Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social "The UK's most radical museum" - The Guardian
✨ Where art is alive
❓ What is the Meaning of Life?
🎟 Pay if and what you can
💭 Life’s biggest questions
sainsburycentre.ac.uk
Museum Study @museumstudy.bsky.social Online professional development for cultural institutions
Centre for Museum Cultures @museumsbirkbeck.bsky.social A hub for intellectual exchange and debate relating to all aspects of museology, curation, and heritage.
J.S.K. Starr @jskstarr.bsky.social Disabled, nonbinary, Jewish, queer, immigrant. They/them.
Oral historian, museum practitioner, educator, sensitivity reader, accessibility consultant & poet.
https://linktr.ee/JSKStarr
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
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.
Amie Kirby (she/her) @amiekirby.bsky.social community, archives & arty things 💐 Producer, writer, researcher, yapper |Coordinator @venturearts.bsky.social| Launching w/ @cinemaforall.bsky.social | Dep Ed @journalofmeg.bsky.social | Young Trustee @artsemergency.bsky.social | views own
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social A pioneering non-profit mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate, nature and justice crisis. https://juliesbicycle.org #CreativeClimateAction
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Arran Rees @arranjrees.bsky.social Museum data, researcher, cat friend, runner. 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social Putting class back on the agenda.
@beamishmuseum.bsky.social @beamishmuseum.bsky.social
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social Accredited archives for the county of Northumberland and Diocese of Newcastle. Housed at Woodhorn, near Ashington, and at Berwick Library. northumberlandarchives.com
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/
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.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
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Anna Freed @annasusanf.bsky.social disability, archaeology, and disability archaeology. accessibility officer @mus_ethno_group. consultant with disabled students uk. ostomate. white. she/her ✨
Aayushi Gupta @aayushigupta.bsky.social Research Assistant @maacambridge.bsky.social | Web Officer @musethnogroup.bsky.social | PhD History @camhistory.bsky.social | Researching South Asian Gender, Religious, and Visual Histories.
Meghan Backhouse @mobbackhouse.bsky.social Museum person at NML. Chair of Museum Ethnographers Group. All things Collections. Opinions expressed are my own. She/her. Go Cubs!
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Claire @carmineclaire.bsky.social sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹🗡️ curator 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Linke in comments @dannybirchall.bsky.social Capercaillie, lammergeier, cassowary
Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social #museums #collections #archaeology #landscapes Formerly Museum Development SE, Science Museum Group, Society of Antiquaries, Chichester Museum, Reading Museum. Mainly #dogs #cats #books #archery and musings. All views my own.
Dr Rachel Souhami @rachelsouhami.bsky.social Museums consultant. Works at the intersection of design, narrative, partnerships and process. Develops and facilitates new approaches to museum practice. Founder of Prospect Heritage Freelancers branch. Producer of @museumsshowoff.bsky.social
She/her
Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us!
No bio, no follow back.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-conference-2025-curating-communities-tickets-1353581481649
Museums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions
https://museumsandheritage.com
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Laura Van Broekhoven @prmlaurita.bsky.social Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
Inbal Harding @inbalharding.bsky.social Senior Creative lead at big city art gallery. Lover of art and dogs, vaguely fond of my kids. Online nonsense a mixture of all these things. All views my own.
Louise Sutherland @lsutherland.bsky.social 📍Lives in The North.
💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X.
👉Follows/reposts not endorsements.
📝Views & skeets very much mine.
Katy Jackson @culturekaty.bsky.social Museums and culture person. Big library worker. PhDing at Manchester Uni: participatory programmes, emotions, care ethics, and histories of gender-based violence.
IG: @culturekaty
Kathleen @kathleenlawther.bsky.social
Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Contact: qhcncomms@gmail.com
Website: queerhcn.org
Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
Museum-ID magazine @museumid.bsky.social For museum workers — magazine, conference and study days
#MuseumIdeas #FutureMuseum
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk We believe that art history inspires people to think differently and see differently. Find out more about our vision, mission and work:
www.forarthistory.org.uk
Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social The home of Political Studies since 1950. We advance, support & promote the global study of Politics & International Relations. psa.ac.uk
Become a PSA member http://psa.ac.uk/members
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
@lisagraves.bsky.social @lisagraves.bsky.social museums + anthropology
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.
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk GEM, we connect and learn together.
gem.org.uk
Museum Ethnographers Group @musethnogroup.bsky.social MEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network, for anyone interested in caring for global cultures collections.
Web: https://museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
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