Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social Author of bawdy romcoms with a big ♥. She/her. Out now: ZOMROMCOM and SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!
My website: oliviadade.com
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Bookstore Romance Day @bookstoreromanceday.org Founded in 2019 to bring together the Romance and independent bookstore communities for a day of celebration. Join us on August 9 2025. BRD founded & organized by @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org Sponsorship info: https://bit.ly/4nbyD46
WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social Where music discovery brings us together!
Listen online at wx.pn/listen or tune in:
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WHYY @whyy.org Public media for Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social No fluff, no BS, all Philly ✨
Local • Independent • Nonprofit • News
🌇 #billypenngram to be featured in our daily newsletter | 🎙 part of WHYY @whyynews.bsky.social
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PhillyVoice.com @phillyvoice.com Looking beyond simple headlines, PhillyVoice.com tells stories that inform, inspire and drive conversation.
Gabriella Bennett @palebackwriter.bsky.social author / journalist / columnist writing on housing, urban planning, architecture, cities, travel, place
📚HOW TO BUILD A CITY out 2026 with Headline Press
Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen.bsky.social Comedian. Author. Podcaster.
sofiehagen.com/newsletter for hot goss straight to your inbox.
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
Make a Scene! Scenario Festival @makeascenemn.bsky.social North America’s European-style larp festival returns 2027 in Minneapolis. Make a Scene is the only stand-alone festival this side of the Atlantic that premieres brand new larps organized around a bespoke theme. www.makeascenemn.org
Layla McCay @laylamccay.bsky.social By day: Health Policy. By night: Author. Might post on either or neither.
Dr Jean Menzies @jeansthoughts.bsky.social PhD in Ancient History 🏺
Nonfiction author for children with DK; YA/Teens with Wren & Rook; and adult with 404 Ink.
Debut medieval fantasy retelling for adults coming May 2025 with Michael Joseph, Penguin.
Agent: Emily Glenister
Cailleach’s Herbarium / Scott Richardson-Read @scottishfolkmagic.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏴
🌱Researcher
💀Author Mill Dust & Dreaming Bread out 2025
🧌Scottish Folk Belief
👻Activist
🌿Herbalist
🐈⬛Dad
🧟♂️Folk Magic Practitioner
💯Scottish folk magic
Franky (Frances) Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com Writer, artist, editor, educator. Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. Author of "Walter Benjamin Reimagined", MIT Press, "Fling Diction," Green Writers Press, and other books.
https://linktr.ee/Frankyfrancescannon
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social A leftist library project
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
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/
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
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard ✍🏻⌨️
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 ❤️)
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Marian Toledo Candelaria @malcolmcanmore.bsky.social Special collections librarian. Likes books, book history, book arts, and typography. Parent to two fluffy bunnies.
🇵🇷 (she/they/ella[e])
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
- Maritime Warfare (1513-1713)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Law & the Conduct of War
"Late onset academic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Murdoch
Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 (EUP) | Co-editor 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (Boydell, 2021)
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php- K Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Craig @craig1802.bsky.social Ordinary bloke living in SW Scotland
Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher |
UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk |
cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
Charlotte Nekman @toften2920.bsky.social Danish/Scottish. Living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Historian.
40 years+ in advertising, sales, marketing, and fundraising.
B.A. (Marketing) 1982
M.A. (History/Cross-Cultural Studies) 2020.
Volunteer refugees. 
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Morag @glasgowgenealogy.bsky.social Professional genealogist from Glasgow, trading as www.glasgowgenealogy.co.uk. Specialising in Scottish research but interested in all aspects of genealogy/family history. Also into baking, knitting, sewing, geocaching, travel.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Mark Rustbucket @markrustbucket.bsky.social My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
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!
Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social Historian of 18c Scotland, PhD Candidate at UDelaware. Mary Stuart, historiography, memory, Hume, Jacobitism.
Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - haven’t done age verification. Sorry.
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social Stained Glass Studio. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. 🏴
RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart.
www.stainedglass.scot
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social Family and local historian. One Place Study: Graveney and Goodnestone. One Name Study: Rigden. Specialist subjects: Faversham Workhouse, 19th century riots. Border Reivers. 
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Dr Sheilagh Quaile @sheilaghquaile.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Adjunct), University of Prince Edward Island.
Historian of art, design, and material culture in Britain and empire.
Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
Dr. Katie McCullough @kmccullo.bsky.social Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
Principal consultant at https://yarrowhistoricalconsulting.ca/
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
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
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Phil Stobie @thebadasshistorian.bsky.social Not a real badass or historian
Monument Manager Tantallon Castle
Film/TV battle scene veteran
Outlander chameleon S1-6
I love quirky tv, unusual films, catchy choruses, history, nature
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social ☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
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)
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social 🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee ☕️
📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
RobMcInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social Scottish writer
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot.
Barvick Falls forthcoming autumn 2025
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City
www.walktalktours.uk
Insta: @walktalktours1
T/X @tours_talk
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
Jonathan Brown @sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social Lecturer in Scots Private Law. Legal scholar/historian/theorist and teacher of Scots/Roman law.
A fun fellow, in spite of every single word that has preceded this sentence.
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/
Dr Miriam A. Bibby @drmabibby.bsky.social Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History. 
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Dr Matthew Lee @matthewlee88.bsky.social Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape