Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
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.
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social I like stuff!
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Dr Nic @eldergoth.bsky.social Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice. "Grim(m) Perspectives: Stitching Tales of Self" https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/handle/10399/5406
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Warner Textile Archive @warnertextilearchv.bsky.social Our textile archive is home to over 100,000 artefacts mapping the rich
heritage of luxury textile manufacturers Warner & Sons.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts.
History, textiles, costume, more history
Joanne Hackett @joanneh.bsky.social Lecturer, textile conservator, and plate spinner.
Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social Historian of moo cows [I have it on good authority that this should be in my profile]. Clinging to academia.
Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Abundance in Cold War America.
Views my own.
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social Intellect is a fiercely independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
Kimberly Alexander @ksalex10.bsky.social Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
Emerson W. Baker @emersonwbaker.bsky.social History prof @Salem State, author of A Storm of Witchcraft & The Devil of Great Island, early American public history, 17th C. archaeology and material culture.
@rdorozario.bsky.social @rdorozario.bsky.social Writer, farmer, fairy-tale scholar, metalsmith, knitter
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Ann Marguerite Tartsinis @atartsinis.bsky.social Mondrian’s Dress from MIT Press / Work at SFMOMA / Dissertating on fashion, photo, history & scrapbooks at Stanford University (views own)
John Bright Collection @jbrightcollection.bsky.social Reference collection of historical costume at film,TV & theatre costume house Cosprop. Online collection funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk
www.cosprop.com
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.
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Hilary Gopnik @hilarygopnik.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, Ancient Cultures at Monash Uni, thinking about different ways people have organized their communities in the past to value caring and humanness. Hopeful for the future.
SSSHARC at Sydney @sssharc.bsky.social Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre: Seeding and accelerating collaborative research.
@ArtSS_Sydney
@sydneyuni.bsky.social
E.E. Knight @eeknight.bsky.social Fantasy/sf author, husband, father of three, triathlete, cyclist, Chicagoan by way of MN.
Chawton House @chawtonhouse.bsky.social Known to Jane Austen as the ‘Great House’, owned by her brother Edward. Beautiful house & gardens, Austen heirlooms, unique collection of early women's writing.
https://chawtonhouse.org/
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Elizabeth L. Block art and culture historian @elizabethlblock.bsky.social PhD. Art and culture historian, speaker. Author. Out now: GILDED AGE FASHION. Substack: Gilded Age Fashion. Wrote BEYOND VANITY and DRESSING UP.
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Sue-the-Silkewoman @sue-the-silkewoman.bsky.social Demonstrating, teaching & making insanely time consuming historic silkwork. Decorative woven & braided textiles and trimmings for museums, historic sites & people.
Basically making tiny holes in silk because I can…
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
Roberto Filippello @robertofilippel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media & Culture at University of Amsterdam | Author of DRESSED FOR DISSENT: DECOLONIAL FASHION & THE QUEER STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE (UC Press, October 2026) 🇵🇸
Emeline Retournard @emelineretournard.bsky.social Docteure en archéologie textile/PhD in Textile Archaeology ⛏🔬 | Antiquity - Middle Ages - Modern Age | Associate researcher: UR 1001 CHEC (@ucauvergne.bsky.social)
|🧵@moires-textiles.bsky.social ✂️
Mother of the Twins of Destruction 🐣🐣
MOIRES @moires-textiles.bsky.social 🧵 Association for the valorisation and study of textiles in archaeology and social anthropology ✂️
Based in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Account held by @emelineretournard.bsky.social
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Anne Fertig, PhD @annefertig.bsky.social History, literature, but mostly just a lot of Jane Austen. Catch me in my upcoming podcast, Finding Jane Austen (Out 2025)
Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social She/Her. I Love LA. Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man, Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River, & Viviana Valentine & the Ticking Clock. The NYT says I "write with flair." I podcast about movie sleuths. New Haven Pizza Evangelist. More: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
Sali Hughes @salihughes.bsky.social Journalist & Author.
Bang in to clothes, films, cults.
Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social 📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
🏳️🌈 Proud Trustee of Newbury Pride.
Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.
"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.
Signal: eroston.87
Bloomberg Green
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
AndreasP_RV @andreasp-rv.bsky.social Älterer Herr (teilweise noch rüstig), Oberschwabe, Opernfreund, Kirchenpfleger, Organist, Wikipedist, Knipser, Ansichtskartensammler. Rein privater Account. https://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/
Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social
Locus Award & Perkoff Prize Winner
Nebula, Ignyte, BFA & ALCS Tom Gallon Finalist.
In: Clarkesworld| BCS| Podcastle| Strange Horizons| Escape Pod| Pseudopod|
MFA, @UofMaryland| TinHouse| Clarion
Filmmaker| Rep: @crsripley.bsky.social
somtoihezue.com
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Slots, table games, golf, luxury spa, sweat lodge, ball pit, dining options, concert/convention center, and some other stuff. Definitely haunted.
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Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social Living very quietly in the Cascadia bioregion. Mostly things related to textiles, and lots of photos of Victor Velluto, an elegant goofball Russian Blue cat.
“Darling, these are my gardening pearls.”
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
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/
Martin @martinstrauss.id.au Musician. Photographer. Maker. dancer. Engineerer of software. Incorrigible collector of hobbies.
Producer at @curiosityguild.org.
https://www.martinstrauss.id.au
The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris… a book on art & fashion by @addressingart.bsky.social to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025!
Jerry Moore @jerrymoorecostume.bsky.social 💼Costume Historian | Previously a Lecturer on BA (Hons) Costume Production at Arts University Plymouth | 📚Author of The Handbook for Historical Pattern Cutting| 🎓PhD Art History Candidate | Based in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 #costume
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social Science Journalist & Author: The Stronger Sex (Seal/Hachette) Regular Bylines: Nat Geo, WashPo, SciAm, New Scientist, Science Alert And: Weightlifter, Ceramicist, Wildswimmer, Ecstatic Dancer
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social A Wellcome Trust funded project at the University of Manchester exploring an environmental approach to the history of sleep care.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/
Jeanice Brooks @jeanice-brooks.bsky.social Musicologist and academic. All pet, food, and music news welcome. I might post on sound, music, and heritage stuff. Also en français.
Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
https://robbierichardson.net
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Syed @dapper-kid.bsky.social www.dapperkid.co.uk
Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social BB-LAB was established in 2021 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel by @christophe-fire.bsky.social to increase the synergy between bioarchaeological researchers in Brussels and beyond! Based at @amgc-vub.bsky.social
The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute is a leading think-tank based in Canberra http://australiainstitute.tv | Authorised by E Bennett, The Australia Institute, Canberra 2603
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
The Race & Regency Lab @race-regency.bsky.social The Race & Regency Lab
raceandregency.org
posts by tricia matthew
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Lizzie Dunford @lizziedunford.bsky.social Bookwormy, museumy, wildernessy, frustrated writer kind of a person. Occasional Substack posts on Substack.com/@lizziedwrites
Dillon Cat @gtonyjacobs.bsky.social Gonzo Mathematician at The Krusty Krab
Sean @seanomenon.bsky.social Spaceface
Kris Howard @web-goddess.org Blogger, knitter, crafter, social media addict. Formerly at Canva & AWS. Recovering from 20 years in the tech industry. | 🇦🇺🇺🇸 she/her
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now!
📍Brighton, UK.
Bernadette Banner @bernadettebanner.bsky.social I drink and I sew things.
YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
Dr Amy Miller & Alison Beadnell @beadnell-miller.bsky.social Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.
George Buchanan @georgerbuchanan.bsky.social DIrector, University of Melbourne iSchool
Oldpatterns.com @oldpatterns.bsky.social Owner of Oldpatterns.com. My website has over 10,000 vintage sewing patterns.
Interests: Sewing, historical fashion, quilting, Broadway shows, drag, travel, and museums
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts. Mainly on Instagram @petercnstewart
Vendy Hoppe @vendyhoppe.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, previously University of Warwick. Researching early modern velvets, visual & material cultures.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social Novelist (Fabulous Nobodies, The Woman in the Lobby and a few more), weekly columnist for Nine Traveller, often away, rarely disconnected. Human writer. No AI. What's the fun if you don't do it yourself?
Rory Muir @rorymuir.bsky.social British History - Wellington; the Defeat of Napoleon; Regency Society, careers open to younger sons; Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale UP Feb 2024)
Lives in Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social #Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Substack: https://dimitrafimi.substack.com
Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
The Folk Archive @thefolkarchive.bsky.social Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social #FolkloreThursday is a hashtag day for sharing folklore facts, and a website filled with articles! Founded by @deedeechainey.bsky.social & @willowwinsham.bsky.social.
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Jane Austen's Niece @carolinejaneknight.bsky.social Jane Austen's 5th grt niece from Chawton, where Jane lived and wrote.
Loves Jane Austen, business & independence
📝 CEO of The Austen Pathway for authors & creatives
📚 Founder & chair Jane Austen Literacy Foundation
✒️Author of Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous