Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
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School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Mel Green @melalygreen.bsky.social Black matricentric intersectional feminist | Lecturer in Education Studies @OpenUniversity | Member of @radicalmothering | Co-author of Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK
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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social It's about books, not baseball--Simonides, not The Simpsons. This is the Homer Hotline, a podcast featuring discussions with scholars of ancient epic and related matters. YouTube.com/@HomerHotline.
Hannah West @hannahrwest.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Military Women's Research, Anglia Ruskin University. Co-Chair of the Defence Research Network.
Hilary Forbes @nightowlhils.bsky.social Drinks a lot of Yorkshire Tea... 🫖☕writes on https://medium.com/@hilary.forbes20 about astronomy, ancient astronomy, maths, ancient maths, teaching maths, being autistic, theology, random things, also blogs at https://theclassicalastronomer.wordpress.com.
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social KCL Classics Department.
Classics for All @classicsforall.bsky.social Classics for All raises funds to support the teaching of classics – Latin, ancient Greek, classical civilisation and ancient history – in UK state schools.
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E-J Graham @e-jgraham.bsky.social Professor of Roman Archaeology at The Open University | Roman archaeology | material religion | penguins 🐧
@ancientgaza.bsky.social @ancientgaza.bsky.social An ancient historian’s burner account to repost requests for support from those in 🍉
Valerie Hope @valmhope.bsky.social Roman social historian
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
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Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
@archadam.bsky.social @archadam.bsky.social Archaeologist, classicist, museum curator, runner, tea drinker, cake eater, nature watcher, tired parent.
Curator bod at the Yorkshire Museum. Visiting Fellow at the Open University.
And writing about Roman Magic, Roman Britain, and materiality.
The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social Official account for The Open University.
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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
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
Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social The Music Department at The Open University offers distance-learning qualifications in Music, including BA, MA and PhD degrees. https://fass.open.ac.uk/music
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social Classics. Languages. Cat. Violin.
Lottie Parkyn @lottieparkyn.bsky.social
Evelien Bracke @evelien-bracke.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of ancient languages and literature, advocate of Classics as a tool for Social Justice. Baker of healthy cakes.
Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social Professor of Music, The Open University. Interested in music and Christianity in C18th-19th Britain, and Welsh music history. Co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge University Press). Organist. Crime fiction reader. Cricket watcher.
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Dr Beatrice Pestarino @beatricepestarino.bsky.social @LerverhulmeTrustEC @UniversityofLiverpool, Cyprus lover, Mediterranean always
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
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Caitlin Spencer-Knapp @cmsspencer.bsky.social PhD student at Durham University. Interested in Pliny, Seneca, drinking tea and nice walks.
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
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Prof Arlene Holmes-Henderson @profarlenehh.bsky.social Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy @Durham University. Researches #Aristotle, #rhetoric and #oracy. Policy advisor. Impact enthusiast.
Advocating Classics Education @aceclassics.bsky.social Campaigning to provide everyone in the UK with access to education in Classical Civilisation and Ancient History
Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social Greek literature and culture | Christianity | Churches, abbeys, cathedrals | Poetry | Chair of school governors | Visiting professor | Ex-ambassador | Enthusiast for Yorkshire
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
Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social Classics & Ancient History, University of Leeds
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/classics-ancient-history
https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classics-and-ancient-history-ma
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/447/centre-for-ancient-world-and-classical-reception-studies
Howard Hardiman @badgerandvole.bsky.social Artist on a tiny island
Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi🏳️🌈, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades 🍉; MINOTAUR; my opinions, not my employer's
Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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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.
British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social Founded in 1983, the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) are a group of British people who having considered the case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, strongly support it. www.parthenonuk.com
Lauren Wilson (She/Her) 🐔 @itspandorasjar.bsky.social Feral & chaotic chicken lesbian. Pedantically obsessed w/ mythology and folklore, ancient history & religion. Intersectional Feminist and dirty rotten Socialist. Find all my other shit here: https://linktr.ee/itsPandorasJAR
HeardinLondon @heardinlondon.bsky.social I take photographs & try to get the patriarchy out of your head & in the bin.
Succinct sweary self care for days when you’re exhausted from existing.
www.linkin.bio/heardinlondon
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Fiona Henderson @hh-xxiv.bsky.social Classics PhD starting 2025
She/her
FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social We're the First-Generation Low-Income Federation--you can call us FGLIF! We're a growing community of people from first-generation and/or low-income backgrounds interested in the ancient Med, building a network to support and promote each other.
fglif.org
Sophie 💚😃 @sewfee.bsky.social #ThinkingOutside #facilitation #coaching #nature #LARPer #Foodie #PCA #RareDementiaCarer #Cadha #TryingMyBest
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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Creative Interactions @creativeinteract.bsky.social The Creative Interactions research group, based at the Open University. For anyone interested in any of the places where creative practice (of any kind) and academic research (of any kind) meet. https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/groups/creative-interactions
Contubernales Books @contubernales.bsky.social Publisher of Latin and Classical Texts
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Wholesome Animals 🐶 @wholesomeanimals.bsky.social Sharing the most wholesome animals on the internet 😍
Sarah Lord @potsofhistory.bsky.social Historic potter at Potted History
Dr Simon Trafford @simontrafford.bsky.social Curriculum Leader of Classics at a state grammar school; IB examiner; author of a few Classics related bits. Swansea University, University of Oxford alumnus. Living in Kent; working in SE London.
https://swansea.academia.edu/SimonTrafford
The Hellenic Society @hellenicsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art & archaeology in Ancient, Byzantine & Modern periods. Publishes JHS, AR & ARGO.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk
The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social Founded in 1910 for the study of Roman history, archaeology, literature and art down to about A.D. 700.
Based at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
www.romansociety.org
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.
The Latin Programme @thelatinprogramme.bsky.social The Latin Programme #viafacilis. A UK charity working in state schools to improve literacy through Latin and storytelling. Latin and Classics is for everyone!
www.thelatinprogramme.co.uk
Miri Teixeira-Connor @miri.bsky.social ✍️Games journo
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
ICS PG WiP Seminar @pgwip.bsky.social News from the Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Find upcoming seminars here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/search-events
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Rachel @rrowanolive.bsky.social Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | | Rent-a-mental (autistic type) | Lived experience researcher on suicide & harm in health & care systems
Χριστίνα @drchristinah.bsky.social “A twat” — Andrew Mastrandonas @andrewmceo, founder of Pillar Health
Simply Textbook 📚🚛♻️🏴🏴 @simplytextbook.bsky.social Simply Textbook collects unused and unwanted academic books, and works hard to find them a good new home - NEVER in landfill.
Collections offered free of charge to university staff in England and Wales.
Visit simplytextbook.co.uk
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.
Josephine Balmer @jobalmer.bsky.social Poet, translator, research scholar, spaniel wrangler. Motoring on Cotes de Provence rose
www.thepathsofsurvival.co.uk
Debbie Parker Kinch @debbieparkerkinch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Staff Tutor @ The Open University. Interested in 19/20C writing by women and the history of feminism. Writing a biography of writer & feminist Bessie Parkes Belloc (1829-1925). Views my own.
Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
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
Betsy Bevis @vulpicula.bsky.social Archaeology & Art History. She/her. Late Antiquity. Gaul, Hispania, etc. Mosaics of questionable quality. Villas no one has heard of (yet). Premodern textiles. Cats, cooking, knitting. First-gen, Neurospicy. Impossible love child of Ms. Frizzle & Mae West.
Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
Theatre of the Gentle Furies @gentlefuries.bsky.social We tell old stories in new ways. We take myths, pull them apart, and weave them back together for a contemporary audience. 🪶 GentleFuries.com
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social The Open University (OU) Library enables OU students and staff around the world to access a world-class online library service. Visit www.open.ac.uk/library to get started.
Starter Pack for OU (UK) staff here: https://go.bsky.app/UhqW8VR
Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social Celebrates Open University PhD and Professional Doctorate students and those who support them.
Reposts not endorsements.
Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social Classicist, academic publisher, editor, translator. Lecturer in Classics @ University of Tartu, Editor-in-chief of @unitartupress.bsky.social, board member of @aeup-eu.bsky.social
Mair @mair-lloyd.bsky.social Mathematician, Latinist, eDucator, PhD, Author, Voice actor ... whatever next?
Paul Found @paulfound.bsky.social Head of Classics Department in a UK grammar school; Cardiac arrest survivor, hard rock fan, Spurs season ticket holder. Musician and home studio owner 🤟
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Tony Potter @tony-potter.bsky.social Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funded PhD student at the Open University | Researching Sensory Experience in Caeretan Funerary Assemblages | #NewMaterialism | #AssemblageTheory | #MaterialReligion | #Archaeology | #Etruscology | #Neurodivergent | #JACTDurham
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Dr Hannah Platts @chattyplatty.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ancient History and Archaeology at RHUL. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses (Bloomsbury, 2019). Obsessed with all things Roman, oh and guinea pigs 🐹. 💙💛
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social Researcher into urbanism & housing:
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
Donna Zuckerberg @dzuck.bsky.social writer, recovering academic, parent. Author of "Not All Dead White Men," founder and editor-in-chief of eidolon.pub. Newsletter: https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com
Dr Emma Nicholson @nicholsone99.bsky.social Ancient historian at U. of Exeter. Hellenistic history & historiography, Polybius, Philip V, Macedonia, director of the #AntigonidNetwork. Author, dabbler artist, beagle owner, gamer and foodie.
Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
https://followinghadrian.com/
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
Ms R @classicslatin.bsky.social State school (English) Classical Studies and Latin teacher, currently on a pastoral secondment. Prof nerd, wannabe geek. ND. Learning side-saddle. All views my own. 🏴
Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order. Looking forward to the pivot past video.
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social A charity that runs an online seminar series exploring Herodotus and his world and Syllogos - Herodotus Journal. Open to all. Register your interest at herodotushelpline@gmail.com
https://herodotushelpline.org
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.