Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social • HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) • @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Nathan Cornish @njcornish.bsky.social Environmental History and Digital Humanities PhD student. Working on early 19th century plant exchange in the British empire in the archives at Kew Gardens.
University of Southampton, Kew Gardens, Exeter University, SWWDTP
🦋🌻🪴
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)
Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Mark 💀👨🏻🎨 @mrk87.bsky.social Medical Artist, Reader (Associate Professor) in Interdisciplinary Digital Visualisation @LJMUarts, Programme Leader @ArtinScienceMA, Researcher @FaceLabLJMU, Section Editor @JVISCOMM #sciart #artscience #scicomm #medart
https://linktr.ee/Mrk87
Lucy Hyde @lucyformaldehyde.bsky.social Chaos maker, Anatomy Lecturer and Medical Artist at Bristol University
With a keen fondness for inside jokes, the facial nerve, and cheese of all shapes and sizes.....
Opinions sadly all my own doing
Helen Graham @helengraham.bsky.social Politics, heritage, participation in one potentially beautiful collision. My Future York and YoCo: York Central Co-Owned. Teaches museum and heritage studies, University of Leeds.
Museum Study @museumstudy.bsky.social Online professional development for cultural institutions
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
HappyMuseum Project @happymuseum.bsky.social Re-imagining museums for the wellbeing of people, place and planet.
Posts via @hilaryjennings
Patient Information Forum @pifonline.bsky.social PIF is the independent voice of health information. We promote access to trusted, evidence-based health information for all. We run the PIF TICK – the independent credibility mark for health information.
www.pifonline.org.uk www.piftick.org.uk
Museum Objects @museumobjects.bsky.social Posting objects from various museums, starting with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (more soon)!
Bot by @evanbaldonado.com (posts tagged #MuseumObjects are automated). You may also enjoy following @paludarium.org.
Donations: https://ko-fi.com/s/967ea41cfe
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust @leedsth.nhs.uk The official account of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
This account is monitored from 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday. 
Liam R. Findlay 👃 Theme park smells @liamrfindlay.bsky.social 👃 Theme Park & Museum Smell Specialist
📚 Author of The Doom Town Dummies
🏰 Attraction designer
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social @britsocmedhistory.bsky.social 
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsmuseums.bsky.social 
Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social 
The BMA @bma.org.uk We’re the trade union and professional body for UK doctors and medical students.
Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social We are Barnsley Museums. Sharing stories from our collections and our five free to visit venues across Barnsley; Cannon Hall Museum, The Cooper Gallery, Experience Barnsley Museum, Worsbrough Mill & Elsecar Heritage Centre
www.barnsley-museums.com
Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine at
Durham University. #Epidemics #Environment #Health past and present.
Stephanie Lloyd @stephaniejeanlloyd.bsky.social Medical anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Disability studies, Neurosciences, Neurotechnologies, Sensory development, Suicide, Lived experiences
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Aly F @alyfixit.bsky.social Neuroaffirming ADHD/ASC coach, health writer, editor and creative practice researcher, and Associate Editor at @the-polyphony.bsky.social.
@clairejeantils.bsky.social @clairejeantils.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University · Network lead INNN · Podcast host « Raconter l’épilepsie »
Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University. Views mine.
Rebecca Jackson, PhD @beccajackson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medical Humanities
Durham University - Institute of Medical Humanities
The Measurement Lab + Affective Experience Lab 🤓
Philosopher + Historian + Human
📏 talk measurement to me 📐
Measuring-well.com
Dr Veenu Gupta (She/Her) @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social Independent Lived Experience Researcher
Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people. 
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is one of the largest and most exciting centres in the UK for aspiring cultural practitioners to hone their creative and critical skills, and broaden their intellectual horizons.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
History of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion @pierce-sbb.bsky.social Discussions of the history of blood groups and blood transfusions, especially the 20th century and earlier #transfusion
#bloodgroups #immunohematology #historyofmedicine
@historiansteph.bsky.social @historiansteph.bsky.social Medical historian and early modernist, specialising in material culture and skin. Collections and content assistant @thackraymuseum.bsky.social, museums liaison officer @araarchmus.bsky.social.
Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
George Marshall Medical Museum @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social Small & mighty. Exploring changes in history of medicine in the Charles Hastings Education Centre. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Mannequins, life and death, medical instruments. Worcester, UK. Closed Bank Holidays.
Northern Ballet @northernballet.bsky.social Creating stories that connect.
An Arts Council England NPO. #LetsCreate
Dr Helena Stublic @helenastublic.bsky.social Heritage / Museology / Museum Studies / GLAM / Gender in Museology / Web3 enthusiast / Space drifter
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University of Zagreb / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) http://shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her
Richard McKay @ramckay.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Historian of Medicine and Public Health & Executive Coach (ICF PCC) | Author: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (@UChicagoPress.bsky.social, 2017) | Treasurer, SSHMedicine.bsky.social | Whippet afficionado
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Carl Newbould @carlnewbould.bsky.social #museums and #SEND. Passionate about my job. Manage #CareersForAll at Leeds Museums and Galleries. Trustee for Interplay Theatre, chair access group at Discover Creative Careers
@peopleshistorylds.bsky.social @peopleshistorylds.bsky.social 
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Thackray Museum @thackraymuseum.bsky.social 
Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social Interdisciplinary AHRC-funded project at the University of Leeds exploring blood symbolism, social relationships and boundary-making in blood banking. Account run by @jinikim.bsky.social (taking over from @claireturner.bsky.social in Oct 2025)
kai flynn @kai-flynn.bsky.social Museum Documentation Assistant at the Royal College of Nursing
Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social Architectural historian (women’s spaces in the long 19th century), PhD candidate (Courtauld), assoc. lecturer, knitter, wool shop employee. Politically progressive and culturally effusive. Former lawyer. US—>UK, based in Bath. I love a good fountain pen.
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📖Asst. Professor of English
📚PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC/Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Frances Stonehouse @frances-s.bsky.social Curator at Kirklees Museums & Galleries
* Oakwell Hall
* Tolson Museum
* Bagshaw Museum
www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/museums-and-galleries/index.aspx
Yvonne Hardman @museums-yvonne.bsky.social Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries. She/her. Views my own.
Image: Ciara Phillips in British Art Show 8 at Leeds Art Gallery.
Sarah Chadwick @sarahlchadwick.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Leeds in partnership with Thackray Museum of Medicine, specialising in blood donation and racial othering in Leeds and Bradford since 1946 with a focus on public health material and the blood donation space.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Dr Julie Holder @julieh80.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Accentuate_Curating Visibility @accentuateuk.bsky.social Accentuate, a pioneering programme by Screen South, creates and delivers projects that break new ground for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the cultural sector.
https://curatingforchange.org/
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Salisbury Healthcare History @salisbury-history.bsky.social Caring and sharing the archives and historical collections at Salisbury District Hospital salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
End Of The Road @endoftheroadfestival.com Bands - Booze - Peacocks
'Engagingly eclectic weekender never fails to surprise'
The Guardian *****
3-6 Sept 2026 | Larmer Tree Gardens, nr Blandford Forum, Dorset
https://endoftheroadfestival.com/
The Peace Museum @peacemuseumuk.bsky.social ☮️ A museum dedicated to the histories of peace movements
❄️ Our museum space is closed until 5/03/26
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Dr Lauren Padgett @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Collections @ Bradford District Museums and Galleries ⚙🏺🖼 🏛 | PhD 🎓 | Historian 📜 | Proud Bradfordian 💪🐗 | Interested in local heritage; bygone times; people from the past; & dusty old things | 📌 🗺 Bradford, Yorkshire | Views my own.
Emma Canterbury @emmac-panther.bsky.social Museum Director @RoystonMuseum.bsky.social, Trustee at St Neots Museum, Scout Leader, and Mum to 2 amazing boys.
All views my own (she/her)
Pat Bourne (he/him) @curatorpat.bsky.social Assistant Community Curator based at Abbey House Museum & Kirkstall Abbey (since 2014).
All views personal.
Dr Jieun Kim @jinikim.bsky.social Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. PI of the Hematopolitics Project (hematopolitics.org; @hematopolitics.bsky.social).
Mel Burgess @melbeewrites.bsky.social Project Manager - Education Improvement at North East Combined Authority
School governor
Education, culture, books, craft, music, being outsmarted by my own kids
Views my own
Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/seasidedetective
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.
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
The Salisbury Museum @salisburymuseum.bsky.social Discover over 500,000 years of history in our grade I listed building.
Archaeology, art, fashion, local history & more.
Open daily from 10am to 5pm.
Richard Sandell @richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social Co-Director, RCMG @LeicsMusStud
He/him.
Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social Labour city councillor for Salisbury St Edmund’s. Honorary museum librarian & social history researcher. Community farmer. Southampton FC supporter.