Wiltshire VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social The Victoria County History of Wiltshire. New to BlueSky and happy to be here.
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social A group campaigning against the closing of Redland Library in Bristol. We want to retain a library service for all communities and all areas of Bristol.
James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Spark & Twig @sparkandtwig.bsky.social Gwendolyn the Metalsmith 🔥 Creating jewelry using traditional tools and techniques ⚒️ Often incorporating rescued elements and found objects 🌿
🌈✨ https://give.thetrevorproject.org/100sparks
🧡
Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology
https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
Chris Chivers @chrischivers.bsky.social 49 year educator career, teacher to headship, ITE & governance. Busy walking daily, volunteering at Butser Ancient Farm museum, petanque. Francophile, bodhran player, novice uke. Eclectic interests. UK based.
Blog; chrischiversthinks.weebly.com
Therese Kearns @experimentalkearns.bsky.social Head of Archaeology & Operations at Butser Ancient Farm
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social Archaeologist in South West England. Dog owner, gardener, baker, walker, book lover.
Views my own.
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Dr. James Dilley @ancientcraftuk.bsky.social Experimental Archaeologist; Media consultant; Specialist in Flintknapping & Bronze casting: see my work displayed at The British Museum & Stonehenge
Find me at: https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/
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. 🏳️🌈
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world #PeoplingPodcast #PeoplingVideos #PeoplingBlog
peoplingthepast.com
Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social Natural science 🐡 & archaeological illustration 🏺 by Kathryn Killackey. NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellow ('23 - '24). Available for freelance #sciart. Lover of #books, #textiles, and absurdities. She/her
www.killackeyillustration.com
Portable Antiquities & Treasure @findsorguk.bsky.social Central Unit of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure team at the British Museum.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a DCMS funded project to encourage the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public.
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Gail Boyle FMA FSA @boyleg.bsky.social Museum Archaeology & Heritage Consultant (former Bristol Museum Senior Curator) Current Chair of CBA Trustees, Pucklechurch PC, Avon Local Councils Assn., & Bristol & Glos Archaeology Society. Treasure Valuation Committee member, Granny & Bristol Bears fan
bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social An independent, award-winning online magazine connecting you with stories about biodiversity and conservation from around the world. (Former account of Hakai Magazine)
Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.biographic.com/newsletter-signup/
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
David McGovern @monikierockart.bsky.social Heritage Stone-carver, medieval obsessive. Dewar of the Clag Buidhe Naomh Medan. FSAScot. Pictish Art and late medieval West Highland sculpture. As long as the world spins around, I'll take my time.
Giovanna Fregni @giovannafregni.bsky.social Archaeologist, artist, traveler, loves ancient metalworking tools.
Living in Northern Cyprus
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.
Tom Björklund @tombjorklundart.bsky.social Visual artist, paleopainter.
Jerzy Sikora @jsikora.bsky.social Fornleifafræðingur (mostly medieval) based at University of Łódź (wutɕ).
Archaeology, Middle Ages, some photos I take and drawings I make.
Pighill @pighill.bsky.social Archaeological illustrator & heritage graphic designer, Peter Lorimer.
Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social Finds & Archives Project Officer @ Greenlane Archaeology Ltd in Ulverston, Cumbria.
Loves small finds, cats, archiving and archives.... And databases/metadata😄
Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social Grumpy Old Archaeologist/Time Team Pot Monkey/Beer Drinker/Biker/Green Socialist/Gardener/Bird Feeder/Pond botherer/Keeper of Little Fishes/Dancer on the Grave of Capitalism. SaintsRL/LiverpoolFC/ChicagoWhiteSox. Costa Del Wirral
Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social Archaeologist in Leicestershire
UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social Transmasc archaeologist living on Kalapuya lands and working in Ko-Kwel lands. I study land, kinship, ecological stewardship, anarchy, and all things zooarch. Catch me in the woods cracking open a cold one with Bigfoot. they/iad
*THOUGHTS MY OWN*
Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, preschoolers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos. Not the real-life Indiana Jones, more a dwarfish sort of Evelyn O'Connell
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. Views mine, he/him.
Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Paul Everill @pauleverill.bsky.social Reader in Archaeology at the University of Winchester. Research on: Wellbeing benefits of heritage; Nokalakevi, Georgia; & 'Invisible Diggers'. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries @antiquaries.bsky.social
FabienBP @fabienbp.eurosky.social Historien de l'art et archéologue : Grande Grèce, iconographie antique, réception de l'Antiquité dans la culture populaire, open access... Univ-Lorraine, INSPE 🌈🏺
🔶 @antiquipop.bsky.social, Feminicon, @Frontiere-s.bsky.social
Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social Anthropologist (archaeology, biological anth, ecology). Director of Assessment and Data Analytics. Former Michigan diaspora now home but missing Minnesota. UMich grad working at MSU. Never speaks for MSU.
ArchaeoPlays @archaeoplays.bsky.social They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & archaeologist (aka: Dr. Heather Christie). Early medieval Scotland specialist & glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. https://linktr.ee/archaeoplays | email: archaeoplays@gmail.com
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social Rewriting archaeology, @durham_uni
Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works
Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. FLO for Rogaland County, case officer, project coordinator. Working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist, chemist | Nerd, coffee snob, loves fresh air and equality | She/her | Museum lover, but not museum apologist
Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social We are Enrichment Through Archaeology. We provide school workshops, manage community heritage projects and offer guided tours of the Peak District. Interested in Neolithic, museums & religion and rapidly learning about early medieval agriculture!
Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist and Yorkshire import. Owned by a lurcher called Baz. Often baffled.
Storyteller Fran @storytellerfran.bsky.social ✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. Author of Folk Tales of Scottish Saints, published by The History Press 2027 ✨✨
Dr Chris @drchrisc.bsky.social Archaeologist working in London
Staci Willis @sewnandsea.bsky.social Archaeologist. Boat Person. PhD. Happy CC Prof. Sewn boats rock.
Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social Palaeoecology, natural history, science, flora, fauna, microfossils. Researcher, writer, editor, photographer, and crocheter apparently, she/her
Blog: https://www.marshscapes.online/
Online shop: https://marshscapes.teemill.com
Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social He/him Historic Kitchens Manager and experimental historian by day...tiresome lay-about by day also.
All views own, yada yada yada. Now formally considered neuro spicy!
No expectation of mutual following.
Kenneth Aitchison @aitchis1.bsky.social Archaeology and Heritage Management
All posts are my personal views and are not presented as the views of my employer.
Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social Toiling in the heritage vineyards…
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
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social Old bloke in Yorkshire, interested in wildlife, gardening, books, classical music, archaeology, cats. Often muddy. Born at 313ppm. Opinions my own.
Menno Welling @mennowelling.eurosky.social Heritage, Museums, Society - Reinwardt Academy 🖤🩷 - AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts🖤💛 - Hilversum 💙💛 - Malawi💚❤️🖤 - Natuurmonumenten 💚
Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social Archaeologist (Mesopotamia, Cyprus, beer), author (In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia)
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space UK-based Museum Learning Consultant & Maths Communicator
📖 Author of The Mathematicians' Library: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781836004851
🌐 TeaKayB.mathsy.space
🕸️ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social geographies | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.
TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology & geology — past & present. Posts by Tori Herridge, Becky Wragg Sykes, Brenna Hassett, and Suzie Birch. www.trowelblazers.com 
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social Troglodytic Geoarchaeologist & Professor @ Flinders University; Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory; ARC Future Fellow; Disperscapes Project; Stratigraphy Tamer & Resinator of Sediments; repetitive music lover
Kim Connor @theotherkim.bsky.social Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
Simon Wyatt-Spratt @swyattspratt.bsky.social #Archaeology PhD student at the University of Sydney researching the lithic technologies of the ancestors of Indigenous Australians
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-3614
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Corey Noxon @noxon.bsky.social R-GIRO Assistant Professor @ Ritsumeikan. Prehistoric archaeology, demography, mobility, & 3D applications in archaeology. Archaeology stories with a focus on Japan. He/him
ArchaeoJapan on that other app...
Justine Warren @adancingferret.bsky.social Disabled former Egyptian archaeologist and history & anthro instructor, perpetual smart ass, autoimmune & migraine battler, PTSD + abuse survivor, artist, she/her
Full-time RV life
merryn @merryn02.bsky.social Interests: archaeology of ale, beer and brewing, history & prehistory of malt and malting technologies. I like campervans, spinning, walking, gardening, swimming in the sea. Academic stuff is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merryn-Dineley
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
Half Zen Quaker panda, half angry honey badger
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
Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore & nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i. (She/they).
Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social Mesolithic & community archaeologist, FSA Scot, Hon Research Fellow at Durham University Archaeology, Long Covid since 2020.
timevista.co.uk | clevelandarchaeology.com
Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Therron Welstead @therronwelstead.bsky.social A castle botherer, church crawler, and general history nerd.
Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social #Archaeology for a #biodiversitycrisis, #heritage for a #climate positive future. Optimist. #Pleistocene archaeologist, rugby coach, knitter, former public servant, now doing what I can in a large #conservation NGO with #landusechange and IRO research.
Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social Early prehistoric art expert and cognitive archaeologist. 8th Renfrew Fellow @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & JRF @homertoncollege.bsky.social
Cora Leder @bioarchaeology.bsky.social PhD candidate in osteoarchaeology. Into Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, currently studying the pinky finger.
🏳️🌈 they/she
Enska @enskawho.bsky.social French PhD student, middle paleolithic, Neanderthal & rocks 🦣
Anarcho-shlaguiste amatrice de thé rouge et de mots rigolos à prononcer.
Let's just dig in, shall we ?
Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social Aussie archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney || http://twig.technology || writing a book on intelligence with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social for Harvard Uni Press (2027)
🐒🦦🐙🐦⬛🐝🕷️🦧🐴🐠🪲🦜🐿️🐋🦀
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
Pontos Euxeinos @spartokosalu.bsky.social Docteur champenois en Histoire et archéologie des mondes anciens de Paris Nanterre. Tous (et tout) sur le Pont ! Timbré des amphores.
Le blog sur l'actualité éditoriale et les ressources en ligne sur la mer Noire antique: https://spartokos.wordpress.com
Mark @mark0p.eurosky.social Docteur en archéologie, spécialiste d'architecture
Dr. Megan J. Daniels @meganjdaniels.bsky.social Asst Prof @AMNEUBC; studies migration and cross-cultural interaction in ancient eastern Med/western Asia
Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social Archaeologist #roman #pottery #childhood. Ex NCT #childbirth educator. Join a union. UCL. My own musings. She/Her. 🏴 Current obession: these pots⬇️
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2478734#abstract
archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com founder • archaeology science comm • (conceptual) illustration x programming • Amsterdam
https://jonaschlegel.com/
https://www.archaeoink.com/