Museum-ID magazine @museumid.bsky.social For museum workers — magazine, conference and study days
#MuseumIdeas #FutureMuseum
Beau Brannick (they/them) @beaubrannick.bsky.social 🪡 Sewing/Illustration
🪻 MA Queer History
🏛️ Museum Person
Emily Elsworth @emilyautism.bsky.social UK Based Museum Access Consultant,
Public Speaker,
Autism Trainer,
Rep for GEM Yorkshire and Humberside,
Steering Group for Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network,
Actually Autistic,
Passionate about accessibility.
She/Her
Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social Research fellow at Swansea working on fiefs of medieval & early modern Jersey; women in the Plantagenet world, first book on the Palace of Westminster; formerly @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, UWE, York and Durham; was once called Irene Adler; dogs; she/her.
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk GEM, we connect and learn together.
gem.org.uk
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Contact: qhcncomms@gmail.com
Website: queerhcn.org
Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
Kirsty Warner @kirstywarner.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Researching museum culture, politics, and youth mobility. Currently working @ukandneighbours.bsky.social @ukandeu.bsky.social
heritage-wellbeing.bsky.social @heritage-wellbeing.bsky.social Australian Cultural Heritage Specialist. Community, cultural heritage, wellbeing. Check out my PhD research project about railway heritage and wellbeing - railheritageandwellbeing.com
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Amy Hall @amyh4ll97.bsky.social PhD student, history of medicine and psychiatry | illness narratives, experience, identity politics 📚
Scientific writer and dachshund wrangler. Views unserious & my own 🌈
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
Historic Royal Palaces @hrp-palaces.bsky.social Six palaces, one charity
and a whole lot of history. 🏰
Sir John Soane's Museum @soanemuseum.bsky.social The extraordinary house & museum of Sir John Soane, renowned architect and collector. Open Wednesday to Sunday. Entry free.
National Railway Museum @railwaymuseum.bsky.social 
Locomotion @locomotionshd.bsky.social 
Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
London Transport Museum Friends @ltmuseumfriends.bsky.social Get closer to London’s transport heritage
Visit us at www.ltmuseumfriends.co.uk
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum @dglam.bsky.social Discover Doncaster in the Danum Gallery, Library and Museum featuring the Rail Heritage Centre and the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum.
https://www.dglam.org.uk/
Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social Home to some of the best museums in Yorkshire, we are part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - find out more via our
https://linktr.ee/bradfordmuseums
@beamishmuseum.bsky.social @beamishmuseum.bsky.social 
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
@neurodivergent-lou.bsky.social @neurodivergent-lou.bsky.social 
Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social An organisation set up to protect original features of and promote the first modern Inter-City railway in the world between Liverpool and Manchester.
Philip Butler @artdecomagpie.bsky.social English photographer documenting Britain’s surviving interwar architecture.
Books:
226 Garages out on FUEL
Trackside Transformation - British Railway Stations 1923-1947 out on ADM
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Dr Isabel Gilbert @drisabelgilbert.bsky.social Historian of colonial legacies, symbolism, social justice and interpretation. Lecturer at University of Worcester. Wanderer in graveyards, ruins and forests. 🌳🔮
Personal views here.
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Becky Little @msbeckylittle.bsky.social Writer in DC (she/her) | Bylines: History Channel, National Geographic, @51st.news, Time, Smithsonian | Member: @nwu.org @fspnwu.bsky.social | https://msbeckylittle.tumblr.com/
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
tmln @tmln.bsky.social 
Laura Crossley @lfcrossley.bsky.social Arts & heritage consultant. Coach.
Indie disco-er & lover of sad bangers. Football fan. Dog enthusiast. Bright clothes & hoop earrings please. she/her 🌈❤️
Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social curator | museums | freelance | art
Andrew Rothe @andrewrothe.com "I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks
An empty vessel who can't make contact"
NTU (BA 2017, MA 2021)
-Sales Assistant 💳
-Assistant Museum Curator 🏛️
-Heritage Rail Volunteer 🚂
-Photographer 📷
-History Lover 🖼️
-Geek 🎮
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Sensory Trust @sensory-trust.bsky.social UK based charity. Our mission is to create meaningful and lasting connections between people of all ages and abilities and the natural world.
www.sensorytrust.org.uk
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social Trains.
3D models of trains.
Casio Keyboards
Music Production
Rollercoasters
History stuff
Robot Combat
Shitposts about all of the above
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/SteveEmfore
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/
Alyssa Myers @alyssamyers.bsky.social 3rd year PhD student - CDA with MMU & English Heritage - 18th c. Suburban London Villa - #social history, #material culture, #ceramics
Rory Muir @rorymuir.bsky.social British History - Wellington; the Defeat of Napoleon; Regency Society, careers open to younger sons; Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale UP Feb 2024)
Lives in Adelaide Hills, South Australia 
The Railway Heritage Trust @railwayheritage.bsky.social Awarding grants to restore railway heritage structures which are listed or in conservation areas, & assets of Network Rail or Nat Highways Historical Railways Estate
HappyMuseum Project @happymuseum.bsky.social Re-imagining museums for the wellbeing of people, place and planet.
Posts via @hilaryjennings
Jenny Durrant @durrantjenny.bsky.social Museums, Collections, Ethics
Consultant, Writer, Researcher, Practitioner
Freelance and Jane Austen's House
Own views (which may also be about cats, church, or cake!)
www.jennydurrant.co.uk
Ceylan Kosker Bevington @ckbevington.bsky.social Decolonization enthusiast. Feminist. Victorianist.
Assistant Professor at Bilkent University
Aberystwyth alma mater
dr ellie king @drellietheking.bsky.social Doctor of surveys | Visitor experience, interpretation and evaluation consultant | Evaluation Officer at Warwick Institute of Engagement | writing a book
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Tara Puri @victorianthings.bsky.social Researching late 19th-early 20th century women's magazines in Britain and India; Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. pduffy1@tcd.ie
orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089
irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
Queen of the Railways @railwayqueen.bsky.social Rail Services Lead (Specification) at Rail North Partnership (TfN) & Queen of the Railways. All things rail! Views are my own.
She/her.
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
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Museum Development North @musdevnorth.bsky.social 
Chloe Challender @chloechallender.bsky.social House of Commons Clerk | PhD University of Warwick | legal, women's, sexualities and gender history. All views my own. Also: 📚 🏊♀️🌿 🎶
Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us!
No bio, no follow back.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-conference-2025-curating-communities-tickets-1353581481649
Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social We publish peer-reviewed research covering the history of parliamentary institutions in Britain and Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, and the legislatures of British colonies before independence.
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Ella Harford @ellaharford.bsky.social PhD student in History at Swansea University.
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine. 
Dr Clémentine Garcenot @clementinegarcenot.bsky.social PhD in English Literature from the University of York et prof agrégée d’anglais 🎓
📍Teaching and Reseach (ATER) at Uni of Toulon
The French Revolution, the Terror and the Guerre de Vendée in the memoirs of aristocratic women (1792-1843)
Railway 200 @railway200.bsky.social Official account. Coming later this year: news, info and events about Railway 200, a UK-wide celebration of railways through the whole year of 2025. This account is not monitored, so please contact the team via www.railway200.co.uk
LAPASEC 2025 @lapasec.bsky.social Hey, we are the LAPASEC team based at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Follow us for updates on the upcoming conference!
https://tinyurl.com/5n6vfzr4
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
Emma Peplow @emmapeplow.bsky.social Head of Contemporary History, History of Parliament Trust. Oral History, Politics, Parliament and some cricket 
Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
Sammi Lukic-Scott @slukicscott.bsky.social Art historian and curator
PhD in 19th c. History of Art (University of York)
linktr.ee/slukicscott
Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social Postdoc @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Exeter Film 🌱 Sentimentalist 🌷 PhD in Play for Today 📺 Feminist Screen Theory; Ideology & Aesthetics; Media Histories & Curation; Realism(s) 🌿 [she/her]
Lucy Powrie @lucythereader.bsky.social Autistic author writing happily ever afters 🌊💕
Real When I'm With you, out now!
Chair of the Brontë Society | YouTube.com/lucythereader 📚
🏳️🌈
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
Pre-order my new book "The Land of Tears and Hope": https://geni.us/tearsandhope
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Sarah Fisichella @rococo-reinette.bsky.social Aspiring decorative arts historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Hoping to soon move to the UK permanently! Also love British country houses and natural history. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional who is also an Organist, Christian Universalist, Rower, Geek. Into Boardgames, Reenactment, Heavy Metal and with a soupcon of Long-Covid.
Museums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions
https://museumsandheritage.com
Andy Bowes-Roden @andyroden.bsky.social Husband and dad first and foremost. Also Deputy Editor of Modern Railways, sub-editor of Hornby Magazine, general railway hack, author and director of Tavistock Okehampton Reopening Scheme. All views my own, natch. Cornwall, UK
The VictorianSociety - SouthYorkshire @vicsoc-syorks.bsky.social Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian built heritage in South Yorkshire. providng education & campaigning through Talks, Walks & a local quarterly Newsletter.
Working across the cities of Sheffield & Doncaster, and the towns of Barnsley & Rotherham.
Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social Historian of shopping precincts, derelict landscapes, leisure centres, power stations, inner cities, housing, the Potteries, Telford new town, & city centre redevelopment. @c20society casework & trustee.
Dr Roseanna Kettle @roseannakettle.bsky.social ECR, phd from @cecs-york.bsky.social, interested in Romantic urbanism, regionality, ecocrit & book history, lover of old books and new wave 🐝 🇵🇸 🌈
Nicola @engineernic.bsky.social Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
Dr Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social chief conservator | Cleveland Museum of Art
fashion | textiles | museums | conservation
Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Kathryn A Morrison @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social Architectural and Retail Historian (FSA FRHistS). ‘Chain Stores’ published May 2025.
Website: buildingourpast.com
Also expect posts about Romanesque sculpture (CRSBI fieldworker, Hampshire) and the Western Isles.
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Simon Hickman @simonhickman.bsky.social Old stuff. Old buildings, old trains, old landscapes, old cars. Based in South Bristol; professional inspector of historic buildings and places.
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social Architect | #BuildingConservation | #Heritage | #Culture | #Bicycle | #Kayak | Old Classics | Found up ladders | Director @caroearchitecture | Insta: @mark.00h | SW London | UK
Bessie @bessbbe.bsky.social I’m just here to keep an eye on my dad 👁️👁️
@arlosadventures.bsky.social
💕 Joanna 💕 @joannecrompton.bsky.social Small Business Owner
Heritage Railway Volunteer & Steam Locomotive Fireman
Sometimes a bit sweary
All views are my own
Reposts do not equal agreement
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social Freelance transport & engineering journalist, railway campaigner and self proclaimed engineering nerd.
http://Youtube.com/@Rail_Focus they/them 🏳️🌈