Benjamin Franklin House @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social 36 Craven Street, London - the world’s only remaining Franklin residence, where he lived from 1757-1775
Open to the public Wednesday-Sunday
linktr.ee/benjaminfranklinhouse
Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social Posts from 1776! The American Revolution and War of Independence and the world in which they happened, 250 years ago.
Samantha Katz Seal @samanthalkseal.bsky.social Feminist Chaucerian at U. of New Hampshire. Author of "Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in the CT" (Oxford UP, 2019). In progress: a novel about Alice Chaucer and “The Myth of a Jewless England, 1290-1656.”
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Tomiwa Owolade @tomowolade.bsky.social 
Will Webster @willwritesword.bsky.social Lover of history, geography, bad jokes and lists. I write about most of them in rockpeoplerivers.substack.com.
Here to share the best bits I learn along the way – and do a lot of learning in return.
Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social Philosopher - ethics, politics, music | Slowly writing a book on Isaiah Berlin | Born in USSR, home is London | Living with ME since 2003.
youtube.com/vladvexler (main channel)
youtube.com/vladvexlerchat (chat channel)
youtube.com/@vladvexlerphilosophy
Fi Leith @fileith.bsky.social Writer for The Botanics.
Comms for NatureScot.
Researching a novel on the 19th century blossoming of Glasgow and Japan's love affair.
basbleu(té) @basbleu.bsky.social French/Lebanese enthusiast of women's art/music/film/writing/history/sport/comedy and old-fashioned 1800s values like feminism, socialism, and veganism. #BuyFromEU
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk GEM, we connect and learn together.
gem.org.uk
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
London Museum @londonmuseum.bsky.social 
Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social A membership organisaiton, helping you unlock the power of volunteering. Sign up at heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.
Dr Kate Maltby @katemaltby.bsky.social weekly at the i newspaper (news column)
monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre)
often at FT & Observer (books, culture)
also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Gail Boyle FMA FSA @boyleg.bsky.social Museum Archaeology & Heritage Consultant (former Bristol Museum Senior Curator) Current Chair of CBA Trustees, Pucklechurch PC, Avon Local Councils Assn., & Bristol & Glos Archaeology Society. Treasure Valuation Committee member, Granny & Bristol Bears fan
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
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/
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Jewish Literary Foundation @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk The UK’s Jewish literary platform, presenting the best in contemporary literature and ideas.
Hosts Jewish Book Week, London’s longest-running literary festival:
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week
Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social Books: How to be a Heroine, Take Courage, Chopping Onions on my Heart / Always Carry Salt.
Plays inc How to Date a Feminist
I am mostly on Instagram.
www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
https://open.substack.com/pub/samanthaellis1?r=53sh&utm_medium=ios
Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io Postdoc @ UCL studying causal judgment, counterfactual thinking, and metacognition
https://kevingoneill.github.io
Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social General enthusiast | Dog botherer | He/Him
Team member on Love Will Save The Day FM https://lovewillsavetheday.fm/
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social Dress and textile historian, lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social Moated historic Tudor manor house in south Suffolk with walled garden & rare breed farm.
Home of world famous historical recreations, Dickensian Christmas, Scaresville & Halloweenies.
This year it’s 1536!
https://www.kentwell.co.uk/
CO10 9BA
Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social Recovering academic, busy with projects and voluntary work.
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Jewish Review of Books @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Subscribe at https://www.ezsubscription.com/jrb/subscribe
BISA at Birkbeck @bisa-bkk.bsky.social The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London, is a centre of innovative research and teaching, and contributes to public policy.
https://bisa.bbk.ac.uk/
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
@ochjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social 
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social A Wellcome Trust funded project at the University of Manchester exploring an environmental approach to the history of sleep care.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/ 
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800 
Dr. Zara Anishanslin @drzara.bsky.social Historian with a Thing for Things
Creator/Co-host Thing4Things Podcast
Author THE PAINTER’S FIRE (July 1, 2025)
@pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social - N Nikki Clarke @nikkic.bsky.social Now Dr Nikki having completed a PhD on early modern news @Birkbeck
Trustee@Cromwell Museum, C&D student & archive volunteer@Royal School of Needlework, host @ Refugees at Home…views here mine not theirs.
Love@Leicester Tigers
Like playing the recorder.
The Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland @huguenotsociety.bsky.social The Huguenot Society of GB and Ireland, founded 1885, offers its members lectures, events, and research resources via digitized and Huguenot Library holdings.
Barbara Julien @bmjulien.bsky.social History lover, libraries enthusiast, Huguenot blog writer
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Claire Partington @clairepartington.bsky.social Artist, London, not very wordy.
www.clairepartington.co.uk
St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social Celebrating St Albans arts, history and community
Kerigan Pickett | Gilded Histories @gildedhistories.bsky.social 🖤Art Historian, Artist, Writer
🎓BA Art History, University of Northern Iowa
♥️ Art History, Tudor England, ACEOs, Writing, Drawing, Painting, Museums, Punk, Cats
🛒 GildedHistoriesShop.Etsy.com
💻 GildedHistories.WordPress.com
Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social Security Expert | Amplifying Ukraine's Global Voice | Former Twitter Enthusiast
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social Presenter, The Cathy Newman Show, Sky News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk
Nina Zurier @ninazurier.bsky.social Black and white photography, making and painting porcelain pots, riding my horse in Iceland, listening to FourTet and Kali Malone.
#ceramics
#photography
#pottery
#icelandichorse
Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism.org CAA is a volunteer-led charity dedicated to exposing and countering #antisemitism through education and #zerotolerance law enforcement.
design curation @designcuration.bsky.social art, graphic design, typography, architecture, craft, etc.
Dinah Liversidge @dinahliv.bsky.social Lover of chocolate, motorbikes, cats, trees, nature and conversation. Celebrant Trainer, Coach and host of Woodland retreat. She/Her
@nstylianou.bsky.social @nstylianou.bsky.social 
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Drakon Heritage and Conservation @drakonheritage.bsky.social Behind the scenes at Drakon Heritage and Conservation. Dr Jenni Butterworth and Pieta Greaves ACR
Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social CEO @bestforbritain.org
Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social
NED @RoSPA
Bijan Omrani @bijanomrani.bsky.social Author, Caesar's Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul; Afghanistan. Co-director of Shute Festival. 
Karen Brookfield @karenbrookfield.bsky.social London lady of leisure, culture, travel. Things Ancient 🏛️ Deutsch 🇩🇪 Nordisk 🇫🇮🇸🇪 Not forgetting 🍰📚 & First World War
Once upon a time @ British Library @National Lottery Heritage Fund
Damian Collins @damiancollins1.bsky.social Fan Of Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads and David Bowie.
I like humour and intelligent people. I dislike the far right and all of these pointless culture wars.
#Resist #BlueCrew #VoteBlue #StrongerTogether #FBR #bluestorm #DemsConnect #BlueCanoe 
Kim Hetherington @kimhetherington.bsky.social Mum. Wife. Retired marketer. Part-time history researcher. Studied history
at The Open University and the University of Cambridge.
LIVING with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis #IPF
Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social People, places, public health
Lives in south London, interested in the world...
My own views, sometimes here: https://authory.com/juliathrift
Jeffrey Maynard (Jewish Miscellanies) @jewishmisc.bsky.social Collector of Anglo-Judaica
Des FitzGerald @fitzgeralddes.bsky.social RHA Gallery | Dublin City FM (2003-23) | Le Cool Dublin (2010-16) | 🇪🇺
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
Jamie Klingler @jamieklingler.bsky.social Co founder Reclaim These Streets, campaign for women’s safety and police reform in UK. Writer, speaker, activist, puppies Biggie & Smalls, run PSU Alum in UK and Philly born, Eagles/Phillies
https://linktr.ee/jamieklingler
David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social Sometimes lawyer. Sometimes law professor. All the time awesome. Associate Prof. at Lewis & Clark Law (con law and anti-discrimination). http://dsadevil.blogspot.com
@francesblane.bsky.social @francesblane.bsky.social 
Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies
Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social Celebrating archives across the UK telling the story of Jews and the Jewish community in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. https://linktr.ee/jewishhiddentreasures
Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social Science Correspondent & Religious Affairs Correspondent at The Times of London | Shortlisted for Specialist Journalist of the Year for religion work at the 2024 Press Awards and for Science Journalist of the Year in 2025 and 2026 | My account
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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
Janet Dugdale @janetdugdale.bsky.social Consultant working with and for museums, heritage & culture.
British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social The conversations we need on integration and migration, identity and race.Contact: info@britishfuture.org
Director: @sundersays.bsky.social
Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social Inspiring a lifelong love of science in everyone - in museums, classrooms and online. We believe in a world where science belongs to everyone.
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Building Conservation @cathedralcomms.bsky.social BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com