Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social Don’t use Facebook or X they’re part of the problem. Posts - gardening,🌱 history, food & art & random rants about the state of the world.
LGBT+ 🏳️⚧️ ally 🏳️🌈 State pension please don’t ask me for £. She/her
No DMs thanks. No Bio No posts = Block Leicester, UK.
Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
@furtho.bsky.social @furtho.bsky.social Art, modern stained glass, music, football. Milton Keynes. he/him.
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Carla Linford @carlalinford.bsky.social Grimsby based freelance Historian. I post a lot about old stuff, pretty things, dogs, cats… Views my own.
Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social Family historian, blogger, podcast guest and speaker. Pharos Advanced Certificate student. Also Mum, wife, and full-time public servant of 34 years and counting.
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy
www.allthosebefore.co.uk
Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social Mostly historic buildings but also occasional landscapes of North Cumbria.
@jon-bayliss-1116.bsky.social @jon-bayliss-1116.bsky.social
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social Retired rare books librarian, formerly Institute of Naval Medicine civvy, thwarted medievalist, enthusiast of history, cooking, words and singing, writer, occasional poet, permanently on wheels; married to retired PO (Comms) RNR, signal engineer, bass.
Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist.
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Ritterton here and elsewhere! @ritterton.bsky.social Enjoy history, archaeology, arts, and the crafting of heirloom items. Sharing as a middle-aged guy that has an open mind and a more liberal heart. Civics works
Lelly @thebobhowler.bsky.social
Moss & Martyrs, Rabbits & Rood Screens. Flora, fauna & faces. All own photos unless stated.
Posts for @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social
AitchPea @thros.bsky.social Chronic Twitbrain, collector of crap and cats and crap cats, likes tiny stuff and moyder mystery fiction. I’m most likely to be found on the sofa. I also tweet about my tuxedo cat Mr. Peaches.
#TinyThings #CharityShopFinds
Jim the Siiker @jim-the-siiker.bsky.social I tried my best on X. Historical artistic shots of places I visit. Including but not limited to Pre Roman, Roman, Medieval.
Pamela Devine @pdevinee.bsky.social Visitor guide/historian at the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon. Available for talks on the Chapel's history, its medieval wall paintings & historic graffiti. Book: Writing on Shakespeare's Walls https://www.youcaxton.co.uk/writing-on-shakespeares-walls/
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social Alienated by the scent of Musk. Flaneur, haunter of Art Galleries, love watching paint dry in Arthouse films, countryside conservationist, Birkbeck History of Ideas MA, progressive, radical, European.
Linda @lindawhisky.bsky.social Interests include art,gardens/gardening,medicine,science,history and general ’stuff’.
Rachel @rachelgozo.bsky.social Just trying to maintain some measure of sanity in this mad world, with photos of life on a very small island.
For cats, please visit @thecatisbusy.bsky.social
Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social Amateur family historian and the many roles of women in WW1 in the UK. Love cats, churchcrawling, photography, nature and.Spurs.
cbnewham @parishchurches.org FSA. Author. Photographer. IT specialist.
Church architecture & contents.
If you want to know what churches are open during the day then get my Keyholder for Parish Churches app (Android and Apple).
Bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham
Molly Conisbee @mollyconisbee.bsky.social I research social histories of dying and death. I like dogs and books and wine. No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality (Profile/Wellcome) out in spring 2025.
Morangles @morangles.bsky.social Bede, Gregory of Tours. Medieval Movies & links to history podcasts. Antiques friendly.
This poster is not MAGA compatible/.
Helen Melville @hemelville.bsky.social History & Heritage, Architecture & Landscapes. Inspired by nature. Photos my own.
Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social Specialist in Roman mosaics, with particular interests in iconography and antiquarian illustrations; also hedgehogs in any medium. Author. Membership Secretary asprom.org (posting personally).
Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social We offer a focus for those with an interest in church monuments of all types and periods. Posts by @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social
Judy Doherty @judyadoherty.bsky.social History, heritage, half-time Bovril. Churches, canals, industrial heritage. Formerly Kent, now Shropshire (closer to my beloved Stoke City).
Pacoulmag @pacoulmag.bsky.social Medieval Churches, paintings, carvings, stained glass, gravestones,
Cathedral, Priory, Abbey,
Church traveller/crawler whenever possible -
Blog: https://church-travellers.eu/
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
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.
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Sarah Cassell @sarahangelroofs.bsky.social Doctorate in structure and image in late medieval East Anglian angel roofs. Vegan, artist and lover of cats. Member of @artdepotnr3 collective.
@stepneyrobarts123.bsky.social @stepneyrobarts123.bsky.social Churchcrawler
Challe Hudson @challehudson.bsky.social Independent historian: evolution of English fashion, church monuments, memorial brasses, Wars of the Roses, early Tudor, Elizabethan, embroidery, textiles.
Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social Medievalist. First gen. Obsessed with all things 1050-1250. Political, cultural, social history, England & France. Currently researching women and rebellion. #churchcrawling. Annoyed by (VERY) Long Covid. Owned by a mini wire-haired Dachshun
I'm a Lectern @notpodium.bsky.social A podium is a step, like a soapbox.
It/it.
"The lectern chooseth not the lecture."
HT @rekati.bsky.social
Linda Hull @lahull.bsky.social 25+yrs Primary teacher/headteacher - now leading on primary curriculum for a SCITT and loving every minute! Church architecture, Arts & Crafts and standing on riverbanks fill up the rest of my time. Views expressed my own.
Julia Trinkert @jtrkrt.bsky.social Art historian | Prof. @hhu.de |
| Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Material Culture, CulturalHeritageStudies, DigitalArtHistory | private account
Maddy Gray @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social Historian, heritage adviser, pilgrim. Also posting on @churchmonuments.bsky.social
@sarahblick4.bsky.social @sarahblick4.bsky.social
Valérie-Alice Dumoulin @dumoulinvalerie2.bsky.social Directrice Musée Médard et Archives Municipales de Lunel.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Sally Badham @sallybadham.bsky.social Based in rural Oxfordshire UK. FSA & MBE. Love churches, churchyards & their contents. Enjoy gardens. Disabled (but well looked after by much loved husband). Political views private. No DMs please.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Ann Chapman @galanthophile.bsky.social I love gardens, rare plants, wildlife, nature, photography, churches and stained glass, art and Shakespeare. Identical twin.
Sue Bolter @sue1904.bsky.social Spend a lot of my time walking the dog. Based in Stamford, UK
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
The WineSmacker @joukesp.bsky.social Fleming. Posts mostly in English.
Retired, interested in cooking, wine, beer, travel, culture, history and more. Pictures are mine unless mentioned otherwise.
Doesn’t follow protected accounts.
Unsolicited DM = block. No crypto, no porn.
Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts. Mainly on Instagram @petercnstewart
Dr Sarah B. Lynch @lynchmedieval.bsky.social Medievalist in Maine. Medieval education+
www.sarahblynch.org
Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social Retired, Local Historian, Snapper, Newcastle City Guide. Author of Newcastle in 50 Buildings, River Tyne, 50 Gems of Northumberland by Amberley Publishing.
Church Going Book. @old-church-going.bsky.social Hello, I’m a specialist Church Stonemason in Somerset- UK.
FSA & SPAB Fellow.
I’ve also recently taken to writing & have 2 books under my belt.👇
www.church-going.co.uk
www.the-stonemason.co.uk
Andrew Waite @afwaite.bsky.social Conservation Architect at Nick Cox Architects Ltd/PT Lecturer in Architecture at DeMontfort University.
https://www.instagram.com/we_are_makers_dmu/profilecard/?igsh=NHcyM3RlMWxhdWdq European in outlook.
Colin Howey @colinhowey.bsky.social Once upon a time birds would land on a gentle little boy. Then life intervened and the boy hid behind a blizzard of fists and rage. He thought he'd be safe back there - but it was a lonely, desolate space. Now, I aspire to be a Gentle Man...
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Anastasia Doran @anastasia-scribe.bsky.social Miniature painter. Studying art history at The Courtauld Institute.
Specialising in medieval illuminated manuscripts and depictions of the apocalypse.
Adrian Powter @adrianpowter.bsky.social Volunteer at Duxford St John's. Church crawler when I can.
St Nicholas Church, Leicester @stnicholasleics.bsky.social Ancient Building | Living Faith | Inclusive Community
Built in 879, St Nicholas' Church in Leicester city centre is a fully inclusive Anglican church, and among the ten oldest churches in the UK. stnicholasleicester.com
Hayley Draws Churches @hayleyfern.bsky.social I am drawing all Leicester Diocese churches (there are 310 of them!) #artpilgrimage
ko-fi.com/hayleydrawschurches
SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social Poet. Nature, conservation, history, archaeology, art, architecture, politics & the pleasures of reading. Doyenne of #IronworkThursday. Still #yallmasking
Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com Historic buildings and landscape archaeologist, working for a living as www.statement-heritage.com . Ruins and their repair, maritime, industrial and agricultural heritage. Aerial photographer. Intertidal deposit.
The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM.
http://thebcdyingmuseum.blog
Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social Stained Glass Studio. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. 🏴
RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart.
www.stainedglass.scot
emilia @emilia-romanica.bsky.social Romanesque Art & Romanesque Architecture
https://emiliaromanica.com/
The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @appletonium.bsky.social Churches, cathedrals, medieval architecture, stained glass, WW1, art, books, Germany, my cat Bartlet, travel, history, red wine, good coffee and American IPA. Communicator.
Harry jonas @harryjonas3.bsky.social Stonemason carver and letter cutter .
Making more mistakes these days ….
Alfred Hawkins @alfredrjhawkins.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Historic Buildings @TowerOfLondon for @HRP_palaces & @PortsmouthCath Cathedral Archaeologist. BBC @historyextra 30under30 2024 (sadly now over 30). Sometimes on TV. All views my own & all pictures my own.
Joy Sayer @joysayer.bsky.social Rediscovering my creative side with arts, crafts, music and books. Church crawling, crosswords, quizzes and outdoor food are ever present interests.
The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social Helping you to discover 18th & 19th century food & history. www.paulcouchman.co.uk
Anna Dillon @annadillon.bsky.social Landscapes. Paintings. Art. Wildlife, especially moths & butterflies. History, Heritage. Military history. British countryside. Walking. Chalk. Downland. Ridgeway.
http://www.annadillon.com/
Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland's rich culture and built heritage since 1978. We preserve, promote and protect Scotland's unique assemblage of ecclesiastical buildings.
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
@hubertscat.bsky.social @hubertscat.bsky.social Art. Nature. Landscape. Memory. Medieval graffiti. Churches, with or without structure, known to frequent when empty. Artist. Printmaker. Photography my own.
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Mina @mmmiriammm.bsky.social Medieval art historian | research interests in textiles (especially textile curtains) in medieval manuscripts 📚 | romanesque art ♥️
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
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
duxfordstjohns @duxfordstjohns.bsky.social One of Cambridgeshire best-loved churches. Open daily 10:00-18:00
Christina Welch @christinawelch.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Humanities scholar (religion, death, material/visual culture, history) long time single mum, neurodivergent, book dragon, and cat-mum to a big black rescue kitty with anxiety issues
Posting regularly about the St Vincent Botanical Garden
Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social Arts & Crafts art & architecture, Italian Renaissance art, books and beer. Family history addict. Train traveller. Environmentally conscious. Former librarian. Stratford for Europe. Green Party member. Manchester City supporter
Dr Kelcey Wilson-lee @kwilsonlee.bsky.social Medieval historian & heritage wonk; FSA. Director of Programmes & Deputy CEO @archhfund. Also President Monumental Brass Society; Trustee Cambridge Past, Present & Future.
Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist. Historic graffiti specialist. London history nerd. Church crawler. Theatre. Crochet.
Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social Journalist, Editor & Foreign Correspondent | Lives in Normandy | Vernacular, church & hall-house architecture | Volunteer archaeologist | Timber & clay hall builder | Historian: C19th Chiot & Phanariot diaspora | Farmer | CIoJ <ChristopherLong.co.uk> 🦋2023
Arthur Westwell @arthurwestwell.bsky.social Medieval historian. Liturgical manuscripts. Romanesque churches.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Regensburg.
Picture: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.lat.958 and Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 184
Karen Hudson @karenmhudson.bsky.social Classical music enthusiast, amateur choral singer & lifelong learner and educator. I enjoy reading, walking, nature, architecture and finding joy in simple things.
Expect cathedrals, guinea pigs, higher education and nerdy choir posts!
#AuDHD
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Castilla y León Románica @cylromanica.bsky.social Difusión del Arte Románico de Castilla y León.
También en Twitter, Facebook, Instagram y Threads.
Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social Oxford medievalist, pilgrimage enthusiast and researcher.
Member of Oxford's Faculty of History and Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
Posting about saints, relics, shrines, & pilgrims!
Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social Archaeologist. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Lichens, Birds, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies & walks in the hills
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Lecturer at the University of Bath, Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages, gardens. Etc
Kirsty @scarabcat.bsky.social Fanatical about the Force and felines.
Geographically displaced #ChurchCrawler & self-appointed head of the Antipodean #TinyLionsAppreciationSociety.
Ghostlyrob @robertjohnson13.bsky.social lover of British history, Georgian silver and glassware and a good old fashioned ghost story. Bibliophile. Love visiting heritage buildings, especially churches.
Easily distracted by cats.