Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social Erstwhile secondhand bookseller and Classics teacher; Cumbria and Oxfordshire
@jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social Still life painter. Interested in dogs, Dartmoor, mountain walking, archaeology, human evolution and small things of the natural world. Left wing tendencies tempered by reading the Economist
Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'
l just might tell you the truth
- Bob Dylan
Indiana wants me
Lord, I can't go back there
- R. Dean Taylor
'I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
Passing through this wearisome land'
- Traditional
Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).
Oxfordshire @oxfordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Oxfordshire (Oxon), UK - we originally started this on "the bird app" in 2012
nicholascelt.bsky.social @nicholascelt.bsky.social Storyteller 🎬 Bringing the epic fantasy saga of Nick Celt to life. Every world, every battle, created with Technology. Follow the adventure ⚔️
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
@maxmoran.bsky.social @maxmoran.bsky.social Photography. Wildlife. Walking. Rewilding. Permaculture. Standing Stones. Wales. Occasional haiku. Absolutely no AI. That kind of thing, like that.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social Witchy mermaid living on an island in the middle of the Salish Sea.
Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social Travel 🏞 History 🏛 & Jungle Music 💾
Find the history episodes & travel blog here:
https://www.youtube.com/forestjunglecollectv
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart2.bsky.social Hello and Welcome! I'm an abstract artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I'm inspired by this beautiful state. My art can be seen at www.ebay.com/str/charlesreynaart.
Cambridgeshire @cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Cambridgeshire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky #Cambs #Cambridgeshire
Piper_Martinez @santos4711.bsky.social Retired Geologist. Trading my rock hammer for a lens to capture the earth’s stories. From rugged terrain to fine-art landscapes, I’m exploring the intersection of deep time and natural light. Seeking new horizons and connecting with fellow creators... 💙
Gloucestershire @gloucestershireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Gloucestershire, UK - we originally started this service on another flying creature app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Marcus Hobson @marcushobson.bsky.social Writer and book lover.
Poet, reviewer and story writer.
Obsessed by history, myth and good art.
Lives in New Zealand and occasionally Sweden.
Roman Frontiers @romanfrontiers.bsky.social All about Roman frontiers, run by Alex Crest @alexcrest96.bsky.social
Zone1Librarian @walkinglibrarian.bsky.social Librarian who enjoyed walking around London, and beyond...
@madden1826.bsky.social @madden1826.bsky.social
Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social Postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-27) - skin and the senses in early modern drama - women's writing - material culture - history of the book
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social Deeply unwell, deeply mossy, wheelchair user, Dartmoor photographer, old book lover and hedgehog whisperer. 🦔🦼📖 have been a photographer for 35 years.
https://thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com
Phil Barrett @philbarrett.bsky.social Retired, Grumpy old git (Mustn't grumble). Interests inc. #Archaeology, #LiDAR, Photography, Countryside.
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/
Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
Lizzy Sharpe @lizzysharpe.bsky.social Collections Assistant at Dover Museum
Thomas Barker @wifeofmatlockbath.bsky.social Plague villager. Currently working at an English medieval house. Also investigating the Romans in Derbyshire. I like folk music, folk horror and radical history.
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social A long term project to engage the community and sensitively conserve the previously neglected Victorian Wardsend Cemetery, on the banks of the River Don.
The Royal Parks @theroyalparks.bsky.social We're the charity that looks after London's eight Royal Parks. For serious incidents and emergencies please contact the police.
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
http://robynfaithwalsh.com
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social Painter
Norfolk, UK
Government Art Collection | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art | Norwich Castle Museum | Cold Paradise | Jacksons 19&24 | Firstsite | Contemporary & Country
https://linktr.ee/ClaireCansick
DorsetBill @glasshousebill.bsky.social explorer of the great outdoors, with penchant for visiting old stones, neolithic and prehistory
Dr Lindsay Lennie @historicshopfronts.bsky.social Historic shopfronts, tiles and building conservation. Also here for gardening tips. Reputedly retired. Formerly Trust Manager @Stirlingcht.bsky.social
Trustee at Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust.
Expert panel member for Heritage Network in Scotland
Dr Liz Webb @lizwebb.bsky.social PhD on Audience Sensory Experience in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Writing on more Thucydides and Plutarch. Open University Visiting Fellow.
@romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social "The Britons live in such a state of independence
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
Jim Hellyer @jshellyer.bsky.social all photos my own.
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/2IHjNWV
Grey ships, black boats
Once a midship, always a midship!
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
nenazhivina.com/hi
No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall).
All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light!
IS IT BIN DAY?
Abandoned America @abandonedamerica.bsky.social I'm Matthew Christopher, creator of the Abandoned America website, podcast, and book series about the beautiful and fascinating ruins in our midst. Photos are mine unless credited otherwise. Sad and cranky.
Website: https://abandonedamerica.us
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Ben Henderson History @hendersonhistory.bsky.social Teaching you the stories that shaped history, art & ideas | Present Here for the History & Witness History on the BBC | 97k Instagram followers
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
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924.bsky.social We champion historic buildings and places of all ages and all types and work to provide a sustainable future for them.
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/
Alex Langlands @ajlanglands.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, rarely crafting and with a tradition of historic farming (Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, etc.). Environmentalist. @swanseahistory
Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social Historical consultant: helenemaloigne.wordpress.com
Curator @ British Museum
Represented by Past Preservers: www.pastpreservers.com
Good chocolate, disco and houseplants
They/them 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️🌈
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
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
Paye ta Truelle @payetatruelle.bsky.social Collectif luttant pour l'égalité et la diversité en archéologie.
Exposition Archéo-Sexisme | Charte Chantier-Éthique | Guide des menstruations sur chantier | Introduction à l'archéologie du genre (Éd. Fedora, 2024)
ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social Archaeologist, Historian, Bibliophile. A happy sponsor of the literary arts & cultural tourism in 🇿🇼. Personal account so opinions are my own.
AG TidA e.V. @agtida.bsky.social Alles über Theorien in der Archäologie von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theorien in der Archäologie (AG TidA e.V.)
All about theories in archaeology from the Working Group on Theories in Archaeology (AG TidA e.V. = TAG Germany)
https://www.agtida.de/
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Martin Renger @martinrenger.bsky.social Dad | QM at Uni Heidelberg | Archaeologist at Uni Mainz | Southwest Asia | Neolithic | Theoretical Archaeology | Chair of AG TidA/TAG Germany (@agtida.bsky.social) | private account | TTRPG
https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/MartinRenger
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology & geology — past & present. Posts by Tori Herridge, Becky Wragg Sykes, Brenna Hassett, and Suzie Birch. www.trowelblazers.com
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world #PeoplingPodcast #PeoplingVideos #PeoplingBlog
peoplingthepast.com
Elginism @elginism.bsky.social Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) plus other cultural property disputes, museums, art law, archaeology, architecture & Greece.
Formerly London based, now in Sydney.
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
nadia @tamacahut.bsky.social 🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
100 Histories in 100 Worlds in 1 Object @100histories.bsky.social The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project.
1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds.
https://100histories100worlds.org/
Euan Williamson @euanjwilliamson.co.uk Historian and CBT psychotherapist. Incoming AHRC doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester and Imperial War Museums. Writing about 1940. Norfolk.
Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social Polymath from politics, strategy, arts, humanities and business. Historian of Germany.
https://linktr.ee/PhilipWBlood
https://philipwblood.substack.com/
Nick Hewitt @nickhewitt4.bsky.social #naval #historian #Orkney Culture Team Lead @OrkneyCouncil. Author: Firing on Fortress Europe, Coastal Convoys, Kaiser’s Pirates. New book #Normandy: The Sailors’ Story with Yale Books. On TV a bit. Views all mine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.
Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social Military Historian & Analyst | Author, 'Eagle Days: Life & Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain' (out now!) | Broadcaster | RAF Charitable Trust & National Spitfire Project Ambassador | Rep: Georgina Capel
www.spitfirefillyaviation.com
James Jefferies @jamesjhistory.bsky.social Aviation and Cultural Historian: The memory of the RAF in the Second World War. PhD student and Assistant Lecturer, University of Essex and Wolverhampton. Co-Presenter for @nmtdambusters.bsky.social pod.
WW2TV Paul Woodadge @ww2tv.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🎙️ YouTuber, battlefield guide and historian in Normandy. All opinions, comments and newsboy caps my own. Quite "Woke" and proud of it. #WW2TV #Normandy #IpswichTown #Rockabilly #Punk 🐈🍺⚽ https://www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV
RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs.
Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.
Al Murray @almurray.bsky.social Tickets to my brand new tour on sale NOW via my website!
Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social Mainly I like the 52nd Lowland Division.
Cohost of News Of The War
https://linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar
The Lowlander pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lowlander/id1715310568
Walking With The Jocks Tour 2025
https://walkingwiththejocks.co.uk/
Adam Brown @adbrora.bsky.social Non-native Edinburgher. Here for the history.
Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to Flynn. Writes books for Penguin.
www.seaspitfires.com
Joe 🌱 @joeyh1990.bsky.social Heritage worker who has had the misfortune to have been raised to support Tottenham Hotspur football club.
Happiest with family, around wildlife, or on the cricket pitch. Preferably all together!
Jojohook2003 @jojohook.bsky.social Professional Battlefield Guide & Military Historian WW1/WW2 Op MG, WF - MA WW1. Presentations & podcasts. Dad designed Quality Street tins & drew maps in WW2