Gavriil-Ioannis Boutziopoulos @giboutziopoulos.bsky.social Historian, PhD student in Byzantine History | Podcaster @byzantioexplained.bsky.social
Member of the SPBS & AIEB
https://linktr.ee/Boutziopoulos
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Chartered Institute for Archaeologists @cifarch.bsky.social CIfA is the leading professional body representing archaeologists working in the UK and overseas, promoting high standards and ethics in archaeology.
AEGYPTICA @aegyptica.bsky.social AEGYPTICA is a new video series exploring ancient Egypt through its art, literature and philosophy. https://www.youtube.com/@aegypticatv
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies @spbsuk.bsky.social Est. 1983, the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) supports Byzantine Studies in the UK. Open to all with an interest in Byzantium. UK National Committee of the @aieb-byzantium.bsky.social
www.byzantium.ac.uk
British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social BNTS promotes academic research of the New Testament and related writings. We hold an annual conference, open to professional biblical scholars and PhD students
Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social Classics & Ancient History, University of Leeds
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/classics-ancient-history
https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classics-and-ancient-history-ma
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/447/centre-for-ancient-world-and-classical-reception-studies
@byzantineconfusion.bsky.social @byzantineconfusion.bsky.social
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social An Institute for advanced research | Arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences in Greece and its wider lands | Fellowships, courses, lectures and more
John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social Greek literature and culture | Christianity | Churches, abbeys, cathedrals | Poetry | Chair of school governors | Visiting professor | Ex-ambassador | Enthusiast for Yorkshire
Irene Salvo @irenesalvo.bsky.social Cultural historian working on the ancient Mediterranean and Greek epigraphy. Mindfulness in educational settings. Social justice.
Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social Lecturer • researches feminist myth retellings and, sometimes relatedly, incels • Seed Talks speaker on folklore & myth • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
Robert Fleming @flemingrob.bsky.social FRGS AMA | Principal Maps Research Specialist @ The National Archives. Historian of armies, empire, espionage, cartography & cricket.
London & lutruwita/Tasmania | Born on the traditional lands of the Palawa/Pakana people.
Oxford University Byzantine Society @oxunibyzantinesoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the Oxford University Byzantine Society.
Follow for updates about our activities & for all things Late Antique and Byzantine at Oxford!
Dr Simon Trafford @simontrafford.bsky.social Curriculum Leader of Classics at a state grammar school; IB examiner; author of a few Classics related bits. Swansea University, University of Oxford alumnus. Living in Kent; working in SE London.
https://swansea.academia.edu/SimonTrafford
Susan Deacy @susandeacy.bsky.social Editor, Journal of Classics Teaching; Co-Founder ACCLAIM: Autism Connecting CLAssically-Inspired Mythology; Series Editor, Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World; Editor-in-Chief, BICS; Professor Emerita etc.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social KCL Classics Department.
Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games.
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-display-9781350191365/
abigailbaker.co.uk
Dr Amara Thornton @amalexathorn.bsky.social Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies. Excavator of archives. Syria, Romans, photographs, Dura-Europos. Newfoundlander.
Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social He/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.
BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social 🎬 Filmmakers combining unlimited curiosity & meticulous research
🪜 Visit EXPLORING ART HISTORY: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/
🚘 Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/
Phillip Webster @pdwebster.bsky.social Director of Theatre at Thomas More University. Artistic Director of Southbank Shakespeare. PhD Student at the Institute of Historical Research, researching 19th c. forms of reenactment and reconstruction and Cincinnati's Pike's Opera House.
The International Hellenic Prize @ihellenicprize.bsky.social The International Hellenic Prize awards original works in English relating to, or inspired by, ancient or modern Hellenic civilization, culture, history, or literature.
Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.
Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN) @acrsn.bsky.social #classicalreception - #CFP - #antiquity in the #postclassical world.
Website: http://acrsn.org
Twitter: @acrsn_org
📷:Miranda Skoczek
HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social Official account of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
at the University of Edinburgh. Study with us! linktr.ee/hcaatedinburgh
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology part of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. https://hca.ed.ac.uk/archaeology
Dr Voids 🐙 @mostlyvoids.bsky.social Partially stars. They/it/he. Gleeful! Soft! Tentacular!
ECR Fellow at Merton, Oxford. Not a work account. More cat here than in the other place.
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Laurialan Reitzammer @reitzammer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Classics at University of Colorado Boulder; Greek literature, Greek religion, reception
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social Ancient historian/archaeologist at the University of Leicester. Likes ancient landscapes, Roman Crete, Peloponnese, & Pausanias. Obviously views expressed are my own and not those of my employer. He/him.
School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social Profiling students, staff and general amazingness of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
Lindsay Allen @vastarchive.bsky.social senior lecturer in ancient history at KCL. Working on ancient Iran, Persepolis & history of collecting & scholarship re: both
Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social Founder of H.M. Classics Academy: we teach ancient languages and the ancient world.
helenmcveigh.co.uk
subscribepage.com/hmclassicsacademy
#Ancientbluesky
I always want to see pictures of your dogs. 🐶 Snowball 🐕 Edith
Rebecca Levitan @levitan.bsky.social probably thinking about ancient art/archaeology or snacks. London-based ☂️
St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Peter Swallow MP @peter4bracknell.bsky.social Proud to serve as Labour MP for Bracknell, Crowthorne, Sandhurst and Whitegrove 🌹
For support, please email peter.swallow.mp@parliament.uk
Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social Professor, Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Sarah Miles @sarahmiles.bsky.social #Archaeologist Director, Community Archaeology North CIC www.cancic.com @cancic.bsky.social Prehistory, Neolithic, Bronze Age, fieldwork, landscape, community. Former publisher.
Lucy C M M Jackson @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social Academic and theatre fan. Living in Newcastle, working in Durham, Londoner for life.
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social Ad Astra Fellow in Classics at University College Dublin. Archaeology, ancient cities, pottery, economies 🏺
Maria Fragoulaki @mariafragoulaki.bsky.social Ancient Greek historian and classicist, inclusive global education, dignity, freedom, dream. Works at Cardiff University, UK. Views are my own.
Rosie Mack @rosiemack.bsky.social Research Associate, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading. Ancient Thessaly, numismatics, equine history. General Editor of Koinon: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool
Editor, Journal of Hellenic Studies
Lover of olive trees
All views expressed are my own.
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Jan Haywood @janhaywood.bsky.social Ancient historian; bibliophile; cinephile.
Emma Bridges @emmabridges.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at the Open University. Thinks a lot about making humanities education accessible.
She/her
Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Moderator at r/AskHistorians. Ditch guy on YouTube.
Annelies Cazemier @cazemiera.bsky.social Ancient historian. Greek and Hellenistic world, religion, Macedonia, Aegean sea, islands, and coasts, cultural interaction. Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Co-director of the Antigonid Network. Based in Newbury, UK.
Danielle Kellogg @dlkellogg.bsky.social Christopoulos Chair in Ancient Greek History at University of Cincinnati. Lover of ancient stuff, good food, good wine, books, and cats. She/her. Opinions my own & I don’t speak for my employer.
Dr Emma Nicholson @nicholsone99.bsky.social Ancient historian at U. of Exeter. Hellenistic history & historiography, Polybius, Philip V, Macedonia, director of the #AntigonidNetwork. Author, dabbler artist, beagle owner, gamer and foodie.
Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social University of Oxford research centre into performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome: stage plays, ballets, films, tv, audio dramas, drag shows, dance, animation, musicals... from 1315 to present day!
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Paul Martin @paulsm.bsky.social Teacher and researcher at Bristol University. Research: humour, comedy, and parody from Ancient Greece to the future!
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸
📖'Gladiators in the Greek World'
Host of @AncientHistory101.org
ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary.
Expect typos.
Birkbeck and Leicester alum
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Catharine Edwards @catharineedwards.bsky.social Prof.of Classics/Ancient History at Birkbeck. Rome and the ancient Romans, especially Seneca and Cicero.
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Dr. Catherine Scott @cscott58.bsky.social Archaeologist focusing on digital approaches to the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Postdoctoral fellow with ANAMED. She/her.
www.cbscottarchaeology.com
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Classics@UnivReading @uorclassics.bsky.social Department of Classics at the University of Reading. We're glad you're here!
https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/
Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social Flora 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK
🏺Ancient Mediterranean art🏺
💌Contact: flora@flarohillustration.com
🖼️Prints & merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/flaroh/explore?asc=u&page=1
⛲️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flaroh
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Daisy Dunn @daisydunn.bsky.social Author and Classicist. Catullus' Bedspread; In the Shadow of Vesuvius; Homer; Of Gods and Men; Not Far From Brideshead; and most recently The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Debborah Donnelly @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social Egyptian archaeologist, environmentalist🌲🐝, gemmologist💎, ceramicist🏺, photographer📷, veteran Canadian Navy Officer⚓🍁, 💜🐨
#Egypt #archaeology #travelblog
https://www.debborahdonnelly.ca/
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Helen Ball @hellshistory.bsky.social Classics Lover.
BA Classical Studies OU.
MA Classical Studies OU.
Currently researching and writing a book on the everyday life of Classical Athenian Women.
🏺🏛️💖
Dimitri Van Limbergen @divali.bsky.social Managing Editor of LEIZA Journal of Archaeology/ Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at LEIZA-Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie / Roman archaeologist & ancient wine and oil specialist 🍇🫒
Pinar S. 🦦 @pinars.bsky.social Used to be a Byzantinist, now an independent researcher, potter, part time translator and interpreter &person of leisure. Posts on history, art, archaeology, nature, mythology, folklore, the occult, books, language, καὶ τὰ ἕτερα. Team Oxford Comma.
Martin Wagner @evilspacecow.bsky.social Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Uni Rostock, Heinrich Schliemann-Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, #Archäologie und #Digitalisierung 💻
https://www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/institut/mitarbeitende/martin-wagner/
Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social Teaching Roman history, researching Roman magic and trying not to accidentally summon demons. Forever DM, Dad and Catholic.
Maria Relaki @mariarelaki.bsky.social Archaeologist, islander missing sea views. Mostly Greek, lately British. Technology, materials,Crete, Bronze Age, gender, kinship. Associate Lecturer, Classical Studies, The Open University. Assist. Reviews Ed. European Journal of Archaeology
Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social Archaeology Equipment Web Shop. WHS and Battiferro Trowels, Photo Scales, Drafting Film (permatrace) and much more.
https://pasthorizons.com
Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com Advocate for arts and humanities. I believe in the importance of sharing the stories of research to create impact outside of universities. Comms professional and history postgrad researching Anubis in the Roman World. 🏛️🐍
He/him
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Lucia Nixon @lucianixon.bsky.social Classical archaeologist working on Crete, feminist, passionate about equality issues. Also very keen on museums, poetry, and bees. Canadian 🇨🇦
portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/collections/The_Sphakia_Survey_Internet_Edition/6816405
Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social Greek & Latin linguistics, philology, gadgetry; check out Attikos & Logeion (stress -ei-) in App Store; or http://logeion.uchicago.edu and http://perseus.uchicago.edu (Philo4Classics). Occasionally at voices.uchicago.edu/logeion
Jeffrey A. Becker @serviliusahala.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist | Binghamton, New York U.S.A.
Charles Stewart @charlescharles.bsky.social Former research engineer & corporate treasurer, more recent MA Classics & Ancient History. Rudeness, idiocy, and whataboutery=block, even if not directed at me. Also for reposting obviously fake stuff simply because it fits your worldview.
Oxfordshire, UK