stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social Retired. Interests: photography, cycling, archaeology and hiking. Not necessarily in that order🙂
Emma Dwyer @edwyer.bsky.social Historical Archaeologist & Brummie-in-exile.
Head of Grant-Funded Research at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).
Hon. Research Fellow at @archanchistleic.bsky.social
Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social Historical consultant: helenemaloigne.wordpress.com
Curator @ British Museum
Represented by Past Preservers: www.pastpreservers.com
Good chocolate, disco and houseplants
They/them 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️🌈
Geneviève Godin @genevievegodin.bsky.social Aspiring contemporary archaeologist, queer theorist, and MSCA fellow at UCL researching sewers.
I am interested in materiality, monsters, cities, the subterranean, and everything else in the world. I am also terrible at social media.
Morgane Pique @mpique.bsky.social PhD student / Doctorante en Assyriologie, université de Lille (UMR 9028-HARTIS)
> Old Babylonian period and its merchants, institutions and society
> Page Pro : https://pro.univ-lille.fr/morgane-pique
Karen Brookfield @karenbrookfield.bsky.social London lady of leisure, culture, travel. Things Ancient 🏛️ Deutsch 🇩🇪 Nordisk 🇫🇮🇸🇪 Not forgetting 🍰📚 & First World War
Once upon a time @ British Library @National Lottery Heritage Fund
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 Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social Aerial photography | GIS | Sarsen stone | landscape archaeology | archaeological comics | archives | YAC Leader | MHFA | FSA | MCIfA | all my own views
Alex Claman @aclaman.bsky.social Nerd, feminist, and Oxford comma user. Ancient Mediterranean, Archaeology, and SFF. Devotee of Hestia. Card-carrying union member. They/them. 🏳️🌈
Andrew Knight @cattanius.bsky.social
Jens Helmstedt @jenshelmstedt.bsky.social Documentary Photographer
• Exploring layers of landscapes and human culture
https://anatoliaphotography.substack.com
Dr Andrew Tibbs @andrewtibbs.bsky.social Author | Romans | Archaeologist | Heritage stuff Hon Research Fellow at Aberdeen Uni | Also RomanScotland.bsky.social
Bill Bowring @billbowring.bsky.social Law teacher, barrister, political activist
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Lydia Sigismondi, Ph.D. @sigismonday.bsky.social Historian of the 18th Century Atlantic World. PhD from USC. Angelino by way of Baltimore. TCM nerd. Mother of cats. C-PTSD. Eternal Orioles optimist & pragmatic progressive.
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social PhD candidate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Writing a dissertation on slavery in early rabbinic literature.
Teaching Fellow at University of Dayton, 2025-2027.
Alex Beeby @abeeby.bsky.social #Archaeologist, pottery and ceramic building materials specialist, archaeological manager, Roman enthusiast, #Lincolnshire yellowbelly, dad, liberal. Views own.
lyra tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, history of medicine, labor history, gender. Cairo Geniza fangirl.
(Blocks are not personal)
They/elle/αυτή/היא/هي
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
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.
Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social Historian of religion\s at University of Fribourg (CH). linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, Alternative Histories, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
John Berkeley Grout 🏳️🌈🔶 @jrberkeley.bsky.social John (he/him) aka. John Berkeley; Leovinas. UK-based writer of SFF, player of RPGs, Classics/archaeology/ancient history PhD, process/telecoms specialist.
The sort of gay lefty Liberal your mother warned you about. Views my own, etc. (no TERFs or AI, ta)
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Lisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social Professor of Geoarchaeology and Heritage Science at Durham University @arcdurham.bsky.social
https://castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/
CK Watts @ckwatts.bsky.social Archaeology PhD Candidate & CRM (she/they)
microscopic usewear, raw material sourcing, experimental archaeology, landscapes, provenance, geochemistry, & crystallography • ground stone tools 🇪🇸 & megaliths 🇮🇩
🏺⚒️🧪
Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social Nalbinding Researcher
AnnieSAnderson @anniescottarch.bsky.social Recently completed MLitt Archaeological studies at #UHIArchaeology after a long academic career in Public Health Nutrition #UniofDundee. The past is my future.
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Vindolanda Charitable Trust @vindolandatrust.bsky.social The Vindolanda Trust is a registered charity running the Roman Army Museum & Roman Vindolanda, in the central sector of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site.
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Anton Coetzee (PhD) @antonscoetzee.bsky.social Postdoc with MAEASaM. critical digitisation; digital archaeology and web-based geospatial stuff; rock art; the nature of the copy; museums. brewing 🍺. Based in Johannesburg.
Nina Thompson @ninapthompson.bsky.social PhD student UCL Institute of Archaeology studying feelings & museums, especially medical museums. American in London, perpetual student and sometimes writer.
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
https://khiflorenz.academia.edu/%C5%81ukaszSoko%C5%82owski
Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social An independent project connecting archaeologists, heritage researchers, and members of the public committed to challenging rising misuse and misrepresentation of the past by the far-right. UK-based, ECR-led. https://archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/
Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social Professor of cultural heritage/archaeologist/everyday heritage/ University of Canberra, Australia
Nicholas Aherne Archaeology @nicholasaherne.bsky.social Archaeologist | Classicist | Art Historian | Roman Sarcophagi of Lebanon | Graeco-Roman Religious and Funerary Culture | Ancient Lived Experiences | Minoans🤠⛏️⚰️💀🐝https://www.rug.nl/staff/n.d.aherne/?lang=en https://rug.academia.edu/NicholasAherne
Dr James A.S. Sunderland @jamesassunderland.bsky.social Research Fellow. PDRA at St Edmund's, University of Cambridge. Historian of British ruled Palestine and Jewish political violence. Dphil, Merton College, University of Oxford
Council for Global Anthropological Linguistics @theglocal.bsky.social This is the official profile of The GLOCAL,The global council for Anthropological Linguistics
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social HB/OT PhD; all things Bible, trauma, feminism, and migration.
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social Mythologist, MANTOneer, MEep, Macquarier, needlewoman, gardener. Secretly just wants to be a cowgirl.
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
Chiara Boracchi @chiaraboracchi.bsky.social Public archaeologist, environmental journalist, Podcaster. Booklover.
https://linktr.ee/chiaraboracchi; https://chiaraboracchi.substack.com/
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Maria Dikcis, PhD @mariadikcis.bsky.social Writing in Public Books, The American Poetry Review, ASAP/Journal, Chicago Review, &c.
PhD, Northwestern | Postdocs, Harvard & UChicago
literature, technology, culture
mariadikcis.com
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.
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Guopeng Chen @gpchen.bsky.social DPhil in archaeology, University of Oxford
Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist | passionate about the funerary archaeology of pre-Roman southern Italy, food (in archaeology and in real life), university collections, and much more | researching, teaching and learning @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Ancient History Magazine @ancienthistmag.bsky.social Ancient History is a magazine dedicated to providing readers accessible, well-researched articles written by experts, with full-colour illustrations and images of artefacts, to bring the ancient world to life.
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social 🌍 Cities & social justice activist, creative technologist, designer, researcher, educator, learner @ UNESCO
💡 Communications officer @ecreaeu.bsky.social
🛜 Social media editor @ Nexus Network Journal
💬 Writing: PT, ENG, ES, FR, CN
🔗 https://dph22.github.io
Artemis Papatheodorou @artemis-p.bsky.social Ottoman & Mediterranean history / History of archaeology
Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow; Research project: Modern Mediterranean Archaeological Regimes in a Global Context (MMARe)
Co-editor: Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Cara - the Council for At-Risk Academics @cara1933.bsky.social Cara is a lifeline to academics at risk, providing sanctuary at partner universities to those forced to flee and regional programmes to help those in exile
https://www.cara.ngo/
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
@tracconference.bsky.social @tracconference.bsky.social
Stamatina Mastorakou @smasto.bsky.social Historian of Science interested in the history of astronomy and its material culture @ University of Pittsburgh/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book for Routledge on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social Environmental archaeologist and geographer. Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK.
Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF researching stories of displacement in Syria & Scotland at the University of Edinburgh
ENIGMAEU project @enigmaeu.bsky.social ENIGMA is an Horizon Europe project addressed to achieve excellence in the protection of Cultural Goods and artefacts from man-made threats
David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social South of the Thames, south of the Yarra. Rootless cosmopolitan. Historian. Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and University of Melbourne. Racism (against). Arsenal.
Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social Archaeologist. Passionate about history, context, and boring civil process. Slowly becoming the Joker but entirely about participatory democracy. Resident of Tsenacommacah, the densely-settled land. 🏳️🌈 #RVA
laura cowley @lauracowley.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social The Pelagios Network (https://pelagios.org/) is a community of researchers, scientists and curators using Linked Data methods and tools to investigate the past.
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
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Memory Studies @memorystudies.bsky.social Memory Studies examines the cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting the way individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget.
Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social Researcher in Archaeology/Anthropology. Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at MOLA, PhD from University of Edinburgh, MSc in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology. Into Theoretical Archaeology, Personhood, Ethnography of archaeology, Emotions
Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at @UniOfYork. Archaeologist who investigates ancient economies to help make the world equitable and more sustainable. he/him
Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
GalliaTransalpina🍉 @galliatransalpina.bsky.social Underemployed Ancient Historian with a focus on Late Iron Age and Roman Gaul and issues of ethnicty, class, gender, and social power under Roman Imperialism. Attempting to break back into academia.
She/Her
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
Association for Roman Archaeology @romanarchaeouk.bsky.social The ARA is a UK charity that supports & promotes Roman history & archaeology. Members get magazines & go on tours. Interested in joining? Visit our website
http://www.associationromanarchaeology.org
Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social Social Media Manager and Volunteer Assistant Warden at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve; here for cats, crochet, jam and water buffaloes 😸🧶🐃
Recovering academic and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History, missing Iraq but not much else 🤷🏼♀️
Georgia Andreou @gmandreou.bsky.social Lecturer in Archaeology & Sustainability, University of Southampton
Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology @brownarchaeology.bsky.social Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World (JIAAW) is dedicated to the academic study and public promotion of archaeology and the ancient world, with a focus on the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Near East.
archaeology.brown.edu
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
ECHOES EU @echoes-eu.bsky.social 🏛️ Funded by the @ec.europa.eu and @ukri.org, ECHOES empowers cultural heritage professionals through the Cultural Heritage Cloud, driving digital innovation and collaboration.
Time Machine @timemachine.eu Digitally simulating 5000 years of European history.
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social Shami Chakrabarti and her new book Human Rights: The Case for the Defence. Cares about people. Likes: rights and freedoms. Dislikes: false dilemmas and straw men.
Dr Anthony Russell @psiren.bsky.social Making my way through cider space.
Prof. Ian Baxter @ibheritage.bsky.social Professor of Historic Environment Management at Heriot-Watt University. #heritage #tourism #archaeology #experience For some reason the business school employed an archaeologist. Does governance and committee things with various heritage organisations.
Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I've changed several times since then // archaeologist, likes scapes: sea, land, film, sound
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.