Nellster @nellster.bsky.social ex-forester ex-code-monkey ex-husband atheist humanist scientist ancient history fan ex-beekeeper law-curious lover cyclist/car-driver/motorcyclist, politically centre/left of centre, vaguely pro-vegetarian but not there yet
Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social Posts from Reading Museum. We share stories from the history of the town of Reading, its people, its wildlife, and our collections.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Beverage Drinker @massivehorses.bsky.social cretin
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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social A semi-retired architectural illustrator, drawing buildings & old stuff to relieve stress. Illustration, art, archaeology, conservation, reading. FSA, Fellow Society of Architectural Illustrators (FSAI). No NFTs.
Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator & illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. All photos mine unless on shared posts www.mythicalbritain.co.uk
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.
Sally Ward @salza.bsky.social Nature lover, history lover …
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland's rich culture and built heritage since 1978. We preserve, promote and protect Scotland's unique assemblage of ecclesiastical buildings.
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social The Society's Blue Sky feed run by the Director with an interest in all things archaeological especially archaeological method, geophysics and fieldwork. Have been known to publish a few things on coins and stats too. Always looking for speakers!
Linda Hull @lahull.bsky.social 25+yrs Primary teacher/headteacher - now leading on primary curriculum for a SCITT and loving every minute! Church architecture, Arts & Crafts and standing on riverbanks fill up the rest of my time. Views expressed my own.
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words; husband, father, generally curious
https://substack.com/@jembenson
📍 Leicestershire, UK
Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander.
With a burning spear & a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.' (Tom O' Bedlam) L.A.M.F
Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social Trade Unionist; Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social Stories sprinkle stardust on our lives.
Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire,
Ancient Greece
Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026
Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis @gladiushispania.bsky.social 🏛️ Hispania y mundo romano 🏛️
📍Avgvsta Emérita, Mérida (BA) ES
This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social 'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present and Future.' All images are my own.
Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social A unique museum dedicated to Roman & Iron Age Scotland.
🌟Thistle Awards Winner
Melrose, Scottish Borders
🔗https://linktr.ee/trimontiumtrust
Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social Historian. News editor at Ancient History and Ancient Warfare magazines. Author of 15 books, including MARCUS AGRIPPA, GERMANICUS and TIBERIUS. Appeared on History Channel, HistoryHit and The History Network. FRHistS.
Website: https://lindsay-powell.com
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
Jamie Leader @jamieleader.bsky.social Centrist dad / insolvency litigation lawyer.
Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social Local Gov. Archaeology, Books, Art, Mountains. Birmingham City, Post-Punk, Films. Usually found in the Yorks, Worcs, and Pembs Tri-State area. History and Philosophy @ UWL. https://thefastflowingriver.wordpress.com/
Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social Ex-teacher! Author! Paperback of my book, St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women can be ordered through Columba Books or bookshops! I write about early medieval Irish saints & their monasteries/convents! Next book progressing well!
Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social Isle of Wight Council Archaeology & Historic Environment Service. We manage the Isle of Wight HER and provide advice on archaeology and the historic environment
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
@romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social "The Britons live in such a state of independence
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social Mostly history, Mostly Antiquarian,
Mostly Dorset.
Antiquarian book lover, Dorset.
George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social Retired history teacher. Enjoys Lake District, painting, grandchildren, nature, history - lots really. Oh, and wildlife gardening. Still interested in education.
Andrea Robertson @mrsrobbo.bsky.social Geriatric fcbd®️ tribal belly dancer and former morris dancer. Hand drum fan (especially frame drums), and very mediocre melodeon player.
Based at the top end of Northumberland, UK.
Roman Sites @romansites.bsky.social Exploring sites and museums throughout the Roman world.
All photos (except reposts) are my own. Based in Dorset, UK.
Blog at https://visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Public Historian & #StarWars author. Rep'd Justin Nash of @katenashagent.bsky.social. Visiting Senior Research Fellow @warstudieskcl.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Historian @blackmillgames.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social (she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
Pfp by Birdee Blake
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Romain Vincent @romainvincent.bsky.social Docteur en Sciences de l'éducation : La scolarisation du jeu vidéo par les enseignants (Laboratoire Experice / Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Prof d'Histoire-Géographie (Académie de Créteil)
Jeux video & Histoire sur YouTube : www.youtube.com/c/JVH
Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO
Opinions are my own ¬ the views of my employer
Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games
James Sweeting @crazyblue.bsky.social Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social Historian of ancient Egypt & papyrologist | games researcher (analogue + digital) | Manchester Met Uni | Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre | Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society | Les Mills instructor | Blood Bowl enthusiast
Ian Regueiro Salcedo @arkeologian.bsky.social Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Subscribe for queer and trans culture and histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
Meu romance: https://tinyurl.com/349wdeud
Blog: https://finisgeekis.com.br/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3F9RVGD
Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social Composer and wargame designer.
Composer for Blackheart, RED ECHO, REKKR, the Ruins of Calaworm, and Outer Ring MMO - www.tom-jensen.com
Designer of Missile Threat, War by Sail, Lacquered Coffins, Hind & Seek, Ukraine 2022, Ostfront, etc.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
patguy @patguy.bsky.social Thing that writes, and sleeps. Not that other asshole.
The Sunday Scaries appear weekly at ghoulishdelights.com
pat-harrigan.com
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 35 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
Janice Liedl @jliedl.bsky.social Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
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
Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social PhD Candidate in medieval literature at CUNY Grad Center | writing a dissertation on medieval romance, game studies, and premodern race
She/her
🌺 Okinawan/Ryukyuan diaspora
✨Professional Yapper
👩🏫 Dork Academia
ARISE (Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas) @archarise.bsky.social Página do laboratório de pesquisa ARISE, sediado na FURG e vinculado ao MAE-USP | ⛏️ Archaeogaming | 🎲 Historical Game Studies | 🎮 Métodos digitais
The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social Connecting Modern Societies to Ancient Worlds. Ancient Office Hours Podcast & The Reading Party Podcast. Pnyx Digital Magazine. #history #Archaeogaming #podcasts #reception #digitalhumanities & more!
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 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Dr. John R. Legg @legg.bsky.social Historian and college professor. Really interested in Native American history and Digital Public History. Trying to learn trumpet. Photog.
www.johnlegg.org
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
School of Innovation & Technology @sit-gsa.bsky.social The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf- S Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social Environmental historian and game designer; mom to an amazing boy and animals.
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Vacceo_coffee @vacceopal.bsky.social 
Pablo @vacceo.bsky.social Iberian hermit, keeper of the dead, remembrancer, narration devourer. Sworn to the black and red. I teach Anthropology at the University of Valladolid and, sometimes, I even write about games and myths.
Bego @diniekes.bsky.social Niña-Kratos
Rutxi García @rutxigarcia.bsky.social Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Jeremy Best @besthistories.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany. Colonialism. Religion. Games. Holocaust educator. Determined to save history. He/him/his. All views my own.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Zeljko Kos - Making Pompeii: The Legacy @zzeljkokos.bsky.social Solo dev, working on city builder Pompeii: The Legacy. Programmer and game designer since 1999. Co-founder of LGM Games & Overseer Games, owner of Siscia Games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/Pompeii_The_Legacy/?utm_source=bs&utm_campaign=h2
Clare Chang @cyyclare.bsky.social 1st year Classics PhD student studying Narrative in Petitions from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Generally interested in all things related to narratives and stories and novels
Avid Mobile Game Player (currently fixated with Path to Nowhere & Reverse 1999)
Robert C. Engen @robertengen.bsky.social Senior lecturer in war studies at Deakin University, working on the PME command and staff course in Canberra. 🇨🇦 in 🇦🇺, not going back.
Military historian turned war studier turned wargame designer. Also a “pretty good but don’t quit your day job” artist.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay, #HistoricalGameStudies and #medieval set #TTRPG, idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
criticalplayorg @criticalplayorg.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Cullan James @cullanjames.bsky.social Yaps about history, memory, politics, digital media, film/television, the works
🇺🇸 in 🇨🇿
Doctoral researcher in media studies | MA Slavic Studies | MGPS Global Governance and International Law