Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Time Extension @timeextension.com Breathing new life into old games. Retro gaming news, reviews and features from the lovely people behind @nintendolife.com
@pushsquare.com and @purexbox.com
www.timeextension.com
Kalamona Studios ♜ Feudums @kalamonastudios.bsky.social A tiny #indiedev studio in St. Gallen.
Making Feudums - a medieval 4X / grand strategy built around long-format async multiplayer with full player agency.
💬 discord.gg/QgERDnU
💗 www.patreon.com/c/feudums
📌 demo & links: https://linktr.ee/feudums
Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she
Malath @maltron.bsky.social Designer, Creative Producer creating games/art @ Biome Collective / organise Arcadia Festival / serve on the board Creative Scotland / & dad
Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social geographies | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.
Hannah Swithinbank @hannahswiv.bsky.social Assorted Bobbins | Theology, (Ancient) History (PhD, St Andrews) | Priest and Vicar in the Church of England | S-W London, but always missing Cornwall
http://hannahswithinbank.com
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social social epistemology & political philosophy | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.social #GameDev with @greyalien.bsky.social at Grey Alien Games. Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. Writer: Going Medieval & more…https://greyaliengames.com/blog/writing-editing/
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Megan Rhodes Victor @archaeovictor.bsky.social Archaeologist: commensality, food, alcohol and drinking spaces, gendered performance, digital archaeology, archaeogaming, underrepresented narratives, pirates.
Assistant Prof., Anthropology Dept., Queens College, CUNY
Director, Digital Archaeology Lab
Christopher Anaforian @chrisanaforian.bsky.social PhD in Classics and American History
University of St Andrews
American Working Class and Antiquity ☭
@crsn-uk.bsky.social
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Andrew Snow @asnoweplan87.bsky.social Assistant Prof Urban Planning
Interested in what makes something ‘environmental’.
Discourse, power, human-nonhuman interrelations.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-8969
Ylva Grufstedt @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social Finally (?) made it to Bluesky. Historian focused on on digital public history, historical game studies, game production and cultural heritage. PhD in shenanigans.
Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
Dan Goad @dangoad.bsky.social Independent academic working on the ancient world in popular culture, particularly video games
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Paolo Ruffino @paoloruffino.bsky.social http://paoloruffino.com
Senior Lecturer at Dept. Digital Humanities - King's College London / Artist at IOCOSE / Current project: Videogames for the Post-Anthropocene
Chris Towndrow - Author & Publisher @authorctowndrow.bsky.social 📚 Indie #author of 16 novels
✍️ Writing #romcom as Chrissie Harrison
📕 Hilarious & charming FLOORED & APPY EVER AFTER
📙 #womenscricket romances WICKET MAIDEN & SEAMS LIKE LOVE
🤝 Publisher at Valericain Press
https://linktr.ee/authorchrissieharrison
Jules @julesrandle.bsky.social Cricket, horses, cats and beer!
Ian Litwin @impossible-now.bsky.social English PhD. Abolition, C19, William Wells Brown, print culture, 1848. 
Tobias Unterhuber @letobili.bsky.social Post-Doc Uni Innsbruck// Media Culture Studies / Game Studies / Gender Studies / German Literature // Foucauldian // Co-Editor-in-Chief PAIDIA // Editor ZfF // Board Bember AKGWDS
Dr Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
Donal Lucey @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist and nerd. Public engagement, social value and immersive approaches. Loves Early Medieval stuff! Member of award-winning Dig The Castle project & @archsengage.bsky.social
Mod of r/AskArchaeology
Seán Roberts @seangroberts.bsky.social Seeker of strange correlations, digger of data, language evolver.
Video Game Dialogue Corpus: https://correlation-machine.com/VideoGameDialogueCorpus/
Lecturer in Linguistics at Cardiff University https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/robertss55
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Jon Hesk @jonheskclassics.bsky.social Teaches and writes about ancient Greek literature, rhetoric and politics at the University of St Andrews. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/people/jph4/
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Dr Katy Barrett FSA @spoonsontrays.bsky.social Deputy Chief Curator & Head of Engagement @UKParliament. Vice Chair of Trustees @OldOpTheatre. #histArt #histSci #sciart. Keeper #MuseumofShadows All opinions my own.
www.spoonsontrays.com
Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries @ King's @kingscmci.bsky.social 🎙️ Understanding culture, media and creative industries and the emergent relationship between them: kcl.ac.uk/cmci
Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social 
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Global Cricket @somuchcricket.bsky.social All cricket, but especially women and associate internationals. Glamorgan fan.
https://somuchsportoutthere.wordpress.com/
ginevra-m (they/she) @ginevra-m.bsky.social Null Signal Games contributor (Narrative & Art teams); #Netrunner, #fabtcg , boardgames, #DiscoElysium & #PointAndClick game enthusiast; knitter, spinner & quilter; opinions on Australian politics, international events, law & tech. Deutsch & français=OK
Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics, gamelan. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy.
Rebecca Levitan @levitan.bsky.social probably thinking about ancient art/archaeology or snacks. London-based ☂️
Women’s Classical Committee UK @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 🏛️ Supporting women and non-binary people in Classics
🏛️ Enhancing studies of women within antiquity
🏛️ Advancing equality & diversity in classics
Dr Leslie Wong @wongznleslie.bsky.social Recent PhD graduate in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. Adaptation. Reception. Comics. Spec Fic. Video Games. Contemporary East and Southeast Asia.
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Seva Khusid @sevakhusid.bsky.social οἴμοι
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Currently working on: https://bsky.app/profile/harvest-of-names.bsky.social
Harvest of Names @harvest-of-names.bsky.social A game of mythical investigations.
Do your coursework.
Solve the murder.
Shape your own self.
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social Canadian Video Game Developers
Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup
Cinematic R.P.G. makers.
xBioWare, xMicrosoft, xActivision
https://www.patreon.com/cw/NorthMistStudios
Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social Making quirky little games with a lot of heart.
🖊 Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer @ Frontier
🌟 Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee
🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co
🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee
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
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social or Joy if you're fancy
maker of music and games
morris dancer
they/them
Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games Publishing beautiful history board games.
Pax Pamir ✧ John Company ✧ Molly House
linktr.ee/wehrlegig
Austin Wintory @awintory.bsky.social Professionally curious about music. 🎶 for Journey, Sword of the Seam Eternal Strands, Stray Gods, Pathless, Abzu, LEGO Fornite, Aliens Fireteam Elite, AC Syndicate etc
1/2 of BrushesAndKeys
Maria Ruotsalainen @mariaruotsalainen.bsky.social I am cultural studies scholar from Jyväskylä, Finland. 
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Francisco Dominguez @dominguezf.bsky.social Writes about games sometimes. Bylines: New York Times, IGN, Epic Games, PC Gamer, Polygon, Slate, Nintendo Life.
Fjdwrites(at)gmail.com
https://muckrack.com/francisco-dominguez-3
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Rü @rbrandis.eu 🌹 poetic realist.
🎮 makes games.
✍️ writes about theory, ideology & history.
🛠 working on 13 Rosas @achtungautobahn.com
✊ proud member of ver.di @game-workers.de
✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
WispRoy @wisproy.bsky.social I blog about #indiedev, food & my dog! 🐶 Narrative Designer of https://wispfire.com 🖋 Volunteer at https://games4diversity.com 🌈 Buy Herald: bit.ly/herald-steam 👾 Wishlist Red Kiss: bit.ly/RedKissSteam 💋🩸
playfultimemach.bsky.social @playfultimemach.bsky.social Go on a journey with us, through time, games and play!
Kaye @systemerrorkaye.bsky.social Game artist and designer | Lecturer in Game Art and Design | PhD research in Games and Culture | Scottish Gaelic Speaker
Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social Archaeologist. Ancient Games. Syracuse Basketball. Cheese. Sneakers. Gay stuff. he/him
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
UiB, Bergen, Norway.
Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social Made Mythmatch, an anti-capitalist merge game. Previously worked on Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Ratchet & Clank.
Mythmatch on Steam: s.team/a/1778050
Dr Katie Carpenter @ktrcarpenter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public History at University of Leeds. Research Interests: history of women and science. Teaching Interests: creative teaching and assessment. Views my own.
Dr. Torie Burmeister @mercurywitch.bsky.social VAP in Classical Studies at Wesleyan. PhD on witches/space in Latin lit (BU). “If I had to describe Torie’s interests in one word: Dark.” - my advisor
have written here: https://mercurywitch.wordpress.com/
She/her
Francisco González @grundislav.games Indie adventure game developer.
I’ve made Rosewater (IndieCade nominated), Lamplight City, Shardlight, A Golden Wake & the Ben Jordan series.
Currently working on #ProjectLion
http://grundislav.games
Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game🌿
Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/The_Abbess_Garden/
Newsletter https://mdstudiogames.com/newsletter/
Dr and researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles 📚
(she/her)
Lean @ide4fix.bsky.social History, Gender Studies, Video Games.
PhD Candidate, Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, MQ
member of EnGender! (https://engender-academia.com/).
dog companion.
él/he/him.
@tesswatty.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social 
Allie Ast @agast98.bsky.social Founder, creative director, and writer of Sundew Studios. Currently working on Tearoom of Terror!
Rosa Talks Ball @rosatalksball.bsky.social A world of multimedia women's sport coverage by Rosa Simkin, (freelance journalist). 📰🎥🎙️
Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
Kent Cricket @kentcricket.co.uk The official home of Kent Cricket on Bluesky 🏏
Polly Starkie @pollystarkie.bsky.social 📍MCR/BHAM |🎙@00ChildPodcast Host | ✍ Sports Journalist & Commentator | 🗞 BBC Sport, Telegraph, Cricketer | 🎓MMU
Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social Head of History & Politics, LCS | PhD Demosthenes, Ancient Athens, Democracy, Rhetoric, Oratory, Identity | Views My Own
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
@historystudiola.bsky.social @historystudiola.bsky.social 
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social I'm a medieval archaeologist who works with open knowledge. Posts will inevitably descend into castles, cricket, and Star Trek.
Banner photo is Pevensey Castle in Sussex. It's one of my favourite castles. The photo is mine and licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Eva Locher @evalocher.bsky.social Editor Medieval and Early Modern Studies @degruyter_brill
Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke @rabeari.bsky.social acquisitions editor history (@dg_history) // 19th&20th century social; cultural; global // red wine advocate // opinions are my own // she/her
LOVE & MAGIC®: SPELLFYRE @candlelightgames.bsky.social ❤️🔥 LOVE & MAGIC®: SPELLFYRE out now on iOS and Android!
🕯️ Creating narrative games that surprise, delight, and excite
https://linktr.ee/candlelight.games
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Tamsin Shasha @tamsinshasha.bsky.social Theatre maker, sea swimmer, passionate pro European, #Rejoiner
Actors of Dionysus @aodtheatre.bsky.social Theatre Company | Education Specialist
We make powerful, poetic and often aerial theatre inspired by ancient Greek drama. Current projects: Magic from Myth coding + Wonder Women of the Ancient World
Awkward Zombie @awkwardzombie.bsky.social delivering high-quality gamer goofs for nearly 20 years
www.awkwardzombie.com
Kevin Wong @the-kevin-wong.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Classics. I research antiquity’s afterlife in online gaming culture, the game industry, new media, and technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwwl/
Richard Starkie @i-am-the-dad.bsky.social One half of the Noughtie Child Podcast