Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
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Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research @oser-oxford.bsky.social The Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research is an interdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in letters from all geographical locations and historical time periods. Meetings take place fortnightly at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Andy Potter @slimoakheart.bsky.social 📜 Deep in archives, records, digital transformation & policy | And🏔️ deep in the Berkshire Hills with a 🐕 Golden Retriever & a 🚣♂️ kayak
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Richard Feynman
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2026, Southern Imagining 2026. FAHA 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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Claire Marshall @clairemarshall.bsky.social ‘80s culture obsessed recovering Um Bongo addict, comedy enthusiast, proud leftie, secret writer. Cumbria via Liverpool
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Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
HorshamMuseumFriends @horshammusfriends.bsky.social Helping Horsham Museum & Art Gallery preserve the past
Dr Nicola Sugden @nicolasugden.bsky.social Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
James Thomasson @james-thomasson96.bsky.social #Scientist🧪 - #artist🎨 - researcher 👨🔬 - engineer 👷♂️- author ✍🏻. Will not follow if you have no posts or only reposts. Working for a brighter future ⭐️for our planet and my grandchildren. Scammers and those who want money will be blocked and reported.
Emma Bastin @emmabastin.bsky.social Historian of the early twentieth century; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Founder of the Independent Historians Network Represented by Past Preservers.
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AidinAzarkerdar| AidinVision @aidinvisionco.bsky.social Aidin Azarkerdar | Film Editor | Independent Researcher| humanities| Media studies | Film Studies | Pop Culture | Visual communication
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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
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Prof Jill Jameson @jilljameson.bsky.social FRSA,FCMI,MA(Cantab), MA,PhD(KCL), Prof of Education, ILD Centre Lead, Professional Workforce Development, University of Greenwich, Senior Associate/former Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge https://linktr.ee/jjameson
BAM Biography/Memoir @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social The official site of the Biography and Memoir MA Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, affiliated with the Leon Levy Center for Biography
Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social Historical Geographer
YPCCS University of Warwick (Caribbean histories & geographies)
Also Nottingham and OU Geog Depts.
(Martial) Arts, photography, films, comedy, books, libraries, archives, trees, pottery. Always curious.
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Life Science Network @lifesciencenet.bsky.social A platform for life sciences. Publications, research protocols, news, events, jobs and more. Sign up at https://www.lifescience.net.
Shakspier @shakspier.bsky.social She/Her/Hers. Ph.D., Cultural Historian. Genocide and Holocaust Studies scholar. International Humanitarian Law.📍Mexico City 🇲🇽 ENG/ESP/FRA/PRT/DEU
Stephanie @stephloden.bsky.social DC museum professional, insatiable reader with a miles long TBR pile, cat mom
Eilidh Finlayson @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social ay-lee. PhD student @uofglasgow.bsky.social Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic slavery. Scottish, gender & global historian. SGSAH funded.
Liv Mariah Yarrow (will not "cheat like hell") @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Daniel Prindii @danielprindii.com Content Strategist. Community Designer.
Art historian of Italian Renaissance.
Metalhead. Avid reader. Photographer.
Cluj, RO/Bassano DG, IT
On #EuroSky
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Jonathan Finnerty @philosofinn.bsky.social Philosopher. Medievalist.
jaymasonbouwman @jaybouwman.com I'm a #writer, political activist and City Councilor. When I'm not at work I spend my time catching up on reading, particularly detective stories.
Sussex Researcher School - Postgraduate Researchers @sussexpgrs.bsky.social The Sussex Researcher School's dedicated channel for our PGR community.
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Visit our PGR focused webpages: https://tinyurl.com/4wv6uhuk
Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough. Also recently wrote a book, Teenage Time (Bloomsbury 2025).
Caroline @ccarolinemuller.eurosky.social Historian (Uni. Rennes 2)
XIXe siècle, histoire du catholicisme - des femmes et du genre
pratiques de l'histoire à l'ère numérique (Que faites-vous avec vos ordinateurs ?)
cats, books and social sciences
(photo : Jean-Pierre Rosenkranz )
The British Philosophical Association @thebpa.bsky.social Representing Professional Philosophers in the UK - www.bpa.ac.uk.
The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social Informing, educating + entertaining re British broadcasting's origin story: the first firsts of radio, early BBC, interwar bits & pieces + occasional pictures of Reith looking grumpy.
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chromotope.eu @chromotope.bsky.social Chromotope explores what happened to colour in the 19th century
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
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Lafayette Photography @lafayettephoto1880.bsky.social Irelands Historic Photography Studio, since 1880.
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Bel Bee @mountainlocks.bsky.social Retired Canal Educator and local historian. Incurably curious. Voracious reader. Liberal leanings. Likes rocks and shiny things. Hodology is the way! DMs are not. Thank you kindly.
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social A.K.A.: Kim. See also: poems; books; trees (fruit & family); Appalachia (east TN, KY). Likewise, melodious felines, unfounded optimism. Confounding hounds. Further reading: science-adjacent, spirit-curious. Vintage. Allergies: DMs, bigots.
Karl Mayes @karlmayes.bsky.social Bass player / Medical Anthropology (SOAS) /book addict / cat associate / Head of Patient & Community Engagement at Leicester’s Hospitals.
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Matilda Houston-Brown @matildah-b.bsky.social DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Working on Cathedral libraries & mid-17th century biblioclasm. Also interested in widows, book donation, pamphlet culture and (non-academically) Dungeons & Dragons.
Alice Kelly @dralicekelly.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
Dr. Felicia Fricke @feliciafricke.bsky.social Archaeologist | Osteologist | Historian | British/Dutch | Assistant Professor
@inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social | 1800s Eastern Caribbean
Anonymous Don @anondon.bsky.social Academic. Scientist. Parent.
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Malmö universitet/Malmö University @mau.se ⭐️Research news from Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
📚Social sciences, humanities, medicine, technology and natural sciences.
🌏Website: mau.se/en
📝Posts in English and Swedish.
Büşra Dede @busradede.bsky.social Dr.
~ Early Modern History of Science~
Autonomous University of Barcelona
~ Cartography🗺
Royal Historical Society Associate Fellow
Author David Stroebel @davestroebel.bsky.social Author of the book The Cannon King’s Daughter, the American author who created a firestorm in Germany with the true, untold story of the banishment of his great-grandmother, Engelbertha from Germany’s Krupp steel dynasty of Essen.
Frannanigans D @franannigansd.bsky.social Specialist Teacher. Trauma Aware. ADHD. Survivor of life.
"Its The Environment, Stupid!"
No DMs.
Sussex Neuroscience @sussexneuro.bsky.social Community of neuroscience researchers at the University of Sussex and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
A University of Sussex Centre of Excellence.
Dr Jo Wilding @jowilding.bsky.social Legal aid geek, researcher and associate professor at Sussex University, author of 'The Legal Aid Market' (Policy Press), lawyer, mum, athletics obsessive, ex clown.
John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
Sanjeev Bhaskar @sanjeevbhaskar.bsky.social Sometimes appears in films and TV. Also Chancellor of Uni of Sussex. Ambassador for UNICEF. Put a word (Chuddies) in the dictionary. Had a No.1 in the pop charts. YNWA.
Alasdair Smith @alasdairmsmith.bsky.social Trade economist at Sussex (UKTPO and CITP); ex-VC University of Sussex; member of Competition Appeal Tribunal. So I have views on trade, and higher education (also fiscal sustainability, and pensions), but no views on anything to do with competition. 
Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social Writer and researcher (recovering academic)
IG drnaazrashid
she/her
Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Uni Sussex working on libidinal & political economies of (liberal) war and violence in the 'colonial present'; Feminist, queer & anticolonial thought & struggles.
London | Aqueerius, middle-aged | she/her
Personal account
Brighton and Sussex Medical School @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social Brighton and Sussex Medical School is an equal partnership between the Universities of Sussex and Brighton, together with #NHS organisations.
Victoria Shaw @victoriashaw.bsky.social OD, leadership, innovation for systems transformation | NHS, Royal Free London FT | Previously Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium, Deep Transitions Lab, SPRU, University of Sussex | ♡ inc bookmarks
Kingston Uni Library @kingstonunilib.bsky.social News and Information from Kingston University Library.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
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Jane Harvell @janeharvell.bsky.social Yes I am The Librarian & current Chair of RLUK (Research Libraries UK) and a Trustee of The Mass Observation Archive
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk IDS is a leading institute on international development providing research and knowledge for equitable and sustainable societies. Follow us to know about our research, partnerships, and learning.
Website: https://www.ids.ac.uk/
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
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
Sam Nesbit @samnesbit.bsky.social Research & Open Scholarship at University of Sussex; books; film; music; anything that brightens the dark times we live in, even momentarily. Oh and wine. All the wine.
Maggie Symes @maggiesymes.bsky.social Research and Open Scholarship librarian at the University of Sussex - enjoying, in no particular order - all things library, supporting open research practices, walking, quilting, bird watching and learning to solve cryptic crosswords!
Research & Open Scholarship- University of Sussex @rosuniofsussex.bsky.social Posts from the library's research and open scholarship team at the University of Sussex. Make it open!
CIE @sussexcie.bsky.social Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex, ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies.
Education research for a better world.
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Sussex European Institute (SEI) @sei-sussex.bsky.social The SEI is an interdisciplinary research hub @sussex.ac.uk that brings together scholars engaged with Europe’s history and legacies, political economy and institutions: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei
Directors: @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Cristiano Bee
University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋
Nestled in the South Downs, we're a UK university located just 10 mins from beachy Brighton and an hour from London.
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk www.sussexbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism: contributing to a connected society, combatting political polarisation editor@sussexbylines.co.uk
Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame
Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB
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Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain.
PhD from QUB.
Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
David W. Hardy, Esq. @hardymediation.bsky.social Atty, mediator, teacher. Lawrence, KS Advocate, MBA, former uni admin. Spouse:🧑🤝🧑@bsbadger INTJ/ENTJ 🚫DMs 🚫 Porn 🚫 Crypto 🚫 OnlyFans 🚫GoFundMe YES to int. news, sci, law, art, philos, Left pol, philanth, nature
Tiffany Murphy @tffnymrphy.bsky.social Performance maker, PhD researcher and doctoral tutor in Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Sussex.
Researching gendered trauma through a queer feminist lens of failure 🔍
tiffanymurphy.co.uk
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p532144-tiffany-murphy
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social Biographer of Beatrice and Sidney Webb.
Previously Deputy Leader, Greatr London Council; Director, Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
Now Chair, Arundel and South Downs Labour Party
www.michaelward.eu 
Wendy Tagg @wendytagg.bsky.social Business Analyst/Training consultant by day, Sussex nature spotter and bad runner. I work for CGI but these thoughts are my own.
Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social Teacher of History, Trustee of a heritage site. Interested in material culture & heritage sites in education, Museums, Engagement with objects, Letters, Journals,✨ MCCT working on #CTeach 
Dominic de Cogan @domcogan.bsky.social Tax Law and Public Law academic, University of Cambridge
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social History madam. Scribe for hire. Plus art, illustration, culture, fashion, food, friends. Mary Evans Picture Library. Glen of Imaal terrier owner. Mother of 3 people. Crisp addict. Co.Durham born; Wanstead dweller. Will finish my website one day.
Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social Associate Professor History Education at University of Nottingham
Co-Chair @htenuk.bsky.social
Co-author: https://tinyurl.com/vj36v3hu
Blog: https://uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/
@UoNSoEHistory in other places 
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Emily Board @emilyboard.bsky.social Girly swot. Mum. Educator. Dysgwr Cymraeg 🏴
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | 📀
History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social HTEN UK represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers.
Email: HTENUK@outlook.com
https://www.hten.org.uk
ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social Professor of Multimedia. Practitioner of multiple media. WRFL alum. LPFM enthusiast. Kentucky-Penn State-Clemson (NOT for football) ("Khaki" like the fabric.)
Alexis Cruz, M.A. @aacruz1009.bsky.social Historian and Information Specialist. Current Data Manager and independent scholar. Interested in U.S. Human Rights History and archives. Views my own.