Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social Scientist, artist, educator, chef, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, bookworm, linguist, peacemaker, volunteer, etc. in no particular order.
Please don't ask because I will not date you, I will not send you money, and I will not be your disciple. Thanks.
Skip the Queue Podcast @skipthequeue.fm Skip the Queue is a podcast for visitor attraction owners, directors and suppliers who want to improve their organisations and deliver a better experience for their guests.
Brought to you by Merac
Hosted by Andy Povey
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social A membership organisaiton, helping you unlock the power of volunteering. Sign up at heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk
Matthew Jarron @mhjarron-curator.bsky.social Museum curator - Dundee heritage enthusiast - art, film and cake lover
Rebecca Hill @museumofginger.bsky.social Curator. Might get round to posting about museums/art/whatever else at some pointโฆ
Manchester, UK
Ellen Askey @elleaskey.bsky.social ~ currently caring for a collection in a castle ~
Mostly sharing textiles or other weird and wonderful nic knackery
Dr Helena Cox @helenacoxcurator.bsky.social Art Curator at Uni of York overseeing a collection of over 900 artworks. Art historian of Czech, British & Japanese art, Art Nouveau, Victorian art and Pre-Raphaelites. At home in York ๐ฌ๐ง- Prague ๐จ๐ฟ - Providence, RI ๐บ๐ธ - Linkรถping ๐ธ๐ช
Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social Our charity is proud to:
๐ฅพBreak down barriers to walking
๐Fight for the places we love to walk
๐บ๏ธChampion access rights
๐ถ๐ฝโโ๏ธ Run 3,500 group walks a year across Scotland
ramblers.org.uk/scotland
Prof. Ian Baxter @ibheritage.bsky.social Professor of Historic Environment Management at Heriot-Watt University. #heritage #tourism #archaeology #experience For some reason the business school employed an archaeologist. Does governance and committee things with various heritage organisations.
Edinburgh Trams @edinburghtrams.bsky.social The official home of Edinburghโs tramway ๐
Lothian Buses @lothianbuses.bsky.social This is the official page for Lothian Buses. Visit www.lothianbuses.co.uk to learn more.
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Grayโs studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts โ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribeโ
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
James OโBrien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social Scotland: Literature Song Culture
Valentinabold.org
FSA Scot, Hon Fellow Edinburgh Uni, Heritage at Scottish Women's Institutes, Editor journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc and
www.peterlang.com/series/shcs Birlawman of Stirling Marches
Cat Thomson @catthomsonwrites.bsky.social Freelance words and a spot of PR. I write about food, drink & travel, plus a monthly hen column in The Scotsman Magazine.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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๐ฆ๐บ Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
Dr Rachael Purse @drrachaelpurse.bsky.social Historian, feminist, and lover of all things spooky. Iโm interested in womenโs histories, building conservation, architectural history, dress history and art history. 
Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social ๐๏ธ educator, philosopher, strategist, museum nerd
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ซ Art & Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University ๐ Fellow, Yale LWL and RSA
โ๏ธ MoMA/PS1, The Getty, MOCA
๐ซ ICOM | AERA | AAHE | PES | INPE | JDS | APA
#aesthetics #philsky #edusky #academicsky
Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social A collective voice for community landowners throughout Scotland, representing and supporting land reform through community land ownership
Mauricio Delfin @maudelfin.bsky.social Artist, researcher and Co-Director of Culture and Arts Policy Institute @cultureapolicy.bsky.social / UNESCO/EU Expert Facility Member / #opengov #culturalpolicy #openGLAM #OpenCulture
Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot Buildings/heritage/tech/Muppets fan, ex-scientist.
Works @archhfund.org.uk Scotland
50% of @ScottishCinemas.org
33% of @glasgowgardenfestival.org
Also at @gordonbarr@mastodon.scot
National Coal Mining Museum @ncmme.bsky.social Open Wednesday-Sunday. Visit for a unique all-weather adventure! Meet a miner, explore exhibitions and enjoy the great outdoors.
Explore more: www.ncm.org.uk
Dr Grรกinne Rice @grainnerr.bsky.social Adult Programme Coordinator, @Natgalleriessco
All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
linktr.ee/grainnerr
EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Posts from Scotlandโs first industrial eco-museum commemorating and recording mining landscapes through a series of community created cycling and walking routes.
National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social On stage, on screen, on tour
David Coates @davidjcoates.bsky.social Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic ๐ซ
Mini Masters Art Club @minimastersart.bsky.social Art Educator & Artist. โ๏ธ Cultural Democrat. Bringing Art to Children - and Children to Art. KS1 & KS2. Est 2007. eX @MiniMastersArt #Manchester #Chorlton #ImaginationUnlimited #LetMeDoArtMyWay
#LagomLife ๐ฟ
Ailsa @starofvenus.bsky.social Me: yogi/runner/Edinburgh-er. Work: NMSPartnerships/museums/connections/cultural-heritage/skills Chair: Travelling Gallery Advisory Group Trustee: SHBT Fellow: RSA. Views: all me.
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeonsโ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
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/
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard โ๐ปโจ๏ธ
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 โค๏ธ)
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐๐๏ธ๐ฐ
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Marian Toledo Candelaria @malcolmcanmore.bsky.social Special collections librarian. Likes books, book history, book arts, and typography. Parent to two fluffy bunnies.
๐ต๐ท (she/they/ella[e])
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
- Maritime Warfare (1513-1713)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Law & the Conduct of War
"Late onset academic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Murdoch
Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor ๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ (EUP) | Co-editor ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ (Boydell, 2021)
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Mรกel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php- K Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade ๐ณ๐ฑ
All views my own.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gร idhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Craig @craig1802.bsky.social Ordinary bloke living in SW Scotland
Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ฑ (she/her)
Charlotte Nekman @toften2920.bsky.social Danish/Scottish. Living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Historian.
40 years+ in advertising, sales, marketing, and fundraising.
B.A. (Marketing) 1982
M.A. (History/Cross-Cultural Studies) 2020.
Volunteer refugees. 
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Morag @glasgowgenealogy.bsky.social Professional genealogist from Glasgow, trading as www.glasgowgenealogy.co.uk. Specialising in Scottish research but interested in all aspects of genealogy/family history. Also into baking, knitting, sewing, geocaching, travel.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Mark Rustbucket @markrustbucket.bsky.social My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
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/
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social Historian of 18c Scotland, PhD Candidate at UDelaware. Mary Stuart, historiography, memory, Hume, Jacobitism.
Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - havenโt done age verification. Sorry.
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social Stained Glass Studio. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart.
www.stainedglass.scot
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian ๐ early modern womenโs writing, song culture & medicine ๐ book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp ๐ she/her ๐ถ aspiring broadcaster ๐ป
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social Family and local historian. One Place Study: Graveney and Goodnestone. One Name Study: Rigden. Specialist subjects: Faversham Workhouse, 19th century riots. Border Reivers. 
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social โCurious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennantโs Tours of Wales and Scotlandโ. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
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/
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Dr Sheilagh Quaile @sheilaghquaile.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Adjunct), University of Prince Edward Island.
Historian of art, design, and material culture in Britain and empire.
Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
Dr. Katie McCullough @kmccullo.bsky.social Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lษkฬสทษลษn and WฬฑSรNEฤ territories.
Principal consultant at https://yarrowhistoricalconsulting.ca/
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Peadar ร Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social รrd-รฒraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Phil Stobie @thebadasshistorian.bsky.social Not a real badass or historian
Monument Manager Tantallon Castle
Film/TV battle scene veteran
Outlander chameleon S1-6
I love quirky tv, unusual films, catchy choruses, history, nature
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social โ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Russell ร Rรญagรกin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist โ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; โค cats โ books
sรฉ/he/il/er/han
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social ๐part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee โ๏ธ
๐avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
๐ตOlder than I look but not wiser ๐คช
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2โ, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary โEvansville at War.โ He/Him๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social