Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social Retired RN.RNM.IBCLC.ANLC.CNS.
She/her. Mum & Mimi.
Amateur astronomer. Winemaker. Married. #nevertrump #blacklivesmatter
🌈Ally.Anti Fascist!
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
UK Association for the History of Nursing @ukahn.bsky.social The UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) promotes the development and advancement of #histnursing through scholarly work and outreach. https://ukahn.org/ Find our yearly journal at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
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University of Aberdeen Collections @uoacollections.bsky.social News, Events, Exhibitions and a look at the extensive and varied collections cared for by the University of Aberdeen Collections.
uoacollections@abdn.ac.uk
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The Hairy Knitter @thehairyknitter.bsky.social Knitting designer.
Yarn craft. It keeps us from screaming.
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Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social Author of Everything Briefing, providing you with everything you need to know for the day to be informed. Subscribe for free. ⤵️
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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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/
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social Annual Meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
| 8-11 October 2026, Alexandroupolis (Greece)
| https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr/
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/
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Derrick Johnstone @djohnstone.bsky.social Time to delve into Scottish history | Research Affiliate, Glasgow U, on 17C Scots emigrants to New Jersey | Old Edinburgh Club | Applications of AI in history and genealogy | Cycling | Family & Keeshonds
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
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social @britsocmedhistory.bsky.social
@nickkingsley.bsky.social @nickkingsley.bsky.social Historian of the country house; archivist; FSA; Chairman of Gloucestershire County History Trust; author of Landed Families blog
UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social The official account for UC Berkeley. #GoBears 🐻
Main website: https://www.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Lesley Kelly @lkauthor.bsky.social Author of the Health of Strangers pandemic crime series
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Calum M Ross @calum-m-ross.bsky.social Solicitor in local government // tutor at Edinburgh Law School // personal account
Laura Mair @lauramair.bsky.social Modern Scottish History Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
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/
University of Galway Library Heritage Collections @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social Archives, Special Collections and Digital Collections at the University of Galway Library
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
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
Dean R. Woodhouse @drw.photo Published photographer, doc filmmaker, 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛 & creative designer. Based near Glasgow, Scotland Portfolio website: http://drw.photo
#500Miles walker 🏴
@fionadendy.bsky.social @fionadendy.bsky.social Scottish history, especially 19th and early 20th century Highland history, amateur family historian, cats, trains, dyeing. 🏴
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social Hard copy: https://amazon.com/Who-Will-Believe-Verse-Shakespeares/dp/192558867X
eBook (free): https://www.academia.edu/125775909/The_Most_Intricate_Mechanism_in_Literature
Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/jamesleyland/
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social Archivist historian train travellers perennially anxious frequently cooking always interested
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based. Can't talk politics.
Jane Cameron National Archives @jcnarchives.bsky.social The Jane Cameron National Archives are the National Archives of the Falkland Islands, ensuring the long-term survival and easy accessibility of all those records most important to the history and administration of the Islands.
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
toweather @toweather.bsky.social You may change the America I live in, but you'll never change the America that lives in me.
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
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Giant Cats of Dunbar 🏴 @giantcatsdunbar.bsky.social We collect and archive citizen pictorial records of the mysterious & awe-inspiring Giant Cats of Dunbar (GCOD) 🏴
JK Scot @jakey-scot.bsky.social I still owe strangers now long dead for food they’ve shared & words they’ve said.
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Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social The University of Glasgow Communications team. News and expert comment. Contact media@glasgow.ac.uk
Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social The RCN (@rcn.org.uk) Library and Museum is Europe’s largest nursing library. Use our services online or visit our libraries, exhibitions and events in person.
Get in touch via: www.rcn.org.uk/library
Online|Belfast|Cardiff|Edinburgh|London
Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social Project launched in 2020 aiming to locate and repatriate to Ireland the remains of national hero Patrick Sarsfield. Project Director: Dr Loïc Guyon @francemidwest.bsky.social
Visit the project’s Go Fund Me page for more info: https://gofund.me/6e91cda6
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. #histmed
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
The Urban Historian- Stephen Clancy @theurbanhistorian.bsky.social See the history around you...
One-time archaeologist now delivering Heritage Walks, Talks, History Cafes & Genealogy services in Paisley, Renfrewshire 🏴
www.theurbanhistorian.co.uk
www.renfrewshireancestors.uk
www.discoverrenfrewshireheritage.com
Maureen Shaw @maureenshaw.bsky.social Artist and researcher C18th Highlands / Badenoch / Gaelic / Gàidhlig. Troimh chèile, aobhairean teignigeach.
She/her I/ise
MK🌈 @leftypawprints.bsky.social EIS Union Rep✊ Aberdonian🩶Proud gay man 🏳️🌈Cat dad.🐈 ENFP🎉 Education 📚 SGP💚 Socialist 🚩 Gaymer🕹️Buddhist ☸️ADHD loading⚡️ Views my own☕️
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
NDM MacLeod @neildm.bsky.social Solicitor - SSC - everything said here is in a personal capacity
Scottish History (Law, Church, Highlands, Edinburgh, People); Rugby; Law (Defender Clin Neg)
Leodsaich, Albannach, Creidmheach, Calbhanach
Natalie M. Smith @nataliesmith.bsky.social Associate lecturer at @mhafhs.bsky.social; Rettig Fellow. History PhD on the Swedish Empire & identity from St Andrews. Swedish & Sami History, history of empire, science and knowledge. Also expect baking, crocheting and cats 🐈
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing
History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
James MacKessack-Leitch @jamesmackl.bsky.social Policy & Practice Lead at the Scottish Land Commission - land rights, law, philosophy, and governance. Farmers loon and foodie!
linkedin.com/in/james-mackessack-leitch/
Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShetlandKeepsakes
https://ko-fi.com/catherinemunro
J.J. North Wannabe @phillyadam.bsky.social Collector & researcher of English, Irish & Scottish hammered coins minted in the 13th-14th centuries. Member BNS, RNS, ANS & ANA. Cambridge United supporter
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Scottish History Network @scothistnetwork.bsky.social
Yvonne McFadden @ymcfadden.bsky.social Social & cultural history; women’s & gender history; oral history; housing history; cats;
all views my own
God @skeetofgod.bsky.social Disappointed but not surprised. Now ruling a brand new universe: https://theskeetofgod.com.
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
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
Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond.
Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index
Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Mike Baldwin @mikebaldwinharp.bsky.social Historian, Dr of organology, PhD supervisor, SEN teacher, harp maker, and author of Mizen: Rescued Folklore, Skibbereen: Rescued Folklore, Béara: Rescued Folklore, and Harp Making in Late-Georgian London. GHOSTS OF COUNTY CORK out 22 September 2026
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
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.
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
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
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.
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.
Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social Argyll, Scotland. Writes, takes pictures . Used to do more. Chair, Scottish Land Commission from 02/24. Hon Professor , Glasgow University. President SNP 2020 - 2023. Former MSP for Argyll & Bute and Minister/ Cabinet Secretary in Scottish Government
The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social The Signet Library in Edinburgh, the home of the WS Society, is a world class centre of knowledge and learning in law and the history and culture of Scotland.
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
The Ferret @theferret.scot Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
Contact us here: https://theferret.scot/contact/
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Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Julie Fowlis @juliefowlis.bsky.social Singer, musician, voice artist, composer. Gàidhlig/Gaelic. Singer on Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’. TV/radio presenter and creative collaborator. Love the Scottish outdoors and sport.
www.juliefowlis.com / Facebook / Instagram