@srhughes13.bsky.social @srhughes13.bsky.social Geologist (🌋) who likes cooking, photography and travel. Ex New Yorker now based back home in the UK (Wales).
Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social Culture, politics, letters, socialism, Raymond Williams. Est. 1989. Publisher of 'Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism'.
raymondwilliams.co.uk
David Deans @deansofcardiff.bsky.social BBC Wales online political reporter. Email: david.deans@bbc.co.uk
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Sian Harries @sianharries.bsky.social
Dan @esgob-llandaf.bsky.social Cymro 🏴
Ewropeaidd 🇪🇺
Beiciwr 🚲
Cerddwr 🚶🏼
Nick Posford @nickpos.bsky.social Exec Director @ukevaluation.bsky.social Evidence based decision-making and action. V pro #NetZero and #renewables. Chief of Staff to two Lurchers. Love Cymru, where I'm lucky to live. Pessimistic about the world, but hoping hope does spring eternal!
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social Historian of medicine (ish). Parent of small monsters. Enthusiastic Yorkshirewoman in Sheffield. Early Career Fellow on Covid Commemoration oral history at the British Library.
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Kevin Parry-Jones @kevinparryjones.bsky.social Cymraeg/Welsh. Desirous of 🏴 Independence more than ever.
Woke Historian. Will never forgive Brexit architects, 🇪🇺
Fatter, with much less hair than when we last met. More freckles though…Cancer at 3yrs, amazed/happy to be here some 50+ years later.
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social Official acc for the Art Deco Society UK. Follow us to see news, updates & help spread the love for the UK’s Art Deco or join the Society https://artdecosociety.uk/
Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social We boost UK prosperity, understand the Universe, and protect our planet and outer space. gov.uk/ukspaceagency.
British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk We're the UK's polar research institute 👋 Uncovering the secrets of Earth's frozen places, doing science for a sustainable planet.
Looking for a seriously remote job? https://bas.ac.uk/vacancies
Royal Institution @rigb.org We're an independent charity connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with science.
📺 Home of the #XmasLectures
💥 Weekly science talks online/in person
🌐 rigb.org
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
Lloyd Glanville @lloydglanville.bsky.social Screenwriter & Heritage Director. BCG Hat Trick Sitcom Competition Winner. Stuff with BBC Cymru Wales & Ffilm Cymru. CEO of Insole Court. All views my own.
Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
📍Glasgow
Harry Thompson @harrythompson.bsky.social Head of Fair Economy at Cynnal Cymru. Working for a living wage and fairer economy for Wales. Former political staffer 🌹. All views only my own, not employer.
https://cynnalcymru.com/fair-economy/
Jen Burke @jenburkecdf.bsky.social 🌹Cabinet Member Culture, Parks & Events Cardiff council | Public Affairs | Welsh Labour cllr for Llandaff North | @gmb_union |Views ≠ my employers | she/her 🇮🇪 🏴
Ellen Askey @elleaskey.bsky.social ~ currently caring for a collection in a castle ~
Mostly sharing textiles or other weird and wonderful nic knackery
Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social Chief Executive of Thackray Museum of Medicine | Trustee @leedspiano | Chair Culture Consortium Leeds 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 Views my own ...
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
Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social Quirky historic house tucked away in central London. 18th-century interiors & a good supply of dictionaries. Open Tues, Wed, Thurs, Friday & Sat 11am - 5pm
National Coal Mining Museum @ncmme.bsky.social Open Wednesday-Sunday. Visit for a unique all-weather adventure! Meet a miner, explore exhibitions and enjoy the great outdoors.
Explore more: www.ncm.org.uk
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections and Pathology Museum at City St George's, University of London. Custodians of Jenner's cow Blossom
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
Jon Sleigh @jonsleigh.bsky.social Arts Educator & Learning Curator working nationally freelance. All views my own. (he/him) Author of ‘What Are Museums For?’ book link https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-museums-for
Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
DominicJonesUK @dominicjonesuk.bsky.social Chief Executive Mary Rose & Director Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Trustee Gilbert Whites House and Garden and Pompey In the Community, School Governor, Fellow RSA, Husband and Father. All Views are my own.
Rachel Mackay @rachmackay.bsky.social Head of Hampton Court Palace. Author of Delivering the Visitor Experience. Dundonian, dog owner, dancer. (That last isn’t true but I needed a D word)
therecoveryroomblog.com
Charlie Gregson @charliegregson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies & freelance arts business & grants coach. Currently working with botanical gardens to diversify narratives
Lucy Hockley @heritage-notes.bsky.social Heritage orgs in society | museums | historic building conservation & craft skills | natural environment
Bryony Roberts @brypie.bsky.social Bristol. Feminist. Anti-racist. LGBTQ+ ally.
Here for culture, history, space, and finding some joy.
Nerys Watts @nerysw.bsky.social COO Wells Cathedral. Was @HeritageFundUK Trustee @Cornwall_Museum and on @BANES Heritage Advisory Board. Books, music, films, sailing. Mum to E & N. Tweets all my own.
Selden Society @seldensociety.bsky.social Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history. Account maintained by @jctate1215.bsky.social.
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
BSSH @bssh.bsky.social British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
@lisagraves.bsky.social @lisagraves.bsky.social museums + anthropology
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Will Tregaskes @tregaskesw.bsky.social Culture is for All | Arts Development Manager @AandBCymru | Advisory Group @HeritageVols | Activist Museum Award Winner 2023 | All Views Own |
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Museum Ethnographers Group @musethnogroup.bsky.social MEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network, for anyone interested in caring for global cultures collections.
Web: https://museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
Adam Smith @adsmit.bsky.social Assoc. Curator, Penn Museum
Views are mine, not my employer's
UK (1970-1993)
PRC (1993-2001)
US (2001-)
http://upenn.academia.edu/AdamSmith
https://twitter.com/AdamDSmith1970
Museum of Design in Plastics @modipaub.bsky.social The Museum of Design in Plastics is the only accredited museum in the UK with a focus on plastics.
https://linktr.ee/modipaub
Julian Humphrys @juleshumphrys.bsky.social Historian, writer, and guide. Lecturer on historical tours. Leads English Heritage battlefield walks. Scriptwriter for museum audio guides across the UK. www.julianhumphrys.com
John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-CEO National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
Own views.
Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social Curator, fossil reptiles and amphibians, at Natural History Museum London UK. Honorary positions at UCL and University of Adelaide. #tuatara 🦎 #Cymraeg He/Him
Orcid: 0000-0002-0146-9623
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space UK-based Museum Learning Consultant & Maths Communicator
📖 Author of The Mathematicians' Library: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781836004851
🌐 TeaKayB.mathsy.space
🕸️ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk I do science with fossils, X-rays and computers at the Unviersity of Manchester and Natural History Museum, UK.
russellgarwood.co.uk
Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social Naturalist, mountaineer, museum curator, Flora writer, photographer, Derby Peregrine Project, Wikipedia admin & allotmenteer. Retired. 317ppm
Two thirds of what I say is correct; half is not. #Derby, UK
Likes/Follows from ⛔️OnlyFans ⛔️spam accounts⛔️ = block
Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games.
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-display-9781350191365/
abigailbaker.co.uk
Kathy Moore @kathymonzc.bsky.social Norwich based recovering teacher and museum professional. Now freelancing in Climate, Heritage, Learning.
Climate Museum UK
Group for Education in Museums
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
ICOM UK @icomuk.bsky.social Museums without Borders #icomuk
https://linktr.ee/ICOMUK
MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities – and the trafficking networks behind them.
MuseumOfLoot.org
CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group.
The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
Llechi Cymru - Wales Slate @llechicymru.bsky.social Safle Treftadaeth y Byd UNESCO Tirwedd Llechi Gogledd Orllewin Cymru. ⛏️
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales UNESCO World Heritage Site. 🏴
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social FRHistS. Independent scholar.Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Archivist.
Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809).
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/
Tower House Gallery @towerhousegallery.bsky.social Small gallery & coffee house with its feet firmly in Wales.
Serving the best coffee in the area plus home-made food.
We represent the artists and makers of the middle Marches.
Curating Knighton Museum, conveniently next door! www.galleryknighton.co.uk
MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social Hi I'm Diane Heath, a medievalist at Canterbury Christ Church University and a researcher at Dana Centre Science Museum. Joint editor with Dr V. Blud for University of Wales Medieval Animal series
Alun Burge @alunburge.bsky.social Wales and international solidarity - Chile, Nicaragua, Palestine
Minnie Pallister, William Hazell & co-ops
Honorary Research Fellow National Museum Wales & Swansea University
Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
John Jackson @johnjacksonnathist.bsky.social Natural History Museum London science and humanities research, collections, laboratories and libraries - Head of Science Policy and Communication - own views - 🦇🐝🦂🐞🦖🦀🦒🌳🍄🌎☄️ &c
#NHMLondon #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon
#NHMScience
Dr Heather Bonney @drheatherbonney.bsky.social Principal Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Palaeontology & Anthropology at Natural History Museum, London. Forensic/Biological Anthropologist
Dr Nichola Arthur @nic-arthur.bsky.social Curator at Natural History Museum London | Bioarchaeology | PhD Human remains from the River Thames
Reeks (They/Them/Theirs) @velocirika23.bsky.social 32, nonbinary, bisexual, carrying an absolute dumptruck
Museum ✨professional✨ i.e. big know it all museum nerd
Very pro give that shit back and respect human remains
♒☀️🌚♑⬆️
🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 Landback MMIW BLM
Ciarán Walsh @curatordotie.bsky.social Indie curator/writer, currently working with Kerry Writers' Museum & Heritage Council on R&D on local film heritage assets. Co-leader on repatriation of 'Stolen Skulls' of Inishbofin, featured in 'Iarsmaí' (2023). Published "A Very English Savage" (2022).
Bret Gaunt @hectorshouse-123.bsky.social Archaeologist, museum professional, repatriation, arts and culture, Egyptology, Nature, hiking, folklore, folk horror nerd. Centre left 🏳️🌈
Johnny Sampson @johnnysampson.bsky.social Curator and Storyteller
NAGPRA Repatriation Coordinator
Museum Professional and Mischief Maker
Blythe @the-scythe.bsky.social 💫 Mama. 💗 Partner. 👣 Relative. 🪶 Future ancestor. 🏺 Repatriation advocate. 🤓 Weird museum lady. 🐛 Bookworm. 🌯 Culinary enthusiast. 🌱 Gardener.
Rachel Minor @rachelrachel70.bsky.social Queer and quirky museum curator. Extroverted introvert. Trans Ally. Sewist. Ceramic artist. Dog mom. Happily married almost 33 years. Interested in Repatriation, Human rights, Preserving our Democracy. Land Back to Native Americans! Saving the Planet. 🏳️🌈
Laura Peers @laurapeers.bsky.social Curator and historian. Museum repatriation and provenance consultant. Happiest in museums, archives, outdoors. www.laurapeers.com.
Rob Lancefield @roblancefield.bsky.social Working with people + museum content | information | technology, now retired and still engaged with how people, collections, and digital technologies intersect. #MuseTech, #OpenContent, #Repatriation, #Ethnomusicology, more.
Reinwardt Academy, AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts @reinwardtacademy.bsky.social Dedicated to socially engaged museum and heritage practice through research and training of professionals (to be) at bachelor and master level. UNESCO Chair Museum Collections, Repatriation and Interculturality.
Reinwardtacademy.nl
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social Associate Professor focused on global norms, IHL, and civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite
Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
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.
Darran McLaughlin @mcdarran.bsky.social Manager of @bookhaus.bsky.social Bristol. Eco-socialist
Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social Gwirfoddoli digidol / Digital volunteering
@archpbu.bsky.social @CarmsLibraries @CUSpecialColls @DiwylliantConwy @uwtsd.bsky.social @glamarchives.bsky.social @gwentarchives.bsky.social @NLWales @SwanseaUniLi
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Andrew Shore @andrewshore.bsky.social Director of Content at Art UK.
Love all kinds of music, books etc. Used to work at the British Museum.
https://artuk.org/discover/profile/andrew-shore
George R. L. Greiff @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social Research Associate in the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre. Interested in plant-microbe interactions, evo-devo and natural history. Microbotanist: bryology and bryo-mycology. Views his own.
peterwakelin.bsky.social @peterwakelin.bsky.social Writer, curator and consultant. President of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Chair of the Cadw Board; Interim Director of Collections at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Writing mainly about art and heritage.