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Stephen Moran @handsewnbooks.bsky.social Author father bookbinder publisher. https://www.moranpress.com/
HattyTheFox @hattythefox.bsky.social Nature Artist | Featured by Dezeen | Exhibition Invigilator at GASProjects | Art Available to Buy @ArtUnionCheltenham & Gather Winchcombe
Website: https://hattywas.wixsite.com/hattywassellart
YouTube & Insta: HattyTheFox
craving sodium @saltnsafewords.bsky.social a mix of things - books (+bookbinding), horses, fandom, chronic illness, kink, buddhism+paganism, slow travel, etc.
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Lea Elm @leaelm.bsky.social Photographer and writer living by the sea. Always looking for places to photograph and books to read. Won't say no to a hike either.
www.leaelm.com
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
Historia Normannis North Marches and Chester @normannis-chester.bsky.social We are the North Marches and Chester cell of Historia Normannis, a 12th-century reenactment group that brings history to life
Della Ratcliffe @badasscrone.bsky.social Exploring the wild, wise and creative side of my crone years. Living in Vancouver on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples: sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
https://linktr.ee/badasscroneadventures
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Mike Shipman @blueplanetphoto.bsky.social Photographer, author, artist, educator, former wildlife biologist, (mostly) critical thinker
La Leipsig @laleipsig.eurosky.social Metalsmith with A Green Thumb. 🌱Permaculture. No Dig. Museumaddict. Medieval cook. Restless hands who love to create. 🌈 #reenactor #earlymedieval #natureinmyneighbourhood www.helgavanleipsig.com
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Nathan Gabbard @nathangabbard.bsky.social Bibliophile. Rare and antiquarian bookseller, @OwlCreekBooks.com, mid-city Los Angeles. English bulldog dad. Midwest grown.
@catern1471.bsky.social @catern1471.bsky.social
@kclaidenyardley.bsky.social @kclaidenyardley.bsky.social
Relics-of-Reveries @relics-of-reveries.bsky.social Self-taught bookbinder inspired by epics and fantasy.
I make ancien-looking journals out of wood and leather.
FR/EN
I'm from Geneva, Switzerland.
More of my work :
https://www.relics-of-reveries.com/
@neildavieswriter.bsky.social @neildavieswriter.bsky.social
Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social I’ve written three novels in my eight book Tudor Queens series, and I’m currently deep into writing Catherine Howard. No direct messages. Universal link: https://linktr.ee/Nicola_Harris_Author #KU #hisfic #wivesofhenryviii
📚💙
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Golden Boi 🦮 @goldenboi69.bsky.social She/her | 🏳️🌈 | 🦀☀️ ♑️🌕 🦂⬆️
ADHDer with one thousand hobbies
Johnny @wohenmangmang.bsky.social the sun's biggest hater, I dabble in bookbinding
23 | she/her | demi & lesbian | 🇧🇪
https://fable.co/johnny-296926641772?referralID=eW8he38E1L
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Bookarts_glaneur @bookartsglaneur.bsky.social Climate-active librarian and bookbinder into literacy in all its senses.
@not-on-amazon.bsky.social @not-on-amazon.bsky.social
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
PaperMushroom @papermushroom.bsky.social Paper lover, bookbinder, illustrator, printmaker :)
badbooks.etsy.com
https://folksy.com/find/shop/badbooks
Black Oak Bindery @blackoakbindery.bsky.social Bookbinder creating custom rebinds of sci-fi & fantasy books.
https://linktr.ee/BlackOakBindery
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @drgsespinosa.bsky.social ¶ Professor of Spanish literature at QUB, specialising in the Spanish Enlightenment –el Siglo de las Luces–, and book history. ¶ Enjoys jazz and used to like baseball
Always, Laura Beth 🍉 @always-laurabeth.bsky.social I’m a Hobbit. A mom, a maker, and the way to my heart is a good story and a cup of tea. I am always looking for a good book and a cozy corner to curl up in.
She.Her.Hers
https://ModernMerchant.redbubble.com
Karen @devetaki.bsky.social Physics MSc, writer, maker, artist. AuDHD, NB. Here for art, nature, photography, animals, and combinations thereof. DMs without consent will get you blocked. Fuck fascism and AI.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
West Dean College @westdean.ac.uk Internationally recognised for excellence in conservation, arts, craft & design education.
Degrees, diplomas & short courses.
📍 West Sussex & London
Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Tudor food & garden historian 👩🌾 Author of 📕Eating with the Tudors. PGR @ University of East Anglia. Working on becoming *the* authority on the Chamberlyns of BB.
Sue-the-Silkewoman @sue-the-silkewoman.bsky.social Demonstrating, teaching & making insanely time consuming historic silkwork. Decorative woven & braided textiles and trimmings for museums, historic sites & people.
Basically making tiny holes in silk because I can…
Emma Mordue @emmamordue.bsky.social Music making, historical playing, printmaking, clown exploring, street performing, glass creating, schools workshopping, show devising, multi-disciplinary juggling artist.
http://emmamordue.co.uk/
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Ipswich Museums @ipswichmuseums.bsky.social From mammoths to masterpieces, we’re wild for history, buzzing about art, and all about adventure! Explore Christchurch Mansion and (in 2026) Ipswich Museum & Ipswich Art Gallery. 🖼️🦣
Suffolk Detectorist @sdetectorist.bsky.social A random look back at 30 years of metal detecting in Suffolk.
A mix of common finds, and some special.
Enjoy.
Also
@sdetectorist on Instagram.
The Tudor Age @tudorage1973.bsky.social Amateur historian, page for all things Tudor and 16th century.
Lover of Comic Cons and dog mum to a very demanding staffie🐶
Laura H @ninewitchknots.bsky.social 18th cent public historian; woodworker; long time fiber artist (knitting, sewing, handspinning, etc); chronic reader and occasional writer
@tudortimemachine.bsky.social @tudortimemachine.bsky.social
Felix Reuben Elliott Gilbert @felixregilbert.bsky.social Birkbeck. Soon to be studying at the UCL. I like books, Early Modern culture and pretending to be a Tudor on the weekends.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
@auntwis.bsky.social @auntwis.bsky.social I am fascinated by miniatures, especially miniature books, and have been experimenting with hand-binding miniature books. This is a documentation of my journey through the process.
Alnwick Castle @alnwickcastle.bsky.social 🏰 Home to the Percy family for 700 years
🍿 Film location #HarryPotter #DowntonAbbey #dungeonsanddragons
📷 Tag #alnwickcastle
Book online to save www.alnwickcastle.com
man in the woods @maninthewoods.co.uk • Walking artist doing everything the slow way
• I make drawings and artefacts in reaction to the landscape and folk culture of southern Britain as I get to know it on my Friday Walk
• www.maninthewoods.co.uk
Susan Green @boundbyhand.co.uk Artisan #bookbinder. 🏆Country Living's 40 Best Artisans for 2025🏆 Selected member #Crafts Council Directory, member Heritage Crafts. Also works in Comms. Quaker. Simplicity, sustainability, pleasure, beauty, love.
SHOP 👉 https://boundbyhand.co.uk/
London Museum @londonmuseum.bsky.social
Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social #UncannyAutumn is nearly here…👻🍂🛸 Tickets are on sale NOW at uncannylive.com for the online screening of the Uncanny Live tour on the 25 September!
David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Laurelsbooks @laurelsbooks.bsky.social Clambering onto the Bluesky life raft as Twitter sinks to the depths
A maker of miniature books and large oatmeal cookies
Citizen Dundus @citizendundus.bsky.social
Top monkey. A companion to owls.
Mainly history, folklore, 📚. Catty with a chance of owls.
Patron Saint: Mathurin
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Printmakers of Scotland @printersofscotland.bsky.social A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking.
Festival of Printmaking 14-16 Aug 2026 University of Stirling.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
CGM Bookworks @catsib99.bsky.social Bookbinding (novels and journals), plus editing and formatting textblocks of my favorite open source novels. My Etsy shop name is CGMBookworks and my website is CGMBookworks.com. The rest of my time goes to teaching piano and studying Vedic astrology
Deb Wing - print artist @debwing.bsky.social I’m a linocut artist living and working on the west coast of Scotland.
Open Studios in Cowal Sept
At Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Sept-Nov.
www.debwing.com
Nigel Amies MA @nigela.bsky.social Freelance Historical Educator, based in the UK, covering Roman to 1950s domestic and military life in schools, museums and at public events.
Alice Makes @soupbubbles.bsky.social Nerdy - Crafter - ECW Reenactor - 30's - Queer - UK
alicecrafts8.wordpress.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
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks.
For more information, visit our website at:
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Cpaphil @cpaphil.bsky.social www.cpaphil.com : Vintage postcards shop, Cartes Postales, Ansichtskarten. More than 1.2 million items online.
www.cpaphil.com:ヴィンテージポストカードショップ、カルト・ポスト・カルテ、アンスシュトカード
オンラインで120万点以上の商品を取り扱い中。お楽しみください!
In English, Francais, und Deutsch
Valley of Lilies Studio @volstudio.bsky.social https://valleyofliliesstudio.etsy.com
Artisan studio based in Chicago. Check out our latest on Etsy.
VintageBirdCo @vintagebirdco.bsky.social Vintage dealer & enthusiast from Finland specialising in Finnish design - I'm also a knitter, runner and have a doctorate in Contemporary History ❤️
Visit my Etsy shop: https://vintagebirdcofinland.etsy.com
Affordable & fast worldwide shipping!
Bella @redfairybeetle.bsky.social
BOOKFORGE @bookforge.bsky.social BOOKFORGE is a small family owned and operated traditional bindery studio in historic Erie, Pennsylvania!
Fiske Street Little Library @fiskelittlelibrary.bsky.social 📚 Book reviews & recommendations
LFL# 99707 | Books for all ages + manga & graphic novels @ 330 Fiske St., Carlisle, MA
StoryGraph: fiskestreetlittlelibrary
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.
Lucianna Harrison @lmharrison1536.bsky.social Historian researching WRAF (1918-20), WAAF, SAWAAF & women's roles in the military.
Living Historian/reenactor.
Civilian Instructor (CI) with RAFAC.
FR & DE Bilingual.
Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark @londonmudlark.bsky.social Found in the Thames by mudlark Lara Maiklem, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and bestselling author. NEW BOOK OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/3WqTsyu
Stacia Campbell @staciacampbell.bsky.social writer • artist • educator • gardener • wanderer • maker & reader of things cerebral and trashy
Sarah Wendy @sarahwendy13.bsky.social Geek/nerd/unique I love board gaming, Dungeons&Dragons, ReEnactment and cooking!
🏹🎮🐲⚔️🍳
Pronouns She/Her 🏳️🌈
@scrivus.bsky.social @scrivus.bsky.social I have too many hobbies for my own good - I sell some of the books I make here: (UK only) https://aarghhhh.etsy.com
https://folksy.com/shops/Aarghhhh
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social We're passionate about the English Civil Wars and 17th Century history! We're also reenactors - step into history and have an incredible weekend for just £10! www.earlofmanchesters.co.uk
Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social New VBP quiz book bit.ly/3DkBcgi: VBP books, tops, cards, calendars & contact: bit.ly/3mWIF9S. Buy me a tea: ko-fi.com/robtemple
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
Pieter Bruegel @pbruegel.bsky.social Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a 16th century Dutch painter and printmaker.
1525-1569
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Tudor History Daily @tudorhistory.bsky.social The Tudor era (1485–1603) shaped modern England with the Reformation, Renaissance culture, and Elizabeth I’s Golden Age.
Arielle's Bindery @ariellesbindery.bsky.social (She/her) Book Historian. Bookbinder. Teacher. Librarian. DHer.
Two cats named Jack and Soot. 😺
Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts.
History, textiles, costume, more history
Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social Moated historic Tudor manor house in south Suffolk with walled garden & rare breed farm.
Home of world famous historical recreations, Dickensian Christmas, Scaresville & Halloweenies.
This year it’s 1536!
https://www.kentwell.co.uk/
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