Catholic House of Prayer Iona π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ @cnocachalmain.bsky.social Run by The Colmcille Trust, the House of Prayer is situated on the Scottish island of Iona (Inner Hebrides) & accommodates guests in twin or single rooms. Competitive rates, idyllic base.
Website: www.catholic-iona.com
UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Here until Downing Street setup an official account. I also run @royalfamilyuk.bsky.social.
The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK
www.cromwellmuseum.org
Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins @terryandrob.bsky.social β¦although itβs mostly Rob these days.
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmogβs UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism from the west of England
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk
Part of the @bylinesnetwork.co.uk of independent, not-for-profit newspapers across the UK
Southern History Society @southernhistsoc.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of the history of southern England, Cornwall to Kent. Published annually since 1979.
Based at the University of Winchester. Registered charity no. 290710.
π southernhistorysociety.org.uk
Health Poverty Action @healthpoverty.bsky.social We see health differently. We do whatβs needed, not whatβs easiest, to stop health being denied.
https://www.healthpovertyaction.org/
Kate Rusby (Official Page) @katerusby.bsky.social Often hailed as 'Folk Royalty,' Kate Rusby has played a pivotal role in bringing traditional English folk music to a contemporary audience.
*Tickets for 'The Springshine Tourβ ON SALE NOW* katerusby.com/gigs
Christian Connection @chconnect.bsky.social The home of Christian dating for 25 years and counting ππ
Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow in English 2025-29 at St John's College, Cambridge. Book history, reading, writing.
/When the Music Fades/ 2026 @canterburypress.bsky.social
https://lucysixsmith.wordpress.com/
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social Incoming Bishop of St Albans. C of E lead for built heritage, writer & musician.
Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social Community hub, heritage destination, event venue, home to a living faith and musical tradition. One thousand years of wonder in the heart of Devon.
Ely Cathedral @elycathedral.bsky.social An iconic building, a Christian place of worship, a tourist destination, a major film & TV location and a concert & hospitality venue
Coventry Cathedral @coventrycathedral.bsky.social A welcoming space for all.
New Cathedral open Mon-Sat 10am to 4pm & Sundays 12.30pm to 3pm.
Wells Cathedral @wellscathedral.bsky.social The βmost poetic of the English Cathedralsβ, in the heart of medieval Wells, Somerset. "Breathtakingly beautiful" and "An encyclopedia of medieval life"
Kate Wharton @katewharton27.bsky.social Vicar of St. Bart's Roby, Liverpool. Author of 'Single Minded' (Monarch 2013). Northern Prolocutor of General Synod. Ambassador of New Wine.
Lucy Gorman π³οΈβπ @lucygorman.bsky.social Employee @itv, loyal Greenbelter, General Synod member for the Diocese of York & lifelong Crohnie. My opinions are my own.
George Pitcher @georgepitcher.bsky.social Writer and Anglican priest
John Bingham @john-bingham.bsky.social Head of News at the Church of England. Once a hack always a hack. You might find me posting on dogs, plants and even people.
Views my own fault
Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD β26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Joseph Stuart @jstuart.bsky.social History Professor | Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the Black Freedom Struggle
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Dominik WaΓenhoven @domwass.bsky.social Historian (Early Medieval) β§ Bishops β§ Church History β§ Female Power β§ England β§ Scandinavia β§ βGermanyβ β§ University of Cologne β§ @fobim.bsky.social β§ @hist4dem.bsky.social β§ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v β§ opinions my own β§ he/him
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social Christianity in South Asia, Church history, early modern history, archives, politics (mostly Italian) and random thoughts.
https://eui.academia.edu/PaoloAranha
Charles βAustinβ Rivera @carivera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Church History at Wake Forest Divinity School | Ephrem and Origen, theology and poetry | Methodist preacher
Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. π PVD.
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
Seth Dowland @sdowland.bsky.social American religion, Prof & Honors Director @ PLU, author of Family Values & Rise of Christian Right https://amazon.com/dp/0812224299, golf nut, UVA fan
Tim Gloege @tgloege.bsky.social Historian of reigion and Platform Administrator at the Grand Rapids Public Library. Author of Guaranteed Pure (UNC Press) and other things; tech tinkerer; local information; hopelessly Midwestern (he/him).
Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social Runs Webster Research & Consulting, helping #GLAM make better services for digital research: understand, plan, design, build, evaluate.
Outgoing Head of Digital Scholarship & Innovation, Southampton uni library.
Historian of 20th c. British Christianity.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Jon Garcia @jonmgarcia.bsky.social Historian of American Religion | Researching Latinos, borderlands, and evangelicalism | Tweeting religion, politics, and sports.
Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor ππ€π°π΅π΅πͺπ΄π© ππ©πΆπ³π€π© ππͺπ΄π΅π°π³πΊ (EUP) | Co-editor ππ©π¦ πππ¦π³π¨πΊ πͺπ― ππ’π³ππΊ ππ°π₯π¦π³π― ππ€π°π΅ππ’π―π₯ (Boydell, 2021)
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Daniel Vaca @danielvaca.bsky.social assoc. prof. @ Brown University | author of *Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America* (Harvard, 2019) | writing about religion + inequity + taxes + visions of the common good | danielvaca.com
Heather D Curtis @heatherdcurtis.bsky.social Historian of American Religion. Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities @ Tufts.
Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:π How Our Days Became Numbered
π seokweonjeon.com
Gale Kenny @galekenny.bsky.social Historian of US religion // knitter // author of Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (NYU Press)
Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents. I do not speak for my employer.
Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
Diane Shane Fruchtman @dianeshanef.bsky.social Rutgers Religion Prof; Medievalist historian of Christianity. Martyrdom Scholar. Advocate for inclusive pedagogy, public education, and peace. New Yorker turned Hoosier. Mom of 3. (She/her or they)
Joshua Schachterle @jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
Gerhard Stuebben @gerhardstuebben.bsky.social PhD 2023. 2023β2024 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Baylor University. Historian of Christianity, Latin American Liberation Theology.
Heike Omerzu @heikeomerzu.bsky.social Historian of early Christianity at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) - she/her
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Nick Thompson @suthfor.bsky.social Historian of religion at University of Auckland: Early Modern Christianity, religious violence, and religion in Aotearoa/NZ. Home brewer. Gen X dilettante. Ambulando solvitur.
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
Melissa Ryckman @missoularedhead.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, geek, feminist, mom, crocheter, potter. Order changes depending on day. Associate professor. All my own thoughts (most of which lately are 'wtf'). Desperately trying to do research.
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
Author:
-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social π¨ oral historian of Asia and πΎJapan. Bornπ΅π¬Raisedπ§π© Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. π πββοΈ
Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social Learning & teaching about American Religions and History of Christianity. Also: bourbon, basketball, bricolage, (participation-level) trophy husband, corralling two boys.
Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ Kutztown, Art History | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ (They/Them)
Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Bob Cornwall @drbobcornwall.bsky.social Disciples of Christ minister-at-large, ecumenist, author, and historical theologian. I blog at https://www.bobcornwall.com/
Francesco Rotiroti @rotiroti.bsky.social Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist β Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games β https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Rotiroti
David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social HS Humanities | Social Studies Dept. Head | #IB History and IB TOK | #bced, BC π¨π¦| Unto the fundamentalists a stumbling block & unto the secularists foolishness.
ππCascadia Subduction Zone
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
John Maiden @johnmaiden.bsky.social Professor of Modern Religious History; Director of Evangelical Studies Program. Researching charismatic renewal on island of Ireland; writing biography of Michael Harper. In spare time frustrated by Manchester United. Manc.
Matt Ferris @ferrismattic.bsky.social Former professional musician, theology student, language learner. Greek NT enthusiast. Neophyte Hebraist. Composer.
The Conference on Faith and History @faithandhistory.bsky.social The Conference on Faith and History is a community of scholars exploring the relationship between Christian faith and history.
The Anxious Bench @anxiousbench.bsky.social Group blog featuring faith, politics, and culture in view of American and global religious history.
Jake Randolph @jrhett.bsky.social Asst. Professor of the History of Christianity. Columnist at @anxiousbench.bsky.social. Author of Medieval Chivalry and the Making of Anabaptist Identity (Routledge, 2026).
Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social Studies #lateantiquity #earlychristianity and #earlymedieval stuff. Small town America pastor with the UCC. Also into fantasy, sci-fi, role play, and the wilderness. he/him/his
Dr Janiece Johnson @janiecej.bsky.social Author of Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture @uncpress amongst other things. This could be a Luna appreciation account.
@revdrmgc.bsky.social @revdrmgc.bsky.social Illinoisan, Michigander, and now Kansan.
All in on the Midwest.
PhD in Historical theology and ordained elder.
#VeryAsian Dr. Sid Sudiacal (he/him/siya) π΅ππ¨π¦ @drsids.bsky.social Filipino Canadian scholar interested in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology.
Views are my own.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD @ynpierce.bsky.social Professor, Dean, womanist theologian, Black Church historian, activist, displaced New Yorker, Alpha Kappa Alpha, writer, lover of words.
Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social Reformation historian. Translator of John Calvinβs Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Rusty Hawkins @rustyhawkins.bsky.social Historian of Religion and Race in the U.S. Author of THE BIBLE TOLD THEM SO.
Dean of John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University.
Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social Renegade Bonhoeffer scholar. General editor, Bonhoeffer Works (English). I write about churches in Nazi Germany & the Holocaust. Here to discover new research, interesting books, poetry, music & occasionally the humor. www.victoriajbarnett.com
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social A mon in Shropshire. Alus happy to promote our sebunctious county. Chunnerins may induce drowsiness.
Www.Memoriesofshropshire.Co.uk
The Welsh Hare ~ Michelle Westerman @thewelshhare.bsky.social Lover of tea, cake & countryside. Maker of this & that. Also the renovation journey of a little estate cottage that was scheduled for demolition.
Kate aka Fergie @katy-did-nowt.bsky.social Cornwall born artist, retired techie, lapsed cyclist, always busy. I care about our planet and most of its people. Anti Tories, Reform and everything Right Wing.
*No DMs*
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesnβt accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social History, London, and Beyond
[All pictures my own unless cited]
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex @gswrites.bsky.social Pop science writer/editor consultant for hire, specialising in astronomy and its history. Regular nerd with @somethingwho.bsky.social
Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social Movement Lawyer & Clinical Law Prof
Down w/ @nlg.org @wplc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social
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Anne @anitaschultz.bsky.social Maturity doesn't mean stopping dreaming; age is just a number. I still look forward to new scenery, new stories, and a sincere and warm connection.
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