We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Lottie Parkyn @lottieparkyn.bsky.social
Leonardo Costantini @lcostantini89.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Interested in manuscripts, literature, movies and (good) TV-series. Opinions are my own.
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social KCL Classics Department.
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
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/
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
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
Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @resaustrales.bsky.social News, events, people & deeds: #ancient world studies in the Australasian diaspora. Links: http://res-australes.blogspot.com X: @res_australes. Currently taking a break.
Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham @uonclassarch.bsky.social Account of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
We teach Latin, Greek, Archaeology, Ancient Literature, Languages, Art & History, Reception & more! Follow us for research insights + photos of Dept life.
St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social Disability Advisor, Classicist, Christian, singer, cadet officer, school governor, snooker fan, paddle sports, @cucdbulletin editor baker... enthusiast galore. Blog at https://cressidaryan.wordpress.com/
@bmps.bsky.social @bmps.bsky.social he/him, ME/CFS 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
sometime academic and antiquarian
antifascist and immigrant
living in limbo
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Ian Goh @iklg2.bsky.social Classicist and ex-classical musician. Roman poetry, food history, some Republican culture. Swansea Uni, while living in the Vale of Glamorgan. I like my dinners. ‘He has hollow legs!’ (Mark Humphries)
Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social Founder of H.M. Classics Academy: we teach ancient languages and the ancient world.
helenmcveigh.co.uk
subscribepage.com/hmclassicsacademy
#Ancientbluesky
I always want to see pictures of your dogs. 🐶 Snowball 🐕 Edith
APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social University of Oxford research centre into performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome: stage plays, ballets, films, tv, audio dramas, drag shows, dance, animation, musicals... from 1315 to present day!
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk- C CUCD Bulletin @cucdbulletin.bsky.social https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/bulletin/ The online bulletin journal for the Council of University Classics Departments. Edited by Cressida Ryan and Tom Nelson
Bristol Classics @clahbristol.bsky.social Official Twitter account for the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Header photo: The Nine Muses, Wills Memorial, University of Bristol.
Rhiannon Litterick @rhiannonlit.bsky.social Public Programming & Young People
Masters student in Country House Studies
Socially Engaged Practice | Classics | Object Champion 🏺
Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair @cripantiquity.bsky.social. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX
contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu
Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies @ Fairfield University. Ovid, narratology, gender. He/him 🏳️🌈. Twitch and Instagram: TheDancingGrad. Oxford comma enthusiast.
Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social Ancient Historian | Senior Manager @NCACE | Co-founder @ClassicsinComm @UniofOxford |Trustee @TheRomanSoc @AoD
Agent:www.hkmanagement.co.uk
Website: https://www.drmaimusie.com
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social I decipher power through times and places
Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Professor. Lead editor of Everyday Orientalism
The past is now
مصر دائما 🐍
🎨🏺✍️
From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback
Mathias Hanses @mhanses.bsky.social he/him, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies at Penn State, "Papa" to M + B
Dr Joe Watson @joewatstein.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Warwick. Ovid/Cavafy-stanning. Also teaching Latin, often writing, sometimes sleeping. Extremely queer, possibly here. He/Him/His.
Dr Thomas R.P. Coward @tomcoward.bsky.social Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Writing a commentary on the Hesiodic Catalogue. Also works on the intellectual history of ancient Rhodes, and the Herculaneum papyri.
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social Queer Classicist| Prof of Latin, accidental poet| Ovid, Housman & Catullus fan, not necessarily in that order| also, bunny rabbits. 🏳️🌈
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Prof. Owen Hodkinson (he/him) @owenhodkinson.bsky.social Professor of Greek Literature & Classical Reception Studies at Leeds Uni
(Philostratus / Letters / Classical Receptions in Children's Literature)
Bassoonist, cricket fan, boardgamer
https://leeds.academia.edu/OwenHodkinson
Eco Classical Caucus @ecoclassicalcaucus.bsky.social Account run by James Taylor (Colby College). ECC run with Sarah Herbert (University of Virginia). Join at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp_sxm-4SVtpQBYq-fxuBJcxv89LhG1cHvfLqbOhLn2-rsyg/viewform?usp=send_form
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
Hannah Cornwell @hannahecornwell.bsky.social Roman historian, sometime (historically) archaeologist, occasional seamstress & baker.
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social 🏛️ Classicist (Roman literature, civil war, emotion and trauma)
🎻 Violinist
🐴 Mum to Bish
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Ida Östenberg @idaostenberg.bsky.social Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Eller som min son säger: "Mamma är bara professor i vissa saker." Posts in English and Swedish.
Jan Haywood @janhaywood.bsky.social Ancient historian; bibliophile; cinephile.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
Jason Nethercut @jasonnethercut.bsky.social Associate Prof of Classics, author of Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales (OUP, 2021), all opinions are mine
Maria Pretzler @mariapretzler.bsky.social Ancient Historian with a scarf habit.
Greek History and Archaeology, mostly in the Peloponnese. Arcadia. Pausanias. Ancient Travel Writing and Geography. Second Sophistic.
Associate Prof and Subject Lead Swansea Classics, Ancient History & Egyptology.
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social Latinist, Londoner, Luddite. Repulsively fast eater, unrepentantly slow writer. Author of ‘Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry’ (OUP, 2022). Lecturer in Roman Culture at KCL.
Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social Lover of words, player of music
μηδεὶς ἄμουσος εἰσίτω
Lucy C M M Jackson @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social Academic and theatre fan. Living in Newcastle, working in Durham, Londoner for life.
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Antiquipop @antiquipop.bsky.social Antiquity, pop culture and politics 🏺
L'Antiquité dans la culture populaire 🏛️
English / Français
https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/eng
Compte tenu par @fabienbp.bsky.social
Katie DeBoer, Ph.D. @ktdeboer.bsky.social Teaching Latin, Greek, Classical Studies | writing about women, gender, identity in the ancient world | reading Homer, Vergil, Ovid, et al. | ea / eam 🐶
Dr. Emily S. Wilson @introarch.bsky.social I get excited about old, dirty stuff. And chickens. No, I'm not THAT Dr. Emily Wilson.
Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics at Warwick, Numismatist, Tokenista. she/her
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social He/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
Dr Penny Goodman @pjgoodman.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Roman history. Appreciator of the Gothic. Lib Dem. She / her.
Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
Dr Henry Clarke @henryhbclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Roman History & Culture, University of Leeds | Identity, culture and landscape in Ancient Iberia | Editor at Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal | Coach and cox at Leeds Rowing Club
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/665/dr-henry-clarke
Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social Latin literature and Roman history. Problematically keen on the humanist tradition. he/him
Kathryn Tempest @kathryntempest.bsky.social Classicist and Roman Historian at University of Leicester; mum to a toddler and two whippets.
Emma Bridges @emmabridges.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at the Open University. Thinks a lot about making humanities education accessible.
She/her
Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social Ancient historian/archaeologist at the University of Leicester. Likes ancient landscapes, Roman Crete, Peloponnese, & Pausanias. Obviously views expressed are my own and not those of my employer. He/him.
Paul Martin @paulsm.bsky.social Teacher and researcher at Bristol University. Research: humour, comedy, and parody from Ancient Greece to the future!
Regine May @reginemay.bsky.social I work on Cupid and Psyche, sometimes on Plautus, and I crochet.
Susan Deacy @susandeacy.bsky.social Editor, Journal of Classics Teaching; Co-Founder ACCLAIM: Autism Connecting CLAssically-Inspired Mythology; Series Editor, Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World; Editor-in-Chief, BICS; Professor Emerita etc.
Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; deacon in the C of E; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys curator.
Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social Professor of Classics at Nottingham, writing, cats, brass banding, flowers. Power of Sadness, Latin Epic, Argonauts crossing. She/they. Legally blind