out-of-the-box @peterstott.bsky.social Scottish independence🏴, Avid European.
Atheist. Secularist. Not a Monarchist.
Genocide-aware. Please liberate the USA.
Love our renewables 💨🌊🏞️ No to CCS & greenwash.
Seeker of Eclectica.
Did I forget something?
RIBA Tees Branch @ribatees.bsky.social Teesside / TeesValley Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Promoting architecture, architects and supporting our members
Becca @beccalou.bsky.social HE Lecturer, Research in sociology of education, care and disability, social justice, mental health. Views expressed here are my own.
Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire @frameworkknitters.bsky.social We are a unique surviving example of a 19th century framework knitters’ yard, and still demonstrating this endangered craft.
Plus exhibitions, craft workshops, group visits, performances and more.
www.frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk
Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social Seeking solace in scenes of Marchmont, The Meadows, Edinburgh and occasionally beyond.
Knitter.
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Amanda @cnodaraich.bsky.social Social history, buildings, football, railways, landscapes, birds, sunsets
#scotland #deutschland #gàidhlig #stilleuropean
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Friends of Kinneil @kinneil.bsky.social The Friends of Kinneil are a group promoting historic Kinneil House, Museum, Estate and Nature Reserve in Bo’ness. Get the full info at www.kinneil.org
Anna Niia Varfolomeeva @annaniia.bsky.social Arctic infrastructure researcher | Energy, extractive, and digital transitions more: avarfolomeeva.com
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
Lowell Historic Board @lowellhb.bsky.social The Lowell Historic Board is the City of Lowell's historic preservation agency.
Industrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social Advancing the understanding of industrialization processes.
Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social Mother, Welsh, European. Author of bestselling novels. Currently posting about the 1960s, the 1700s, social and family history.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Hannah-Howe/author/B00OK7E24E
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social A membership charity founded in 1780 that supports the study and enjoyment of Scotland’s past through publications, lectures, @scarf-scot.bsky.social, @digitscotland.bsky.social, @churchheritage.bsky.social and more | Visit https://www.socantscot.org/
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Rural Museums Network @ruralmuseums.bsky.social The Rural Museums Network is a registered charity, aimed at promoting learning and encouraging a wider understanding of the UK’s rural heritage.
Birthlink Thrift Shops @birthlinkthrift.bsky.social Sharing tat, treasure and nonsense from two of Scotland's Oldest Charity Shops, based In Edinburgh.
Posts by Neil He/Him
Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social Award-winning photographer exploring landscape, architecture, and long journeys on foot. #ThePerimeterBook out now. Order, events & prints here: https://is.gd/P2BW67
Ali @aligeorge.bsky.social Work on Digital Content in the Heritage Sector, read (and sometimes write) kidlit, mostly lurking just now. Beautiful parent of two lucky children. A cat also lives here. she/her
NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social Brussels stuff, in English but please reply in any language.
Journalism is online.
Anna Soubry @anna-soubry.bsky.social Criminal barrister & Sky News paper reviewer (when I have the time!)
Former MP, TV Presenter & Reporter
East Midlander born n bred
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeney.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
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
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
Peter Drummond @pdarchitect.bsky.social Conservation architect, chair of RIAS Practice Committee, past chair of the AHSS, NTS Trustee, occasional member of the Scottish fencing team, circular saw victim.
OssianLore @ossianlore.bsky.social Not dead yet
@govanhillbaths.bsky.social @govanhillbaths.bsky.social
Britannia Panopticon @britpanopticon.bsky.social Oldest surviving music hall in the world! Steeped in Glasgow history. Registered SCIO & open venue. Home to drag, variety, comedy and bygone wonders.
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social www.ahss.org.uk
Speaking For Scotland's Buildings since 1956! Campaigning. Membership. Events.
TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social An archive of historical design. Discoveries from Scottish tenements & beyond. Originally a Twitter project, est 2015. Now found on Instagram, FB, & here!
Images taken by myself, unless otherwise credited. Happy to share your finds? Give us a tag.
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social Sometimes engineers, sometimes DJs, irregularly bakes stuff
Back in Scotland 🏴 the long way round
Will discuss anything with anyone so long that we all play nicely
So long you follow - sign of the times 😔
#jazzsky #scotsky
🏴 🇮🇹 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇪🇺
Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social Editor of The Daily Reckless www.dailyreckless.com MD ANT. Author of 40 Odd Years Of The Fall: https://gregmoodie.com/product/40-odd-years-of-the-fall/ DJ - https://www.dailyreckless.com/radio
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Ancient Robot Games @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social Independent board game shop in Edinburgh 🎲 Established in May 2023
Sunday - Thursday 10:30 - 19:00
Friday - Saturday 10:30 -late
https://www.ancientrobotgames.co.uk/links
alice lyall @alyall.bsky.social Slow cyclist, serial enthusiast, aspiring harpy. Mostly in Edinburgh.
Work: heritage stuff
Volunteering: river stuff
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Duille @duille.com Life is the green leaf.
We're an independent design studio inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Tel: +44 (0)1604 312960
Shop here: duille.com
Anton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social Historian of invention. www.ageofinvention.xyz
Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social Annie Norman. Pioneer of Believable Femme Miniatures for wargames & TTRPG. Historical, Fantasy & Sci Fi. International TV, Radio & Magazine star. Humble.
www.BadSquiddoGames.com
Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt.
http://patreon.com/originstorypod
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Produced by Podmasters
Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social Conference to mark the Quatercentenary of King James VI&I's death
9-11 July 2025, Glasgow (Scotland)
https://understandingjames.wixsite.com/kingjamesconf
John @heritagejohn.bsky.social Senior lecturer in planning and the historic environment and course leader of planning apprentices. Interested in all things historic environment and planning, currently writing a PhD on the use of a heritage significance toolkit. Motivated by 🫖 and 🍰
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
SCAPE @coastarch.bsky.social SCAPE works with the public to research, investigate, interpret and promote the archaeology of Scotland’s coast. https://scapetrust.org/
Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Bri Wilkinson @brirhys.bsky.social Curious wanderer.
Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
John Duncan @jockduncan.bsky.social Better known as Newbattle at War on 'Twitter' Grandad, amateur filmmaker 🎥 and military historian. Author of Midlothian at War, With a Pick and Rifle and co-author of Only Remembered books. My 4th book Midlothian in WW2, I'm proud to say is now out.
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
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.
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
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
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
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.
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
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
Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Kirkwall Tailors Project; Hammermen; Baxters; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
Barbara Campagna @bcampagna.bsky.social Preservation architect, green building advocate, Midcentury Modern specialist. Greening What's Already Here in Buffalo, DC, NYC & everywhere in between. Cat lover, sci-fi/fantasy fan and anything Brutalism.
Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social The union for ambition prospect.org.uk
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Building Conservation @cathedralcomms.bsky.social BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust @gbptrust.bsky.social GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Hillary Morales Robles @hillarymorales.bsky.social Historic Preservation Officer | Preservation Architect | Puerto Rican + Caribbean Heritage | University of Pennsylvania Alum | Advancing Latinx representation in heritage conservation in the U.S. and its territories.
Andrew Walsh @daytonvistas.bsky.social I write about urban redevelopment, history, architecture, and historic preservation in Dayton, OH. Author of Lost Dayton, Ohio.
Donna A. Seger @daseger7.bsky.social History professor also dabbling in the realms of public history and preservation in Salem, Massachusetts. Streetsofsalem.com.
Women's Engineering Society @wes1919.bsky.social Inspiring women to achieve their potential as engineers, scientists, and leaders and assisting educators, managers, and employers in making this happen.
De Morgan Foundation @demorganfoundation.bsky.social Pre-Raphaelite art and Arts & Crafts ceramics by Victorian artists, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive
James Hamilton @lixmount.bsky.social Photography and Photographic History.
Now Page: http://jameshamilton.co.uk
Photographs: http://www.lixmount.com
Lynn Pearson @lynnpearson67.bsky.social Architectural historian and early portable buildings enthusiast, working on a book about 'tin tabernacles' (and suchlike) and their wooden friends
Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social Smile Scotland ... you're on camera
Stephen Schafer @habs-photographer.bsky.social Doing architectural photography 📸 of our inherited environment. HABS/HAER/HALS documentation of historic buildings, landscapes and engineering 📸 HABSphoto.com
Kathleen Conti @kathleenconti.bsky.social Public historian, preservationist, professor. Writing on race and representation at US historic sites.
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
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
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.
Dr Tim Meek @limefinishes.bsky.social
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Dr David Mitchell @dsm888.bsky.social Director of Cultural Assets - Historic Environment Scotland
Trustee of the Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery
Film photographer, camera and architectural ironwork fiend.
Ella @ellatasm.bsky.social Wandering & wondering.
Mostly Edinburgh.
The Forth Bridges @theforthbridges.bsky.social Three bridges spanning three centuries. See them all on the Forth Bridges Trail!
Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social Scottish, sculptor, artist, gardener. Posting on Scottish art, design, history, literarure and culture. “Scotland is a country not a county”.
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
Join: TheNewWorld.co.uk/subscribe
Buy merch: shop.thenewworld.co.uk
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Joss Durnan @jossdurnan.bsky.social You want to know about Irvine New Town? Of course you do.