Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
@courtauld.bsky.social @courtauld.bsky.social 
Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social Art historian & medievalist; under-appreciated plant enthusiast, uptight watercolourist. 🇨🇦✍️📚🌱. Insta: @alixebove
Jenny Brownrigg @jennybrownrigg.bsky.social Curator and writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art. Board member Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Pier Arts Centre. On GSA UCU committee. she/her www.jennybrownrigg.com
Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social Bog fancier, parent, professor & Dean of Arts @UCalgary, Treaty 7 Territory. sí/í. Account and all postings are personal, not professional.
Dr Gráinne 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
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social Writer and curator. Past contributions to: 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, ArtReview, Frieze, e-flux, Mousse. Formerly chief curator at Swiss Institute, New York
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
Graham Domke @mirrorinthetext.bsky.social remembering, repeating and working through
Douglas Dodds @douglasdodds.bsky.social Independent curator, formerly at the V&A. All things digital - especially computer art, digital art, algorithmic art, generative art, etc. Plus museums, libraries, digital humanities, Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and more.
www.douglasdodds.org
Andrew Brown @abrown23artbooks.bsky.social Founder of indie publisher Art/Books. Hackney and Naples via Yorkshire and Paris. Football. Books. Food. Forza Napoli Sempre. 23. Music. Usually but not always in that order. 'Meglio 3 scudetti con dignità cà 36 senza onestà.' Now 4 scudetti.
Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org
Songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
Show: L is for Landscape https://divisionoflabour.co.uk/gavin-wade-l-type
Book: (555 Verses) https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social Art critic, Berlin. Editor at ArtReview. Dachshund butler. Unfold This Moment, Tell Them I Said No, The Uncertainty Principle pub. Sternberg Press
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Alex O’Neill ✌🏾 @alexfynnoneill.bsky.social •• Senior Director at #whitecube, one of the leading commercial galleries in the world •• Lover of #contemporaryart #modernart and #arthistory in its many shapes and forms ••
Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social curator | museums | freelance | art
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
tomlordan.com
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Esther Rose Leslie @afoggyplace.bsky.social Somers Towner, militant aesthete.
Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk not a professional account 
oritgat.bsky.social @oritgat.bsky.social I write about art and now also football
www.oritgat.com
Caroline Woodley @carolinewoodley.bsky.social 
Leonie Bell @leoniebell.bsky.social Director V&A Dundee, Scotlands design museum
Honorary Professor of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
Trustee Edinburgh International Festival
Benedict Drew @benedictdrew.bsky.social Art and music
https://benedictdrew.com/
https://thanettapecentre.bandcamp.com
@francismckee.bsky.social @francismckee.bsky.social lecturer at glasgow school of art - photography, writing, contemporary art, blues, jazz, curating, krazy kat
Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social Author The Great University Gamble.
University funding & financing.
But also chess, shogi and tai chi.
andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
Carey Young @careyyoung.bsky.social Artist and Prof. in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Art, law, feminism, lenses, ocular concerns..economics. Sometimes haunts courthouses. A current show: 'Good Service, Good Performance', Le Magasin, Grenoble. www.careyyoung.com
Alistair Gentry @alistairgentry.bsky.social 'Frankly disturbing' performance artist, writer, producer, irritant, arts admin and research fairy, jack of all trades, master of some. http://linktr.ee/alistairgentry
https://alistairgentry.net
Charlie Tweed @charlietweed.bsky.social Media artist, Researcher, Subject Leader Art, Bath School of Art, Film and Media. Co-lead Material : Art & Technology Research Group. I use to Co-curate Alma Enterprises, London. www.charlietweed.com
Dr Deborah Jackson @debojacko.bsky.social 
Book Works @bookworks.bsky.social Established in 1984, Book Works is a contemporary arts organisation dedicated to making and publishing books.
https://bookworks.org.uk
kyla mcdonald @kylamcdonald.bsky.social curator, writer, art historian — Berlin
PhD in feminist art & curatorial history. Former director/curatorial roles at Bonner Kunstverein, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyla-mcdonald-8a7049b1/
Mark Essen @nessekram.bsky.social ♐🌱☭☮🧿🍉
Niki Russell @thisisnikirussell.bsky.social 
Sluice__ @sluiceart.bsky.social Sluice is an artist-led initiative that works with artist-led initiatives
sluice.info
Jeanne-Mare Raubenheimer @jimmakeup.bsky.social Makeup and Bodypaint artist for film/tv/theatre/personal. (LA/NYC/CPT) Makeup supervisor for Kissing booth, Maze Runner, Invasion, Raised by wolves, Afterlife of the Party etc IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm2316203/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Cerys Matthews @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Food.Action.Music.Books. Happy on the end of a rope.
Programme BBC radio shows -write books, make music and get out and about.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Wendy Cotterill @wendycotterill.bsky.social Previously on X as @gallerytextiles. I’ll fill in the rest soon.
H-Albion @halbion.bsky.social The H-Net discussion network for British and Irish History. 
Dr Julia Hamilton @juliahamilton17c.bsky.social Historian and Heritage Professional, specialising in Stuart royal interiors - people, spaces, objects and decoration. If you are a curator, novelist or dramatist looking to interpret 17th century space more accurately, I can help.
linktr.ee/juliahamilton
Dr Rachael Purse @drrachaelpurse.bsky.social Historian, feminist, and lover of all things spooky. I’m interested in women’s histories, building conservation, architectural history, dress history and art history. 
Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social Prof. of Feminism, Art & Theory at Loughborough U. Cat lady, no kids. England, but have lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Pittsburgh. #AcademicSky
Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Cambridge // My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN (Verso) is out now 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Thom Burns @thomburns.bsky.social Curator and Museum Geek
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.
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
T.H. Sorensen @tohauso.bsky.social Art historian, lover of trees, cats and old Hollywood.
Currently working on 19th century Scandinavian art and vikings.
The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social The Blake Society celebrates the life and work of William Blake (1757-1827) poet, artist & visionary. We hold regular meetings (online and in real locations), organise Blakean events and publish our journal, VALA.
https://blakesociety.org
Chiara Betti @chiara-betti.bsky.social Curatorial Research Assistant (Society of Antiquaries of London)
AHRC CDP PhD Student at SAS and the Bodleian Libraries, studying Richard Rawlinson's #copperplates
Art historian & print historian.
Instagram: @rascal_art_historian
Dr Kath @dr-kath.bsky.social PhD, English / comparative and general literature: intertextuality | concept album, bilingual (German / English), creator of the blog #aircraftalbatrossandabeast, (she / her)
Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
Alicia Bruce @aliciabruce.bsky.social Scottish artist, photographer, community collaborator
Member of Women Photograph
Teaching Fellow, eca
Founder Portobello Photography School
Book ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ (Daylight Books USA) celebrates a Scottish community who stood up to Trump
Holly Rowan Hesson @hollyrowanhesson.bsky.social Artist responding to the experience of physical space, architecture and the built environment.
Concrete please.
Not sculpture project.
Artist in residence with AA2A at York St John University.
Based Leeds/ York, UK
hollyrowanhesson.co.uk
Toby Juliff @tobyjuliff.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher. Foster parent. Latin/x, EnvHist, cont Art historian and curious person. nipaluna Hobart. Often found walking.
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Toby.Juliff
Michael Ramsey @mbrtailoring.bsky.social Historic Tailoring | Accessories Craftsperson | Dress History | Material Culture and Identity in the Greater Atlantic | He/Him/His
Abigail Harrison Moore @professorabigail.bsky.social Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, campaigner for arts, humanities and creative subjects for all, teacher and learner, encourager of curiosity and very embarrassing mother.
Kate Fellows @katehfellows.bsky.social Head of Learning & Access @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. GEMYH rep, Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network chair, Artsmark moderator, Cultural Learning Alliance advisory panel. Change the world with tea, cake & awesome arts and culture. Own views. She/her.
Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
Amber Bowes @arbowes.bsky.social PhD candidate at Indiana University studying British literature and book history of the long 19C 📚🦇
book review editor @victstudies.bsky.social
reference assistant at Bloomington IN's Lilly Library
Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social PhD researcher of The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s - Present. LGBTQIA+ photographic history. Photographic artist and avid cross stitcher (they/them)
Tobah Aukland-Peck @tobahjoy.bsky.social PhD candidate in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center. I think about histories of extraction in British modernism - coal, oil, fossils, tin, and granite.
Jack O'Connor @jackstanoconnor.bsky.social Cultural Historian
New project researching 1980s Hulme, Manchester - https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/about/our-people/institute-staff/hulme-manchester/
History PhD from Sussex Uni on the New Universities of the 1960s.
Charlotte Johnson @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social Curator of Industry and Metalwork🍴
Recently submitted my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham
Eszter Erdosi @eerdosi.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. art historian based in the environmental humanities, looking at multispecies care relations at sites of labour in contemporary art. big fan of running on trails. (she/her)
Dr Stephen Huws @shuws.bsky.social PhD from Trinity College Dublin funded by Provost's Award. Reception of the Bible in stained glass in Ireland 1850-1932 | MA Medieval Studies at York | Research interests in all things stained glass and religion
Meg Dolan @megdolan.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History of Photography @ St Andrews + Collections Development Manager @ Edinburgh Printmakers
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Hannah Darvin @hdarvin.bsky.social Art History PhD candidate @queensu
Victorian Painting | Medical Humanities | Histories of Medicine
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Mary L. Shannon @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent.bsky.social Doctoral researcher @liverpooluni.bsky.social and academic teacher @htwberlin.bsky.social, who specialises in #ArchitcturalPlastics and is strongly committed to #Environmentalism. Personal website: https://shorturl.at/dq6Ng
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
@waddesdoncurators.bsky.social @waddesdoncurators.bsky.social 
Apollo @apollo-magazine.com The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work | London | https://www.apollo-magazine.com/
Dr Heather Carroll @georgianagossip.bsky.social Art historian, historic gossip monger, and curator. Specialist in representation of 18th-century political women and author of Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide. Curator, Dovecot. All views my own.
Lincoln Conservation @lin-conservation.bsky.social Specialists in the conservation and restoration of historic buildings, historic artefacts, works of art, collections management and historic paint research.
James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities · University of Southampton · Programming Historian · Historian of various things · Likes watching football and cycling · He/Him · Born at 342 ppm · #COYW
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary art, architecture and photography. Passionate about social housing. I have some thoughts...
Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social Photographer, writer, academic, PhD. Mountains. Art. Scottish art. www.alex-boyd.com (Location: Scotland / Australia) #MDANT
Deborah McGuire @plainstitchdeb.bsky.social PhD Quilt Historian @lcflondon.bsky.social
I make quilts in a frame, and write about their emotional history❤️
www.plainstitch.co.uk
www.withintheframe.co.uk
Columnist, The Quilter Magazine.
Advisor, The Quilt Collection, York.
Charlotte Cary-Beckett @ccary-beckett.bsky.social PhD candidate at UChicago | writing about 18- & 19-century transatlantic print cultures
Sarah French @sjfrenchie.bsky.social 🏛️Curatorial Fellow in Photography supported by The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation at the V&A.
📖 PhD on the collections of Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887).
ElaineShaughnessy @elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social Interim Head of Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Chair LAI Munster; Treasurer LAI Rare Books. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2026. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023
Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social Student Journey Advisor at the University of Winchester's Student Support department. Independent postdoctoral researcher interested in the memory and legacy of colonialism in Britain, with expertise in the museum and heritage sectors.
Josie Kane @josiekane.bsky.social Loves history+ people+ rivers+ architecture. Thinks/writes/talks about lived experience & the built. Senior Tutor History of Design, Royal College of Art https://dub.sh/7aehaVj
@historyofdesignma.bsky.social
@royalcollegeofart.bsky.social
Sarah Haylett @sarahhaylett.bsky.social AHRC PhD researcher between Tate and UCL researching community archiving methodologies for socially engaged art.
Reshaping the Collectible research: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/reshaping-the-collectible
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
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/