Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
@scotlandspeople.bsky.social @scotlandspeople.bsky.social 
National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Stories from Scotland's national collections.
Explore our website: nms.ac.uk
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
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/
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
DanMacPhail 🏴 @danmacphail.bsky.social Scotland and it's history.
Independence is normal.
Brexit is an ongoing disaster.
Borderer.
Celtic.
Doing my bit for wildlife.
(Profile pic; WW1 Scottish/French Auld Alliance remembrance)
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
National Council of Jewish Women @ncjw.bsky.social NCJW is a 132 year old Jewish feminist civil rights organization working for the full rights of women, children, and families in the United States and Israel.
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies @uclhjs.bsky.social University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics.
Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky
Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. Early English Queens, 850-1000 (https://t.ly/Q395d); Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders (https://t.ly/So2-E); & Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) all out now.
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Annie Whitehead @anniehistory.bsky.social Author, Historian, FRHistS, HWA, SoA. Winner HWA/Dorothy Dunnett Soc. Comp, Judge HWA Nonfiction Crowns & HNS story Comp
http://anniewhiteheadauthor.co.uk
anniewhitehead2.blogspot.co.uk
Richard Cassidy @rjcassidy.bsky.social Potters around with pipe rolls, and sometimes memoranda rolls or even receipt and issue rolls. 13th century English government finance, in other words. Also does crosswords and dotes on grandchildren. 
Derek Birks @derekbirks.bsky.social #Bestselling action thriller author of #HistoricalFiction #TheLastoftheRomans #TheWarsoftheRoses #Podcasts: Co-hosts A Slice of #Medieval Podcast. And now, non-fiction history!
Vanessa King @vanessaking1066.bsky.social Honorary fellow of Birkbeck College. Slowly writing a book on early English Queens for Routledge. https://queenshipinpreconquestengland.wordpress.com/
John Paul Davis @officiallyjpd.bsky.social International Bestselling Thriller/History Author ✍️
Active Member ITW 🔫
Associate Fellow RoyalHistSoc ⚔️
Mostly books, mountains & medieval ruins📚⛰️🏰
www.johnpauldavis.com
Toni Mount Author @toniauthor.bsky.social I study, teach and write about medieval England
Paula Lofting @paulaloftingauthor.bsky.social Author of historical fiction Sons of the Wolf Series set in the 11thcentury and writer for Pen and Sword - newly released biography about Harold Godwinson. Currently working on Biography of Edmund Ironside.
website: www.threadstothepast.com
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
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/
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
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
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Mabel Slattery @slatteroo.bsky.social Cousin Jack of all trades, master of dungeons and medieval dick jokes. She/they.
Ann Williams @anwl.bsky.social Professional historian (tenth- and eleventh-century England), also a witch, with interests both in ancient rituals and modern practice. Lifelong socialist passionate about ecology and local resilience, member of the Transition community. 
Catherine Ibbotson @historysquirrels.bsky.social AKA The Historical Collaborator…
More to come.
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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.
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/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.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.
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