Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
Dr Sonia D. Andras @soniadandras.bsky.social Author of The Women of 'Little Paris' (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)—use "GLR AT8" for 35% off | MSCA Seal of Excellence | Postdoc in PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688 | PhD @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social | Fashion, modernity & gender.
@pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
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Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching climate & clothing, also histories of fashion and graphic design | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
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Alex Clayden @aclayden.bsky.social Fighting financial crime by day, Postgraduate Researcher at UoLeeds by night. Researching my own Nan.
Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social Costumier, dress historian and film producer for Crow’s Eye Productions 🌍🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇸🇪🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺
LBC @lbc.co.uk Leading Britain's Conversation.
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
Amparo Fortuny @amparofortuny.bsky.social Film, TV, documentary, grotesque, comic.
@thenextdayfilms.com
@cinemaupcollect
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The Next Day Films @thenextdayfilms.com We are an independent production company based in Scotland, which tells unique stories with a strong bias towards character and narrative. Run by @amparofortuny
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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Harriet Atkinson @harrietatkinson.bsky.social historian of art and design | researcher | writer | filmmaker | Course Leader MA Curating Collections & Heritage at University of Brighton
https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/harriet-atkinson
On a train somewhere between London & Brighton
Jemma Field @jemmafield.bsky.social Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
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Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Niall Murphy @murphyniallgla.bsky.social If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
Rebecca Wallace @registrarinheels.bsky.social Museum Registrar currently at the National Trust. Always in a pair of heels 👠 All opinions my own.
Dr Hillary Burlock @handle.invalid #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
Amy Wilson @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social 18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
Dr Suzanne Rowland @glassbuttons.bsky.social Here for the fashion history
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_
Inger Sheil @oceanicing.bsky.social Assistant Curator Australian National Maritime Museum, loves lighthouses and ocean liners, vintage and antique clothing collector, historian, 1920s aesthetic, literature and art lover, silent film watcher and chihuahua attendant
Sandra Lawrence @sandralawrence.bsky.social Author, MouldLark & Scribehound. Enthused by Victorian gardeners, Noir femmes fatales, Arthurian legend, magic lanterns, weird folklore & rotting trunks. www.SandraLawrence.com. www.MissWillmottsGhosts.com. Rep'd by @elladkahn at www.dkwlitagency.co.uk.
Hen Lockhart @archivewhg.bsky.social Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, posting about collections, archives, The Winterbourne Press, University of Birmingham Herbarium www.winterbourne.org.uk
NicDaisy @nicdaisy.bsky.social 🪡 B.A. Art history & History. Historic fashion, art, old ruins, churches, antiques, gardening & music fan... LLB student & seamstress. 🐝🐨 🦜🐶🐱
You may know me as @plummie9 on the bird.
Danielle Dove @danielledove.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey | 📚 Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction | currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century
Gil Skidmore @gilskidmore.bsky.social A Quaker granny in Yorkshire who loves history, art, textiles, nature and the sea
Dr Nic @eldergoth.bsky.social Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice. "Grim(m) Perspectives: Stitching Tales of Self" https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/handle/10399/5406
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Sacred Heart University @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social The study of WGSS from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective! 🌈🍎 https://www.sacredheart.edu/majors--programs/womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies---minor/
Harry Feather @harry-feather.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist, currently studying MLitt Archaeology Studies at UHI. Coffee swilling chess playing leftie leaning mostly human. He/him (probably).
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
Ewan James Armstrong @historicewan.bsky.social He/him |Cultural & Sensory Historian
Mildly obsessed, mostly scholarly. Occasionally coherent. Embroiderer
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
katie mcclure @katiemcclure.bsky.social sgsah pgr @ university of glasgow || historical synthetic dyes || history of art 🤝 chemistry || https://linktr.ee/kathrynraeburnmcclure
Claire Wintle @clairewintle.bsky.social Historian of museums, exhibitions, collecting, imperialism, decolonisation, India, thinking about now. Director of the Centre for Design History and teaching MA Curating at University of Brighton.
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Bethan Bide @bethanbide.bsky.social Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.
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
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
Lucie Whitmore @luciewhitmore.bsky.social Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Kirsty Hassard @kirstoir.bsky.social Fashion historian & co-curator of Tartan, @vadundee. Scotland rep @DATS. Awards Committee @DressHistorians. Researching 18th c. women, work & print culture.
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Veronica Isaac @vtisaac.bsky.social Material Culture Historian | Past Curator | Specialist in 19thC theatre costume & dress | Writing a biography of actress Ellen Terry | @concoshistories
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Lori Topper @lipsticklori.bsky.social Midlife work-in-progress human. Writer in search of a new project. Works in HE. Attempting to navigate perimenopause in style (51, bi, polyam, agender, she/they)
Dr Gráinne Rice @grainnerr.bsky.social Adult Programme Coordinator, @Natgalleriessco
All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton https://bio.site/deborahsuggryan
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
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
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk We're the national development body for Scotland's museum sector, supporting museums and galleries through funding, advocacy, advice, and events. 🏛️
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social A network for new approaches to the study of dress and textiles in the long 19th century (1790 – 1914). https://c19thdressandtextilesreframed.wordpress.com
Dr Benjamin Wild @drbenjaminwild.bsky.social Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University; Lead: F/fashion Narratives Research Group
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk Glasgow then and now
Prof Serena Trowbridge @serena-t.bsky.social Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Birmingham City University. Chair, Pre-Raphaelite Society, Senior VP, Birmingham and Midland Institute. Books, art, nature, stone circles, ballet, fresh air. https://serenatrowbridge.substack.com/
Kimberly Wahl @panoptipandora.bsky.social Ambivalent Academic and late-diagnosed AuDHDer---with special interests in Art; Psychology; Perfume; Histories of Photography/Dress/Fashion; Science and Astronomy (especially theories about time/space and the nature of reality).
Dr Robyne Calvert @robyneerica.bsky.social Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her
https://robynecalvert.com/
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