Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Dublin Lunar New Year @dublinlunarnewyear.bsky.social Dublin Lunar New Year welcomes the Year of the Horse 🐎 | 14 - 22 February 2026 #DublinLunarNY #YearOfTheHorse
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
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
My Historical Table @myhistoricaltable.bsky.social Historical food website, dedicated to bringing delicious recipes back from the past to the present. Join me at my table. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Founder @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
Sam Bilton @mrssbilton.bsky.social Food Historian, Writer & Presenter of the award winning Comfortably Hungry podcast & also the A is for Apple https://linktr.ee/sambilton
@beinmysolo.bsky.social @beinmysolo.bsky.social 
Andy Parker @tabamatu.bsky.social Brewer and Author
Founder of Elusive Brewing
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
The Essex Witch Museum @essexwitchmuseum.bsky.social Help us to create a museum about the witch trials held in Essex during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
EssexWitchMuseum.co.uk
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
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
North American Guild of Beer Writers @nagbw.bsky.social The North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) is the leading member organization of beer writers, authors, reporters, and podcasters who cover the beer industry. Learn more about the guild by heading to nagbw.org
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
Women In Beer @womeninbeer.bsky.social We’re a group of Women Who Like Beer!
What we do:
🍻 Meet up & socials
🥳 Festival
🧑🎓 Mentorship program
🏅Awards
Support us on Patreon patreon.com/WomenInBeerProjects
Norsk Kornølfestival @kornolfest.bsky.social A festival dedicated to true, traditional farmhouse ale, in Hornindal, Western Norway. Next dates: Oct 1-3, 2026.
https://www.norskkornolfestival.no/
Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Gothic novelist. Ghost-filled non-fiction. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. RAVENFIELD HALL (2/27, Hachette) A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/
hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland.
Culture Night Dublin @culturenightdub.bsky.social A late night of FREE cultural discovery across Dublin on Friday 18 September 2026 brought to you by Dublin City Council.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
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
Cork & Kerry Food Festival @corkkerryfoodfestival.com Cork & Kerry Food Market | Every November at Cork City Hall | Artisan & local products, cookery demos featuring top chefs, and interactive food talks with guest speakers.
Season's Eatings Podcast 🏳🌈🎄 @seasonseatpod.bsky.social The podcast that explores the history and origins of Christmas foods. Plus posting things all things Christmassy.
Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social Writer and actor
Theatre co: The Book of Darkness & Light (https://bsky.app/profile/tbodal.bsky.social).
Host: @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social
https://www.adamzrobinson.com
https://linktr.ee/tbodal #horror #ghoststories
MarcPitman.com @marcpitman.com Int'l leadership coach, trainer, speaker, GenXer, Oxford comma lover, brewer, co-host of Other People’s Beer Podcast, author of The Surprising Gift of Doubt & Ask Without Fear!, husband, dad. he/him
On Threads at https://www.threads.net/@marcpitman
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Endorsed Legalise #Cannabis Party candidate for the Secret Harbour by-election.
Courtney Herber @doc-herber.bsky.social Mild mannered IT sysadmin by day, even more mild mannered historian by night. History: PhD in early modern Europe focusing on power, performance, and pop culture. #BATW webguru
"So kind and millennial-funny." (she/her)
https://www.courtneyherber.com/
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/
FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social #FolkloreThursday is a hashtag day for sharing folklore facts, and a website filled with articles! Founded by @deedeechainey.bsky.social & @willowwinsham.bsky.social. 
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
London Biermeister @londonbiermeister.bsky.social I drink beer and write about it for fun. No expert but I admire those who are and I love the history. Blog at www.londonbiermeister.co.uk/blog
Cullen Bunn @cullenbunn.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer of horror and comics. THE SIXTH GUN. HARROW COUNTY. GHOSTLORE. DEADPOOL. MAGNETO. UNCANNY X-MEN. 
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Our Bluesky account - University College Dublin,
Ireland - posts by Aidan O'Sullivan and Conor McDermott
Derek Brauders @derekbrauders.eurosky.social Explorer of new horizons. Irish, EU, Retd Irish Military. Interests in politics, wine, photography, and really anything else of interest. On Mastodon, Threads, IG. Same name.
Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository, or online archive, for the long-term preservation of Ireland's social and cultural digital legacy. Explore the Repository: https://repository.dri.ie/
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Lindsay John Bell, Ph.D. @lindsayjbell.bsky.social Historian • Professor at De Anza College •
SABR Member • Baseball Aficionado •
Research explores the intersection of sports, militarism, & gender • Opinions my own • He/Him
Eric Bellmore @bellmore.bsky.social #GirlDad, IT Nerd, runner, golfer, & terrible hockey player. He/Him
GenX AF and damn proud of it. the_bellmore on Discord.
Betrothed to @prodigalhoosier.bsky.social
Welcome to Bluesky.
Don't be a dick
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist, lecturer needing work; some Oxford Conted, IES & AIFS lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. London, suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️
We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.
https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social Architect Asst Professor @UCDDublin @UCDArch FRIAI RIBA ARB opinions my own #Housing #Architecture #Construction #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateAction
Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social She/Her Dreamer of dreams, socialist and sociable. Nature, crochet, rewilding, history and animals hold my interest. Former migrant, now back in Ireland.
Truth is the daughter of time.
maniagnosis @maniagnosis.bsky.social Tommy M. McGuire (Not that one. Nor that one.)
Coding bum, tetrapod. (he/him)
Bitterly cynical misanthrope. It's always more complicated. I apologize in advance; I tend to get too comfortable.
Called 'weird' by Kevin Kruse.
Brewsters Brewery @brewstersbrewery.bsky.social Indie brewery
Grantham, Lincs, UK.
Since 1998.
https://brewstersbrewery.com
All About Beer @allaboutbeer.bsky.social Est. 1979. Beer news, reviews, podcasts, and features from America’s oldest beer media brand. Posts by John Holl & Andy Crouch.
Carly Silver Feldman @carlyasilver.bsky.social Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Claire Dunne @clairedunne.bsky.social Library Assistant @ UCD Special Collections / National Folklore Collection. Books. Archaeology. Crafts. Cats.
Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Tamara J. Walker @tamaraw.bsky.social Historian * Author of BEYOND THE SHORES: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ABROAD (Crown, out now in paperback) and EXQUISITE SLAVES (Cambridge, 2017) * Co-founder of The Wandering Scholar (@wearetws.bsky.social).
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Steve Lamond @beersiveknown.bsky.social 
Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Garment Crocheter, Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.
Bloody useless
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
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/
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Stuart Ellis-Gorman @drcrossbows.bsky.social Medieval historian, crossbows and the Hundred Years War. Author of The Medieval Crossbow (2022) and Castillon (2025).
Freelance writer/editor/proofreader, occasional game designer. Reviewer of books and games.
Website: www.stuartellisgorman.com
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
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
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
Amy Burnett @amyjbburnett.bsky.social PhD'd in seventeenth century alewives; now policy-ing at Historic England
www.amy-burnett.co.uk
Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social Associate Professor. Director, Uppsala University Bioarchaeology Research Laboratory @uubrl.bsky.social
Bioarchaeology; trauma & pathology; thanatology & taphonomy; medieval Visby; caves; African Stone Age; 3D imaging. Slightly sweary. He/Him.
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social Account for @NCN_PL funded project on 19th C representations of female drinking in Polish and British public discourses led by @diasdorota & @pamplemoussepam
Bruce Cameron 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @brucec.bsky.social East coaster, loves all things ocean, retired paramedic, currently volunteer with our local FD as a Medical First Responder, "livin' the dream".
Eastern Shore NS
DigsUpDeadFolksStuff @trowelblister.bsky.social Archaeologist, vegetarian, pitbull pillow, pet rescue advocate & foster failure. He/Him
Noelle Phillips @noelleph.bsky.social English professor, craft beer writer, whiskey fangirl, bellydancer. 
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Declan Moore @mooregroup.bsky.social An archaeological and environmental consultancy based in Galway, Ireland. You can also find us on Mastodon here: @mooregroup@mastodon.social
To Crossfield 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @sefarad.bsky.social 📔 Lazy old librarian #schoollibrary with cats, living history, archeology, #foodhistory, reading, books a. #littlefreelibrary
#buchclub and #Sefarad.
Bluesky elder 973.296🦋
🇺🇦 will never surender!
header by https://sachsenanhalt-weltoffen.de/
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Qualified Archaeologist (Archaeobotany, Experimental, Historical). Public Health Nutrition. www.myhistoricaltable.com
CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org Numbers 22:30
“the personality of the honey badger, the conviction of Lex Luthor and the work ethic of the dog from Hee Haw.” Birmingham born, DMV bred, buttered in NorCal. He/him/hee/haw
@ms8.bsky.social tolerates my nonsense as a vocation ;]
躺平
Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner
Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error
Author, Unholy
More: https://www.sarahposner.com
Dr Shawn Day @eireidium.bsky.social Lecturer in Knowledge Visualisation, Information Design & Digital Humanities @UCC. Sometime dotcom adventurer, contrarian, fountain pen addict and craft beer drinker
Good Chemistry @goodchembrew.bsky.social Uniting people and pints since 2015 🍻
Kelly - She Drinks Beer @kellywasgcb.bsky.social Celebrated 10 years of good beer at Good Chemistry in 2025🍻 (& sold the brewery end of last year)
Now She Drinks Beer and Think While You Drink, plus our award-winning Bristol pubs The Good Measure💛 and Kings Head💚
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
@thegentleprune.bsky.social @thegentleprune.bsky.social