@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com Deputy editor @arseblog.news
Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social Goat Gland Specialist. George Brent Detractor. Crate Digger. Retired Cigarette Lender.
Also on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/75eTt
Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social Never forget to fear the kraken.
BBC EPG scheduler and spelling making righter-er. Doctor Who, Nigel Kneale, M.R. James etc. He/Him
Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social An idiot, but not one of the useful kind.
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Teaching Medieval Women @teachmedwomen.bsky.social TMW is a collaborative project between teachers and academics looking to encourage and support the teaching of medieval women in school History lessons.
https://teachingmedievalwomen.org/
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller.
'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
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
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris
email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com
purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social Cartref Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Bangor
Home of Bangor University's Archives and Special Collections
https://t.co/Hmxgl2Kns6
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan
'King of obscurity' - KFC
Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social Victorian Traveller, Writer and Collector (1839-1887)
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social Political Science Professor, Univ of Oslo.
Democracy and discontent in European welfare states.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals...
Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review...
https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social Historiographer and practicing public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
John Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social Ecclesiastical Historian. Arts Society Accredited Lecturer. Author of 20 books. Trustee of Francis Coales Charitable Foundation. Member of the Advisory Council of the Norfolk Churches Trust. Unashamedly woke. 🏳️🌈
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Andrew Janes @cartivist.bsky.social archives | maps | stammering | cake | he/him
tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Grant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social From Sheffield, in Tokyo since 2000.
Books, walks, modernism, records, cats. 
David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social Historian with daily Alaska history posts & weekly column (https://www.adn.com/author/david-reamer/). Black Lives in Alaska (2022) co-author & 2023 co-Alaska Historian of the Year. Support at Buy Me a Coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/davidreamer).
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Lol @loltype.bsky.social lingering on decaying street corners
⋆˙⟡ 🏚️ ⟡˙⋆
she/her
Vale & Downland Museum @valeanddownland.bsky.social We're a small local history museum in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
The birth place of King Alfred the Great!
Winner of the Green Growth Award 2026!
https://linktr.ee/valeanddownlandmuseum
Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social southampton.ac.uk/archives
Based in the University of Southampton Hartley Library.
With around 7 million manuscript items and 50,000 printed books, the Special Collections provide a resource of remarkable richness and depth. 
Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social Music person. Sheffield / London / Ireland
Blogger at http://mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com
Podcaster at https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/289673.rss
Memorial Device ALT since 2022.
Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction.
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/
https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social Assistant Professor @lsehy.bsky.social | Great War + Morale + Crisis + Resilient Gardening + Mesopotamia + Technological Innovation
Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Paul Thompson @jakethackrayfan.bsky.social Jake Thackray biographer. Performs with his guitar.
Produced Jake Thackray Project’s Lost Archives 1966-1996 CD: https://youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?si=A8OYMs5KYBrKE8di
Latest book: Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer
Writes songs.
www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk
Rememberist @rememberist.bsky.social Owner/bookseller at Berkeley Books of Paris (2005-2019). Veteran of St. Mark's Bookshop and Posman's in NYC, and Serendipity Books in Berkeley.
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN @nursinghistory.bsky.social 🇳🇿Wendy Maddocks - Nursing history, @greatwargroup,nurse academic,| author | mainly nursing history posts, Volunteer CHCH Nurse’s memorial Chapel Museum www.doctorwendy.net Cats| travel | adventurous spirit | ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-810X
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social Mostly watching films.
Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
cbnewham @parishchurches.org FSA. Author. Photographer. IT specialist.
Church architecture & contents.
If you want to know what churches are open during the day then get my Keyholder for Parish Churches app (Android and Apple).
Bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham
Sascha @sash1711.bsky.social 
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Rosa Schling @rosaschling.bsky.social Oral historian researching the history of childcare activism https://childcarehistory.org.uk/ Co-founder of On the Record. Trainer with Oral History Society. Doctoral student at Institute of Education, UCL.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Michael Waldron @michaelwaldron.bsky.social curator @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social | deputy chair Sample-Studios
art historian, writer, cat dad
curious about collections, mad about modernism
my own views and musings
he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪
Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de PhD Candidate @UniLeipzig.bsky.social | '22 @Harvard.edu Fellow | Theory and History of Antisemitism, Critical Theory, Women's and Gender History #TransnatHist
▓ https://postkulturwissenschaften.de/
▓ https://christiankleindienst.com/
Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social The Ancient World & more recent history. Mosaics. And, of course, birds.
East Lothian.
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Amy @amyposting.bsky.social 30, from Perth. Book enthusiast, cat mum, library worker, writer, collector of pop culture trinkets 💖 🏳️🌈
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.
Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday
I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
David Soulscorch @david-soulscorch.bsky.social Outdoorsy Music Geek, gardening in Sussex, with a love of radio, books, and anything Fortean
Making field recording based Pound Shop hauntronica & electronic music as
Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project
👇
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social A photo diary of the sea and sky, taken from my window.
Also known as Mick Oxley, artist, follower of Newcastle United, cycling , wheelchair user, lover of Northumberland.
Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social medievalist | postgraduate research student | @qmul.bsky.social | @ihr.bsky.social | @londonmedieval.bsky.social
writing about museums & medievalism
Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social 🧵 Straßenverlauf
Eingedenken, (Stadt-)Geschichte, Philosophie
✒️ Wien
✒️ Innsbruck
✒️ Berlin
✒️ Brandenburg
The Gardeners' House @thegardenershouse.org Connecting people, planet and place, The Gardeners’ House Penzance project will bring a dilapidated building in Morrab Gardens back to life.
https://www.thegardenershouse.org/
https://linktr.ee/thegardenershousepz
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
greengirl777🍃 @cosmic7rain.bsky.social Natura, przyroda, foto, książki, muzyka...świat.🍃📷📚🎶🌍🇵🇱🇪🇺
(wszystkie zdjecia są mojego autorstwa i bez retuszu)
Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Trees for Bermondsey @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social We look out for trees in the Southwark wards of North and South Bermondsey, London Bridge and West Bermondsey, and Chaucer.
Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social Celebrate the amazing mostly historic women with a connection to South London. Meet suffragettes, actresses, activists, writers, pioneering HCPs, politicians, sportswomen & many more women from all walks of life. Includes some reposts from the other place
Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social Independent and informed news and insight on Polish politics, culture, business and history.
Support us: https://notesfrompoland.com/donations/support-us/
Dr Lindsey A. Davidson @hebraicaveritas.bsky.social Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Bristol, UK. Historian of ancient Judaism. BDFI affiliate. BIAJS Secretary (@biajs.bsky.social). STECA Co-Director (@stecacareers.bsky.social). #skystorians
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
Posting in a personal capacity.
David Tanner @7and7is.bsky.social Photos, music and stuff.
“Maybe you've made something mediocre--there's plenty of that in any artist's cabinets--but something mediocre is better than nothing” Sally Mann
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in Dorset and SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social NYC-based 18th-century porcelain and decorative art collector showing photos of the crazy stuff he's bought over the years. Runner, too.