Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com The Inquirer is your front-row seat to the Philadelphia region. You can support local, impactful journalism at inquirer.com/bsky-subscribe/.
Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social Theologian. Queer Quaker ✝️ /|\. PhD candidate at University of Nottingham constructing a critical White theology of Quaker worship. Author of "Quaker Shaped Christianity" (2022). (He/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ jollyquaker.com
Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social The Quaker hub for peace and justice. Space for worship, nonprofit offices, and events in Philadelphia. https://www.friendscentercorp.org.
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Researcher, NTU. PG tutor, Woodbrooke. Honorary, UoB. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social I research, write, and teach about the Quaker tradition. I also write fiction (mainly sapphic romance novels set in prehistory) and poetry. She/her.
Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD.
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
Sydney Harker @sydneyharker.bsky.social
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social Early Modern Social Historian | British Civil Wars and Trauma | Early Quakers in England | 📖 Zealous: A Darker Side of The Early Quakers https://linktr.ee/ericanela
Gil Skidmore @gilskidmore.bsky.social A Quaker granny in Yorkshire who loves history, art, textiles, nature and the sea
C. Wess Daniels @gatheringinlight.com Quaker Studies at Guilford College, Minister, Author, & Cycling Enthusiast.
Author of “Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance.” Co-Editor of “The Quaker World.”
http://gatheringlight.com
https://wessdaniels.micro.blog/
Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org Friends Publishing is a non-profit organization dedicated to communicating Quaker experience in order to connect & deepen spiritual lives. Friends Journal is our flagship publication, with a legacy that goes back to 1827.
Woodbrooke @woodbrooke.bsky.social Woodbrooke provides opportunities for Quaker learning, research and worship across the world - offering adult education since 1903.
www.woodbrooke.org.uk
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Dr Lily Chadwick @lilyrchadwick.bsky.social Programme Coordinator in Quaker History at the Woodbrooke Centre / University of Birmingham.
Historian of gender, religious “radicalism,” empire and authority in the early modern Atlantic; Durham & UMN alumna; she/her, views my own
Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social The official page of the Friends World Committee for Consultation. Connecting around 400,000 Quakers in 100+ countries around the world. Find out more at fwcc.world
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social Quaker historian (New England, slavery, Indigenous land grabs, Indigenous boarding schools). Retired lawyer (NH).
Robynne Rogers Healey @rrhealey.bsky.social Historian of Quaker studies, gender, and war and peace. Professor at Trinity Western University. Animal lover and caffeine addict. All views my own (she/her).
Books Through Bars Philly @booksthroughbars.bsky.social We are a books to prisoners project located in West Philly! ❤️📚
Come volunteer with us!
📍4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
https://linktr.ee/btbphilly
Councilmember Jamie Gauthier @councilmemberjg.bsky.social Philadelphia City Councilmember fighting for equitable communities in West and Southwest Philadelphia and beyond.
www.phlcouncil.com/jamie-gauthier
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Inga Saffron @ingasaffron.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize-winning Arch. Critic phillyinquirer & author “Becoming Philadelphia”, 20 years of columns, from rutgersupress Lotsa buildings on IG.
Hidden City Philadelphia @hiddencityphila.bsky.social Hidden City Philadelphia fosters public dialogue by exploring the intersection of people and place, and the tension between the past and the possible future.
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
Laura Melbourne @mslauraeb.bsky.social She/Her. Archivist. Cine/video/bibliophile & geek generalist. Mom and stuff.
Maggie Delano @maggied.bsky.social Technology, design, gender. Associate Prof. at Swarthmore College. Philly resident. They/them.
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it.
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Coming Sept. 2026: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, baseball, jazz. DC resident.
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
Sarah @spectacled.bsky.social Professional digital entropy manager.
Kat Antonelli @katantonelli.bsky.social liberal arts lover seeks torrid affair with technology. digital archivist @amphilsociety. opinions my own, pronouns she/her
Laura Blanchard @lblanchard.bsky.social Retired. Consorts with librarians. Goes on stupid little daily walks. One husband, one [technically foster] cat. Lapsed Whovian, Tolkien nerd. Admirer of other people's gardens and plants. Lifelong Philadelphian except for some years spent in exile.
Rayna A @rayna-a.bsky.social she/her
archives, books, plants, and movement
John Anderies @cccamac.bsky.social Director of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center. Coloradan in Philly. Pie baker. Married to @riversaredamp.bsky.social (He/him/his)
@saraborden.bsky.social @saraborden.bsky.social
Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social Archivist/Academic Librarian. Coordinator of Public Services & Outreach. Special Collections Research Center. Temple University. Stanford & UMSI alum
Sarah Horowitz @bibliowitz.bsky.social Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
The Rosenbach Museum & Library @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social The Rosenbach Museum & Library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts. Learn more at rosenbach.org.
Tri-College Consortium @3collegeconsortium.bsky.social The Tri-College Consortium brings together three top-tier liberal arts colleges with numerous academic and social opportunities for students: @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social, @haverfordcollege.bsky.social, and @brynmawrcollege.bsky.social.
Chrissie Perella @ckperella.bsky.social Archivist. HistMed. Medievalist. Nerd. Punk rocker. Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist. Does not represent my employer. (She/her)
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians @berksconference.bsky.social A professional organization for women historians and historians of women, gender and sexualities. We welcome historians at all points of their career, from students to retirees and from all professional contexts.
Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, special collections, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻💻 🚗 | she/her
Society of American Archivists @saa-official.bsky.social North America's oldest and largest national professional association dedicated to the needs and interests of archives and archivists.
Find SAA online: https://www2.archivists.org/
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/
Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
UNK Archives @unkarchives.bsky.social Official account for the University of Nebraska at Kearney Archives and Special Collections. All things #archives, especially #HistEd
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social
Region of Peel Archives @peelarchives.bsky.social Municipal archives for Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon in Ontario, Canada.
Archives and Special Collections, Loyola University Chicago @lucarchives1928.bsky.social Book an appointment with us at Cudahy Library, send us an email at archive@luc.edu, or give us a call at 773 508-2660!
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social Looking after the history of Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
www.cabhc.ca
Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives @klmuseumarchives.ca Collecting, preserving & sharing since 1957.
https://www.klmuseumarchives.ca/
50 Victoria Ave. N Lindsay ON
705-324-3404
Lindsay Daily Post Digitization Project:
https://archive.org/details/klma_newspapers
Winter hours:
Thurs - Sat, 10 am to 4 pm
Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. We collect, preserve, and share the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
medicalarchives.jhmi.edu
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.
EOT End Of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org https://eotarchive.org/
Please submit any government URL for inclusion into the 2024
#EOTArchive
UND Special Collections @ebrspecial.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
https://library.und.edu/branches-departments/special-collections/index.html
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social Preserving and providing access to more than 16 million manuscripts, archival records, rare books, maps, broadsides, photographs, audio and video recordings at the University of Virginia.
BAnQ @banq-officiel.bsky.social Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
La culture accessible à tous et à toutes, gratuitement
Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) - archive and research on the music of the Vietnam War, 6,000+ songs identified. Founding Editor Dr. Justin A. Brummer - on the hunt for new songs 🎵 🧐 Austin, TX. Est. 2007
https://linktr.ee/vietnamwarsongproject
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social Archive boxes full of preserved stories, sights and sounds from the Appalachian region. Home to the bell hook papers and the Janis Ian Archives.
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/archives
LBJ Presidential Library @lbjlibrary.bsky.social
Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries @aldenlibrary.bsky.social, Athens.
https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity
(Not that XL public uni in Columbus--we pre-date)
California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
Bucknell Special Collections/University Archives @bucknellscua.bsky.social Rare books, manuscripts, artists' books, University archives: putting primary sources into the classroom and beyond.
Southwest Collection @swcscl.bsky.social The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University describes, preserves, and makes accessible to scholars and the general public archival collections of regional, national, and international significance.
Digital Public Library of America @dpla.bsky.social The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums, and makes them freely available to all.
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies @jcasonline.bsky.social The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies is a peer-reviewed, #openaccess journal sponsored by Yale University Library and New England Archivists.
University of Winnipeg Archives @uwarchives.bsky.social We are the archives of the University of Winnipeg and its founding colleges dating back to 1871.
Oral History Archives at Columbia @oralhistorycu.bsky.social OHAC responsibly stewards 70 years of oral history interviews. Our collections document the human experience and makes interviews available to researchers.
header: Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden (2021)
Middlesex Centre Archives @mxcarchives2013.bsky.social Middlesex Centre Archives (MCA) was established in 2013. MCA collects and preserves the documentary heritage of the former Townships of London, Lobo, and Delaware and the Municipality of Middlesex Centre.
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada
The Vermont Historical Society @vermonthistory.org Vermont's state historical society, an independent nonprofit, located in Montpelier and Barre.
http://www.vermonthistory.org
Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence?
ColoredConventions.org
Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca We maintain & make accessible records of enduring value that give evidence of decisions, policies & activities of the City of Toronto.
www.toronto.ca/archives
NYAM Library & Center for History @nyamhistory.bsky.social New York Academy of Medicine's Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health—promoting histories of medicine, public health, and the book.
Historical Society of Haddonfield @haddonfieldhistory.bsky.social The Historical Society of Haddonfield (New Jersey), established in 1914—preserving, contextualizing, & making accessible Haddonfield's history for all. Historic houses, a museum, archives, & events!
https://www.haddonfieldhistory.org
North Jersey History and Genealogy Center @njhgc.bsky.social The History Center acquires and preserves rare books and archival material created by the people, businesses, and organizations of Northern New Jersey, particularly Morris County. We are located in the Morristown and Morris Township Library.
Rutgers Oral History Archives @oralhistory.rutgers.edu The Rutgers Oral History Archives documents the life experiences of New Jersey residents and/or Rutgers University faculty, staff, and alumni.
linktr.ee/RutgersOralHistoryArchives
Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social 🏛️ The guardian and voice of Kentucky’s past – documenting, clarifying, and preserving the stories that define our Commonwealth.
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Dearborn Historical Museum @dearbornhmuseum.bsky.social Local history museum and archive in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Michigan
Walter P. Reuther Library @reutherlibrary.bsky.social The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs inspires academic research, serves community, and builds knowledge at Wayne State University. Learn more at https://reuther.wayne.edu/.
The Filson Historical Society @filsonhistorical.bsky.social Collecting, preserving, and sharing Kentucky and Ohio Valley history since 1884. #YourFilson
https://linktr.ee/filsonhistoricalsociety
American Jewish Archives @ajarchives.bsky.social The AJA was founded in 1947 by the renowned historian Dr. Jacob R. Marcus (1896-1995) on the historic Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College. Its mission is to collect, preserve, and make available materials on the American Jewish experience.
CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York. cdha.cuny.edu
Texas State Library and Archives Commission @tslac.bsky.social The Texas State Library and Archives Commission preserves Texas history, supports Texas libraries, and more.
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
JFK Library Foundation @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social Dedicated to the legacy of our nation's 35th president. We are the non-profit partner and creative collaborator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
WCS Archives @wcs-archives.bsky.social The archives of the Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society.
Hayes Presidential Library & Museums @rbhayespres.bsky.social Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is America's 1st presidential library - includes Hayes' mansion, tomb, museum & paved trails through estate.
Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Colln, UGA Libraries @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social Since 1995, the only archives in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual media. Concentrates on Georgia materials, but includes the SE U.S. & Peabody entries from all over. From 28mm to 9.5mm to 16mm, 8mm, Super8, & many other formats!
The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social We are a world-renowned research institute and historical archive at Indiana University exploring sex, relationships and wellbeing.
Learn more at kinseyinstitute.org
Archive of Contemporary Music @arcmusicny.bsky.social Largest collection of popular music in the world. The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit music library and archive located in New York City. Join us: arcmusic.org.