Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social History & Scottish Heritage, Meal Mills, Reliability Engineering
Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
Just a Guy @powderday.bsky.social “I have a chronic deficit with my barber, who doesn't buy a darned thing from me.”
@powcanada.bsky.social
#protectourwinters #Canada
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
Donna Easterlow @deasterlow.bsky.social 
Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name Future builder. ♥️ Scottish contemporary art
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com Words | history | sounds. Author, editor, archivist. Autistic. Latchy student of Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Kreyòl & stringed instruments. Book: Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846. Researching revolutionary slogans. North Pembrokeshire. www.bulldozia.com
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Hetty (arty) @indyhetty.bsky.social Artist,pro-Scottish independence. Sometimes I make pictrures abt humans' impact on Earth. Love rocks, animals, walks along local city river to see my cheeky Crow pal. Can't abide cruelty to animals.Vegy, almost vegan.
https://www.hettyartinscot.com
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social Criminologist and academic | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics & policy #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
📍 Scotland 🏴
Evelyn Danson @evelyn-danson.bsky.social Lover of nature, peace & justice
Nina Parish @ninaparish.bsky.social Head of School (Modern Languages and Cultures) and Professor of French @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Text/image, modern & contemporary poetry, memory studies & museums.
優noD🏴 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot Yuno Dinnie/杉本優 a.k.a. sustainable translator (Japanese<>English) · Salsa dancer ― ¡Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso! · New Scot · Tofu-eating wokeratti · There is no planet B · #StopBurningStuff
サルサ踊る英語翻訳者 · サステナビリティ翻訳 · スコットランド
sustainabletranslator.scot
Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at
University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.
Enrique Arribas-Garde @garde24.bsky.social Theoretical physicist researching radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and exposure (RF-EMF). Fascinated by magnets since childhood. Físico teórico investigando la exposición a campos electromagnéticos de radiofrecuencia. Amante de los imanes desde niño.
Stirling4Europe #FBPE @stirling4europe.bsky.social A cross-party group based in the Stirling area dedicated to campaigning against Brexit and to promoting the values and ideas underpinning the EU. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
James Aithie 🏴 @jamesaithie.bsky.social "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
I'd mute #ScottishIndependence if that's not your bag, as I bang on about it a lot.
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities @asmedhum.bsky.social Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities - Promoting critical dialogues between humanities and healthcare.
http://amh.ac.uk/
"Studies in Hogg and His World" @studiesinhogg.bsky.social Peer-reviewed print journal.
James Hogg (1770-1835) #EttrickShepherd, poet, novelist, essayist. Submissions: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca
#ScottishRomanticism https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/
Amy @amzomac.bsky.social I'm Amy. I spend time running, protesting, asking questions, finding beauty in the mundane and refusing to be neutral in situations of injustice. Socialist.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social Full Professor of Education at Dublin City University(DCU),President-Elect World Educational Research Association (WERA).President European Alliance for Social Science & Humanities (EASSH).Researching education & evaluation.Lover of sports,reader of books.
Scott Reid @ascottreid.bsky.social At BBC Sport. Bouncing between Glasgow (nearly) and Salford. Will go on about news, sport, Scottish stuff, Eurovision etc. Any rare views are very much my opinion alone.
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
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social Prolixity from Dr Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law at GCU Law, Jacobin scribbler, Sunday National columnist, and jaded flâneur.
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
CG in retirement @goldishcj4.bsky.social Scottish environmentalist, ex advisor, regulator, EU & rights advocate. b.315.98 Worked in: 🇮🇸, Antarctica, 🇳🇴, Oxford, Seattle, Alaska,🇨🇭, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Brussels, Glasgow, Shotts, Stirling, Adelaide, 🇮🇹, 🇵🇹, 🇲🇩, 🇳🇱.
@prof-bobd.bsky.social @prof-bobd.bsky.social 
Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social 🇪🇺🇮🇪 Cork born, fan of smaller countries. Academic Secretary of University College Cork @ucc.ie Member of Senate, National University of Ireland Ex Welsh Gov; WDA; ADAS group. Views own. Photo: Monumental Reckoning by Dana King, Golden Gate Park, SF
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Dr Catherine McMillan @catmcm.bsky.social Early modern historian. PhD (Edinburgh) on Reformation in NE Scotland. New projects on British humanitarianism, Mediterranean captives, & African presence. Clergy in Early Modern Scotland 📖 https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276196/the-clergy-in-early-
Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Little Griefs out now. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
Jacqueline Riding @jacriding.bsky.social Film/TV historian; Art Newspaper Lit Ed; Heritage/Exhibition/Curatorial Consultant; Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth SundayTimes ArtBook 2021 #HardStreets + Gainsborough & Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London 2027 https://linktr.ee/JacRiding
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
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.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Paul Watt @paulbwatt.bsky.social Glasgow Warriors and Greenock Morton.
S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Jill Forbes @jill51.bsky.social Retired lawyer, now complementary therapist. Here mainly for the political/independence chat
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians.
Editor – Peter Moore
Creative Director – @jordanacosta.co
https://www.unseenhistories.com/
The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴
https://pod.link/1865430519
Jopi Nyman @jopinyman.bsky.social Prof English, Eastern Finn.
James Drummond @poltroon.bsky.social Interests: Music - Wagner to Wooden Shjips. Novels, essays and novella length non-fiction. History, particularly C17-18 Scottish. Of Perthshire, but in London these days. Social media neophyte: assume I’m terrified. 
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
| Co-Editor History of Education
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social UCSL brings together Scotland’s universities in support of the study of Scottish writing old and new. We award the Ross Roy Prize and the Scottish Literary Studies Prize. https://ucsl-scotland.com/
Kate Ashley @kmans.bsky.social Academic. Nova Scotia. Lover of books, beaches, baking, end-of-the-world movies, the 19th century, France, and Scotland. Dix-neuviémiste. Victorianist. Law. RLS.
profserious @profserious.bsky.social Technology, Software, Policy, Security, Universities, Art, Antiques, Cats. https://finkelstein.uk
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Aedán Smith @aedansmith.bsky.social Nature. Cycling. St.Johnstone. And some other stuff. Head of Policy; Trustee @ Scottish Environment LINK; Trustee @ Environmental Rights Centre. Posts here are mine alone.
Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social Writer and academic. Prof Emerita in Scottish Literature.
Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social Historian.
Life. Fortune. Sacred Honor.
Cats and Dogs. Coffee.
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC- S Dr Murray Cook @stirlingdigger.bsky.social Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Marc Mierowsky @mmier.bsky.social 18th C. Literature and poltics @ Melbourne.
New book on Defoe and the Anglo-Scottish Union
The Blether @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow designed to highlight the work and research being done in Scottish Literature. Who doesn’t love a good Blether!
Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social Chair Planning Democracy; board member Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre; volunteer with Spokes; Hon Fellow Scottish Env LINK, worked for Ramblers Scotland before retirement.
Walking, cycling, mountains, Scottish politics, CND, climate change, gardening.
EASSH @eassh.bsky.social European Alliance for Social Sciences & Humanities. Our main aim is to promote #research on #socialsciences & #humanities as a resource for Europe & the world.
Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
©️ All rights reserved. | Est. 2025
Richard Kirkland @richardnw5.bsky.social Professor of Irish literature at King's College London. Lives in Kentish Town.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society (MBHS). Sharing the fascinating history & heritage of the parishes and district of Meldrum and Bourtie. Visit us at https://meldrumheritage.org/
Catherine Bradley @drcatbradley.substack.com 
Charles Snodgrass @charles-snodgrass.bsky.social English Professor | Certified Whisky Ambassador | Chess Player | Aesthete-in-Training
Ian Peter MacDonald @peepsmacd.bsky.social Art sort, maker of Glen Spean beer, loving living in Lochaber.Chair -West Highland Museum.
Fergus Bruce @fergusbruce.bsky.social I suppose so, yes
Danny Aston @dastonsnp.bsky.social SNP councillor for Craigentinny-Duddingston ward, Edinburgh |
Promoted by D Aston, 16 N St Andrew St EH2 1HJ
Constituent queries to: cllr.danny.aston@edinburgh.gov.uk
Film Milf 🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 📚 @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ 📚
Fully Full Frontal 4 Film. Crazy Cool Comics.
Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Atrocity & the Conduct of War
Late onset academic
#Dyslexic
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Emanuela Patti @emanuelapatti.bsky.social Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh | Intermediality & DH | Research Portfolio Holder SIS | Latest Book: David Rizzio at the Scottish Court. History and myth across arts and media (EUP)
@hume1711.bsky.social @hume1711.bsky.social 
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social Retired law professor and law reformer. Pro EU. Anti Brexit. Pro UN, pro international law and civilised international relations. Supporter of Scottish independence in Europe for pro European, internationalist, democratic, progressive and other reasons.
Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Mediamedia comms boss, Quiet Riot podcast bod, media trainer, PR adviser ... you'll find me anywhere I can play with words and pictures. Cars, whisky, mountains, cats also welcome
Independence Live @independencelive.net Building Communities. Curated list of #ScottishIndependence communities https://go.bsky.app/L9ZVKhJ
TELLING SCOTLAND'S STORY SINCE 2013
What's on Guide - Shows - Events - Podcasts:► https://independencelive.net #scottishrepublic
Lucy Rutherford @lucyr.bsky.social Archivist at Hertford College, Oxford; general interest in heritage stories & art history; spare time spent attempting to learn Italian