Catherine Mailhac @catherinemailhac.bsky.social Freelancer helping to connect people with each other and with nature. Evaluation, research, engagement, participation, partnerships, programming, interpretation. Mainly working in the cultural, heritage and environmental sectors. Carbon Literacy trainer.
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
📍Glasgow
Museum of Bath Architecture @batharchitecture.bsky.social A unique museum exploring the architecture, development and built heritage of Bath. A Bath Preservation Trust #museum.
https://museumofbatharchitecture.org.uk/
W-ICAD @w-icad.bsky.social W-ICAD stands for the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description. W-ICAD provides museums with a tool to produce audio description based on co-created discussions between blind, partially-blind and sighted co-creators. https://w-icad.org/
No.1 Royal Crescent @no1royalcrescent.bsky.social Experience fashionable English 18th century living at the first house to be built in the Royal Crescent, Bath. Also known as the Featherington residence in Bridgerton ✒
https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/
#Museum
Beckford's Tower @beckfordstower.bsky.social 120ft high Tower and #Museum in Bath. Built in 1826 for the use of one privileged man, now open to all.
https://beckfordstower.org.uk/
Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
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
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
Alison Boyle @ali-boyle.bsky.social Gallery Director at RCSI, Dublin; Honorary Research Associate at Science Museum and UCL STS, London; Galwegian. Own views.
Ben Gammon @benjamingammon.bsky.social Freelance museum professional - exhibition and programme development, audience research & strategic planning. STEM, history, art - I cover all bases.
https://www.instagram.com/benjamingammon10/
Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social Sharing, teaching, listening, shaping.
Museum Education Roundtable inspires innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education.
https://www.museumedu.org/
Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Rob Ellis @rehistories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of Madness, mental ill-health and institutions. University of Huddersfield, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
Morven @morvenrodger.bsky.social Cultural Heritage and Museum person in Scotland's Central Belt | she/her
Kate Mason @katejmason.bsky.social #CreativeNewham #artseducation #creativeindustries #art #craft #design #heritage #charityleadership / experienced #CharityCEO #Trustee & #NED / 30 yrs experience / a Mother
Holocaust Centre North @holocaustnorth.bsky.social Open to all, based at The University of Huddersfield.
Telling a global history of the Holocaust through local stories from the North of England.
https://holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/
Morris Graves Museum of Art @thegravesmuseum.bsky.social Supporting the art and artists of Northern California like it's our job. 
Museum Ian @trumerz.bsky.social Ian Andrew Oswald Trumble. Archaeologist. Curator #BoltonsEgypt @BoltonLMS. LocalAmb @TheEES. Chair @BoltonAES. Leader @GM_YAC. PhD @UniOfYork
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
kai flynn @kai-flynn.bsky.social Museum Documentation Assistant at the Royal College of Nursing
De Morgan Foundation @demorganfoundation.bsky.social Pre-Raphaelite art and Arts & Crafts ceramics by Victorian artists, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Meghan Backhouse @mobbackhouse.bsky.social Museum person at NML. Chair of Museum Ethnographers Group. All things Collections. Opinions expressed are my own. She/her. Go Cubs!
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️ Thoughts mine own https://drsoandso.co.uk/
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
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
Clare Davies @ced99.bsky.social Museum learning and Education specialist | Qualified teacher | Mental Health First Aider | Community outreach and lifelong learning | Educational resources and programmes delivery and creation | Views my own 
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
Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social A membership organisaiton, helping you unlock the power of volunteering. Sign up at heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk
maxwell museums @maxwellmuseums.bsky.social 🟦 🚨 news from museums, galleries, art, exhibitions | creator of maxwell museums newsletter 📩 | + 🟨 PR at the Design Museum (own views)
🔗 https://maxwellmuseums.substack.com/
Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Emma Canterbury @emmac-panther.bsky.social Museum Director @RoystonMuseum.bsky.social, Trustee at St Neots Museum, Scout Leader, and Mum to 2 amazing boys.
All views my own (she/her)
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/
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Rachel Hawkins @hawkinsrachel.bsky.social Interested in history and heritage industry chatter and opportunities. Experienced PR consultant and MA Heritage Management Graduate '24. Trying this place out for size. English and Cymraeg.
Emma King @emmalking.bsky.social PhD researcher, archives, emotion & family history. Former museum geek. Solo SEND parent. Northerner. Documenting my research at https://substack.com/@emmalking.
Dr Amy Jane Barnes @amyjanebarnes.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Staff Tutor in Art History, Open University. Museums, heritage, visual culture, Chinese things. 'Collector' of chronic illnesses. Passionate about Ipswich (football and town)! Thoughts are my own. She/her
open.ac.uk/people/ajb2863
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.
Ben Walmsley @benwalmsley.bsky.social Dean of Cultural Engagement at University of Leeds; Associate Director Policy, Centre for Cultural Value; Advisor, DCMS. Interested in all things arts & cultural sector related
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social Associate Professor of Archaeology
University of Western Australia
Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
Frobenius Institut für kulturanthropologische Forschung (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Universität Tübingen
http://uwa.academia.edu/MartinPorr
Lisa Ollerhead @ljollerhead.bsky.social Director of the Association of Independent Museums.
Museum Ethnographers Group @musethnogroup.bsky.social MEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network, for anyone interested in caring for global cultures collections.
Web: https://museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
Dr Laura Gray Blair @lauragrayblair.bsky.social Research Manager, Science Museum Group • rare books cataloguer, National Trust • Honorary Fellow, UCL • PhD on bibliotherapy in c.19th asylums • views own
Pete Dickinson @petedickinson.bsky.social Director of Communications at the Science Museum Group, home to six inspiring sites and hundreds of talented colleagues. Views my own.
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Francesco Fragomeni @fragomeni.bsky.social Contemporary daguerreotypist and historian building cameras and working in 19th century photographic processes.
Other apps I barely use:
Instagram.com/FrancescoFragomeni
Insiders Outsiders @insidersoutsiders.bsky.social Celebrating Émigré Contributions to British Culture
https://linktr.ee/insidersoutsiders
Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety
https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
Heather Lomas @heatherlomas.bsky.social Heritage, museums, culture
www.heatherlomas.co.uk 
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
@jimborose.bsky.social @jimborose.bsky.social Museum professional. 
Paul Salmons @paulsalmons.bsky.social Specialist in “difficult histories”. Curator & consultant. Exhibits & educational initiatives in Europe, North America, India & Africa.
Projects with Musealia, Claims Conference, US Holocaust Museum, United Nations & UNESCO.
https://paulsalmons.associates/
Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
No DMs
Heather Hope @littlefrogling.bsky.social Crochet nerd. Lover of 80s pop culture. Jersey native, PA resident. Lost Boys for life. Opinions my own. Photos, random observations, void screams #BLM 92%-er she/her/eh 💖💜💙
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
Donal Lucey @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist and nerd. Public engagement, social value and immersive approaches. Loves Early Medieval stuff! Member of award-winning Dig The Castle project & @archsengage.bsky.social
Mod of r/AskArchaeology
Delphine Jasmin-Belisle @delphinejb.bsky.social Development & Membership at the Heritage Alliance. Trustee at The Maritime Heritage Trust. Director at Hild. Nichiren Buddhist and SGI Member. Talk in footnotes. Views my own.
🕊️ Carlotta Falzone Robinson, PhD @drcrob.bsky.social Art historian/historian living the adjunct life. Dog mom, wife, British 19thc dec arts, WWI memorials, Celtic modernism 🇺🇦 🇮🇲 🇮🇹☮️
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Lucas George Wendt @wendt.bsky.social 🎓 Master's student in Museum Studies and Heritage Science (UFRGS)
🎓 Master's in Information Science (UFRGS)
🎓 Journalism (Univates)
🎓 Library Science (UCS)
🎓 Archival Science (Uniasselvi)
https://sites.google.com/view/lucasgeorgewendt/
Brian Whetstone, PhD @soggypebble.bsky.social I write about buildings as a historian with the National Park Service. Currently writing a book about how museums became landlords.
https://www.brian-whetstone.com/
Laura Beckwith @laurabeckwith.bsky.social Archaeologist, Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) for Somerset, gardener, gamer, Roman enthusiast. All views my own.
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Abbie MacKinnon @abbiemackinnon.bsky.social 🚀 Space Curator, Science Museum
🇺🇸 American ex-pat
🚲 Love a bike ride
👦🏻🧑🏻🦰 Mom to 2 boys
Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com Historic buildings and landscape archaeologist, working for a living as www.statement-heritage.com . Ruins and their repair, maritime, industrial and agricultural heritage. Aerial photographer. Intertidal deposit.
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 🏳️🌈
Terri Dendy @terridendy.bsky.social Find me in museum stores, previously opinionated blogger @ Ministry of Curiosity.
Known for looking angry at objects - but really obsessed with them
Also over here: https://www.instagram.com/terri.dendy
Samantha Evans @samisatwork.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London. Interested in all things class, culture, education, equality, history, museums
Helen Light @helenlight.bsky.social Work at an open air museum. Enjoy watersports and the outdoors 🦆. Took part in CoppaTrek with Gi 2023. Love dogs 🐕 cheese 🧀 and roast potatoes.
#museum #heritage #sup #coppatrek
Chiltern Open Air Museum @chilternoam.bsky.social An outdoor museum with a collection of over 30 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings. Working farm, gardens, playground, traditional crafts. Exciting re-enactments and events programme. Award winning school workshops.
www.coam.org.uk
Deborah Ng (they/them) @deborahng24.bsky.social Early career heritage professional from Hong Kong. Currently based in Manchester, UK.
All opinions are mine.
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Holly Chaplin @hollychaplin.bsky.social Museum & Heritage Development Graduate | Youth & Community Engagement Enthusiast | Volunteer Youth Worker | Passionate Baker
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social Since 1951, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has sought acknowledgment from the German government by negotiating for compensation, restitution and home care on behalf of Holocaust survivors
Dr. Charlie Knight @charlieknight.bsky.social Historian | Bithell Fellow @ilcs.bsky.social | Comms Officer @germanhistsoc.bsky.social
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social Where history lives and grows.
JWA.org
Joanna Sliwa @joannasliwa24.bsky.social Historian, Holocaust & Jewish history. Book author, co-author, co-editor: Jewish Childhood in Kraków | Counterfeit Countess | Older Jews and the Holocaust. Administers academic programs at a Jewish NGO. www.counterfeitcountess.com and www.joannasliwa.com
Fritz Bauer Institut @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social Forschungs-, Dokumentations- und Bildungseinrichtung zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust.
https://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/impressum
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference @bcflconference.bsky.social Official account of the Beyond Camps and Forced Labour International Conference, highlighting new interdisciplinary research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/research/beyond-camps/
Rosie White @drrosalindwhite.bsky.social Aspiring Time-traveller⏳ #SloaneLab 🔬🌿 Community Research Fellow @UCL, & Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House 🏰
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
Claire Bailey Ross @clairebaileyross.bsky.social Associate Dean Academic @uniportcci | Associate Professor Digital Heritage | Museums Tech, Co-design & Audience Experience | Geordie in the South (she/her)
Colleen Wood @colleenwood.bsky.social Museum & Heritage alumna Deakin University. Director @heritagepeople.bsky.social. Connecting and celebrating cultural heritage. On Yugambeh ountry, Scenic Rim, Australia.
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.