Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social SFF Senior Editor for @SolarisBooks.bsky.social by day, contemporary Shakespeare theatre scholar by night. Sometimes theatre critic, dramaturg. Bylines in Exeunt Magazine and Ancillary Review of Books
Wyte Phantom @wytephantom.bsky.social Corset maker, swordswoman and strange old cat lady in training
AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org Site status updates for the Archive of Our Own, a Hugo Award-winning project of the Organization for Transformative Works (@transformativeworks.org)
@omgthatdress.bsky.social @omgthatdress.bsky.social miserable writer, fashion history nerd, also known as OMG!ThatDress
Joanne Hackett @joanneh.bsky.social Lecturer, textile conservator, and plate spinner.
The Bill and Ted Test @billandtedtest.bsky.social How hard is it to costume a Regency drama better than the extras in the Beethoven scene of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? PASS/FAIL
http://ko-fi.com/billandtedtest
@gailbaxterlace.bsky.social @gailbaxterlace.bsky.social Researcher, Artist, Lace Specialist & Net Maker
Research Fellow Nottingham Trent University Lace Archive
Currently looking at the introduction of colour to machine made lace
Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching climate & clothing, also histories of fashion and graphic design | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. Freelance researcher at http://www.madbirds.nl. She/Her
Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social Dress and textile historian, lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. US material & visual culture, museum studies, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects. shirleywajda.com
Sophie Pitman @textilehistorian.bsky.social Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern)
Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison
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.
Betsy Bevis @vulpicula.bsky.social Archaeology & Art History. She/her. Late Antiquity. Gaul, Hispania, etc. Mosaics of questionable quality. Villas no one has heard of (yet). Premodern textiles. Cats, cooking, knitting. First-gen, Neurospicy. Impossible love child of Ms. Frizzle & Mae West.
Dr Sonia D. Andras @soniadandras.bsky.social Author of The Women of 'Little Paris' (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)—use "GLR AT8" for 35% off | MSCA Seal of Excellence | Postdoc in PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688 | PhD @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social | Fashion, modernity & gender.
Amber Burbidge @amberburbidge.bsky.social Early Modern PhD researcher | EUI History | premodern race-making in material culture | Erasmus at EHESS | decolonisation | race | gender | intersectional | global history | 17c | 18c |heritage | Uni of York alumni 🏳️🌈
Dr. Mark Joseph O'Connell 🏳️🌈☮️❤️ @markoconnellstudio.bsky.social Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. Research areas: fashion history; Queer history; visual culture; transglobal commodities that shaped colonial societies, and fashion tech. Publications: markoconnellstudio.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-9338
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
Jennifer Le Zotte @lezotte.bsky.social Historian of dress, race, sex, gender, and capitalism. Author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Writing about more dress stuff, at balls and brothels, on Wall Street and in night clubs.
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social Fashion journalist, consultant, academic ✨
Course Leader post-grad fashion ✨
News editor @ the costume society
✨
I'm a 🐉 and ♐ and love the 🦥 life
Daniel Milco @milcod.bsky.social A betterer bio to come about this curator guy who knows about frocks, social history and general stuff.
Mistress of the Robes @robes-mistress.bsky.social Fashion, jewels, and history, with a focus on royals, past and present, UK and abroad. Find me at mistressoftherobes.com
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
桃桃子/ピーチモモコ @peachmomoko.bsky.social よろしくどうぞ。
Jane's Vanity @janesvanity.bsky.social Fine European lingerie & feminine attire for the true connoisseur, founded in 1990 in Portland Oregon. Shop online at http://janesvanity.com
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday
I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com Since 1768.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Kylie Chi 季 🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @thekyliechi.bsky.social Endearingly inappropriate, emotionally magnificent. Wife to sex on a skeleton herself, Katy O’Brian. Writer. Probably thinking about dismantling systems of white supremacy and the imperial core. Land back. She/Her
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
baekai @lilswampting.bsky.social i be in them waters (branding, design, advertising, photography, the literal river, planners/journals, film, and somethings i'm probably forgetting)
real lover girl 💕
MUSEUMSHIFT @museumshift.bsky.social Exploring the cultural heritage industry through pop culture and fandom
Read the blog & explore more ↓
🌐 itsmuseumshift.com
🔗 linktr.ee/museumshift
Gillian Suss @gilliansuss.bsky.social Museum collections professional currently at AMNH. Arts and culture lover. Opinions my own
Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social Historian, author, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Runs the Just History Posts blog. Specialises in late medieval women and the English court. Find my links: https://lnk.bio/GemmaHAuthor
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
That History Girl @thathistorygirl.bsky.social All things history! Mostly Tudor, Regency, and Victorian, but also Neolithic, Celtic tribes, Roman invasion, Angle-Saxons, Middle Ages, Stewarts, Jacobean, Georgian, Edwardian, and more. Occasional political rants, frequent cats.
Queer Books Weekly @queerbooksweekly.com Bringing you weekly deals, monthly roundups, and author spotlights for books of all genres featuring LGBTQIA+ protagonists.
Browse: www.queerbooksweekly.com
Book: https://booking.queerbooksweekly.com
Run/Managed by @daxaeterna.daxmurray.com (they/them)
Kathryn Gehred @katyghistory.bsky.social Women's historian of early America and slavery. Liberty, Liberty for ever Mother, while I exist
Leonie @leonievs.bsky.social 🪻Historical costuming and fiber arts🪻
At this point almost all my clothes are made by me 🥰
🧿 No fascists or zionists 🧿
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social Independent art historian, blogger, and author of The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot. Reposts Victoriana & tidbits.
https://thehammocknovel.wordpress.com/about-the-author-4/
Rachel Tashjian @theprophetpizza.bsky.social Fashion Writer at The Washington Post
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Kate Debono @katedebono.bsky.social Currently in limbo between PhD, looking at curatorial practices and the acquistion of twentieth-century fashion by UK museums, using Worthing Museum and Art Gallery as a case study and gainful employment.
Em van Hasselt @emlvh.bsky.social University of Glasgow Dress&Textile Histories 2021-22.
Horse girl historian (gender neutral).
they/them.
Fashion Conservatory @fashcon.bsky.social Authentic Vintage Fashion
Buy | Sell | Research
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Alicia Mihalic @aliciamihalic.bsky.social PhD Student in Art History @ University of Minnesota
c19th/c20th art and material culture, textile history, and craft revivals🧶
Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton https://bio.site/deborahsuggryan
Access Heritage @accessheritage.bsky.social 🏛️Loving History: Ancient. Medieval. 17th & 18th Century. Napoleonic Wars. Victorian & 19th century conflict.
Former Military Curator for National Historic Sites (Canada)
Websites: https://militaryheritage.com & https://warof1812.ca 🏛️
Heritage, History & Her - Molly Wyatt @heritagehistoryher.bsky.social Freelance Heritage Professional ✍️
Focused on identity, cultural context and historical making, I combine research and engagement experience ❤️
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Historybounding While... @histboundingwhile.bsky.social Account for Historybounding While Black and Historybounding While BIPOC
created by @lifewithalxtrn.bsky.social
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Emma V. Gerstein @sassmill.bsky.social Gay museum lady that sews things. Part time Victorian woman, functionally indistinguishable from an eBay haunted doll. Living history, fashion history, and a definite lack of impulse control.
Anja Lampert @anjarlampert.bsky.social Textile Art | Textile Art Workshops | Webshop for Speciality Embroidery | Consulting | Coaching | Training
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Soc. N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture & food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly.
Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social
Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social
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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a must-visit for art lovers, showcasing over 8,000 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt & Vermeer. ❤️
This is the official account of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
www.rijksmuseum.nl
Dr Rebecca Morrison @rebeccaem.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century dress, dressmaking, and theatrical costume design. Also known to experiment with recreative practice.
Sally Pointer @sallypointer.bsky.social Freelance heritage educator, bringing you objects and inspiration from the past to enrich the future. Experimental archaeologist, HedgeBotherer, string wrangler.
YouTube tutorials: www.YouTube.com/c/sallypointer
Website: www.sallypointer.com
Paula Hohti @paulahohti.bsky.social Dress and textile historian
Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social American-Canadian fantasy author, fashion historian, medievalist, Arthurian, gardener, perfume nerd 🌺 ADHD, she/they, queer 🏳️🌈 👑 | rep: Stacey Graham | My Books --> https://bit.ly/m/nataniabarron
Fashion & Textile Studies MA @fitgradfts.bsky.social Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice MA, School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/graduate-studies/fashion-textile-studies/index.php
Jenny-Rose (Jennylafleur) @jennylafleur.bsky.social Proprietress of Jennylafleur.com, historical dress maker, bridal hair stylist, historical hair educator, costumer, newbie gardener, history nerd, fantasy book reader, indifferent house cleaner, fancy cheese enthusiast, natural redhead & childless cat lady.
Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social Dress/social historian. Passionately pro-democracy. Cat fosterer. Vote 🔵.
Katharine (Katie) Donnelly @katharine-donnelly.bsky.social She/Her. Fashion Historian. Museum Professional. Costumer. Vintage Style NOT Vintage Values.
Handmade History Podcast @handmadehistorypod.bsky.social Digging up stories and busting myths about people, materials, and practices related to handcrafts. Hosted by sisters Sonia & Alicia de los Reyes. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts! 🧶🧵🪡
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Regency Reader - Anne Glover @regencyreader.bsky.social Author of Masquerade Balls in Regency Britain. Passionately blogging about all things Regency at https://regrom.com
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social academic book indexer: interested in how we make sense of the world through the humanities specializing in the arts, esp fine arts, social justice and material culture.
Curler, settler 🇨🇦, she/her, & klutz extraordinaire 🏳️🌈
www.fedorakindexing.com
NicDaisy @nicdaisy.bsky.social 🪡 B.A. Art history & History. Historic fashion, art, old ruins, churches, antiques, gardening & music fan... LLB student & seamstress. 🐝🐨 🦜🐶🐱
You may know me as @plummie9 on the bird.
LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social A book fanatic with an unhealthy amount of knowledge about Russian Lit, Jane Austen, and Lotrs. This is my platform to post daily about fashion history.
Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social Exploring the fascinating history of fashion, one day at a time.
Skeets by @hottycouture.bsky.social.
The Fashion Law @tfl.bsky.social The leading source for retail law & beyond: breaking down lawsuits, deals & billion-dollar brand strategies •• Subscribe to our free newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/NewsTFL
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Dr Benjamin Wild @drbenjaminwild.bsky.social Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University; Lead: F/fashion Narratives Research Group
Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social fashion lover • Prof Marketing & Sustainable Fashion Ravensbourne • FRSA • NTF • VC @costumesociety.org.uk • Chair PRME UKI • LEGO® Serious Play® • Carbon literacy
@julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social Women, women’s history, dress history, art history, books, politics, wine…under a French sky.
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Fabulous Fashion! @fabulousfashion.bsky.social Fashion and dress history - historical, antique and vintage fashion and more!
Extant fashion garments, fashion plates and original photographs from 18th century to 1980s!
Occasionally also lifestyle and other extant products.
Old stuff only!
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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social Journeywoman Mantuamaker | Historical Costumer | Workshop Instructor at Burnley & Trowbridge Co | Cat Lover
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Dark Garden @darkgardencorsetry.bsky.social World class corsetry, handmade in our San Francisco boutique: Where beauty & comfort converge. Now also in New Orleans. Shop at https://www.darkgarden.com
H.E.D. Houseman @hedhouseman.bsky.social Leaves + sparkles + thread ✨ creative director, community builder, editor & writer 📬: hedhouseman@gmail.com 📷: hedhouseman
Evgenia Lingerie @iamevgenia.com Fine lingerie for the modern heartbreaker. Vintage-inspired silk and lace intimates imagined and hand-produced in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2011.
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Larissa @ladylanyc.bsky.social I'm a designer & design educator. I love ballet, sustainability, fashion & fashion history. #vegan 🌱🩰 I speak for no one but myself. she/her
Lucy Corsetry @lucycorsetry.bsky.social Corset blogger/vlogger
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Currently pressing pause on social media but still busy creating!
Maryanne Knight @maryanneknight.com Editor of the Santa Barbara Literary Journal. Writer. Buddhist.
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