Jamie Pitts @jmsptts.bsky.social Professor of Anabaptist Studies, AMBS | Director, Institute of Mennonite Studies | Editor, Anabaptist Witness
The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social We use maps, geography, and history to understand the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond.
linktr.ee/bplmaps
Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, and medicine, plus food and environment π
(https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)
New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Megan Wines @meganwines.bsky.social Biblical scholar working on apocalypse and masculinity and the bible in popular culture; theatre artist; lover of stories, cats, and beer; probably watching a hockey game or reading a romance novel; she/her π³οΈβπ
Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
Dr Michelle Fletcher @ntright.bsky.social New Testament Scholar | Apocalypse, Visual Culture | Deputy Director Visual Commentary on Scripture http://theVCS.org | King's College London | Secretary British New Testament Society | Siberian cat owner
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
π¨π¦π¦πΊπ³πΏπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
@jmstownrediscovery.bsky.social @jmstownrediscovery.bsky.social 
Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory at Oxford & author of Mere Civility (Harvard 2017). Essays @ NYT, The Atlantic, New Statesman, Boston Review, WaPo, &c.
Writing on equality.
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ΒΆ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
ΒΆ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
ΒΆ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
ΒΆ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick π΅πΈ @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
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard βπ»β¨οΈ
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 β€οΈ)
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏππποΈπ°
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Marian Toledo Candelaria @malcolmcanmore.bsky.social Special collections librarian. Likes books, book arts, and typography. Medieval Scotland, and soon, early modern Spain. Parent to two fluffy bunnies.
Neurodivergent. π³οΈβππ΅π· (she/they/ella[e])
Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor ππ€π°π΅π΅πͺπ΄π© ππ©πΆπ³π€π© ππͺπ΄π΅π°π³πΊ (EUP) | Co-editor ππ©π¦ πππ¦π³π¨πΊ πͺπ― ππ’π³ππΊ ππ°π₯π¦π³π― ππ€π°π΅ππ’π―π₯ (Boydell, 2021)
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of MΓ‘el Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php- K Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan GΓ idhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Craig @craig1802.bsky.social Ordinary bloke living in SW Scotland
Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | π¬π§ πΊπΈ π³π± (she/her)
Charlotte Nekman @toften2920.bsky.social Danish/Scottish. Living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Historian.
40 years+ in advertising, sales, marketing, and fundraising.
B.A. (Marketing) 1982
M.A. (History/Cross-Cultural Studies) 2020.
Volunteer refugees. 
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Morag @glasgowgenealogy.bsky.social Professional genealogist from Glasgow, trading as www.glasgowgenealogy.co.uk. Specialising in Scottish research but interested in all aspects of genealogy/family history. Also into baking, knitting, sewing, geocaching, travel.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Mark Rustbucket @markrustbucket.bsky.social My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
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!
Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social Historian of 18c Scotland, PhD Candidate at UDelaware. Mary Stuart, historiography, memory, Hume, Jacobitism.
Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - havenβt done age verification. Sorry.
Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social Stained Glass Studio. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart.
www.stainedglass.scot
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian π early modern womenβs writing, song culture & medicine π book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp π she/her πΆ aspiring broadcaster π»
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social Family and local historian. One Place Study: Graveney and Goodnestone. One Name Study: Rigden. Specialist subjects: Faversham Workhouse, 19th century riots. Border Reivers. 
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social βCurious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennantβs Tours of Wales and Scotlandβ. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Dr Sheilagh Quaile @sheilaghquaile.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Adjunct), University of Prince Edward Island.
Historian of art, design, and material culture in Britain and empire.
Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
Dr. Katie McCullough @kmccullo.bsky.social Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lΙkΜΚ·ΙΕΙn and WΜ±SΓNEΔ territories.
Principal consultant at https://yarrowhistoricalconsulting.ca/
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Peadar Γ Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Γrd-Γ²raidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
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
Phil Stobie @thebadasshistorian.bsky.social Not a real badass or historian
Monument Manager Tantallon Castle
Film/TV battle scene veteran
Outlander chameleon S1-6
I love quirky tv, unusual films, catchy choruses, history, nature
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social β PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Russell Γ RΓagΓ‘in @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist β historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; β€ cats β books
sΓ©/he/il/er/han
Dr Julie Holder @julieh80.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social πpart time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee βοΈ
πavid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
π΅Older than I look but not wiser π€ͺ
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2β, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary βEvansville at War.β He/Himπ³οΈβπ
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.socialβ¬. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
RobMcInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social Scottish writer
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot.
Barvick Falls forthcoming autumn 2025
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow π©πΌβπ¦° π She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot π«π·π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social Discovering Glasgow, itβs hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City
www.walktalktours.uk
Insta: @walktalktours1
T/X @tours_talk
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
Jonathan Brown @sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social Lecturer in Scots Private Law. Legal scholar/historian/theorist and teacher of Scots/Roman law.
A fun fellow, in spite of every single word that has preceded this sentence.
Dr Robyne Calvert @robyneerica.bsky.social Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist πͺ‘𧡠Kdrama Addictπ«°and GenX Nerd π§π»ββοΈπ»βοΈ she/her
https://robynecalvert.com/
Dr Miriam A. Bibby @drmabibby.bsky.social Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History. 
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Dr Matthew Lee @matthewlee88.bsky.social Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape
DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social Regional Archaeologist for Moray, Aberdeenshire, Angus & Aberdeen City Councils, Scotland. Happiest when exploring, helping to manage our heritage as best I can! All views my own.
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
John Duncan @jockduncan.bsky.social Better known as Newbattle at War on 'Twitter' Grandad, amateur filmmaker π₯ and military historian. Author of Midlothian at War, With a Pick and Rifle and co-author of Only Remembered books. My 4th book Midlothian in WW2, I'm proud to say is now out.
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
Scottish Industrial Heritage Society @scotindustria.bsky.social SIHS promotes the heritage of Scottish industry, past and present. Founded in 1984 by combining the Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historical Machinery and the Scottish Society for Industrial Archaeology. www.sihs.co.uk/ 
The Urban Historian- Stephen Clancy @theurbanhistorian.bsky.social See the history around you...
One-time archaeologist now delivering Heritage Walks, Talks, History Cafes & Genealogy services in Paisley, Renfrewshire π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
www.theurbanhistorian.co.uk
www.renfrewshireancestors.uk
www.discoverrenfrewshireheritage.com